from The Age
ABV2 ABC
6:00 Learning Network
7:00 Children's programming
10:20 School programming
12:00 Searching for Women's History
12:30 Masters of Disaster
1:00 Parental Guidance Recommended
1:15 School of Dance
1:40 For the Juniors
2:00 How We Used to Live
2:20 Shakespeare in Perspective
2:50 Masterworks
3:00 Sesame Street
3:55 Thomas the Tank Engine and His Friends
4:00 Play School
4:30 Mr. Squiggle and Friends
5:00 Grange Hill
5:30 Metal Mickey
6:00 Ghostbusters
6:30 EastEnders
7:00 ABC News/Weather (Mary Delahunty)
7:30 The 7.30 Report: Summer Edition
8:00 University Challenge: James Cook University vs. Deakin University
8:30 Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals: Sign or We'll Shoot
9:30 Palace of Dream
10:20 ABC News Update
10:25 Comedy Break with Mack and Jamie
10:50 Soccer (highlights of British matches)
11:45 Movie "Isle of the Dead"
12:55 close
HSV7 Seven Network
6:00 The Roman Holidays
6:25 Huckleberry Hound
6:40 Cartoon Connection
9:00 The Onedin Line
10:00 Romper Room
10:55 Take Five
11:00 11AM
12:00 Movie "The Alternative"
1:30 George Burns' Comedy Week
2:00 Airwolf
3:00 Five Mile Creek
4:00 Tomorrow People
4:30 Runaway Island
5:00 Wheel of Fortune
5:30 Press Your Luck
6:00 Seven National News (Greg Pearce)
7:00 Terry Willesee Tonight
7:30 George and Mildred
8:00 The Good Life
8:30 Rafferty's Rules
9:30 Cagney and Lacey
10:30 Newsworld
11:30 The Refuge
12:00 News Overnight (all-night news transmission, including NBC's Today)
GTV9 Nine Network
6:00 Early Morning News
6:30 Business Today
7:00 Today (George Negus/Elizabeth Hayes)
9:00 Here's Humphrey
9:30 Young Doctors
10:00 The Sullivans
11:00 World of Survival
11:30 Gomer Pyle
12:00 Waterloo Station
1:00 Life with Lucy
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Young and the Restless
3:30 General Hospital
4:00 The Curiosity Show
4:30 Boomerang
5:00 Kathy and Bugs
5:30 Ask the Leyland Brothers
6:00 National Nine News (Brian Naylor)
6:30 Six-Thirty (it was replaced by A Current Affair in 1988)
7:00 Crossfire
7:30 Codename: Foxfire
8:30 Willing and Abel
9:30 Hill Street Blues
10:30 National Nine Newsbreak
10:35 Home Shopping Show (Brian Bury/Karen Pini)
11:05 MTV (Richard Wilkins)
1:05 Movie "That'll Be the Day"
2:55 Movie "The Bachelor Party"
4:35 Bonanza
5:30 Animal Express
ATV10 Network Ten
6:00 Daybreak
7:00 Good Morning Australia
9:00 Good Morning Melbourne
10:00 Fat Cat and Friends
10:30 Ten Eyewitness News
11:00 Another World
12:00 Santa Barbara
1:00 Bold and the Beautiful
1:30 The Jeffersons
2:00 Movie "Yeti"
4:00 Ridgey Didge
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Perfect Match
6:00 Ten Eyewitness News (David Johnston/Jo Pearson)
7:00 Neighbours
7:30 Stir Crazy
8:30 Crime Story
9:30 Cheers
10:00 Night Court
10:30 Ten Eyewitness News
10:45 C.A.T.S. Eyes
11:45 Gridiron (highlights of NFL American football)
1:15 Nightshift (music videos; David White hosts)
5:00 Blankety Blanks
5:30 Superman
SBS28 SBS
2:55pm Movie "Crime and Punishment"
4:00 Russian Language and People
4:30 Kaleidoscope
5:00 Brotherhood of the Blue Seagull
5:30 India Unveiled
6:00 Brookside (UK)
6:30 SBS World News
7:00 Office Gossip (Germany)
7:30 Civilisation (British documentary series presented by Kenneth Clark; final)
8:30 The Movie Show
9:00 Worldwide
9:30 Movie "Graduation Party" (1985, Italy)
11:10 SBS World News
11:40 Windows
12:40 close
ABV2 ABC
6:00 Learning Network
7:00 Children's programming
10:20 School programming
12:00 Searching for Women's History
12:30 Masters of Disaster
1:00 Parental Guidance Recommended
1:15 School of Dance
1:40 For the Juniors
2:00 How We Used to Live
2:20 Shakespeare in Perspective
2:50 Masterworks
3:00 Sesame Street
3:55 Thomas the Tank Engine and His Friends
4:00 Play School
4:30 Mr. Squiggle and Friends
5:00 Grange Hill
5:30 Metal Mickey
6:00 Ghostbusters
6:30 EastEnders
7:00 ABC News/Weather (Mary Delahunty)
7:30 The 7.30 Report: Summer Edition
8:00 University Challenge: James Cook University vs. Deakin University
8:30 Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals: Sign or We'll Shoot
9:30 Palace of Dream
10:20 ABC News Update
10:25 Comedy Break with Mack and Jamie
10:50 Soccer (highlights of British matches)
11:45 Movie "Isle of the Dead"
12:55 close
HSV7 Seven Network
6:00 The Roman Holidays
6:25 Huckleberry Hound
6:40 Cartoon Connection
9:00 The Onedin Line
10:00 Romper Room
10:55 Take Five
11:00 11AM
12:00 Movie "The Alternative"
1:30 George Burns' Comedy Week
2:00 Airwolf
3:00 Five Mile Creek
4:00 Tomorrow People
4:30 Runaway Island
5:00 Wheel of Fortune
5:30 Press Your Luck
6:00 Seven National News (Greg Pearce)
7:00 Terry Willesee Tonight
7:30 George and Mildred
8:00 The Good Life
8:30 Rafferty's Rules
9:30 Cagney and Lacey
10:30 Newsworld
11:30 The Refuge
12:00 News Overnight (all-night news transmission, including NBC's Today)
GTV9 Nine Network
6:00 Early Morning News
6:30 Business Today
7:00 Today (George Negus/Elizabeth Hayes)
9:00 Here's Humphrey
9:30 Young Doctors
10:00 The Sullivans
11:00 World of Survival
11:30 Gomer Pyle
12:00 Waterloo Station
1:00 Life with Lucy
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Young and the Restless
3:30 General Hospital
4:00 The Curiosity Show
4:30 Boomerang
5:00 Kathy and Bugs
5:30 Ask the Leyland Brothers
6:00 National Nine News (Brian Naylor)
6:30 Six-Thirty (it was replaced by A Current Affair in 1988)
7:00 Crossfire
7:30 Codename: Foxfire
8:30 Willing and Abel
9:30 Hill Street Blues
10:30 National Nine Newsbreak
10:35 Home Shopping Show (Brian Bury/Karen Pini)
11:05 MTV (Richard Wilkins)
1:05 Movie "That'll Be the Day"
2:55 Movie "The Bachelor Party"
4:35 Bonanza
5:30 Animal Express
ATV10 Network Ten
6:00 Daybreak
7:00 Good Morning Australia
9:00 Good Morning Melbourne
10:00 Fat Cat and Friends
10:30 Ten Eyewitness News
11:00 Another World
12:00 Santa Barbara
1:00 Bold and the Beautiful
1:30 The Jeffersons
2:00 Movie "Yeti"
4:00 Ridgey Didge
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Perfect Match
6:00 Ten Eyewitness News (David Johnston/Jo Pearson)
7:00 Neighbours
7:30 Stir Crazy
8:30 Crime Story
9:30 Cheers
10:00 Night Court
10:30 Ten Eyewitness News
10:45 C.A.T.S. Eyes
11:45 Gridiron (highlights of NFL American football)
1:15 Nightshift (music videos; David White hosts)
5:00 Blankety Blanks
5:30 Superman
SBS28 SBS
2:55pm Movie "Crime and Punishment"
4:00 Russian Language and People
4:30 Kaleidoscope
5:00 Brotherhood of the Blue Seagull
5:30 India Unveiled
6:00 Brookside (UK)
6:30 SBS World News
7:00 Office Gossip (Germany)
7:30 Civilisation (British documentary series presented by Kenneth Clark; final)
8:30 The Movie Show
9:00 Worldwide
9:30 Movie "Graduation Party" (1985, Italy)
11:10 SBS World News
11:40 Windows
12:40 close