The Nine Network debuts another in its line of ultimately ill-fated soaps, Family And Friends. The series screened twice a week, up against Ten’s E Street, before being shifted to an afternoon timeslot and then playing out its remaining episodes over the following summer.

Ten screens a re-run of its award-winning 1987 mini-series Vietnam, starring Barry Otto, Nicholas Eadie, Nicole Kidman and Veronica Lang.

Source: TV Week, 3 February 1990

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS28
6AM		6am Holiday World 6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection. Includes Speed Buggy, The New Fred And Barney Show, Thundercats, The Smurfs	6am MASK 6.30 ITN World News	6am Lassie 6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7AM	7am Astroboy 7.30 The Berenstain Bears 7.55 Belle And Sebastian		7am Today. Elizabeth Hayes, Steve Liebmann	7am Good Morning Australia
8AM	8.20 Sesame Street
9AM	9.20 Parental Guidance Recommended 9.30 Play School	9am Gidget 9.30 Fat Cat And Friends	9am Here’s Humphrey 9.30 In Melbourne Today RETURN	9am ‘Til Ten
10AM	10am For Schools: ABC Daytime For Primary Students, Animal Fair, Everyday China, Curious George, Behind The News, Puppets, Junior Secondary Maths, Secondary Media, In Transit	10am Falcon Crest	10.49 Newsbreak 10.50 Cricket: Third Test. Australia v Pakistan. Day Five. Live from Sydney	10am Mulligrubs 10.30 Ten Morning News
11AM		11am Eleven AM		11am Another World
12PM		12pm Movie: Passion Flower. 1986 [IMDB]		12pm Santa Barbara
1PM	1pm National Press Club Luncheon		1pm Ten-Pin Bowling 1.30 Cricket (cont’d)	1pm The Bold And The Beautiful 1.30 Donahue
2PM	2pm Scene 2.30 Avec Plaisir	2pm Perry Mason (B&W)		2.30 The Rockford Files
3PM	3pm Sesame Street 3.58 Pinny’s House	3pm The Beverly Hillbillies 3.30 I Dream Of Jeannie		3.30 House Calls
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 The Wind In The Willows 4.50 Fireman Sam	4pm Get Smart 4.30 Now You See It		4pm Neighbours Again 4.30 Double Dare	4pm Kaleidoscope 4.30 The Brotherhood Of The Blue Seagull (Yugoslavia)
5PM	5pm Ramona 5.26 Danger Mouse 5.36 The Campbells	5pm Family Feud 5.30 Wheel Of Fortune		5pm The Munsters (B&W) 5.30 Charles In Charge	5pm Malgudi Days (India) 5.30 Changing Partners (Hong Kong)
6PM	6pm Countdown Summer 6.30 EastEnders	6pm Seven Nightly News. Glenn Taylor, Jennifer Keyte 6.30 Home And Away	6pm National Nine News. Brian Naylor 6.30 A Current Affair	6pm Ten Evening News. David Johnston, Tracey Curro	6pm Noah’s Ark (Spain) 6.30 World News
7PM	7pm ABC News. Mary Delahunty 7.30 The 7.30 Report	7pm Hinch. Derryn Hinch 7.30 Hey Dad	7pm Sale Of The Century 7.28 Keno 7.30 Family And Friends PREMIERE	7pm Neighbours 7.30 E Street	7pm Three Ladies And Their Hot Dog Stand (West Germany) 7.30 Repercussions
8PM	8pm A Question Of Survival 8.28 ABC News Update 8.30 Special: Tumbledown [IMDB]	8pm Full House 8.28 Tattslotto 8.30 Football: Fosters Cup. Footscray v Richmond	8.30 Movie: Lovesick. 1983 [IMDB]	8.30 Mini-Series: Vietnam. Part Four [IMDB]	8.30 The Investigator (West Germany)
9PM					9.25 Masterpiece: Under Milkwood
10PM	10.25 Aspel And Co		10.30 Nightline 10.35 Cricket: Third Test. Australia v Pakistan. Highlights		10.25 Movie: The Hour Of The Wolf (Greece) [IMDB]
11PM	11.05 ABC News Late Edition 11.15 The Makers 11.45 Close	11pm Tonight Live With Steve Vizard	11.05 Sonny Spoon	11.25 Nightwatch 11.30 Crime Story
12AM		12.10am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC)	12.05am Movie: The Borgia Stick. 1967 [IMDB]	12.30am Return To Eden	12.10am Close
1AM			1.55 Movie: Go For The Gold. 1983 [IMDB]	1.30 Movie: The Miracle Of The Bells. 1948 (B&W) [IMDB]
2AM		2.10 Dempsey And Makepeace
3AM		3.10 Big Deal	3.40 Movie: Billy Liar. 1963 (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM		4.05 Night Heat		4am Heart Of The City
5AM		5am Hot Shots (Continues to 6am)	5.30 The Young Doctors (Continues to 6am)	5am Dallas (Continues to 6am)