16 January 1982: Peter Phelps and Pat McDonald (Sons And Daughters)

16 January 1982: Jane Reilly and Tony Dickinson (Eyewitness News, SAS10 Adelaide)

16 January 1988: Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan (Neighbours)

16 January 2010: Kym Valentine and Carla Bonner (Neighbours)


16 January 1983: HSV7 screens the telemovie A Special Place, the story of a group of runaway kids who have set up house with an elderly lady that they have adopted as their unofficial grandmother. The telemovie served as a pilot to an ongoing series but was not picked up. It starred Davina Whitehouse, Tracy Mann, Mark Lee, Kay Ellmer and Craig Pearce.

16 January 1984: Situation comedy Mother And Son (pictured) debuts on ABC. Starring Garry McDonald, Ruth Cracknell, Henri Szeps and Judy Morris, Mother And Son was widely acclaimed and ran for six series over ten years. McDonald and Cracknell were both later inducted into the TV Week Logie Awards Hall of Fame.

16 January 1986: Prisoner makes its return for its eighth and what would become its final year.

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