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S F i N Z
Welcome to the Web-page dedicated to Science Fiction in New Zealand (SFiNZ), a guide to what's been on - and when - in the world of SF cult TV and movies in New Zealand.
This site is very much a WORK IN PROGRESS, and will be updated and added to on (hopefully!) a regular basis.
The main purpose of this guide, is to provide a spring-board for that long lost memory of watching a certain show at your grandmother's house one wet Sunday afternoon, or attending a friend's birthday party, and having all activites stop so everyone could watch Thunderbirds. Or to remind you when you taped that episode of Babylon 5.
This guide is therefore essentially an expanded TV episode guide, giving not only the original UK or US airdate, but also the date of the first New Zealand screening, plus the channel and time. Repeat screenings are also noted for many of these shows.
Jon Preddle
(Please email me if you have any ideas, suggestions, comments, etc)
Thanks to Alan Morton, Christopher Perry, and Richard Down (for inspiration); Paul Scoones (for research assistance, and for sharing his Thunderbirds memories); Murray Jackson (for research assistance).
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A Brief History Of
NZ TV
New Zealand currently has five main terrestrial TV channels. The following is a chronological background of when these channels commenced operation.
1 June 1960: The New Zealand Broadcasting Service begins transmitting on one channel from Auckland for two hours per night, two nights per week.
First UK Drama: The Adventures of Robin Hood
First UK Comedy: The Army Game
First US Drama: Lassie
First US Comedy: I Love Lucy
First Repeated Programme: No Hiding Place
August 1960: Television licence fee of £4 is introduced.
October 1960: Transmission is extended to five nights per week.
April 1961: Television advertising is introduced. Transmission now 28 hours per week.
1 June 1961: Transmission begins in Christchurch.
1 July 1961: Transmission begins in Wellington.
31 July 1962: Transmission begins in Dunedin. The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) created.
1964: Transmission on all four regions extended to 50 hours per week.
1970: Transmission increases to 65 hours per week.
1971: Conversion to colour systems begins with a commitment to the PAL colour system.
1972: Government confirms the establishment of a second TV channel.
29 October 1973: Regional television ends. Nationwide transmission commence. Colour transmissions also begin.
March 1975: The new TV centre at Avalon, Lower Hutt is opened.
April 1975: The NZBC is dissolved, and replaced by Television One and Television Two.
30 June 1975: Television Two commences transmission in Auckland and Christchurch only.
November 1975: Television Two commences transmission in Wellington.
June 1976: Television Two becomes a separate corporation - South Pacific Television, aka TV2. (Television advertising is limited to only five nights a week on each channel: Sunday is exempt from advertising on both channels, while Friday is commercial-free on TV1, Saturday exempt on TV2. The Friday and Saturday exemptions remains in force until the mid 1980s.)
1977: TV2 now reaches the majority of the country.
15 February 1980: TV One and TV2 merge under a single corporation - the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand (BCNZ).
1988: The BCNZ dissolves into a separate State Owned Enterprise - TVNZ Ltd.
1989: TV2 is retooled and renamed Channel 2. Deregulation introduces the sale of UHF frequencies to private enterprises. This new act allows for commercials on Sundays, and introduces the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
26 November 1989: TV3 commences transmission.
18 May 1990: Sky Network TV goes on air, initially in Auckland only, but eventually reaches to other regions nationwide.
1994: 24 hour TV is introduced to TV2.
3 December 1994: Sky's Orange channel, begins transmission.
March 1995: Horizon Pacific Television Ltd is established, and launches four regional stations.
March 1997: Horizon ceases operation.
29 June 1997: TV4 commences transmission.
1 June 1998: Sky's Orange channel is renamed Sky 1.
30 August 1998: The UHF channel Prime TV - which emerged from Horizon - commences transmission.
September 1998: Tests into digital television commence...
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KEY TO TV HEADINGS
The dates listed on the TV pages show the original US or UK transmission dates. The first New Zealand air date is then listed, followed by any repeat dates. From 1960 to 1973 (see A Brief History of NZ TV above) programmes were screened on a regional basis. The four regions were Auckland (later renamed Northern), Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Each episode would be first broadcast by one region, then the film would then be forwarded on to the next regional station for screening the following week. This process would continue until all four stations had aired the episode. The station that first broadcast an episode differed, but Dunedin was more often than not the last region in the cycle. Rather than listing all four transmission dates I have noted only the date and the region that was the first to transmitted the episode: the code used is pretty straightforward. A, W, C and D. I have, however, made a note of when programmes started in the other regions in the Notes section. For screenings after 1973, I have simply used the channel number (1,2,3,4) , O for Orange, P for Prime, where applicable. The last notation in the guide is the start time in a 24-hour clock - as advertised in the Listener or TV Guide.
In the movie guide, I have listed the opening dates of the Auckland screenings only. It wasn't until Hoyts and Village bought out the independently owned chains of theatres (Kerridge Odeon and Amalgamated Theatres) in the late 1980s that Nationwide openings (usually on a Thursday) began in this country. Without access to non-Auckland newspapers it has been impossible to obtain opening dates for films outside the Northern region. I apologise for this!
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TV
INDEX
(Only shows in blue currently have an active link. While it is my intention to eventually include the other listed shows, I cannot guarantee that all will be featured immediately.)
Ace of Wands
Adventures of Brisco County Jnr
Adventures of Twizzle
Alien Nation
Avengers / New Avengers
Babylon 5
Batman
Battlestar Galactica / 1980
Bionic Woman
Blakes 7
Buck Rogers in 25th Century
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Catweazle
Champions
Crusade
Doctor Who
Earth 2
Flash
Four Feather Falls
Gemini Man
Get Smart
Greatest American Hero
Girl From UNCLE
Highlander
Invaders
Invisible Man (1975)
Joe 90
Land of the Giants
Lexx
Logan's Run
Lois & Clark
Lost In Space
Man From Atlantis
Man From UNCLE
Max Headroom
Mission: Impossible
Moonbase 3
Nowhere Man
Planet of the Apes
Powers of Matthew Starr
Pretender
Prisoner
Quantum Leap
Quatermass
Randall & Hopkirk Deceased
Red Dwarf
Robin of Sherwood
Sapphire and Steel
SeaQuest DSV / 2032
Secret Service
Six Million Dollar Man
Sliders
Space 1999
Stargate SG-1
Starman
Star Trek (All Series)
Stingray
Supercar
Survivors
TekWar
Terrahawks
3rd Rock From The Sun
Thunderbirds
Timeslip
Time Tunnel
The Tomorrow People
Torchy the Battery Boy
Tripods
UFO
V
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Wild Wild West
X Files
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