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Retro: Victoria/Eastern South Australia Tues, Mar 4, 1980

from TV Week-Country Victoria edition

ABCv ABC Victoria
ABCs ABC South Australia
7 HSV7 Melbourne
9 GTV9 Melbourne
10 ATV10 Melbourne
GMV GMV6 Shepparton
AMV AMV4 Albury/RVN2 Wagga Wagga
BTV BTV6 Ballarat
BCV BCV8 Bendigo/STV8 Mildura/GLV8 Gippsland
RTS RTS5A Renmark/Loxton
SES SES8 Mt Gambier

Programs listed Eastern (Victoria) time/Central (South Australia) time

Morning
6.00/5.30
9 Hoppity Hooper

6.20/5.50
9 King Leonardo

6.40/6.10
9 Rocky & His Friends

7.00/6.30
9 Cartoons
10 Early Bird Show

8.00/7.30
ABCv Sesame Street

8.30/8.00
ABCs Sesame Street

9.00/8.30
ABCv For Schools: Careers
9 Here's Humphrey
10 Fat Cat & Friends

9.30/9.00
ABCv Play School
ABCs For Schools: Industrial Arts
10 Electric Company

9.55/9.25
ABCs For Schools: Craft as a Livelihood

10.00/9.30
ABCv For Schools: For the Juniors
ABCs Play School
7 Romper Room
9 Ed Allen
10 Chico & the Man

10.20/9.50
ABCv For Schools: Bookworm

10.25/9.55
ABCs For Schools: Neighbors

10.30/10.00
ABCs For Schools: Investigating
9 All My Children
10 Bernard King

10.55/10.25
ABCs For Schools: Century 3

10.58/10.28
AMV Program Highlights

11.00/10.30
ABCv For Schools: Waterloo Street
7 Dinah & Friends
9 Another World
10 Everyday
GMV-AMV-BTV Here's Humphrey
BCV Thought for the Day

11.03/10.33
BTV Fat Cat & Friends

11.20/10.50
ABCv For Schools: Investigating

11.30/11.00
BTV Community Billboard

11.33/11.03
BTV Gardenitis

11.40/11.10
ABCv For Schools: Wind in the Wires

11.55/11.25
9-GMV-BTV News

Afternoon
noon
7 Movie "The Accused"
9-GMV-AMV-BTV-BCV Mike Walsh
10 Movie "Hostile Witness"

12.10/11.40
ABCs For Schools: City Living

12.30/noon
SES Mike Walsh

1.00/12.30
ABCv-ABCs News

1.11/12.41
ABCv For Schools: Our Asian Neighbors

1.30/1.00
9-GMV-AMV-BTV-BCV Days of Our Lives

1.35/1.05
ABCv For Schools: Look Here

1.55/1.25
ABCv For Schools: Watch
7 Olympic Minutes

2.00/1.30
7 McMillan & Wife
10 Doris Day
SES Days of Our Lives

2.15/1.45
ABCv For Schools: Living in a Dangerous Country
GMV Best Sellers

2.20/1.50
BTV Young & the Restless

2.25/1.55
AMV At Home with Four
BCV Young & the Restless

2.30/2.00
ABCs For Schools: Indians of North America
9 Young & the Restless
10 Dick Van Dyke

2.40/2.10
ABCv For Schools: The Magic Bag
AMV General Hospital

2.45/2.15
BTV General Hospital

2.50/2.20
BCV Family Feud

2.55/2.25
ABCs For Schools: Mister Prime Minister
SES Woman's World

3.00/2.30
9 General Hospital
10 Almost Anything Goes
GMV-AMV Bob Newhart

3.15/2.45
BTV New Dick Van Dyke
BCV Doctor on the Go

3.30/3.00
9 Search for Tomorrow
GMV Cartoons
AMV Family Feud

3.40/3.10
BCV Tennessee Tuxedo

3.45/3.15
BTV Cartoon Corner

4.00/3.30
ABCv Play School
7 Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels
9 Skippy
10 Spiderman
GMV Batman
AMV Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
BTV Black Arrow
SES Fat Cat & Friends

4.05/3.35
BCV Daily Fables

4.10/3.40
BCV Huckleberry Hound

4.20/3.50
AMV Skippy

4.30/4.00
ABCv Sesame Street
ABCs Play School
7 Shirl's Neighborhood
9 Scooby-Doo
10 Simon Townsend's Wonder World
GMV Tomorrow People
BTV Skippy
SES Catch Kandy

4.40/4.10
BCV Black Arrow

4.50/4.20
AMV Buddies Club News

4.55/4.25
GMV Gomer Pyle
AMV Battle of the Planets

5.00/4.30
ABCv Famous Five
ABCs Sesame Street
7 New Popeye
9 Here's Lucy
10 F Troop
BTV Yogi's Galaxy Goofups
SES Shirl's Neighborhood

5.10/4.40
BCV My Three Sons

5.20/4.50
AMV Flipper

5.25/4.55
GMV Ugliest Girl in Town
BTV Gomer Pyle, USMC

5.30/5.00
ABCv Kizzy
7 Bewitched
9 Family Feud
10 Gong Show
SES Archie & Sabrina

5.35/5.05
BCV Sha Na Na

5.50/5.20
AMV Hogan's Heroes
BTV Family Feud

5.55/5.25
GMV Mary Tyler Moore

5.59/5.29
ABCv News

Evening
6.00/5.30
ABCv Goodies
ABCs Adventures of Sir Prancelot
7 Celebrity Tattletales
9 Young Doctors
10-BCV News
SES Family Feud

6.05/5.35
ABCs Gentle Ben

6.15/5.45
GMV-AMV-BTV News

6.28/5.58
ABCs News

6.30/6.00
ABCv Doctor Who
7-9-GMV-AMV-BTV-BCV National News (most regional stations carried Seven's, with AMV picking up the Sydney Seven newscast)
10 Arcade
RTS Brady Bunch
SES Ask the Leylands

6.55/6.25
ABCv Regional News

7.00/6.30
ABCv News
ABCs Doctor Who
7-AMV-BTV-BCV Willesee at Seven
9-GMV Sullivans
10 Gilligan's Island
RTS-SES News

7.05/6.35
RTS Family Feud

7.25/6.55
ABCs Regional News

7.30/7.00
ABCv Wodehouse Playhouse
ABCs News
7 Quincy
9 Our World
10 Restless Years
GMV BJ & the Bear
AMV Grandpa Goes to Washington
BTV-BCV Sullivans
RTS Odd Couple
SES Willesee at Seven

8.00/7.30
ABCv Dad's Army
ABCs Wodehouse Playhouse
BTV Angie
BCV Mork & Mindy
RTS Paul Hogan
SES Grandpa Goes to Washington

8.30/8.00
ABCv Omega Factor
ABCs Dad's Army
7 VFL (Aussie rules) Football: Escort Championships: Melbourne v Swan Districts, live from VFL Park
9 Love Boat
10 Prisoner
GMV-AMV-BTV Centennial (each station aired a different episode)
BCV Quincy

9.00/8.30
ABCs Omega Factor
RTS Quincy
SES Lou Grant

9.20/8.50
ABCv News

9.30/9.00
ABCv Nationwide
9 Don Lane
10 Peter Couchman Tonight
BCV Hart to Hart

10.00/9.30
ABCs Nationwide
SES Variety Italian Style (This El Cheapo show was carried by almost every station in the country, usually on weekends) sign-off 10.30 CT
RTS Movie "Deadfall" sign-off 11.30 CT

10.10/9.40
ABCv Expert sign-off 11 ET

10.15/9.45
BTV Oregon Trail

10.20/9.50
AMV Angels

10.30/10.00
BCV Lou Grant

10.40/10.10
ABCs Expert sign-off 11 CT

10.45/9.15
9 Gunsmoke

11.00/10.30
7 Movie "Moonfire" sign-off 12.50 ET
10 Movie "Kona Coast" sign-off 12.50 ET
GMV Bluey

11.10/10.40
BTV News

11.20/10.50
AMV News sign-off 11.40 ET

11.25/10.55
BTV Epilogue sign-off 11.30 ET

11.30/11.00
GMV News sign-off 11.35 ET
BCV Taxi

11.55/11.25
BCV Thought for Tomorrow sign-off 11.58 ET

Late Night
12.45/12.15
9 Movie "A New Kind of Love"

2.10/1.40
9 Movie "The Great Ice Rip-Off"

3.40/3.10
9 Movie "The Come-On"

5.15/4.45
9 Danger Man
 
For a long time I have heard/read where the country ( outside of the US of course ) that airs the most American TV was Canada. But after looking at these listings and others from "Down Under", I am surprised it wasn't Australia that held that "prize". It seemed that just about EVERYTHING that had aired on TV in the US at the time..aired in Australia as well.

Is US Television really that popular in Australia?
 
bk77 said:
It seemed that just about EVERYTHING that had aired on TV in the US at the time..aired in Australia as well.

Apparently, that includes duds such as "The Ugliest Girl in Town".

bk77 said:
Is US Television really that popular in Australia?

At the least, they probably mimicked American television -- during the 1970s and 1980s, most of the commercial networks would use the same campaigns as the American networks used -- such as NBC's "Be There" on Seven, for example.
 
azumanga said:
bk77 said:
Is US Television really that popular in Australia?

At the least, they probably mimicked American television -- during the 1970s and 1980s, most of the commercial networks would use the same campaigns as the American networks used -- such as NBC's "Be There" on Seven, for example.

To this day, Seven and Nine (and their respective regional affiliates) use versions of US news music: Seven uses a version of The Mission, with Nine running a version of Cool Hand Luke...here's where you can find some samples of the Aussie versions, plus some from the other local nets:

http://www.watelevision.com/site/watv.php?id=Resources&subid=audio
 
Was Sesame Street a made for Australia version or the US episodes? Interesting that Romper Room was still around in 1980
 
azumanga said:
bk77 said:
It seemed that just about EVERYTHING that had aired on TV in the US at the time..aired in Australia as well.

Apparently, that includes duds such as "The Ugliest Girl in Town".

bk77 said:
Is US Television really that popular in Australia?

At the least, they probably mimicked American television -- during the 1970s and 1980s, most of the commercial networks would use the same campaigns as the American networks used -- such as NBC's "Be There" on Seven, for example.

That would make sense.

I know Austraila had a few stations that used "eyewitness news' and I think even "action news" news brands. I know Canada had a handful of stations that used "eyewitness news" but I never heard of any station in that country that used "action news" though. OTOH, I remember reading a long time ago were either the BBC or maybe it was ITV who thought about bringing "eyewitness news" to the UK but decided against it.
 
bk77 said:
I know Austraila had a few stations that used "eyewitness news' and I think even "action news" news brands. I know Canada had a handful of stations that used "eyewitness news" but I never heard of any station in that country that used "action news" though. OTOH, I remember reading a long time ago were either the BBC or maybe it was ITV who thought about bringing "eyewitness news" to the UK but decided against it.

The name "Action News" was also used by a station in the Netherlands, which translated it into Dutch as "Actie Nieuws", as well as a station in Germany, which kept the English-language name.

The "Eyewitness News" name was never used in Europe, but several stations adopted elements of the Eyewitness News format.
 
Bluenoser said:
from TV Week-Country Victoria edition

ABCv ABC Victoria
ABCs ABC South Australia
7 HSV7 Melbourne
9 GTV9 Melbourne
10 ATV10 Melbourne
GMV GMV6 Shepparton
AMV AMV4 Albury/RVN2 Wagga Wagga
BTV BTV6 Ballarat
BCV BCV8 Bendigo/STV8 Mildura/GLV8 Gippsland
RTS RTS5A Renmark/Loxton
SES SES8 Mt Gambier

Programs listed Eastern (Victoria) time/Central (South Australia) time

Afternoon

2.00/1.30
7 McMillan & Wife
10 Doris Day
SES Days of Our Lives

Putting Rock Hudson opposite his former leading lady (Doris Day) - very inspired! :D
 
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