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Friday Flashback: When Naughtiest Home Videos was yanked off air.

"Unfortunately a technical problem prevents us from continuing our scheduled program for the moment."

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When Nine boss Kerry Packer rang the station to demand they “get that shit off air”, here is how Channel Nine explained the sudden absence of Doug Mulray’s Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos in 1992.

It would eventually screen as a curiosity piece in 2008, introduced by Bert Newton, as the special too hot for television.

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  4. Talking about Kerry, growing up, I heard that Kerry liked Star Trek, and that was the reason why it got aired on Nine (during the graveyard shift) even though it lost money. Any truth to this?

  6. But GTV9 Melbourne screened the full program. Was only TCN9 Sydney and QTQ9 Brisbane that were cut short. GTV liked to stay independent as much as possible.

    2. GTV9 did not air the full program, but it lasted longer than in Sydney. While the show lasted only 30 minutes in Sydney, in Melbourne I was watching it and the show continued through to the last ad break, say about 9.20pm, then after some ads suddenly there was the Channel 9 ident and then an early start to the episode of Cheers. I think there is video of it now on the internet archive.

      I have read conflicting reports of what happened in other cities outside of Sydney and Melbourne, further confused by the fact that the Nines in Adelaide and Perth were owned independently and didn’t always follow suit with what the east coast Nines were doing.

      WIN TV in NSW/ACT didn’t have it scheduled in the first place. Not sure about other regional areas.

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