ABC replaces its separate news and current affairs programs with ABC National, a one-hour program combining both news and current affairs analysis.
ATV10 presents the first installment of the World War II mini-series The Cowra Breakout.
Then, after midnight, HSV7 presents its first News Overnight, comprising news programs sourced via satellite from the American NBC and CNN networks as well as replays of local news and current affairs programming.
See also: Monday 4 March 1985 — SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Monday 4 March 1985 — WESTERN AUSTRALIA, Monday 4 March 1985 — TASMANIA, Monday 4 March 1985 — DARWIN
The National, ABC’s $25m news gamble [2015]
Source: The Age, 4 March 1985
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| 6AM | 6am Rocky And Bullwinkle 6.25 Go Health 6.30 Scooby Doo |
6am Felix The Cat 6.05 Popeye 6.30 McHale’s Navy (B&W) |
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| 7AM | 7am The Flintstone Frolics 7.30 Mickey And Donald |
7am Today | 7am Good Morning Australia | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8am Leave It To Beaver 8.30 Shazzan! |
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| 9AM | 9am Arthur And The Square Knights Of The Round Table 9.25 Dr Snuggles 9.30 Play School |
9am Hallelujah! 9.30 Family Affair |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am That Girl 9.30 Fat Cat And Friends |
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| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Watch, The Colonials, Words And Pictures, The Magic Bag, For The Juniors, Infinity Ltd, Australian History, Computer Club, Kontakte | 10am Romper Room | 10am Another World | 10am Good Morning Melbourne. Roy Hampson, Annette Allison | |
| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM | 11am Here’s Lucy 11.30 National Nine Morning News |
11am All My Children | 11am The Sprite And The Owl 11.10 Follow Me 11.30 Daughter Of The Porter (Lebanon) |
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| 12PM | 12pm Movie: A Question Of Love. 1978 [IMDB] | 12pm Midday With Ray Martin | 12pm After Noon. Tony Murphy, Katrina Lee | 12.40pm Movie: Sipsirica (Hungary) [IMDB] | |
| 1PM | 1.15pm Close 1.25 For Schools: Junior Secondary Maths 1.45 Close |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1.30 Movie: That Kind Of Woman. 1959 (B&W) [IMDB] | ||
| 2PM | 2pm Donahue | 2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2.25 Close | ||
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.55 AEIOU |
3pm Cop Shop | 3.30 General Hospital | 3.30 Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Mr Squiggle |
4pm Wombat 4.30 The Yearling |
4pm Skippy The Bush Kangaroo 4.30 The Ossie Ostrich Video Show |
4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World | |
| 5PM | 5pm Into The Labyrinth 5.25 Bananaman 5.30 Astroboy 5.55 Come And Get It |
5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 The New Price Is Right |
5pm Happy Days 5.30 Blankety Blanks. Daryl Somers |
5pm Gilligan’s Island 5.30 Perfect Match. Greg Evans, Debbie Newsome |
5.30 Don Quixote |
| 6PM | 6pm Heroes 6.30 ABC National PREMIERE Richard Morecroft, Geraldine Doogue |
6pm Family Ties 6.30 Seven National News |
6pm National Nine News 6.30 Willesee. Mike Willesee |
6pm Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Jo Pearson | 6pm Russian Language And People 6.30 SPIS — A Distant Paradise (Germany) |
| 7PM | 7.30 Mother And Son | 7pm Day By Day. Mark Day 7.30 Sons And Daughters |
7pm Sale of The Century. Tony Barber, Delvene Delaney 7.30 Knight Rider |
7pm MASH 7.30 Mini-Series: The Cowra Breakout PREMIERE [IMDB] |
7pm World News 7.30 Aristocrats |
| 8PM | 8pm Fawlty Towers 8.30 Minder |
8.30 Movie: Six Pack. 1982 [IMDB] | 8.30 Dynasty | 8.30 The Octopus (Italy) | |
| 9PM | 9.20 Police | 9.30 The Mike Walsh Show | 9.35 Writer’s Playhouse: Second Chance | ||
| 10PM | 10.10 A New World (For Sure) 10.40 Soccer: English Cup Championship |
10.35 Newsworld | 10.30 Eyewitness News 10.40 Mississippi |
10.05 Movie: The Girl In Room 17. 1970 (Greece) (B&W) [IMDB] | |
| 11PM | 11.40 Close | 11.10 Greyhound Racing: Australian Cup 11.30 Barney Miller |
11pm National Nine News 11.05 Hawaii Five O |
11.40 Movie: The Singer Not The Song. 1961 [IMDB] | 11.40 Close |
| 12AM | 12am News Overnight PREMIERE 12am Today (NBC), 2am Daybreak (CNN), 4am Newsworld (Rpt), 4.30 Day By Day (Rpt), 5am Daywatch (CNN) (Continues to 7am) |
12.05am Movie: The Culpepper Cattle Company. 1972 [IMDB] | |||
| 1AM | 1.55 Movie: Crunch. 1975 [IMDB] | ||||
| 2AM | 2.20am Close | ||||
| 3AM | 3.50 Movie: Iron Man. 1952 [IMDB] | ||||
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| 5AM | 5.10 Bonanza (Continues to 6am) |
