The premiere of The D-Generation on ABC, featuring Michael Veitch, Margaret Downey, Magda Szubanski, John Harrison, Santo Cilauro and Rob Sitch.
Source: TV Week, 8 March 1986
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| 6AM | News Overnight (cont’d) | 6am Early News 6.30 Today |
6am Daybreak | ||
| 7AM | 7.30am The Carleton-Walsh Report (Rpt) | 7am Crusader Rabbit 7.30 The Jetsons |
7am Good Morning Australia | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8am Leave It To Beaver (B&W) 8.30 Rocket Robin Hood |
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| 9AM | 9am Kimba The White Lion 9.25 The Magic Roundabout 9.30 Play School |
9am The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father 9.30 TV Ed |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 And Mother Makes Three |
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| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Talkabout; Maths Counts; Science Topics; The Colonials; Infinity Ltd; A Good Read | 10am Romper Room 10.55 Fun In The Kitchen |
10am General Hospital | 10am Another World | |
| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM | 11am The Sullivans 11.30 National Nine News |
11am Good Morning Melbourne | 11am The Adventures Of Colargol (France) 11.15 The World’s Most Beautiful Tales (Switzerland) 11.25 Bunny With The Chequered Ears (Hungary) 11.30 The Greatest Thinkers (Switzerland) |
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| 12PM | 12pm The Investigators (Rpt) 12.30 Ways Of Seeing 12.55 ABC News |
12pm Movie: I Thank A Fool. 1962 [IMDB] | 12pm Midday With Ray Martin | 12pm Movie: The Streets Of San Francisco. 1972 [IMDB] | 12pm Monopoly (Denmark) |
| 1PM | 1.05 For Schools: Six Australians; The Red And The Blue; The Whys And Wherefores; Minimaths | 1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1.05 Where Angels Fear To Tread (Yugoslavia) | ||
| 2PM | 2.05 Out Of The Fiery Furnace | 2pm Cop Shop | 2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2pm Eyewitness News 2.30 Carson’s Law |
2pm Close |
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street | 3pm The Duchess Of Duke Street | 3.30 The Lucy Show | 3.30 Blankety Blanks | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Mr Squiggle And Friends |
4pm Wombat 4.30 Heidi |
4pm C’mon Kids | 4pm Off The Dish 4.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World |
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| 5PM | 5pm Secret Valley 5.30 Laff-A-Bits 5.35 News Free Zone |
5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 The Goodies |
5pm The Young Doctors 5.30 Happy Days |
5pm Good Times 5.30 Perfect Match. Greg Evans |
5.30 The Magician’s Way (Sweden) |
| 6PM | 6.05 Come And Get It 6.10 Max Headroom 6.35 Doctor Who |
6pm Family Ties 6.30 Seven National News. Mal Walden. Includes Tatts 2 |
6pm National Nine News. Brian Naylor, Peter Mitchell, Ann Peacock 6.30 Willesee |
6pm Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Jo Pearson, Rob Gell | 6pm A Whole World Of Children 6.30 International Cabaret |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Mary Delahunty 7.30 The 7.30 Report |
7pm Day By Day. Mark Day 7.30 Sons And Daughters |
7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Alyce Platt 7.30 Prime Time |
7pm Neighbours 7.30 Return To Eden |
7pm World News. George Donikian 7.30 Rosa De Lejos (Argentina) |
| 8PM | 8pm The Happy Apple 8.30 The D-Generation. Michael Veitch, Margaret Downey, Magda Szubanski, John Harrison, Santo Cilauro, Rob Sitch PREMIERE 8.55 The Young Ones |
8.30 Beyond 2000. Carmel Travers, Iain Finlay, Chris Ardill-Guiness, Jeffrey Watson | 8.30 Miami Vice | 8.30 Prisoner | 8.30 Movie: The Oil Heiress (France) [IMDB] |
| 9PM | 9.30 The Carleton-Walsh Report | 9.30 Dave Allen At Large | 9.30 The Twilight Zone | 9.30 Championship Wrestling | |
| 10PM | 10pm Encounters 10.40 Golf: International Pro-Celebrity Tournament 1983 |
10.30 Newsworld | 10.30 News 10.35 St Elsewhere |
10pm Berlin Alexanderplatz (Germany) | |
| 11PM | 11.30 Close | 11pm Ironside | 11.35 The Odd Couple | 11.15 Eyewitness News 11.25 Night Court |
11pm Close |
| 12AM | 12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) (Continues to 7am) |
12.05am Movie: My Father’s House. 1975 [IMDB] | 12.25am Hotel | ||
| 1AM | 1.25 Wyatt Earp (B&W) | ||||
| 2AM | 2am Movie: Powderkeg. 1970 [IMDB] | 2am Close | |||
| 3AM | 3.50 Movie: The Pioneer Woman. 1973 [IMDB] | ||||
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| 5AM | 5.10 Bonanza (Continues to 6am) |
