The premiere of Nine’s new late afternoon news and magazine program, Live At Five, with Terry Willesee and Jo Pearson. Network Ten responds with 20-year-old re-runs of the sitcom The Munsters, hoping to emulate the success that Nine previously had with a similar classic series, The Addams Family, in the 5.00pm timeslot.
Live At Five, an expensive gamble to expand news ahead of the traditional 6.00pm hour, failed to work. It was cut down to a half-hour show, Eye On Australia, before being axed completely in July 1989.
The Queen’s Birthday Holiday also sees ABC depart from its usual schools programming during the day, and SBS commences transmission earlier in the afternoon with music specials.
Source: TV Week, 11 June 1988
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| 6AM | 6.30am Learning Network | 6am TVAM. John Barton, Kay McGrath | 6am Early News 6.30 Business Today |
6am The Real Ghostbusters 6.30 Daybreak |
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| 7AM | 7am Voltron Defender Of The Universe 7.30 My Favourite Martian’s Cartoon Show 7.52 Today’s Special |
7.30 The Cartoon Connection. Alex Wileman, Michael Horrocks. Includes Challenge Of The Machine Men, Crusader Rabbit, The Smurfs | 7am Today | 7am Good Morning Australia | |
| 8AM | 8.20 Sesame Street | ||||
| 9AM | 9.20 Parental Guidance Recommended 9.30 Play School |
9am Romper Room | 9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Good Morning Melbourne | |
| 10AM | 10am The Nightingale 10.35 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
10am The Pallisers | 10am The Young Doctors 10.30 The Sullivans |
10am Mulligrubs 10.30 Daywatch |
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| 11AM | 11am Darling River Kids 11.52 Charlie Needs A Cloak |
11am Eleven AM | 11am Loving 11.30 National Nine News. George Donikian |
11am Another World | |
| 12PM | 12pm Eastenders | 12pm Movie: The Prince Who Was A Thief. 1951 [IMDB] | 12pm Midday With Ray Martin | 12pm Santa Barbara | 12.10pm Bicentennial Diary 12.15 Special: Suzanne Vega At The Royal Albert Hall 12.55 Special: Terence Trent D’Arby (Germany) |
| 1PM | 1pm Parental Guidance Recommended 1.10 Terry On The Fence |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1pm The Bold And The Beautiful 1.30 Three’s A Crowd |
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| 2PM | 2.20 The Mouse And The Motorcycle | 2pm Five Mile Creek | 2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2pm Emergency | 2pm Motor Cycling: World 500cc Championships. Highlights |
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.55 Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends |
3pm Bewitched 3.30 Tom And Jerry |
3.30 General Hospital | 3pm The Six Million Dollar Man | 3pm TV Ed |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Mr Squiggle And Friends |
4pm Wombat 4.30 Lassie |
4pm C’mon Kids | 4pm Ridgey Didge 4.30 Flipper |
4pm Vox Populi (Rpt) 4.30 Kaleidoscope. Includes Gulliver’s Travels (Germany), Dog And Cat (Poland), The Adventures Of Tin Tin (France), Muzzy (UK) |
| 5PM | 5pm The Afternoon Show. James Valentine. Includes Barriers, You Can’t Do That On Television | 5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Press Your Luck |
5pm Live At Five. Terry Willesee, Jo Pearson PREMIERE 5.58 Keno |
5pm The Munsters (B&W) 5.30 Perfect Match |
5pm Oshin (Japan) 5.30 Brookside |
| 6PM | 6pm Ghostbusters 6.30 Eastenders |
6pm Home And Away 6.30 Seven Nightly News. Jennifer Keyte, Glenn Taylor |
6pm National Nine News. Brian Naylor, Rob Gaylard, Rob Gell 6.30 A Current Affair. Jana Wendt |
6pm Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Mal Walden, Tracey Curro, Bruce McAvaney, Julie Foster | 6pm The Noise. Annette Shun Wah 6.30 World News. Mary Kostakidis |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Mary Delahunty 7.30 The 7.30 Report. John Jost |
7pm Hinch At Seven. Derryn Hinch 7.30 A Country Practice |
7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Alyce Platt 7.30 The Cosby Show |
7pm Neighbours 7.30 Tour Of Duty |
7pm Sport Report. Les Murray, Janette Fulford 7.30 The Struggles For Poland |
| 8PM | 8pm Brush Strokes 8.30 Yes Prime Minister |
8.30 The Equalizer | 8pm A Different World 8.27 Crimestoppers 8.30 Movie: Five Days One Summer. 1982 [IMDB] |
8.30 Movie: Moonraker. 1979 [IMDB] | 8.30 Treasure Hunt (Italy) |
| 9PM | 9pm Four Corners 9.45 Rubbery Figures 9.50 The Tracey Ullman Show |
9.30 Football: VFL. Highlights | 9.30 Tonight With Paul Murphy | ||
| 10PM | 10.15 The World Tonight 10.45 The Horse In Sport |
10.40 Graham Kennedy’s News Show. Graham Kennedy, Ken Sutcliffe | 10pm Architecture At The Crossroads 10.45 Dr Jessenius (Czechoslovakia) |
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| 11PM | 11.40 Dream Stuffing | 11pm Newsworld. Clive Robertson | 11.40 Motor Racing: Canadian Grand Prix. Highlights | 11pm Late Night Oz. Don Lane | |
| 12AM | 12.05am Close | 12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) (Continues to 6am) |
12.40am Movie: Rage. 1972 [IMDB] | 12am Explore Bolivia | 12.35am Bicentennial Diary 12.40 Close |
| 1AM | 1am Night Shift. David White | ||||
| 2AM | 2.40 Movie: The Bees. 1978 [IMDB] | ||||
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| 4AM | 4.35 Bonanza | ||||
| 5AM | 5.30 The Bill Cosby Show (Continues to 6am) |
5am Thundercats 5.30 Space Angel (Continues to 6am) |
