A comparison of the programs (with a 22-year difference)
from The Age
Monday, August 21, 1978
ATV0 (moved to channel 10 in 1980)
7.00 Early Bird Show
9.00 Fat Cat & Friends
9.30 King's Kitchen
9.45 Movie "Johnny Trouble" (B&W)
11.25 Wool Craft
11.30 Shoulder to Shoulder
12.00 News
12.03 Blankety Blanks
12.30 The Box
1.30 As the World Turns
2.30 Ryan's Hope
3.00 The Mod Squad
4.00 Marie's Multicolored Magic Machine (includes Gilligan's Island)
5.00 Brady Bunch
5.30 Hogan's Heroes
6.00 Eyewitness News
7.00 Six Million Dollar Man
7.30/8.00 M*A*S*H
8.30 Morecambe & Wise
9.30 Thank God It's Friday at the Zoo
10.30 Soccer: Philips League highlights
11.30 Movie "Flaxy Martin" (B&W)
1.05 close
ABV2
8.00 Sesame Street
8.55 close
9.30 Play School
10.00 close
10.20 Geography
10.50 HSC Workshop
11.00 close
12.00 Weekend Magazine
12.25 The Gates of Asia
12.50 Mechanical Muscle
1.00 ABC News
1.10 Horizon 5/Weather
1.30 close
2.10 Careers
2.30 close
4.00 Play School
4.30 Sesame Street
5.30 Wayzgoose
6.00 The Wombles
6.05 F-Troop
6.30 Doctor Who
6.55 This Week in Britain
7.00 ABC News/Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Wildlife Australia
8.30 The Truckies
9.20 Monday Conference
10.15 ABC News/Weather
10.25 Oscar Petersen & Joe Pass
11.10 close
HSV7
10.00 Romper Room
11.00 The Munsters
11.30 Willesee at Seven (R)
12.00 Movie "Rio Rita"
2.00 Movie "Swordsmen of Siena"
4.00 Flying Nun
4.30 Batman
5.00 The Jetsons
5.30 Get Smart
6.00 Bewitched
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 Naked Vicar Show
8.30 Cop Shop
9.30 Police Woman
10.30 Gibbsville
11.30 Space: 1999
12.30 close
GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Fun Show
9.00 Here's Humphrey
10.00 Dinah!
11.00 Another World
11.55 News
12.00 Mike Walsh
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
2.55 News
3.00 General Hospital
3.30 Search for Tomorrow
4.00 Superman
4.30 Bugs Bunny Show
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 My Three Sons
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 National Nine News
7.00 The Sullivans
7.30 Fantasy Island
8.30 The Love Boat
9.30 Don Lane
11.00 Division 4
12.00 Movie "Husbands"
2.15 Movie "A Covenant with Death"
3.50 Movie "High School Hellcats" (B&W)
5.00 Gideon's Way (B&W)
Monday, August 21, 2000
ABV2
6.00 English Have a Go
6.30 Study Skills
6.45 Fire on the Rim
7.00 Rupert
7.25 Koki
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Animal Shelf
8.10 Magic Mountain
8.20 Thomas
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Petals
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors
10.15 Our Animals
10.20 Here's the Beat
10.40 Geographical Eye
11.00 Brazil 2000
11.20 Place & People
11.40 The Living Landscape
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Quantum
1.00 The Liston Trophy
2.00 Heartbeat
3.00 Tweenies
3.25 Hairy Maclary
3.30 Play School
4.00 Babar
4.25 Animal Stories
4.30 Archibald
4.55 Lisa
5.00 Hey Arnold!
5.25 The Trap Door
5.30 Angry Beavers
5.55 Once Upon a Time
6.00 Flashback
6.30 Something in the Air
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The Games
8.30 Four Corners (the political battle behind the new digital TV laws)
9.15 Media Watch
9.30 The Arts Show
10.00 The Fat
10.30 Lateline
11.00 Wildside
11.50 Just Dancing Around
1.00 Movie "Floodtide"
2.30 Tomorrow's People
3.00 Aboriginal Studies
3.30 Australian Studies
4.00 Reading Writing Roadshow
4.30 Taking Care of Business
5.00 Growing Awareness
5.30 New Horizons
HSV7
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 All-Music Video
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 The Morning Shift
11.00 Denise
12.00 Movie "Beyond Betrayal"
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 Newlyweds
3.30 Disney Adventures
4.00 Wipeout
4.30 The Flintstones
5.00 Get Smart
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Eye of the Storm
8.30 Chicago Hope
9.30 Da Vinci's Inquest
10.30 Talking Footy
11.30 Seven News
12.00 L.A. Heat
1.00 NBC Today
3.00 Infobreak International
4.00 Victor Paul
5.10 California Dreams
5.35 Punky Brewster
GTV9
6.00 Golf: US PGA Championship (cont'd)
8.30 National Nine Early News
9.00 Here's Humphrey
9.30 Banjo Paterson's Man from Snowy River
10.30 Fresh Cooking
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 Movie "Medicine Man"
4.00 Download
4.30 Gilligan's Island
5.00 Whose Line is it Anyway?
5.30 Burgo's Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the New Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Friends
8.00 Spin City (Newsbreak at 8.28)
8.30 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
9.30/10.00 Sex & the City
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Murder Call
12.00 WCW Wrestling
1.00 Entertainment Tonight (R)
1.25 Martin Short
2.25 Mad TV
3.20 Victor Paul
4.20 For Your Love
4.50 Australian Sports Magazine
5.00 48 Hours
ATV10
6.00 Sports Tonight (R)
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 X-Men
7.30 Pokémon
8.00 Dragon Ball Z
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.00 Huey's Cooking Adventures
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Jerry Springer
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Beauty & the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Neighbours (early episodes, R)
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Nanny
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Guinness World Records: Primetime
8.30 NYPD Blue
9.30 Law & Order
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 CART World Series: IndyCar (round 14)
1.30 Steve Harvey
2.00 Shop America
2.30 Danoz Home Shopping
3.00 Infobreak International
3.30 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 Weatherwatch & Music
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Itogi
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Oto Polska
12.30 Movie "Lamerica" (Italy)
2.25 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 Going Home
4.00 Glenroe (Ireland)
4.30 ICAM
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
5.50 Hotline
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 English Premier League highlights
8.30 Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned (UK)
9.00 Stella Street (UK)
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie "Hand of Death" (Hong Kong)
11.40 Movie "The Collector" (Finland)
1.15 temporary close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
Channel 31
1.30pm RMIT General Pathology Lecture
3.30 Fish Cam
6.00 Australian Hungarian Magazine
6.30 Vietnamese Program
7.00 Serbian TV
8.30 UK Today
9.00 Bent TV
11.30 Fish Cam
from The Age
Monday, August 21, 1978
ATV0 (moved to channel 10 in 1980)
7.00 Early Bird Show
9.00 Fat Cat & Friends
9.30 King's Kitchen
9.45 Movie "Johnny Trouble" (B&W)
11.25 Wool Craft
11.30 Shoulder to Shoulder
12.00 News
12.03 Blankety Blanks
12.30 The Box
1.30 As the World Turns
2.30 Ryan's Hope
3.00 The Mod Squad
4.00 Marie's Multicolored Magic Machine (includes Gilligan's Island)
5.00 Brady Bunch
5.30 Hogan's Heroes
6.00 Eyewitness News
7.00 Six Million Dollar Man
7.30/8.00 M*A*S*H
8.30 Morecambe & Wise
9.30 Thank God It's Friday at the Zoo
10.30 Soccer: Philips League highlights
11.30 Movie "Flaxy Martin" (B&W)
1.05 close
ABV2
8.00 Sesame Street
8.55 close
9.30 Play School
10.00 close
10.20 Geography
10.50 HSC Workshop
11.00 close
12.00 Weekend Magazine
12.25 The Gates of Asia
12.50 Mechanical Muscle
1.00 ABC News
1.10 Horizon 5/Weather
1.30 close
2.10 Careers
2.30 close
4.00 Play School
4.30 Sesame Street
5.30 Wayzgoose
6.00 The Wombles
6.05 F-Troop
6.30 Doctor Who
6.55 This Week in Britain
7.00 ABC News/Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Wildlife Australia
8.30 The Truckies
9.20 Monday Conference
10.15 ABC News/Weather
10.25 Oscar Petersen & Joe Pass
11.10 close
HSV7
10.00 Romper Room
11.00 The Munsters
11.30 Willesee at Seven (R)
12.00 Movie "Rio Rita"
2.00 Movie "Swordsmen of Siena"
4.00 Flying Nun
4.30 Batman
5.00 The Jetsons
5.30 Get Smart
6.00 Bewitched
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 Naked Vicar Show
8.30 Cop Shop
9.30 Police Woman
10.30 Gibbsville
11.30 Space: 1999
12.30 close
GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Fun Show
9.00 Here's Humphrey
10.00 Dinah!
11.00 Another World
11.55 News
12.00 Mike Walsh
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
2.55 News
3.00 General Hospital
3.30 Search for Tomorrow
4.00 Superman
4.30 Bugs Bunny Show
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 My Three Sons
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 National Nine News
7.00 The Sullivans
7.30 Fantasy Island
8.30 The Love Boat
9.30 Don Lane
11.00 Division 4
12.00 Movie "Husbands"
2.15 Movie "A Covenant with Death"
3.50 Movie "High School Hellcats" (B&W)
5.00 Gideon's Way (B&W)
Monday, August 21, 2000
ABV2
6.00 English Have a Go
6.30 Study Skills
6.45 Fire on the Rim
7.00 Rupert
7.25 Koki
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Animal Shelf
8.10 Magic Mountain
8.20 Thomas
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Petals
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors
10.15 Our Animals
10.20 Here's the Beat
10.40 Geographical Eye
11.00 Brazil 2000
11.20 Place & People
11.40 The Living Landscape
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Quantum
1.00 The Liston Trophy
2.00 Heartbeat
3.00 Tweenies
3.25 Hairy Maclary
3.30 Play School
4.00 Babar
4.25 Animal Stories
4.30 Archibald
4.55 Lisa
5.00 Hey Arnold!
5.25 The Trap Door
5.30 Angry Beavers
5.55 Once Upon a Time
6.00 Flashback
6.30 Something in the Air
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The Games
8.30 Four Corners (the political battle behind the new digital TV laws)
9.15 Media Watch
9.30 The Arts Show
10.00 The Fat
10.30 Lateline
11.00 Wildside
11.50 Just Dancing Around
1.00 Movie "Floodtide"
2.30 Tomorrow's People
3.00 Aboriginal Studies
3.30 Australian Studies
4.00 Reading Writing Roadshow
4.30 Taking Care of Business
5.00 Growing Awareness
5.30 New Horizons
HSV7
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 All-Music Video
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 The Morning Shift
11.00 Denise
12.00 Movie "Beyond Betrayal"
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 Newlyweds
3.30 Disney Adventures
4.00 Wipeout
4.30 The Flintstones
5.00 Get Smart
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Eye of the Storm
8.30 Chicago Hope
9.30 Da Vinci's Inquest
10.30 Talking Footy
11.30 Seven News
12.00 L.A. Heat
1.00 NBC Today
3.00 Infobreak International
4.00 Victor Paul
5.10 California Dreams
5.35 Punky Brewster
GTV9
6.00 Golf: US PGA Championship (cont'd)
8.30 National Nine Early News
9.00 Here's Humphrey
9.30 Banjo Paterson's Man from Snowy River
10.30 Fresh Cooking
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 Movie "Medicine Man"
4.00 Download
4.30 Gilligan's Island
5.00 Whose Line is it Anyway?
5.30 Burgo's Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the New Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Friends
8.00 Spin City (Newsbreak at 8.28)
8.30 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
9.30/10.00 Sex & the City
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Murder Call
12.00 WCW Wrestling
1.00 Entertainment Tonight (R)
1.25 Martin Short
2.25 Mad TV
3.20 Victor Paul
4.20 For Your Love
4.50 Australian Sports Magazine
5.00 48 Hours
ATV10
6.00 Sports Tonight (R)
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 X-Men
7.30 Pokémon
8.00 Dragon Ball Z
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.00 Huey's Cooking Adventures
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Jerry Springer
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Beauty & the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Neighbours (early episodes, R)
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Nanny
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Guinness World Records: Primetime
8.30 NYPD Blue
9.30 Law & Order
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 CART World Series: IndyCar (round 14)
1.30 Steve Harvey
2.00 Shop America
2.30 Danoz Home Shopping
3.00 Infobreak International
3.30 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 Weatherwatch & Music
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Itogi
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Oto Polska
12.30 Movie "Lamerica" (Italy)
2.25 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 Going Home
4.00 Glenroe (Ireland)
4.30 ICAM
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
5.50 Hotline
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 English Premier League highlights
8.30 Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned (UK)
9.00 Stella Street (UK)
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie "Hand of Death" (Hong Kong)
11.40 Movie "The Collector" (Finland)
1.15 temporary close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
Channel 31
1.30pm RMIT General Pathology Lecture
3.30 Fish Cam
6.00 Australian Hungarian Magazine
6.30 Vietnamese Program
7.00 Serbian TV
8.30 UK Today
9.00 Bent TV
11.30 Fish Cam