Situation comedy Mother And Son debuts on ABC. Starring Garry McDonald, Ruth Cracknell, Henri Szeps and Judy Morris, Mother And Son was widely acclaimed and ran for six series over ten years. McDonald and Cracknell were both later inducted into the TV Week Logie Awards Hall of Fame.

Source: TV Week, 14 January 1984. (SBS: The Age, 16 January 1984)

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	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS0/28
6AM			6am Rocky And Bullwinkle 6.25 Go Health 6.30 Fabulous Funnies	6am Felix The Cat 6.05 The Three Stooges (B&W) 6.30 The Challenge Of Superfriends
7AM		7am Rainbow 7.30 Hong Kong Phooey	7am Today	7am Good Morning Australia
8AM	8am Sesame Street	8am Flash Gordon (B&W) 8.30 Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
9AM	9am Wheelie And The Chopper Bunch 9.25 The Wombles 9.30 Play School	9am Celebrity Tattletales 9.30 Catch Us If You Can	9am Tennis: Volvo Grand Prix	9am The Restless Years
10AM	10am Close	10am Romper Room 10.55 Take Five		10am The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali 10.30 Fat Cat And Friends
11AM		11am Battlestar Galactica	11.30 News	11am The Doris Day Show 11.30 Real People
12PM	12.45pm Weekend Magazine (Rpt)		12pm Movie: The Perils Of Pauline. 1967 [IMDB]	12pm Movie: A Step Out Of Line. 1970 [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News, Weather 1.11 The Outsiders	1pm Movie: The Private Navy Of Sergeant O’Farrell. 1968 [IMDB]
2PM	2.05 Gentle Ben 2.30 Anna And The King 2.55 The Adventures Of Sir Prancelot		2pm The Andy Griffith Show 2.30 Gomer Pyle USMC	2pm The FBI
3PM	3pm Sesame Street	3pm Tandarra	3pm Julia 3.30 You Asked For It	3pm Emergency
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Towser 4.35 The Adventures Of The Seaspray	4pm Shirl’s Neighbourhood 4.30 Lassie	4pm Korg 70,000 BC 4.30 Follyfoot	4pm The Best Of Simon Townsend’s Wonder World	4.40pm Follow Me
5PM	5pm Astroboy 5.30 Smuggler 5.54 Come And Get It 5.58 News Headlines	5pm Gidget 5.30 Petticoat Junction	5pm Starting Out	5pm F Troop (B&W) 5.30 Alice	5pm Cartoon Corner 5.30 Herman And The Six (Netherlands)
6PM	6pm Milligan/Monkey 6.54 Take 5	6pm The New Price Is Right 6.30 Seven National News	6pm Benson 6.30 National Nine News	6pm Eyewitness News	6pm Rock Around The World 6.30 Jack London In The Great North (Italy)
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 Mother And Son PREMIERE	7pm Doctor Down Under 7.30 Special: Where Have All The Children Gone	7pm The Odd Couple 7.30 The Fall Guy	7pm MASH 7.30 Dad’s Army	7pm International Sports Magazine 7.30 World News
8PM	8pm Porridge 8.30 The Paras	8.30 Cop Shop	8.30 Hart To Hart	8pm The Liver Birds 8.30 Movie: Inside Daisy Clover. 1966 [IMDB]	8pm Through Australian Eyes 8.30 Colomba (Italy)
9PM	9pm To Serve Them All My Days 9.55 ABC News, Weather	9.30 Falcon Crest	9.30 Kings		9.30 Movie: Five Evenings. 1978 (USSR) [IMDB]
10PM	10.05 All-Star Soccer	10.30 News	10.30 Cade’s County
11PM	11.05 Close	11pm Basketball: American Pro Basketball World Championships	11.30 That’s My Boy	11.05 Code Red	11.15 Close
12AM		12.50am Close	12am Movie: Suppose They Gave A War And Nobody Came. 1970 [IMDB]	12.05am People’s Court
1AM				1.05 Private Benjamin 1.35 Tarzan
2AM			2.10 Movie: Brighton Rock. 1948 (B&W) [IMDB]	2.35 Close
3AM			3.50 Movie: Hot Blood. 1956 [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5.10 Big Valley (Continues to 6am)