TV One (TVNZ) - Thursday Menu & Sunday Trailer (1991)
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Date: 2022-05-12

After the 8pm screening of the British police drama "The Bill" ('Wide of the Mark' - S7, ep 75), a menu for the remainder of a Thursday night - i.e. Thursday 14 November 1991 - was shown on TV One (now TVNZ 1).

TVNZ's weekly programme of international current affairs, "Foreign Correspondent", screened at 8.35pm with "Visual Symphonies" - a 10-part comedy/documentary series which followed Lynn of Tawa (Ginette McDonald) on a journey through Australasia - to follow at 9.35pm. In the fifth installment entitled 'Sydney Part One', Lynn of Tawa probed the deepest fissures of Australia's most decadent city and found herself betrothed to a real count.

A late night update from "One Network News" was broadcast at 10.10pm and TV One's final programme for the evening was "Bluegrass", a two-part miniseries about Maude Sage Breen (played by Cheryl Ladd), an ambitious woman who wanted to build an empire of world-class race horses on her Kentucky farm. Part one of "Bluegrass" screened at 10.40pm and TV One closed down at 12.35am.

Following the menu, TV One's Sunday evening lineup included: "Frontline", TVNZ's weekly current affairs programme with Lindsay Perigo (at 6.30pm); "Running for Their Lives", an 'Our World' documentary about the wild dogs of Africa (at 7.30pm); and "The Black Candle", a 'Sunday Theatre' drama based on one of Catherine Cookson's best-selling novels (at 8.35pm).

Special thanks to YouTube channel DigitaliseMe for the use of this clip.