Networked ITV - 1990s and before...

As far as I remember TTTV had Emmerdale at 6.30 in 1987 as well. On Yorkshire, the situation was reversed, and The Roxy went out at 6.30.

There is a YouTube video somewhere of the end of The Roxy where Neville Wanless announces that "In Loving Memory" is on next (complete with a YTV-sourced slide), which was on at 7.30 on Tuesdays at the time.

Thanks - I've found the clip you mean, although it dates from January 1988. I have to say, I don't recall Emmerdale in a 6.30 slot prior to 1988, but I may be wrong!

As a schoolkid in the 1980s, I remember coming home from Primary school for lunch, and sometimes the Sullivans was on STV. I know most regions showed it in a lunchtime slot, but did any show it in a teatime slot? The show was shown in a 19:30 slot on Channel 9 in Australia, but to me, it seemed to always be lunchtime in STV land.

Emmerdale went out at.5.15 Mon/Tues in stv, Grampian, Anglia, for all of 1987. I'm believe most other areas moved Tuesday to Wednesday at 7pm. Crossroads did 6.30 slot Mon/Tues from 88. Exept stv who put it 5.15.


Nope after detailed search no one did. TVS Did show sons and daughters at 5.15 while HTv, Granada and someone elseput country partise at evening peaks.

I had vague recollections of seeing it scheduled somewhere in a 5.15 slot in the mid-80s, but it appears I was wrong, and probably mixing it up with Sons and Daughters on TVS. I think some regions (maybe HTV?) scheduled The Sullivans at 3.20 in the early 90s - most regions had completed it years earlier. 12.30 seemed to be the preferred time for The Sullivans, although the actual days varied in different regions. I think it moved to 12 noon when the lunchtime news was moved to 12.30 in 1987.

I forgot to say;

The young Doctors went out in London at 5.15 both LWT and Thames June 1983 - 1 September 1984, If Thames moved emmerdale back to 1984 at this point it could have stayed at 5.15 but on mon/tues.

TSW did the same during 1985: Mondays and Fridays April - September.

Every single other Oz soap Bar the Sullivans have been dumped at 5.15 slot.

The Sullivans was on HTV until Mid 1993, I believe it was only shown twice a week on HTV not 3 times a week like most other regions. HTV showed it in the 12.30pm slot straight after the childrens programmes on Mon/Tues in the Late 1980s, then it moved to around 1.55pm in the early 1990s. I think it was January 1993 it moved to 3.20pm and stayed there until it ended later that year. Westcountry were still showing the Sullivans in 1994!

Also, A Country Practice on HTV was shown in the 5.10pm slot from 1994 until it ended in 1999. Before that I believe A Country Practice was in the 3.25pm slot between the afternoon news and CITV.

HTV played out the last episode of CP same day News at Ten got axed.

Nearly all the ITV companies completed the Sullivans in late 1988 or early 1989 except for HTV, and Scottish Television which took until 1993 to complete the series.

When Westcountry Television took over from TSW, they initially dropped The Sullivans from their schedule, only to bring it back a while later due to popular demand. The was short-lived, however, and Westcountry then dropped the series completely, meaning that viewers in the South West never saw the entire series (this similarly happened with The Young Doctors).

The Sullivans was dropped in a few regions - ATV, TSW/Westcountry and Yorkshire never saw it all. On HTV we were lucky we saw all the aussie soaps until the end but were one of the last region, if not the last, to complete ACP and The Sullivans. We finished Sons and Daughters in 1991 and Prisoner in 1996 so about average in terms of how quickly we completed them.

ACP was all over the place - initially 1 hour episodes once as week (on just a Friday for a long period but may have bene other days), then when Sons and Daughters ended in 1991 ACP replaced that Wed-Fri at 3.25pm and for the first time was shown in the half hourly eps like other regions did, then it was increased to 5 times a week, still at 3.25pm, at some point during 1992, then moved back to 1 hour episodes on a Friday at the start of 1993 as Blockbusters moved from evening to daytime so there was no longer a daily slot for it, then when Blockbusters ended it replaced it at 4 or 5 half hourly eps a week again, then from 1994 moved to 5.10pm but was on anything between 2 and 5 days a week, mostly 2 days.

Bascially if there was something better to show, or if the slots were needed for proper regional programmes then ACP lost slots and they showed it just a few times a week. Other regions seemed to treat it better, Thames/Carlton for example seemed to like it and showed it 5 days a week for a large part of its run.

Yes I remember the end of ACP coincided with the end of the original News At 10. I think they timed ACP to end this date by increasing the number of eps a week from 2 to 4 in Jan 1999. The following Monday Home and Away moved to 5.05pm, regional programme were at 5.30pm and the news hour was 6pm-7pm as it is now.

Im just Surprised all the companies could not come to same agreement about play of Daytime programming,

ATV did show The Sullivans. Central didn't ISTR, so it must have been axed in the Midlands no later than December 1981!