Source: TV Week, 27 December 1986
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| 6AM | News Overnight (cont’d) | 6am Early Morning News 6.30 Today. Steve Liebmann, Elizabeth Hayes |
6am Daybreak | ||
| 7AM | 7am The Tomorrow People 7.30 Kidnapped |
7am Good Morning Australia | |||
| 8AM | 8.30am Sesame Street | 8am The Little Rascals 8.30 Secret Squirrel |
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| 9AM | 9.30 Play School | 9am Rainbow | 9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 Magical World Of Gigi |
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| 10AM | 10am Animals In Action 10.25 Quaq Quao 10.30 Astroboy |
10am Romper Room | 10am General Hospital | 10am Another World | |
| 11AM | 11am Jockey School 11.25 A E I O U 11.30 3 2 1 Contact |
11am Tennis: Jason 2000 Women’s Classic | 11am The Sullivans 11.30 Ask The Leyland Brothers |
11am The Down Under Show | |
| 12PM | 12pm Country GP 12.50 The Secret War |
12pm Movie: Getting Away From It All. 1971 [IMDB] | 12pm Movie: Wedding On Walton’s Mountain. 1982 [IMDB] | ||
| 1PM | 1.40 Snooker: Winfield Masters | 1.30 Days Of Our Lives | |||
| 2PM | 2.10 The Little World Of Dietmar Fill 2.40 Let’s Read With Basil Brush 2.50 Little Blue |
2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2pm Matlock Police | ||
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street | 3.30 Puttin’ On The Hits | 3pm Blankety Blanks 3.30 Superfriends |
3pm Movie: Kekec (Yugoslavia) (B&W) 1951 [IMDB] | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Roland’s Winter Wonderland 4.55 The Red And The Blue |
4pm Animals Animals Animals 4.30 You Asked For It |
4pm Special: Paganini Strikes Again | 4.30 Kaleidoscope | |
| 5PM | 5pm Ulysses 31 5.25 Roger Ramjet 5.30 Grange Hill 5.55 Come And Get It |
5pm Small Wonder 5.30 Webster |
5pm The Brady Bunch 5.30 Perfect Match |
5pm Everybody Here (UK) 5.30 Kitty And The Red Shoes (Sweden) |
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| 6PM | 6pm Television Parts 6.30 The Hot Shoe Show |
6pm Gimme A Break 6.30 Seven National News. Mal Walden |
6pm National Nine News. Peter Hitchener 6.30 Six Thirty. Quentin Fogarty |
6pm Eyewitness News | 6.30 Show Express With James Last (Germany) |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 Special: Clive James And The Great American Beauty Pageant |
7pm Day By Day 7.30 Special: Images 1986. Mal Walden |
7pm The Newlywed Game. Ian Turpie 7.30 The Love Boat |
7pm MASH 7.30 The Late Late Breakfast Show |
7pm World News. George Donikian 7.30 Special: World News — Images 1986 |
| 8PM | 8.20 Special: Television Academy Hall Of Fame 1986 | 8.30 Midweek Tattslotto 8.32 Tennis: South Australian Men’s Open |
8.30 Movie: Mayerling. 1969 [IMDB] | 8.30 Movie: New York New York. 1977 [IMDB] | 8.30 This Is My Night (UK) |
| 9PM | 9.30 L’Alcazar De Paris (France) | ||||
| 10PM | 10pm ABC News 10.05 An Audience With Billy Connolly |
10.30 Ten Years In An Open-Neck Shirt (UK) | |||
| 11PM | 11pm Kenny And Dolly | 11.30 America’s Cup Report 11.40 Newsworld |
11pm America’s Cup Highlights 11.30 Special: New Year’s Eve With Wilbur Wilde |
11.25 Eyewitness News. Includes America’s Cup Update 11.45 Musicvideo (Continues to 6am) |
11.35 The Noise Special Edition |
| 12AM | 12am Rock Arena | 12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) (Continues to 6am) |
12.30am Special: Santana And Heart Concert For The Americans | ||
| 1AM | 1am Close | ||||
| 2AM | 2am Movie: Carlton Browne Of The FO. 1958 (B&W) [IMDB] | 2.35am Close | |||
| 3AM | 3.45 Chuck Connors Theatre | ||||
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| 5AM | 5am Animal Express 5.30 The New You Asked For It (Continues to 6am) |
