The ratings battle for 1989 begins. From this week a number of new shows appear and old favourites return.

Source: TV Week, 11 February 1989

	ABQ2	BTQ7	QTQ9	TVQ10	SBS28
6AM	Rage (cont’d)	6am The Flying Nun 6.30 The Assembly Collection	(5.35am) The Kenneth Copeland Show 6.30 Focus On Living	6am Mass For You At Home 6.30 Footprints
7AM	7am Outlook Conference: Highlights	7am Boris’ Breakfast Club	7am Turn Around Australia 7.30 CTA Special	7am Video Hits
8AM	8am Basketball: NBA	8am Golf: Super Skins. Live from Port Douglas	8am Business Sunday
9AM	9am The Factory		9am Sunday. Jim Waley
10AM				10am Face To Face. Kerry O’Brien RETURN	10.15am Italia News 10.45 Summer Survival
11AM	11am Worship Sunday	11am Movie: Toy Tiger. 1956 [IMDB]	11am Cricket: FAI Cup. Queensland v Victoria. Live from Brisbane	11am Business Week. Max Walsh	11.45 Snooker: Winfield Masters Championship Series
12PM	12pm Compass	12.50pm Huckleberry Hound		12pm Movie: Support Your Local Sheriff. 1969 [IMDB]	12.45pm Italian Soccer
1PM	1pm The First Australians 1.50 Student Of The Year	1pm Special: Dinosaur	1pm Movie: A Challenge For Robin Hood. 1968 [IMDB]		1.45 The Comrades (Greece)
2PM	2pm Rodin 1840-1917	2pm Golf (cont’d)	2.50 Movie: 55 Days At Peking. 1963 [IMDB]	2pm Movie; Geronimo. 1962 [IMDB]	2.30 Compassion (Turkey)
3PM	3.15 Chasing A Rainbow				3.30 Summer Festival Of Rock
4PM	4.32 The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy			4pm Fantasy Island
5PM	5pm Soccer: The Big Match	5pm Leyland Brothers World		5pm The Facts Of Life 5.30 McMahon On Sunday. Anna McMahon PREMIERE 5.55 Queensland 2000	5.30 A Scandinavian Saga (Sweden)
6PM	6pm ABC News. Narelle Matlin 6.30 All Creatures Great And Small	6pm Seven Nightly News. Mike Higgins 6.30 The Magical World Of Disney	6pm National Nine News. Mike London, Heather Foord 6.30 Our World RETURN	6pm Ten News 6.30 Down Under. Jack Thompson	6.30 World News. Lee Lin Chin
7PM	7.20 Back Chat 7.30 Captain James Cook	7.30 Australia’s Most Wanted. Brian Marshall	7.30 60 Minutes RETURN	7.30 The Comedy Company RETURN	7pm Indonesia — A Generation Of Change (Canada) 7.30 How To Be Celtic
8PM	8.25 ABC News 8.30 Movie: My Beautiful Laundrette. 1985 [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: The Three Amigos. 1986 [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: Blind Date. 1987 [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: The Jewel Of The Nile. 1985 [IMDB]	8.30 Heimat (Germany)
9PM
10PM	10.10 Time For Murder	10.35 Golf: Super Skins. Highlights	10.30 Nightline 10.35 Special: Talking To The Gorillas	10.35 Entertainment This Week	10.35 Movie: Bird Of The Orient. 1984 (Egypt)
11PM	11.05 Twentieth Century People 11.55 Close	11.30 Kingswood Country	11.05 Cricket: Highlights	11.35 USA This Week
12AM		12am News Overnight. Includes Today Sunday Edition (NBC), Meet The Press (NBC)	12.05am Movie: Loophole. 1981 [IMDB]	12.35am Throb	12.05am Close
1AM				1.05 Movie: Cassius Clay. 1970 [IMDB]
2AM		2am Special: Nobel Peace Prize	2am Movie: The Remarkable Mr Pennypacker. 1959 [IMDB]	2.40 Movie: Harry And Tonto. 1974 [IMDB]
3AM			3.40 Movie: Fallen Idol. 1949 (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM
5AM		5am Special: Queensland Country Music Muster (Continues to 6am)	5.30 Happy Days (Continues to 6am)	5am Marine Boy 5.30 Alvin And The Chipmunks (Continues to 6am)