Good Friday, 1985. ABC, Seven and Nine alter much of their regular weekday schedule to accommodate Good Friday specials and religious movies. ABC also reduces its news bulletin ABC National to half an hour starting at 7.00pm.

Source: TV Week, 30 March 1985

	ABN2	ATN7	TCN9	TEN10	SBS0/28
6AM		6am Shirl’s Neighbourhood 6.30 Bewitched (B&W)	6am Pandamonium 6.25 Go Health 6.30 Scooby Doo Who Dunnit?	6am Action Now 6.05 Linus The Lionhearted 6.30 Hans Christian Andersen
7AM		7am Special: The Berenstain Bears Easter Surprise 7.30 Special: The Easter Bunny Is Comin’ To Town	7am Today	7am Good Morning Australia
8AM		8.30 Special: Easter With The Family Circus
9AM		9am Special: David And Goliath/The Deluge/Daniel In The Lion’s Den	9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Good Morning Sydney
10AM			10am Turn Round Australia: Easter Special 10.30 Special: A Home Run For Love	10am Fat Cat And Friends 10.30 Three’s Company
11AM		11am Movie: The Song Of Bernadette. 1943 (B&W) [IMDB]	11.30 National Nine News	11am All My Children	11am The Electric Company 11.30 Magazine (Rpt)
12PM			12pm Movie: The Bible. 1966 [IMDB]	12pm After Noon	12.30pm Movie: The Farewell Song (Lebanon)
1PM	1pm Divine Service			1.30 Movie: It Started In Naples. 1960 [IMDB]
2PM	2.30 The Shroud Of Jesus	2.15pm Movie: The Small Miracle. 1973 [IMDB]			2.30 Special: The San Remo Festival. Highlights (Italy)
3PM	3pm Love So Amazing: A Service For Good Friday		3pm Special: Troubled River	3.30 Alice
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Mr Squiggle And Friends 4.55 Australian Wildlife Club Bulletin	4pm Wombat 4.30 The Yearling	4pm The Curiosity Show 4.30 The Ossie Ostrich Video Show	4pm The Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams
5PM	5pm Chocky 5.25 Bananaman 5.30 Astroboy 5.55 Come And Get It	5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Neighbours	5pm Happy Days 5.30 Blankety Blanks. Daryl Somers	5pm Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy (Rpt) 5.30 Perfect Match	5.30 Don Quixote (Netherlands)
6PM	6pm The Applicant 6.30 Music, Music, Music	6pm Seven National News. Ross Symonds, Karina Kelly	6pm National Nine News. Brian Henderson, Mike Gibson, Alan Wilkie 6.30 Willesee	6pm Eyewitness News. Katrina Lee, Tim Webster, Graham McNeice, David Fordham, Ron Casey, Dal Myles	6pm The Sixth Form (Netherlands)
7PM	7pm ABC National. Geraldine Doogue, Richard Morecroft 7.30 All Creatures Great And Small	7pm Terry Willesee Tonight 7.30 Special: Return To Children In Crisis. Rowena Wallace, Shane Withington	7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Delvene Delaney 7.30 Possession	7pm MASH 7.30 Star Search. Greg Evans	7pm World News. George Donikian 7.30 Music Makes Me Happy (Germany)
8PM	8.25 The Good Old Days	8.30 Mini-Series: Jesus Of Nazareth. Part One [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: All Creatures Great And Small. 1974 [IMDB]	8.29 Eyewitness News 8.30 Movie: The Greatest Story Ever Told. 1965 [IMDB]	8.30 Dateline. Paul Murphy
9PM	9.15 Patmos — Isle Of Apocalypse				9.30 Movie: The Butcher. 1969 (France) (B&W) [IMDB]
10PM	10.10 Golf: International Celebrity Golf 1984	10.30 Newsworld. Scott Lambert	10.30 News 10.35 Charlie’s Angels
11PM	11.15 Close	11.30 Barney Miller	11.35 We Got It Made		11.05 Movie: The Law Of The Other Naples. 1974 (Italy)
12AM		12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) (Continues to 6am)	12.05am Movie: Uptight. 1968 [IMDB]	12.30am Music Video (Continues to 6.30am)
1AM					1.10am Close
2AM			2.10 Movie: Can Ellen Be Saved? 1974 [IMDB]
3AM			3.35 Movie: Madness Of The Heart. 1949 [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5.10 Bonanza (Continues to 6am)