Monday 12 January 1987 — VICTORIA

The first day of the Australian Open from Kooyong, Melbourne. It was the first Australian Open to be held in January and the last at Kooyong, moving the following year to the new Melbourne tennis centre.

Test Cricket from Sydney is broadcast in Melbourne on Nine, and in regional areas via ABC.

See also: Monday 12 January 1987 — WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Source: TV Week, 10 January 1987 (ABV, SBS: The Age, 12 January 1987)

MELBOURNE
	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS28
6AM			6am Early News 6.30 Today. George Negus, Elizabeth Hayes	6am Daybreak. Ron Wilson, Claudia Emery
7AM		7am Solo One 7.30 Shirl’s Neighbourhood		7am Good Morning Australia
8AM	8.30am Sesame Street	8am The Little Rascals 8.30 Secret Squirrel
9AM	9.30 Play School	9am Rainbow	9am Here’s Humphrey	9am The Down Under Show
10AM	10am Animals In Action 10.25 Quaq Quao 10.30 Astroboy 10.55 Roobarb	10am Romper Room 10.55 Holidaying In Victoria	10am The Curiosity Show 10.30 Thrillseekers 10.50 Cricket: Fifth Test. Australia v England. Live from Sydney	10am Fat Cat And Friends 10.30 Another World
11AM	11am Huntingtower 11.30 3-2-1 Contact	11am Tennis: Ford Australian Open. Live from Kooyong, Melbourne		11.30 Eyewitness News
12PM	12pm Country GP 12.50 The World At War			12pm Movie: Scruples. 1981 [IMDB]
1PM	1.40 A Champion And A Child		1pm Ten Pin Bowling| 1.30 Cricket (cont’d)
2PM	2.10 The Boat Show 2.40 Let’s Read With Basil Brush 2.50 Little Blue			2pm Matlock Police
3PM	3pm Sesame Street			3pm Blankety Blanks 3.30 Superfriends
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Silly Season Cinema			4pm Fraggle Rock 4.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World	4.30pm Kaleidoscope
5PM	5pm Ulysses 31 5.25 Roger Ramjet 5.30 Grange Hill 5.55 Come And Get It			5pm The Brady Bunch 5.30 Perfect Match	5pm The Electric Company 5.30 The Noise
6PM	6pm The Beachcombers 6.30 EastEnders	6.30 Seven National News. Includes Tatts 2	6pm National Nine News. Peter Hitchener 6.30 Six Thirty. Mike Gibson	6pm Eyewitness News	6pm The Friends (Greece) 6.30 Three Ladies And Their Hotdog Stand (Germany)
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 Relative Strangers 7.55 In Sickness And In Health	7pm Day By Day 7.30 Simon And Simon	7pm The Newlywed Game. Ian Turpie 7.30 The Master	7pm Neighbours 7.30 Dick Smith Himalayan Adventure	7pm World News 7.30 About Men
8PM	8.25 Learned Friends	8.30 The Equalizer	8.30 Paper Dolls	8.30 Movie: Divine Madness. 1980 [IMDB]	8.30 Soccer: National Indoor League
9PM	9.15 ABC News 9.20 Comrades	9.30 The Professionals	9.30 I Had Three Wives		9pm 9 O’Clock 9.30 Movie: Venizelos. 1981 (Greece) [IMDB]
10PM	10pm Soccer 10.55 Auf Wiedersehen Pet	10.40 America’s Cup Report 10.50 Newsworld	10.30 News. Includes America’s Cup Report 10.40 Ski World	10.15 News. Includes America’s Cup Report 10.35 Entertainment This Week
11PM	11.50 Close	11.30 Strange But True	11.40 Coast To Coast	11.35 All American Wrestling	11.45 Vox Populi
12AM		12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) (Continues to 7am)	12.10 Movie: Over The Moon. 1940 [IMDB]	12.35am Tales From The Dark Side	12.15am Close
1AM			1.50 Movie: Riding Tall. 1974 [IMDB]	1.05 Wyatt Earp (B&W) 1.35 Close
2AM
3AM			3.40 Movie: Peeper. 1975 [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5am Animal Express 5.30 The New You Asked For It (Continues to 6am)