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Retro: Melbourne, Australia Sat, Oct 1, 1994

It's the Aussie version of Super Bowl Sunday, from TV Week-Melbourne edition

SBS SBS28 (SBS)
2 ABV2 (ABC)
7 HSV7 (Seven)
9 GTV9 (Nine)
10 ATV10 (Ten)
SKY Sky Channel (subscription TV available in hotels and pubs)

Ratings Key
C-Children
PG-Parental Guidance
M-Mature
MA-Mature Audiences


Morning
6.00
2 Rage cont'd (music videos on weekend overnights)
9 Gillette World Sports
10 It's a Knockout

6.30
2 Weatherwatch/Music
9 Motor Racing; Valvoline World Touring Cars

7.00
9 Goodsports (C/premiere; produced by WIN in Tasmania)
10 Debate (C)

7.30
9 Hot Science (C)
10 Doug (C)

7.45
SBS Cantonese News

8.00
SBS Mandarin News
2 Bottom Line
7 Grand Final Breakfast
9 Barney & Friends
10 X-Men

8.30
SBS Das Journal
9 The Zone
10 Biker Mice from Mars

9.00
SBS Le Journal
2 Global Economy
7 Juniors Grand Final
9 What's Up Doc (Animaniacs/Porky Pig/Merrie Melodies/Bugs Bunny/Slimer & the Real Ghostbusters/Beetlejuice)
10 Video Hits

9.30
2 Everybody's Business

9.45
SBS Novosti

10.00
2 Visual Arts
SKY Boxing: Garcia-Ocasio/De la Hoya-Williams

10.15
SBS Weatherwatch/Music

10.30
SBS Engineering Data Reduction Error

11.00
SBS The Journal
SKY Skylarks: LA Lingerie Ladies
2 Growing Awareness
7 VSFL Grand Final (Victoria Senior Football League, second-tier)
10 Saturday Basketball

11.30
SBS Nightly Business Report
2 Gardening Australia
SBS Latemail

Afternoon
noon
SBS English at Work
SKY Sky Raceday: action from Randwick, Newcastle, Flemington, Doomben, Toowoomba, Morphettville, Belmont, and Mobray
2 Movie "Rosalie Goes Shopping"
9 World Championship Wrestling

12.30
SBS Movie "Green Green Grass of Home"

1.00
9 Wide World of Sports (includes racing from Epsom)

1.30
2 How Do You Manage?

2.00
2 Saturday Afternoon Sport (ATP Tennis, 2.25 Soccer Magazine, 2.50 School Sport, 3.00 NFL Highlights, 3.55 Rowing: FISA World Championships, 4.45 Sports News, 5.00 Masters Games Opening Ceremony)
7 AFL Grand Final: West Coast would pound Geelong 143-63; in this year's GF, Collingwood and St Kilda will replay the GF late tonight North American time after tying 68-68 7 days earlier, the third deadlocked Grand Final in VFL/AFL history (there were also tied GFs in 1948 and 1977)...more on the Grand Final and notable events in its long history at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL_Grand_Final
10 Movie "Botany Bay"

2.05
SBS Archaeology

2.30
SBS Sunset Gang (PG)

3.30
SBS Movie Show

4.00
SBS Nigel Mansell's IndyCar '94

4.30
SBS For Better or for Worse

5.00
9 Burke's Backyard
10 Ten News

5.30
SBS World Soccer
10 A Country Practice

Evening
6.00
2 Family Album
7 Seven Nightly News
9-SKY National Nine News

6.30
SBS SBS World News
7 Home Improvement "It was the Best of Tims, It was the Worst of Tims"
9 Hey Hey It's Saturday
10 George & Mildred "The Dorothy Letters"
SBS Sky Harness Racing: action from Maitland, Moonee Valley, Albion Park, and Globe Derby; and greyhound racing from Wentworth Park and Penrith

7.00
SBS Great Chefs of San Francisco
2 ABC News
7 Family Matters "Heartstrings"
10 Brush Strokes

7.30
SBS Dateline "Menzie's Legacy"
2 Attitude "Against His Will"
7 Man O Man "Challenge of Champions" (10 male contestants are judged by an all-female audience)
10 Unsolved Mysteries

8.00
2 Frontline "The Siege"

8.25
2 ABC News

8.28
7 Tattslotto

8.30
SBS Willie Nelson: My Life
2 The Bill "Shrinkage"/"Street Legal" (includes ABC News)
7 Mulray (M)
9 Movie "Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach" (PG)
10 Murder, She Wrote "Lines of Excellence" (PG)

9.30
SBS Movie "Corruption" (PG/bw)
2 Man from Auntie (M; "Auntie" is a nickname for the ABC ;D)
7 Movie "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (M)
10 Columbo "Blueprint for Murder" (PG)

10.00
2 Beyond the Clouds "The Fate of a Missing Relative"

10.30
9 Movie "Police Academy 6: City Under Siege" (PG)

10.45
SKY Sky Rock (sign-off 2am)

10.50
2 Movie "Ex" (PG)

10.55
SBS Eat Carpet (short films; according to legend, SBS' producer didn't know the X-rated meaning of the term until someone told him :D)

11.00
10 Ten News

11.30
10 Sports Tonight

11.50
7 Motor Racing: Tooheys Top Ten

11.55
SBS Movie "Catwalk" (M, sign-off 1.25am)

Late Night
midnight
10 NBL Mitsubishi Challenge Quarterfinals (basketball)

12.25
9 Late Show with David Letterman (PG)

12.30
2 Australia Television News

12.50
7 Golden Palace (PG)

1.00
2 Rage

1.25
9 Movie "Hollywood Harry" (M)

1.45
7 Movie "After Midnight" (MA)

2.00
10 Just for the Record

2.30
10 Movie "Listen Darling" (bw)

3.15
9 Movie "Naked Prey" (PG)

3.25
7 Mancuso FBI (M)

4.00
10 High School Narc

4.20
7 Movie "Adventure in Ventana"

5.00
9 Kenneth Copeland
 
Bluenoser said:
6.30
SBS Sky Harness Racing: action from Maitland, Moonee Valley, Albion Park, and Globe Derby; and greyhound racing from Wentworth Park and Penrith

This should read SKY for the channel :D
 
Interesting that Austrailia goes a long way in original programming instead of just "borrowing" from the USA as Canada does. Canada is probably 70% USA TV, whereas Austrailia is probably about 40%.
I wonder how much USA TV is on in England?
 
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