from TV Week-Victoria edition
SES8/RTS5A listed Central time (SA), all other channels listed Eastern time (Vic)
Ratings Key
C recommended for children
PG parental guidance
M mature audiences
SBS
5.00 Weatherwatch/Music
6.00 Japanese News (SBS's foreign news was sourced from various broadcasters)
6.30 Weatherwatch/Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Weatherwatch/Music
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
noon Nightly Business Report (SBS also ran NewsHour from PBS as well, it aired weekdays at 5.30)
12.30 Movie "Nothing Left to Do But Cry" (PG)
3.00 On the Death of Federico Fellini
4.00 Kalachakra: The Wheel of Time
4.30 Summer of the Bomb
5.30 Once Upon a Time in Cybervillle (a British look at "new frontier" cyber-technology)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Children of Nicaragua
7.30 America in the Fifties
8.30 South Park (PG)
9.00 Robin & Friends (compilation of short filmes, featuring a slacker looking for fun along with his best friend)
9.30 Generation
10.00 Movie "Naked Killer" (MA/HK flick where 2 teams of female gangsters try to whack each other off the planet)
11.20 Best of Eat Carpet
12.40 Movie "Face to Face" (M/spaghetti western)
2.15 sign-off
ABC
6.00 Rage (music videos)
9.00 Recovery "Loud Festival"
noon Bush Tucker Man "Stories of Survival: The Best of Them All"
12.30 Baseball: Australian League
2.00 Premier League Soccer
3.00 Poetry in Motion
4.00 Movie "The Battle of the River Plate"
6.00 Woodford Folk Festival
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Pie in the Sky "The Policeman's Daughter"
8.30 The Bill "Second Chances"/"Repossession" (news update airs during show)
9.30 Performance "Suddenly Last Summer" (PG)
10.55 Rage (ABC's Triple J radio network simulcasts from 1am on)
Prime Victoria/Seven Melbourne
6.00 (Prime) Reach Out for Christ
6.00 (7) 2 Stupid Dogs
6.30 Bob in a Bottle
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (C)
9.30 Adventures of the Bush Patrol (C)
10.00 Huckleberry Hound
10.30 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
11.00 California Dreams
11.30 (Prime) Surf TV
11.30 (7) The Mask
noon Road to Nagano
1.00 Movie "My Man Godfrey"
2.55 Movie "Merry Andrew"
5.00 Get Smart "The Mild Ones"
5.30 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 World Around Us "Australia's Endangered Species" (pt 2)
7.30 (Prime) World Around Us "Jaguar: Year of the Cat" (Tattslotto/Super 66 draw airs during show)
7.30 (7) Heartbeat "Manhunt" (PG/lotto draws air here as well)
8.40 Movie "Bonanza: Under Attack" (PG)
10.40 Movie "The Sons of Katie Elder" (PG)
1.05 (Prime) The Extraordinary (PG)
1.05 (7) Telemall Shopping
2.00 (Prime) TVSN Home Shopping
2.05 (7) Movie "Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind" (M)
3.45 (7) Movie "Rock & Rule" (PG)
WIN Victoria/Nine Melbourne
6.00 (WIN) Faith Talks
6.00 (9) World Sport Special
6.30 (WIN) Telemall Shopping
6.30 (9) Dinky Dis "The Bilby Tale"
7.00 Goodsports (C, produced by WIN Tasmania)
7.30 Wonder World! (C)
8.00 Today on Saturday
9.00 Ship to Shore (C)
9.30 Wishbone (C)
10.00 My Generation (C)
10.30 Outer Bounds
10.50 Cricket: Second Test: Australia v South Africa, Day 2 (live from Sydney)
1.00 Cricket Show
1.30 Cricket cont'd
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Step by Step "The Bodyguard Formerly Known as Prince"
7.00 Hangin' with Mr. Cooper "Rivals"
7.30 Family Matters "The Naked and the Nerdy"
8.00 Married...with Children "Kelly's Got a Habit" (PG)
8.30 John Grisham's The Client (PG/premiere)
10.35 Crocodile Shoes 2 (M/premiere)
1.35 Cricket Highlights
2.05 Late Show with David Letterman (PG)
3.05 Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years "The Bride" (M)
4.05 Barney Miller "Identity" (PG)
4.35 Carson's Comedy Classics (PG)
Ten Victoria/Ten Melbourne
6.00 Barney & Friends
6.30 Fantomcat
7.00 Owl TV (C)
7.30 Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? (C)
8.00 Totally Wild (C)
8.30 NBA Inside Stuff
9.00 Video Hits
11.30 Ten-Pin Bowling
noon Bright Ideas: The Home Improvement Show
1.30 Flying 18s Yachting
2.00 Movie "Hatari!"
5.00 Ten News
5.30 Greg Norman's Classic Fishing Adventures "Niugini Black Bass" (pt 1)
6.00 Out of This World
6.30 Goosebumps "Piano Lessons Can Be Murder"/"My Hariest Adventure"
7.30 Xena: Warrior Princess "The Reckoning" (PG)
8.30 National Geographic Explorer "When Nature Strikes Back"
9.40 Maloney "Past Forgiveness" (M)
10.40 Ten News
11.10 Sports Tonight
11.40 NBA Action
12.10 NBA Game of the Week
1.10 A Year to Remember
1.40 Aboriginal Australia
2.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Randy Morrison Ministries
4.30 Key of David
SES8 (Mt Gambier)/RTS5A (Renmark-Loxton) (WIN owned, but still using local IDs at that point)
7.00 Magic School Bus (C)
7.30 Goodsports
8.00 Crocadoo (C)
8.30 Adventures of the Bush Patrol (C)
9.00 Ocean Girl (C)
9.30 Dennis the Menace
10.00 Outer Bounds
10.20 Cricket (carrying the same game as WIN/Nine)
12.30 Cricket Show
1.00 Cricket cont'd
5.30 Out of This World
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch "Sweet Charity"
7.00 Clueless
7.30 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superm,an "Voice from the Past" (includes lotto)
8.35 Movie "My Life" (PG)
10.45 Movie "Dirty Harry" (M)
12.40 Epilogue
12.48 sign-off
Australia had VCR+ in those days, using the name G-Code...here's the station codes:
02 ABC
04 WIN Victoria
05 RTS5A
06 Prime Victoria
07 Seven Melbourne
08 SES8
09 Nine Melbourne
10 Ten Melbourne
11 Ten Victoria
28 SBS
SES8/RTS5A listed Central time (SA), all other channels listed Eastern time (Vic)
Ratings Key
C recommended for children
PG parental guidance
M mature audiences
SBS
5.00 Weatherwatch/Music
6.00 Japanese News (SBS's foreign news was sourced from various broadcasters)
6.30 Weatherwatch/Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Weatherwatch/Music
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
noon Nightly Business Report (SBS also ran NewsHour from PBS as well, it aired weekdays at 5.30)
12.30 Movie "Nothing Left to Do But Cry" (PG)
3.00 On the Death of Federico Fellini
4.00 Kalachakra: The Wheel of Time
4.30 Summer of the Bomb
5.30 Once Upon a Time in Cybervillle (a British look at "new frontier" cyber-technology)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Children of Nicaragua
7.30 America in the Fifties
8.30 South Park (PG)
9.00 Robin & Friends (compilation of short filmes, featuring a slacker looking for fun along with his best friend)
9.30 Generation
10.00 Movie "Naked Killer" (MA/HK flick where 2 teams of female gangsters try to whack each other off the planet)
11.20 Best of Eat Carpet
12.40 Movie "Face to Face" (M/spaghetti western)
2.15 sign-off
ABC
6.00 Rage (music videos)
9.00 Recovery "Loud Festival"
noon Bush Tucker Man "Stories of Survival: The Best of Them All"
12.30 Baseball: Australian League
2.00 Premier League Soccer
3.00 Poetry in Motion
4.00 Movie "The Battle of the River Plate"
6.00 Woodford Folk Festival
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Pie in the Sky "The Policeman's Daughter"
8.30 The Bill "Second Chances"/"Repossession" (news update airs during show)
9.30 Performance "Suddenly Last Summer" (PG)
10.55 Rage (ABC's Triple J radio network simulcasts from 1am on)
Prime Victoria/Seven Melbourne
6.00 (Prime) Reach Out for Christ
6.00 (7) 2 Stupid Dogs
6.30 Bob in a Bottle
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (C)
9.30 Adventures of the Bush Patrol (C)
10.00 Huckleberry Hound
10.30 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
11.00 California Dreams
11.30 (Prime) Surf TV
11.30 (7) The Mask
noon Road to Nagano
1.00 Movie "My Man Godfrey"
2.55 Movie "Merry Andrew"
5.00 Get Smart "The Mild Ones"
5.30 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 World Around Us "Australia's Endangered Species" (pt 2)
7.30 (Prime) World Around Us "Jaguar: Year of the Cat" (Tattslotto/Super 66 draw airs during show)
7.30 (7) Heartbeat "Manhunt" (PG/lotto draws air here as well)
8.40 Movie "Bonanza: Under Attack" (PG)
10.40 Movie "The Sons of Katie Elder" (PG)
1.05 (Prime) The Extraordinary (PG)
1.05 (7) Telemall Shopping
2.00 (Prime) TVSN Home Shopping
2.05 (7) Movie "Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind" (M)
3.45 (7) Movie "Rock & Rule" (PG)
WIN Victoria/Nine Melbourne
6.00 (WIN) Faith Talks
6.00 (9) World Sport Special
6.30 (WIN) Telemall Shopping
6.30 (9) Dinky Dis "The Bilby Tale"
7.00 Goodsports (C, produced by WIN Tasmania)
7.30 Wonder World! (C)
8.00 Today on Saturday
9.00 Ship to Shore (C)
9.30 Wishbone (C)
10.00 My Generation (C)
10.30 Outer Bounds
10.50 Cricket: Second Test: Australia v South Africa, Day 2 (live from Sydney)
1.00 Cricket Show
1.30 Cricket cont'd
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Step by Step "The Bodyguard Formerly Known as Prince"
7.00 Hangin' with Mr. Cooper "Rivals"
7.30 Family Matters "The Naked and the Nerdy"
8.00 Married...with Children "Kelly's Got a Habit" (PG)
8.30 John Grisham's The Client (PG/premiere)
10.35 Crocodile Shoes 2 (M/premiere)
1.35 Cricket Highlights
2.05 Late Show with David Letterman (PG)
3.05 Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years "The Bride" (M)
4.05 Barney Miller "Identity" (PG)
4.35 Carson's Comedy Classics (PG)
Ten Victoria/Ten Melbourne
6.00 Barney & Friends
6.30 Fantomcat
7.00 Owl TV (C)
7.30 Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? (C)
8.00 Totally Wild (C)
8.30 NBA Inside Stuff
9.00 Video Hits
11.30 Ten-Pin Bowling
noon Bright Ideas: The Home Improvement Show
1.30 Flying 18s Yachting
2.00 Movie "Hatari!"
5.00 Ten News
5.30 Greg Norman's Classic Fishing Adventures "Niugini Black Bass" (pt 1)
6.00 Out of This World
6.30 Goosebumps "Piano Lessons Can Be Murder"/"My Hariest Adventure"
7.30 Xena: Warrior Princess "The Reckoning" (PG)
8.30 National Geographic Explorer "When Nature Strikes Back"
9.40 Maloney "Past Forgiveness" (M)
10.40 Ten News
11.10 Sports Tonight
11.40 NBA Action
12.10 NBA Game of the Week
1.10 A Year to Remember
1.40 Aboriginal Australia
2.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Randy Morrison Ministries
4.30 Key of David
SES8 (Mt Gambier)/RTS5A (Renmark-Loxton) (WIN owned, but still using local IDs at that point)
7.00 Magic School Bus (C)
7.30 Goodsports
8.00 Crocadoo (C)
8.30 Adventures of the Bush Patrol (C)
9.00 Ocean Girl (C)
9.30 Dennis the Menace
10.00 Outer Bounds
10.20 Cricket (carrying the same game as WIN/Nine)
12.30 Cricket Show
1.00 Cricket cont'd
5.30 Out of This World
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch "Sweet Charity"
7.00 Clueless
7.30 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superm,an "Voice from the Past" (includes lotto)
8.35 Movie "My Life" (PG)
10.45 Movie "Dirty Harry" (M)
12.40 Epilogue
12.48 sign-off
Australia had VCR+ in those days, using the name G-Code...here's the station codes:
02 ABC
04 WIN Victoria
05 RTS5A
06 Prime Victoria
07 Seven Melbourne
08 SES8
09 Nine Melbourne
10 Ten Melbourne
11 Ten Victoria
28 SBS