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Retro: Melbourne, Australia, Friday, May 14, 1993

from The Age
Australian stations were pretty well programmed: at the time it was possible to catch many classic US shows and movies that American independent stations dropped many years before.

2 ABV2 (ABC)
7 HSV7 (Seven)
9 GTV9 (Nine)
10 ATV10 (Ten)
28 SBS

Morning

6.00
2 Out of Empire
7 Challenge of the Machine Men
9 Entertainment Tonight (I'm not sure if it's a repeat; 6am in Sydney/Melbourne = 4pm in the US' East Coast; maybe it's the early feed of the show)
10 Ten Eyewitness News

6.30
2 The Blue Revolution (documentary)
7 Agro's Cartoon Connection
9 ITN World News/Business Today

7.00
9 Today
10 The Big Breakfast

7.30
2 Australian Environmental Studies "The Unique Continent"

8.00
2 Australian Studies "Images of Australia"

8.30
2 Sesame Street
10 Mulligrubs

9.00
7 The Book Place
9 Here's Humphrey
10 Good Morning Australia

9.30
2 Bump
7 Sons and Daughters (repeat)
9 Ernie & Denise

9.35
2 Play School

10.00
2 Channel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
7 On Line

10.20
2 Here's the Beat

10.30
7 Seven Morning News
9 National Nine Morning News

10.40
2 Scientific Eye

11.00
2 Eureka!
7 Eleven AM
9 What's Cooking?
10 Sally Jessy Raphael

11.25
2 Science Cafe

11.30
2 Oceans Alive
9 Entertainment Tonight

Afternoon
noon
2 World at Noon
7 Mini-Series "Deceptions" (part 2; conclusion)
9 Ray Martin at Midday (the final season of the show, as Ray moved to A Current Affair the following year)
10 Santa Barbara

12.30
2 The Makers "Craft in Australia"

1.00
2 Religion Studies "The Long Search"
10 Bold and the Beautiful

1.30
9 Days of Our Lives
10 Donahue

2.00
2 Lift Off "The Wheel Turns"
7 True Blue

2.30
9 Young and the Restless
10 Oprah Winfrey

2.55
2 Consuming Passions

3.00
2 Sesame Street
7 Beverly Hillbillies

3.30
7 My Three Sons
9 Supermarket Sweep
10 General Hospital

3.45
28 Novosti (Russia)

3.55
2 Thomas the Tank Engine

4.00
2 Play School
7 Disney Adventures
9 The Flying Nun
10 The Wonder Years

4.15
28 TV Ed

4.30
2 Lift Off
7 Blockbusters
9 New Adventures of Skippy "Skippy & the Pirates"
10 Totally Wild

4.45
28 English at Work

5.00
2 Afternoon Show (includes: Adventures of Tin Tin at 5.02; Degrassi High at 5.30)
7 Family Feud
9 Who's the Boss?
10 Ten Eyewitness News

5.15
28 Little Missy (Brazil)

5.30
7 Wheel of Fortune
9 Happy Days

5.50
28 FYI (in Spanish)

Evening
6.00
2 All in a Day's Work
7 Seven Nightly News
9 National Nine News
10 Jeopardy! (short-lived version hosted by Tony Barber)
28 World Sports

6.30
2 Gardening Australia
7 Real Life
9 A Current Affair
10 Neighbours
28 SBS World News

7.00
2 ABC News
7 Home and Away
9 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.28)
10 Hinch
28 Dateline

7.30
2 The 7.30 Report
7 The Great Outdoors (visiting the Gold Coast, the Mallee district and Sydney's dragon boat races)
9 Burke's Backyard (guest permaculture expert Bill Mollison)
10 Melrose Place "House of God"
28 De Medici Kitchen

8.00
2 Mr. Bean (ABC News at 8.28)
28 The Book Show

8.30
2 Movie "Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938)
7 AFL: West Coast v. Fitzroy (from Perth)
9 Taggart "Root of Evil"
10 Movie "The Delinquents"
28 People "The Paper Age & Ancient Flight" (Canada; an amateur Egyptologist's theory that ancient civilisations may have used elaborate forms of aircraft)

8.55
28 People "Burn Heads" (US; a barber in Memphis who has an unusual method for cutting hair)

9.20
28 A TV Dante (Peter Greenaway's adaptation of Dante's Inferno; part 3)

9.30
28 Movie "Song of the Exile" (Taiwan)

10.20
2 ABC News-Late Edition

10.30
2 Live & Sweaty

10.40
10 Ten Eyewitness News-Late Edition

11.10
10 NBL Challenge: Townsville Suns v. Newcastle Falcons (from Townsville, QLD)
28 Nomad (music, art and dance show)

11.15
9 Nightline

11.30
2 DAAS Kapital
7 Tonight Live with Richard Stubbs (he used to host the show on Friday nights, filling in for Steve Vizard)

11.45
9 Wiseguy "Sanctuary"

Late night
12.10
28 Movie "Schultz & Schultz" (Germany; close at 1.55am)

12.15
2 Australia Television News

12.30
7 Dark Justice

12.45
2 Rage (music videos; to 8:30am)
9 Good Morning America Down Under (final show of GMA from Sydney)

1.25
10 Just for the Record

1.30
7 NBC Today

1.55
10 Aboriginal Australia

2.00
10 Equal Justice (2 episodes?)

2.40
7 Movie "Pressure Point" (BW)

2.45
9 Rugby League: 1993 Winfield Cup

4.00
10 Prisoner

4.15
7 Movie "The Naked Edge" (BW)

4.40
9 Inside Track with Graham Nash (guest Mick Fleetwood)

5.00
10 New Animal World

5.30
9 The Sullivans
10 Sledge Hammer!
 
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