from TV Week-Tasmania edition
Tasmanian channels listed Eastern Daylight Time, Melbourne stations listed Eastern Standard Time
Ratings Key
C Recommended for Children
PGR Parental Guidance Recommended
AO Adults Only
ABV2 Melbourne
6.00 Rage (music videos)
9.00 Soccer: Australia v Israel U21s
10.00 Gardening Australia
10.30 Ourselves & Other Animals
11.00 Last Frontier "The Cave Dwellers"
11.30 Track & Field Technique "Sprinting with Tommy Smith"
noon NBA: Chicago-Atlanta
1.30 Soccer This Week
2.00 English Soccer: Southampton-Everton
3.00 Saturday Super League: Horton Foote Trilogy-On Valentine's Day
4.45 Sports News
5.00 Yachting: Grand Prix Sailing-18 Footers
6.00 Horizons "The Women Who Smile (Under the Sun)" (looks at Hamar women in SW Ethiopia)
6.50 Come & Get It
7.00 ABC News/Weather
7.30 Holiday (premiere, visiting locations across Oz)
8.30 The Bill "Old Friends/Pride and Prejudice" (PGR)
9.25 News Update
9.30 Saturday Night Clive (Clive James welcomes Jonathan Miller and Robert Townsend)
10.15 Movie "Top Hat" (bw)
11.55 Rage (airs overnight)
HSV7 Melbourne
6.00 Crusader Rabbit
6.10 Funky Phantom
6.30 Inch High Private Eye
7.00 Saturday Disney (New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh/DuckTales/Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers)
9.00 Video Smash Hits
noon Canterville Ghost (C)
1.00 Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town
2.00 Flintstones Meets Rockula & Frankenstone/Flintstones "Little Big League"/Flintstone Kids "Just Say No"
4.30 Get Smart "Tale of Two Tales/With Love and Twitches"
5.30 Seven Nightly News
6.00 AFL Highlights: Collingwood-West Coast Eagles/Fitzroy-Melbourne
7.30 Celebrity Family Feud (local version, hosted by Rob Brough)
8.00 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (local version, John Burgess/Adriana Xenides)
8.28 Tattslotto/Super 88
8.30 Movie "The Freeway Killings" (AO)
11.30 Knots Landing "Devil on My Shoulder" (PGR)
12.30 Max Headroom (PGR)
1.30 US Senior Skins Game golf
5.00 Trial by Jury (PGR)
5.25 Ivan's Face to Face (Ivan Hutchinson, HSV's movie critic, also wrote for TV Week as well)
GTV9 Melbourne
6.00 Lipton International Players' Tennis Championships
7.00 Cartoon Company
9.30 C Company (Charlie Brown/Denver the Last Dinosaur/Curiosity Show/Book Tower/KTV; C)
11.00 Wackiest Ship in the Army
noon Racing Round-Up
1.00 Wide World of Sports (Max Walker/Ken Sutcliffe; Sutcliffe, aka "Two Dogs from Mudgee", also worked with Aussie TV legend Graham Kennedy on "Graham Kennedy's News Show/Coast to Coast" in the late 80s; you can find clips on YouTube)
5.00 Burke's Backyard (gardening)
5.58 Keno
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Hey Hey It's Saturday
8.30 Movie "The Karate Kid" (PGR)
11.10 Nightline (local version)
11.30 Cricket: Australia-West Indies, 2nd test
1.30 Ten-Pin Bowling: Goldpin Coca-Cola Classic
2.05 Cricket cont'd
ATV10 Melbourne
6.00 Ten Newswatch (includes coverage from CNN)
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Great Space Coaster (C)
7.30 Steel Riders (C)
8.00 Muppet Babies (C)
8.30 Fraggle Rock (C)
9.00 Video Hits
noon Bricks & Mortar
12.30 Gillette World Sport
1.00 Rugby League Grandstand: Penrith-Newcastle
3.00 Movie "The Errand Boy" (bw)
5.00 Coca-Cola Power Cuts (videos)
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News (Mal Walden still anchors for ch 10 to this day)
6.30 Star Search (local version, hosted by Jeff Phillips)
7.30 Baywatch "Cretin of the Shallows" (PGR)
8.30 Movie "The Maltese Falcon" (bw/PGR)
10.45 Movie "Torrid Zone" (bw)
12.40 Ten Newswatch (airs overnight)
Tas TV (TVT6 Hobart)
6.00 Cartoon Company (Magilla Gorilla/Quick Draw McGraw/Flintstones/Huckleberry Hound/Police Academy: The Series)
8.30 C Company (C; Fraggle Rock/Dr Fad/KTV)
10.00 Video Smash Hits
1.00 Bricks & Mortar
1.30 Best of What's Cooking "Easter"
2.00 Wide World of Sports
6.00 AFL Match of the Day Replay: St. Kilda-Richmond
7.00 Tas TV News
7.30 Hey Hey It's Saturday
9.30 Movie "Missing in Action II-The Beginning"
11.15 Keno
11.17 Outlaws "Hardcase" (PGR)
12.15 Cricket: Australia-West Indies, 2nd Test
ABC Tasmania
6.00 Rage
10.00 Soccer: Australia v Israel U21s
11.00 Gardening Australia
11.30 Ourselves & Other Animals
noon Last Frontier "The Cave Dwellers"
12.30 Track & Field Technique "Sprinting with Tommy Smith"
1.00 NBA: Chicago-Atlanta
2.30 Soccer This Week
3.00 English Soccer: Southampton-Everton
4.00 Women's International Cricket Highlights
5.00 Yachting: Grand Prix Sailing-18 Footers
6.00 Horizons "The Women Who Smile (Under the Sun)"
6.50 Come & Get It
7.00 ABC News/Weather
7.30 Holiday (premiere)
8.30 The Bill "Old Friends/Pride and Prejudice" (PGR)
9.25 News Update
9.30 Saturday Night Clive (Clive James welcomes Jonathan Miller and Robert Townsend)
10.15 Movie "Top Hat" (bw)
11.55 Football Highlights
12.55 Rage
Southern Cross (TNT9 Launceston)
6.00 Turn Round Australia
6.30 Saturday Fun Show (Ox Tales/Petticoat Junction/Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers/Addams Family/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Goodies)
10.00 Video Smash Hits
noon Dr. Fad (C)
12.30 Denver the Last Dinosaur (C)
1.00 Butterfly Island (C)
1.30 Fraggle Rock (C)
2.00 Bricks & Mortar
2.30 Focus on Living
3.00 Movie "Smiley Gets a Gun"
4.40 Private Benjamin
5.05 Burke's Backyard
6.00 ALF "Funeral for a Friend"
6.30 Hogan Family "Oh Dad, Poor Dad"
7.00 Southern Cross Network News
7.30 Hey Hey It's Saturday
9.30 Movie "Takeover" (PGR)
11.03 Keno
11.05 Football Highlights
12.30 Cricket: Australia-West Indies, 2nd Test
SBS
All foreign-language programs air with English subtitles
1pm How to Survive in Japan (Japanese)
1.30 English at Work
2.00 Face the Press
2.30 And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (English/Czech)
3.25 Sonny Terry: Shoutin' the Blues
3.30 Gerald Manley Hopkins: Portrait of a Poet
4.30 Buzz
5.00 MC Tee Vee (videos)
5.30 The Noise
6.30 World Soccer
7.30 SBS World News (another long-time anchor still on the air, Lee Lin Chin)
8.00 Floyd on Oz (making Afghan vegetable curry for a quartet of models, then making damper (Outback soda bread) near Ayers Rock/Uluru)
8.30 Dateline Saturday (current affairs, host Paul Murphy)
9.30 Movie "Andrei Roublev" (Russian)
12.35 Movie "Story of Floating Weeds" (bw/PGR; Japanese)
2.00 Movie "Miko-from the Gutter to Stardom" (AO; German)
3.40 sign-off
Tasmanian channels listed Eastern Daylight Time, Melbourne stations listed Eastern Standard Time
Ratings Key
C Recommended for Children
PGR Parental Guidance Recommended
AO Adults Only
ABV2 Melbourne
6.00 Rage (music videos)
9.00 Soccer: Australia v Israel U21s
10.00 Gardening Australia
10.30 Ourselves & Other Animals
11.00 Last Frontier "The Cave Dwellers"
11.30 Track & Field Technique "Sprinting with Tommy Smith"
noon NBA: Chicago-Atlanta
1.30 Soccer This Week
2.00 English Soccer: Southampton-Everton
3.00 Saturday Super League: Horton Foote Trilogy-On Valentine's Day
4.45 Sports News
5.00 Yachting: Grand Prix Sailing-18 Footers
6.00 Horizons "The Women Who Smile (Under the Sun)" (looks at Hamar women in SW Ethiopia)
6.50 Come & Get It
7.00 ABC News/Weather
7.30 Holiday (premiere, visiting locations across Oz)
8.30 The Bill "Old Friends/Pride and Prejudice" (PGR)
9.25 News Update
9.30 Saturday Night Clive (Clive James welcomes Jonathan Miller and Robert Townsend)
10.15 Movie "Top Hat" (bw)
11.55 Rage (airs overnight)
HSV7 Melbourne
6.00 Crusader Rabbit
6.10 Funky Phantom
6.30 Inch High Private Eye
7.00 Saturday Disney (New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh/DuckTales/Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers)
9.00 Video Smash Hits
noon Canterville Ghost (C)
1.00 Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town
2.00 Flintstones Meets Rockula & Frankenstone/Flintstones "Little Big League"/Flintstone Kids "Just Say No"
4.30 Get Smart "Tale of Two Tales/With Love and Twitches"
5.30 Seven Nightly News
6.00 AFL Highlights: Collingwood-West Coast Eagles/Fitzroy-Melbourne
7.30 Celebrity Family Feud (local version, hosted by Rob Brough)
8.00 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (local version, John Burgess/Adriana Xenides)
8.28 Tattslotto/Super 88
8.30 Movie "The Freeway Killings" (AO)
11.30 Knots Landing "Devil on My Shoulder" (PGR)
12.30 Max Headroom (PGR)
1.30 US Senior Skins Game golf
5.00 Trial by Jury (PGR)
5.25 Ivan's Face to Face (Ivan Hutchinson, HSV's movie critic, also wrote for TV Week as well)
GTV9 Melbourne
6.00 Lipton International Players' Tennis Championships
7.00 Cartoon Company
9.30 C Company (Charlie Brown/Denver the Last Dinosaur/Curiosity Show/Book Tower/KTV; C)
11.00 Wackiest Ship in the Army
noon Racing Round-Up
1.00 Wide World of Sports (Max Walker/Ken Sutcliffe; Sutcliffe, aka "Two Dogs from Mudgee", also worked with Aussie TV legend Graham Kennedy on "Graham Kennedy's News Show/Coast to Coast" in the late 80s; you can find clips on YouTube)
5.00 Burke's Backyard (gardening)
5.58 Keno
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Hey Hey It's Saturday
8.30 Movie "The Karate Kid" (PGR)
11.10 Nightline (local version)
11.30 Cricket: Australia-West Indies, 2nd test
1.30 Ten-Pin Bowling: Goldpin Coca-Cola Classic
2.05 Cricket cont'd
ATV10 Melbourne
6.00 Ten Newswatch (includes coverage from CNN)
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Great Space Coaster (C)
7.30 Steel Riders (C)
8.00 Muppet Babies (C)
8.30 Fraggle Rock (C)
9.00 Video Hits
noon Bricks & Mortar
12.30 Gillette World Sport
1.00 Rugby League Grandstand: Penrith-Newcastle
3.00 Movie "The Errand Boy" (bw)
5.00 Coca-Cola Power Cuts (videos)
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News (Mal Walden still anchors for ch 10 to this day)
6.30 Star Search (local version, hosted by Jeff Phillips)
7.30 Baywatch "Cretin of the Shallows" (PGR)
8.30 Movie "The Maltese Falcon" (bw/PGR)
10.45 Movie "Torrid Zone" (bw)
12.40 Ten Newswatch (airs overnight)
Tas TV (TVT6 Hobart)
6.00 Cartoon Company (Magilla Gorilla/Quick Draw McGraw/Flintstones/Huckleberry Hound/Police Academy: The Series)
8.30 C Company (C; Fraggle Rock/Dr Fad/KTV)
10.00 Video Smash Hits
1.00 Bricks & Mortar
1.30 Best of What's Cooking "Easter"
2.00 Wide World of Sports
6.00 AFL Match of the Day Replay: St. Kilda-Richmond
7.00 Tas TV News
7.30 Hey Hey It's Saturday
9.30 Movie "Missing in Action II-The Beginning"
11.15 Keno
11.17 Outlaws "Hardcase" (PGR)
12.15 Cricket: Australia-West Indies, 2nd Test
ABC Tasmania
6.00 Rage
10.00 Soccer: Australia v Israel U21s
11.00 Gardening Australia
11.30 Ourselves & Other Animals
noon Last Frontier "The Cave Dwellers"
12.30 Track & Field Technique "Sprinting with Tommy Smith"
1.00 NBA: Chicago-Atlanta
2.30 Soccer This Week
3.00 English Soccer: Southampton-Everton
4.00 Women's International Cricket Highlights
5.00 Yachting: Grand Prix Sailing-18 Footers
6.00 Horizons "The Women Who Smile (Under the Sun)"
6.50 Come & Get It
7.00 ABC News/Weather
7.30 Holiday (premiere)
8.30 The Bill "Old Friends/Pride and Prejudice" (PGR)
9.25 News Update
9.30 Saturday Night Clive (Clive James welcomes Jonathan Miller and Robert Townsend)
10.15 Movie "Top Hat" (bw)
11.55 Football Highlights
12.55 Rage
Southern Cross (TNT9 Launceston)
6.00 Turn Round Australia
6.30 Saturday Fun Show (Ox Tales/Petticoat Junction/Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers/Addams Family/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Goodies)
10.00 Video Smash Hits
noon Dr. Fad (C)
12.30 Denver the Last Dinosaur (C)
1.00 Butterfly Island (C)
1.30 Fraggle Rock (C)
2.00 Bricks & Mortar
2.30 Focus on Living
3.00 Movie "Smiley Gets a Gun"
4.40 Private Benjamin
5.05 Burke's Backyard
6.00 ALF "Funeral for a Friend"
6.30 Hogan Family "Oh Dad, Poor Dad"
7.00 Southern Cross Network News
7.30 Hey Hey It's Saturday
9.30 Movie "Takeover" (PGR)
11.03 Keno
11.05 Football Highlights
12.30 Cricket: Australia-West Indies, 2nd Test
SBS
All foreign-language programs air with English subtitles
1pm How to Survive in Japan (Japanese)
1.30 English at Work
2.00 Face the Press
2.30 And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (English/Czech)
3.25 Sonny Terry: Shoutin' the Blues
3.30 Gerald Manley Hopkins: Portrait of a Poet
4.30 Buzz
5.00 MC Tee Vee (videos)
5.30 The Noise
6.30 World Soccer
7.30 SBS World News (another long-time anchor still on the air, Lee Lin Chin)
8.00 Floyd on Oz (making Afghan vegetable curry for a quartet of models, then making damper (Outback soda bread) near Ayers Rock/Uluru)
8.30 Dateline Saturday (current affairs, host Paul Murphy)
9.30 Movie "Andrei Roublev" (Russian)
12.35 Movie "Story of Floating Weeds" (bw/PGR; Japanese)
2.00 Movie "Miko-from the Gutter to Stardom" (AO; German)
3.40 sign-off