SBS screens the five-hour film The Mahabharata, director Peter Brook’s adaptation of the book which forms the basis of India’s mythology. Given the movie’s long length SBS have made a rare allowance to insert breaks into the presentation, but these are only placed at points which separate the three significant stages in the story.

Source: The Age Green Guide, 5 October 1989

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS28
6AM	Rage (cont’d)	6am Crusader Rabbit 6.10 Flash Gordon (B&W) 6.30 The Great Grape Ape	6am Thunderbirds	6am Bricks And Mortar 6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7AM		7am Super Saturday Show	7am Cartoon Company. Tony Johnson, Michelle Marr	7am Bionic Six 7.30 Superfriends
8AM				8am Video Hits
9AM	9am Close	9am Saturday Morning Live. Jonathan Coleman, Ian Rogerson
10AM
11AM	11.30 Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness				11.55am The Mystery Of The Moonlight Sonata (Netherlands)
12PM	12pm Gridiron Football	12pm Movie: Abbott And Costello Go To Mars. 1953 (B&W) [IMDB]	12pm Burke’s Backyard	12pm Rugby League: World Challenge
1PM	1.30 English Soccer	1.35 Movie: Francis Goes To West Point. 1952 [IMDB]	1pm Wide World Of Sports	1pm Tennis: Queensland Open. Live from Milton Courts, Brisbane	1.30pm Five Choreographers
2PM	2.30 Football: SANFL Grand Final
3PM		3.15 Movie: Ma And Pa Kettle. 1949 (B&W) [IMDB]			3pm Spanish News 3.30 Latin America In Vogue
4PM		4.50 The Tom And Jerry Show			4pm The Maltese 4.30 National Indoor Soccer League
5PM	5.35 Endurance Running: 1989 Otway Classic	5pm Great Mysteries Of The World	5pm Body And Soul. Jo Pearson, Jane Kennedy, Gabriel Gate	5pm The Six Million Dollar Man	5.30 World Soccer: World Cup Qualifier. Colombia v Paraguay
6PM	6pm ABC News 6.30 Horizons	6pm Seven Nightly News. Peter Mitchell, Simone Semmens 6.30 The World Around Us	6pm National Nine News 6.30 Hey Hey It’s Saturday	6pm Eyewitness News. Mal Walden 6.30 The Great TV Game Show. Richard Stubbs, Jane Holmes	6.30 World News
7PM	7.25 Come And Get It 7.30 Hollywood Legends	7.30 MacGyver		7.30 The Price Is Right. Ian Turpie	7pm Movie: The Mahabharata. 1989 [IMDB]
8PM	8.25 ABC News 8.30 The Money Or The Gun. Andrew Denton	8.28 Tattslotto/Super 66 8.30 Movie: Murder By The Book. 1987 [IMDB]	8.30 21 Jump Street	8.30 Movie: Vertigo. 1958 [IMDB]
9PM	9.30 Inside Running		9.29 Keno 9.30 Mission: Impossible
10PM	10.20 Movie: Next Year If All Goes Well [IMDB]	10.30 Knots Landing	10.30 News 10.35 MTV: Music Television. Richard Wilkins. Simulcast 3MMM.
11PM	11.55 Rage (Continues to 9am)	11.30 Movie: The Student Prince. 1954 [IMDB]		11.05 Tennis: Queensland Open
12AM					12.25am Movie: Non Matrimonial Story. 1975 (Poland) [IMDB]
1AM		1.20am Movie: The Slave. 1963 [IMDB]	1.35am Movie: Very Close Quarters. 1986 [IMDB]	1am 227 1.30 The Van Dyke Show	1.50 Movie: The Necklace (Greece) [IMDB]
2AM				2am Thin Air White Water
3AM		3.05 La Jazz	3.30 Movie: The Country Music Murders. 1979 [IMDB]	3am Movie: Sabaka. 1955 [IMDB]	3.20 Movie: The Tree Of Diamonds (Italy)
4AM				4.30 Dads	4.55 Close
5AM		5am The Persuaders (Continues to 6am)	5.25 The Young Doctors 5.55 Kenneth Copeland (Continues to 6.55am)	5am Throb 5.30 Wall Street Journal (Continues to 6am)