All three commercial networks broadcast the half-hour cartoon special Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue.
Produced by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and broadcast across the four major networks in the United States earlier in the year to an audience of 33 million viewers, the program delivered an anti-drugs message via a cast of cartoon characters representing all the major animation studios.
In the US, the program was introduced by President George H W Bush. The Australian screening was introduced by Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Mrs Hazel Hawke.
The three networks repeated the special, again in simulcast, on Christmas Eve, 1990.
Source: TV Week, 3 November 1990
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| 6AM | 6am Thundercats 6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection. Includes Scooby Doo, Foofur, The Jetsons, The Smurfs |
6am The Littles 6.30 ITN World News 6.55 Business Today |
Ten Newswatch (cont’d) | ||
| 7AM | 7am Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea 7.30 The Berenstain Bears 7.54 The Wombles |
7am Today | 7am Good Morning Australia | ||
| 8AM | 8am The Wind In The Willows 8.20 Sesame Street |
8.55 Ten’s Billboard | |||
| 9AM | 9.20 Parental Guidance Recommended 9.30 Play School |
9am Bewitched (B&W) 9.30 Fat Cat And Friends |
9am Here’s Humphrey 9.30 In Melbourne Today |
9am ‘Til Ten | |
| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Dreamtime Stories, Into Music, Read All About It, Flip Slide Turn, For The Juniors, The Secret Garden | 10am The Beverly Hillbillies 10.30 People’s Court |
10.30 Hart To Hart | 10am Mulligrubs 10.30 Ten Morning News |
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| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM | 11.30 Barney Miller | 11am Another World | ||
| 12PM | 12pm Catalyst (Rpt) 12.30 The Makers – Craft In Australia |
12pm Movie: The Killers. 1964 [IMDB] | 12pm Midday With Ray Martin | 12pm Santa Barbara | |
| 1PM | 1pm Parental Guidance Recommended 1.50 Masterworks From The World’s Great Museums |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1pm The Bold And The Beautiful 1.30 Donahue |
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| 2PM | 2pm Quantum (Rpt) 2.30 Let’s Learn Japanese |
2pm Perry Mason (B&W) | 2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2.30 The Rockford Files | 2pm Vremya (USSR) 2.40 Close |
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.55 Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends |
3pm The New Leave It To Beaver 3.30 I Dream Of Jeannie |
3.30 Diff’rent Strokes | 3.30 Gimme A Break | 3pm TV Ed |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Swap Shop |
4pm Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4.30 Special: Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue |
4pm The Charmings 4.30 Special: Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue |
4pm Lassie 4.30 Special: Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue |
4pm Kaleidoscope. Includes The Adventures Of Choko And The Frog Boko (Bulgaria), Emily (Belgium), Johnny The Pea (Czechoslovakia), The Adventures Of Tin Tin (France) |
| 5PM | 5pm The Afternoon Show. James Valentine. Includes Count Duckula, Doctor Who, Roger Ramjet | 5pm Family Feud 5.30 Wheel Of Fortune |
5pm The Bugs Bunny Show | 5pm Charles In Charge 5.30 Candid Camera On Australia |
5pm The Book Show (Rpt) 5.35 International Cookbook 5.45 Little Missy (Brazil) |
| 6PM | 6pm Countdown Revolution 6.30 Gardening Australia. Peter Cundall |
6pm Seven Nightly News. Jennifer Keyte 6.30 Home And Away |
6pm National Nine News. Brian Naylor, Rob Gaylard, Rob Gell 6.30 A Current Affair. Jana Wendt |
6pm Ten Evening News. David Johnston | 6.30 World News. Mary Kostakidis |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Mary Delahunty 7.30 The 7.30 Report. John Jost |
7pm Hinch. Derryn Hinch 7.30 The Golden Girls |
7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Alyce Platt 7.28 Keno 7.30 Burke’s Backyard |
7pm Neighbours 7.30 Baywatch |
7pm Asia Report. Lee Lin Chin 7.30 Lenny Henry Tonite |
| 8PM | 8pm Countrywide. Doug Murray 8.28 ABC News Update 8.30 Movie: The Prince And The Showgirl. 1957 [IMDB] |
8.30 Movie: Unspeakable Acts. 1989 [IMDB] | 8.30 Movie: Superman. 1978 [IMDB] | 8.30 Movie: Swimsuit. 1989 [IMDB] | 8pm Tonight. Paul Murphy, Pria Viswalingam 8.30 Connections: Soviets |
| 9PM | 9.30 Movie: Summer Nights On The Planet Earth. 1987 (Sweden) [IMDB] | ||||
| 10PM | 10.25 ABC News Late Edition. Clive Hale 10.35 Snooker: Embassy World Professional Championships |
10.30 Tonight Live With Steve Vizard | 10.30 Ten Night Watch 10.35 Movie: The Sign Of Four. 1983 [IMDB] |
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| 11PM | 11.35 Basketball: NBA | 11.35 Today (NBC) | 11.30 Nightline 11.35 MTV Music Television |
11.05 Eat Carpet. Includes Warhol’s Cinema | |
| 12AM | 12.35am Ten Newswatch (Continues to 6am) |
12.10am The Noise | |||
| 1AM | 1.05am Rage (Continues to 10am) |
1.35am Island Son | 1.10 Steps 1.35 Close |
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| 2AM | 2.30 Rituals 2.55 Generations |
2am Movie: Purple Rain. 1984 [IMDB] | |||
| 3AM | 3.20 Trial By Jury 3.45 Hard Time On Planet Earth |
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| 4AM | 4.40 Laura McKenzie’s Travel Tips | 4.05 Movie: Blood Sport. 1973 [IMDB] | |||
| 5AM | 5.35 The Flying Nun (Continues to 6am) |
5.30 Starting Out (Continues to 6am) |
