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Retro: Western Australia Fri, Mar 30, 1973

from TV Week-Western Australia edition

ABC ABC WA: ABW2 Perth, ABAW2 Albany, ABCW4 Northam, ABSW5 Bunbury, ABGW6 Geraldton, ABKW6 Kalgoorlie, ABNW7 Norseman, ABCNW7 Carnarvon
7 TVW7 Perth
9 STW9 Perth (Perth was a 2-channel commercial market for many years...the third commercial channel, NEW10, didn't launch until 1988)
BTW BTW3 Bunbury/GSW9 Albany
VEW VEW8 Kalgoorlie/VEW3 Kambalda

Ratings Key:
A Recommended for Adults
AO Adults Only


Morning
8.00
ABC Sesame Street

9.05
ABC For Schools: Behind the News

9.25
ABC Play School

9.55
ABC For Schools: Art of the Film

10.00
7 Kindy

10.30
7 Here's Humphrey
9 Marvelous Munchkin

10.45
ABC For Schools: Notre ville

11.00
9 Junior World

11.10
ABC For Schools: Here in the West

11.30
ABC For Schools: Science
7 Beauty & the Beast (pt 1)
9 Magic Circle Club

Afternoon
noon
ABC For Schools: Your Career
7 Movie "A Woman's World" (A)
9 General Hospital (A)

12.10
ABC For Schools: En francais

12.30
9 Movie "There's Always Tomorrow" (A)

1.00
ABC For Schools: People of the Western Desert

1.25
ABC For Schools: Behind the News

1.50
ABC For Schools: English

1.55
7 Days of Our Lives (A)

2.15
9 Peyton Place (A)

2.20
ABC For Schools: Living Here & There

2.25
7 Temptation

2.40
ABC For Schools: For the Juniors

2.45
9 Three on a Match (local, hosts Bob Moore/Anna Allwood)

3.00
ABC For Schools: Men in History

3.15
9 Password (local, host Philip Brady-he's better known these days as co-host of the #1 evening radio show in Melbourne on 3AW)

3.20
ABC Flowerpot Men "Shavings"

3.25
7 Beauty & the Beast (pt 2)

3.35
ABC Play School

3.45
9 Cartoon Club (includes Tom & Jerry)

4.00
7 Children's Seven

4.05
ABC Adventure Island
7 Penelope Pitstop "The Big Top Trap"

4.30
ABC Sesame Street
9 Man from UNCLE "The King of Diamonds Affair"

4.40
7 Tarzan "The Pearls of Tanga"

5.20
ABC Squiggle

5.30
9 Get Smart "How Green was My Valet?"
BTW Cartoon

5.35
ABC Cartoons
BTW Superman "Gentle Monster"

5.40
ABC Lassie "Homesick Hound"

5.45
7 Bugaloos "Courage Come Home"

Evening
6.00
9 News/Weather/Sport
BTW Here's Lucy "Lucy and the Part-Time Wife"

6.05
ABC Flaxton Boys "Goodbye Summer...Goodbye"
VEW Tammy "Tammy Plays Cupid"

6.20
7 Tom's TV Bingo

6.25
BTW News

6.30
ABC Switched On Set
7-VEW News/Weather
9 Gilligan's Island "Water, Water, Everywhere"

6.35
BTW McHale's Navy "Laugh, Captain, Laugh"

6.40
VEW Lost in Space "The Hungry Sea"

6.55
ABC TBA (Perth/Geraldton/Carnarvon)
ABC Regional News (other markets)

6.59
BTW Weather

7.00
ABC News/Newsreel
7-BTW $25,000 Great Temptation
9 New Moneymakers

7.25
ABC Weather

7.30
ABC This Day Tonight
7 News Headlines
9 Me & the Chimp "My Pet the Thief"
BTW McMillan & Wife "Till Death Til Us Part" (A)

7.35
7 Jackson Five (the group is joined by guests Bill Cosby and Tommy Smothers)
VEW Father Dear Father "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (A)

8.00
ABC Rolf Harris (guests Roy Orbison, Ken Dodd, and Chelsea Brown)
9 Partners "How Many Carats in a Grapefruit?"
VEW Movie "Above and Beyond"

8.30
9 Movie "Carry On Teacher"

8.40
ABC Mid-Evening News
7 News Headlines

8.45
ABC Monty Python's Flying Circus (A)
7 Movie "The Sons of Katie Elder"

8.55
BTW Homicide "Wheels"

9.15
ABC Green Fingers

9.30
ABC Benny Goodman

9.50
BTW Riverboat "Zig Zag"

10.00
9 Carry On Scrooge (A/the Carry On gang takes on Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with shots also being taken at English poets)
VEW Wrestling

10.20
ABC Movie "The Blob" (A)

10.45
BTW News (sign-off 10.50)

10.55
VEW Program Summary (sign-off 11.00)

11.00
7 World Championship Wrestling (sign-off midnight)
9 Movie "The Amazing Colossal Man" (A/sign-off 12.20)

11.40
ABC Weather (sign-off 11.42)
 
Bluenoser said:
2.45
9 Three on a Match (local, hosts Bob Moore/Anna Allwood)

I read somewhere that the show was promoted as "Australia's first colour game show", never mind that TV was still all Black and White then. Would have been interesting to express things like "$40 on the red".

FreddyE1977 said:
where's my old friend Channel "0" ? ???

Apparently, there wasn't any in this region.
 
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