Actually, I’ve just realised there’s more than one episode on the footage - the end of episode 529 (1985 season return), the end of episode 541 (probably mid to late February) and snippets of a few more from early 1985, and a bit from late 1984 (ep 508)!
In Perth, Sons and Daughters kept being shown as 30 minute episodes at 7pm until late 1986. In 1987, it moved to one hour episodes on a Sunday night for the last year at 7.30pm. A Country Practice was shown on Tuesday and Thursday nights at 7.35pm. This changed around 1987 to Monday and Tuesdays as well...this was as TVW 7 started to align more with 7 Network. TVW 7 was the first 7 station to move its news from 6.30 to 6pm in 1985 and screened the locally-produced State Affair before Sons and Daughters. By 1987, TVW 7 was showing Neighbours at 7pm on a weeknight.. and even screened Good Morning Australia...this was before 10 finally began in 1988. In '88, Home and Away began and Perth was where it always screened at 7pm. Neighbours went to NEW 10. Massively behind due to the messy screening schedule, the new ten station played Neighbours as one hour episodes to catch it up.
Thanks. I heard that TVW were heaps behind the Eastern states when they showed Neighbours. In late 1987 they were still showing episodes from mid 1986, nearly as far behind as the BBC in the UK! I believe they stopped showing it when H&A started and NEW 10 must have had over a year’s worth of episodes to catch up with - do you know when they finally caught up with the Eastern states? (EDIT: I see they were still showing 60-minute episodes in November 1989!)
@@CaptainSiCo Yes...Neighbours was not screened in Perth in 1985. TVW 7 had Seven National News at 6pm, State Affair at 6.30 and kept Sons and Daughters at 7pm. Sons and Daughters still rated very well in Perth at 7pm through 1985 and 1986. And we had no NEW 10 until 1988 because STW 9 and TVW 7 fought the start of Ten in Perth for several years in the courts. Neighbours wasn't expected to be a ratings success and TVW 7 began screening the 1985 episodes of Neighbours on a Sunday night for an hour at 6.30. I think they thought it was gone over east and didn't have high hopes that Ten would do any good with it. So by late 1986, the episodes in Perth were still 7 Network episodes and a good 14 or so months behind. With Sons and Daughters facing the chop and no Home and Away yet on the horizon, Sons and Daughters in the east went to being screened for 1hr on a Sunday night and TVW 7 followed suit. They decided to show Neighbours through 1987 at 7pm on weeknights and the Ten episodes began. We were way behind and when my English relatives visited Perth they were shocked to see Perth episodes barely any different to the UK. It was embarrassing...even GWN in regional WA was ahead of Perth with Neighbours at one point but they were still way behind the east as well. When it was announced NEW 10 was actually happening, 7 took Neighbours off for Xmas and then began in early 1988 at 5.30 burning off the last episodes they had..... while beginning Home and Away at 7pm and Perth was always up-to-date with Home and Away. Once Ten began, they caught up Neighbours showing 1hr episodes until well into 1989....they promoted it to glory and Kylie and Jason were still in it on Perth TV....well after they had left! TVW 7 and STW 9 had the choice of Ten shows before NEW 10...they were probably spoilt for choice and if something faltered in ratings it got swiftly pushed to late night or suddenly dropped altogether.....They'd drop new shows and replace them with tired "old favourites" like 70s British comedies or repeat movies that had been played over and over. It wasn't just Neighbours.....They allowed so many shows to drop way behind..Prisoner on STW 9 was pushed to late on Saturdays after 10.30pm...you'd wait through movies finishing at odd times for Prisoner..... and for only one hour a week running over two years behind the east in the end....It was dropped well before the end of the series. Perfect Match on TVW would show Greg Evans and Debbie Newsome while the east coast had Cameron Daddo on! Young Talent Time was often pushed to 4 or 5pm on a Sunday on Nine when they'd have a World Around Us documentary in prime time....and without warning TVW dropped Sons and Daughters from Sunday nights before the end of its run in favour of ALF...they had hardly episodes left to run but it disappeared.... and then Perth viewers had to wait until 1988 to see the last ten episodes at 3pm in the afternoon! I wagged school to come home and watch the end as we had no VCR! I remember Dallas and Dynasty being run by STW 9 and through 1985 being not shown all year because they'd show Ashes Cricket at 8.30pm half the year.....I recall the following summer then with 9 showing two hour episodes every week to catch Dallas and Dynasty back up! Perth TV became a mess with the screening of soaps....A Country Practice remained consistent. But I recall Carson's Law only starting on Channel 9 in late 1985- well after the east coast and then never finished.....frustrating for the viewer who committed to these shows. Earlier, shows like The Sullivans were pushed to 11am on a Sunday morning after Grace's death with the final episode not screening until a good 18 months after the east...The Young Doctors was on at 5.30pm on STW all through 1984....after finishing over a year before on the east coast. Once Ten began, 7 and 9 suddenly changed and aligned themselves with networks and everything was caught up. No wonder they didn't want the competition. They had a captive market with all the advertising revenue to themselves and I wonder if the local stations bought a lot of older shows after they screened on east coast at a reduced price. The southern suburbs of Perth could pick up GWN from Bunbury and often they were well ahead of Perth with shows or even screened some shows Perth never got to see!
This is episode 533 of S&D (TVW7 appear to be still showing half hour episodes). The fifth episode of the 1985 season, so dates this to Jan/Feb 1985.
Eh. Close enough. Thanks for your help dating these old tapes. It's got some LA 1984 stuff on it so I thought it might be from then.
Actually, I’ve just realised there’s more than one episode on the footage - the end of episode 529 (1985 season return), the end of episode 541 (probably mid to late February) and snippets of a few more from early 1985, and a bit from late 1984 (ep 508)!
In Perth, Sons and Daughters kept being shown as 30 minute episodes at 7pm until late 1986. In 1987, it moved to one hour episodes on a Sunday night for the last year at 7.30pm. A Country Practice was shown on Tuesday and Thursday nights at 7.35pm. This changed around 1987 to Monday and Tuesdays as well...this was as TVW 7 started to align more with 7 Network.
TVW 7 was the first 7 station to move its news from 6.30 to 6pm in 1985 and screened the locally-produced State Affair before Sons and Daughters.
By 1987, TVW 7 was showing Neighbours at 7pm on a weeknight.. and even screened Good Morning Australia...this was before 10 finally began in 1988.
In '88, Home and Away began and Perth was where it always screened at 7pm. Neighbours went to NEW 10. Massively behind due to the messy screening schedule, the new ten station played Neighbours as one hour episodes to catch it up.
Thanks. I heard that TVW were heaps behind the Eastern states when they showed Neighbours. In late 1987 they were still showing episodes from mid 1986, nearly as far behind as the BBC in the UK! I believe they stopped showing it when H&A started and NEW 10 must have had over a year’s worth of episodes to catch up with - do you know when they finally caught up with the Eastern states? (EDIT: I see they were still showing 60-minute episodes in November 1989!)
@@CaptainSiCo Yes...Neighbours was not screened in Perth in 1985. TVW 7 had Seven National News at 6pm, State Affair at 6.30 and kept Sons and Daughters at 7pm. Sons and Daughters still rated very well in Perth at 7pm through 1985 and 1986. And we had no NEW 10 until 1988 because STW 9 and TVW 7 fought the start of Ten in Perth for several years in the courts. Neighbours wasn't expected to be a ratings success and TVW 7 began screening the 1985 episodes of Neighbours on a Sunday night for an hour at 6.30. I think they thought it was gone over east and didn't have high hopes that Ten would do any good with it. So by late 1986, the episodes in Perth were still 7 Network episodes and a good 14 or so months behind.
With Sons and Daughters facing the chop and no Home and Away yet on the horizon, Sons and Daughters in the east went to being screened for 1hr on a Sunday night and TVW 7 followed suit. They decided to show Neighbours through 1987 at 7pm on weeknights and the Ten episodes began. We were way behind and when my English relatives visited Perth they were shocked to see Perth episodes barely any different to the UK. It was embarrassing...even GWN in regional WA was ahead of Perth with Neighbours at one point but they were still way behind the east as well.
When it was announced NEW 10 was actually happening, 7 took Neighbours off for Xmas and then began in early 1988 at 5.30 burning off the last episodes they had..... while beginning Home and Away at 7pm and Perth was always up-to-date with Home and Away. Once Ten began, they caught up Neighbours showing 1hr episodes until well into 1989....they promoted it to glory and Kylie and Jason were still in it on Perth TV....well after they had left! TVW 7 and STW 9 had the choice of Ten shows before NEW 10...they were probably spoilt for choice and if something faltered in ratings it got swiftly pushed to late night or suddenly dropped altogether.....They'd drop new shows and replace them with tired "old favourites" like 70s British comedies or repeat movies that had been played over and over.
It wasn't just Neighbours.....They allowed so many shows to drop way behind..Prisoner on STW 9 was pushed to late on Saturdays after 10.30pm...you'd wait through movies finishing at odd times for Prisoner..... and for only one hour a week running over two years behind the east in the end....It was dropped well before the end of the series. Perfect Match on TVW would show Greg Evans and Debbie Newsome while the east coast had Cameron Daddo on! Young Talent Time was often pushed to 4 or 5pm on a Sunday on Nine when they'd have a World Around Us documentary in prime time....and without warning TVW dropped Sons and Daughters from Sunday nights before the end of its run in favour of ALF...they had hardly episodes left to run but it disappeared.... and then Perth viewers had to wait until 1988 to see the last ten episodes at 3pm in the afternoon! I wagged school to come home and watch the end as we had no VCR!
I remember Dallas and Dynasty being run by STW 9 and through 1985 being not shown all year because they'd show Ashes Cricket at 8.30pm half the year.....I recall the following summer then with 9 showing two hour episodes every week to catch Dallas and Dynasty back up! Perth TV became a mess with the screening of soaps....A Country Practice remained consistent. But I recall Carson's Law only starting on Channel 9 in late 1985- well after the east coast and then never finished.....frustrating for the viewer who committed to these shows.
Earlier, shows like The Sullivans were pushed to 11am on a Sunday morning after Grace's death with the final episode not screening until a good 18 months after the east...The Young Doctors was on at 5.30pm on STW all through 1984....after finishing over a year before on the east coast.
Once Ten began, 7 and 9 suddenly changed and aligned themselves with networks and everything was caught up. No wonder they didn't want the competition. They had a captive market with all the advertising revenue to themselves and I wonder if the local stations bought a lot of older shows after they screened on east coast at a reduced price. The southern suburbs of Perth could pick up GWN from Bunbury and often they were well ahead of Perth with shows or even screened some shows Perth never got to see!