9 November 1991: Rebekah Elmaloglou (Home And Away) and Georgie Parker (A Country Practice)

9 November 2002: Caroline Craig and Jane Allsop (Blue Heelers)

9 November 1990: The Seven, Nine and Ten networks all participate in a simultaneous broadcast, Cartoon Allstars To The Rescue, helping young children understand the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. The half-hour special, which attracted more than 33 million viewers when it aired in the US, features cartoon characters representing the major animation studios. The Australian screening of the program was introduced by Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Hazel Hawke. The three networks repeated the special, again in simulcast, on Christmas Eve.

9 November 1991: Hey Hey It’s Saturday presents the first of its two special shows from the Warner Bros studios in Hollywood, with guest appearances by Chevy Chase, Toni Childs and Murphy Brown star Joe Regalbuto.

9 November 1994: The Nine Network screens the first of the series of Halifax fp telemovies, Acts Of Betrayal. Jane Halifax (Rebecca Gibney, pictured) helps an old friend, psychiatrist Owen Toser (Andrew McFarlane) when he is accused of murdering a patient, Corri Neale (Sophie Lee).

9 November 2003: ABC premieres the two-part drama series Marking Time, written by John Doyle and starring Geoff Morrell, Abe Forsythe, Bojana Novakovic, Matthew Le Nevez, Abbie Cornish, Gyton Grantley, Graeme Blundell, Brian Meegan, Sueyan Cox and Arianthe Galani.

• Friday 9 November 1956 — MELBOURNE