Thursday 16 January 1986 — VICTORIA

The Benson And Hedges World Series Cup — Australia versus India — is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. As is usual telecast protocol at the time, live coverage in the host city is restricted to two hours of play, while regional and interstate viewers are allowed to see the full day/night coverage.

Source: TV Week, 11 January 1986 (SBS: The Age, 16 January 1986)

MELBOURNE
	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS28
6AM		News Overnight (cont’d)	6am Nightline USA 6.30 Today	6am Daybreak
7AM		7am Gidget 7.30 To Rome With Love		7am Good Morning Australia
8AM	8am Sesame Street	8am Jabberjaw 8.30 Josie And The Pussycats
9AM	9am Flash Gordon 9.20 The Toothbrush Family 9.30 Play School	9am The Onedin Line 9.30 My Little Pony	9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 Animal World
10AM	10am Close	10am Romper Room	10am The Sullivans	10am Another World
11AM		11am Young Ramsay	11am The Lucy Show 11.30 National Nine News	11am All My Children	11am The Adventures Of Colargol (France) 11.15 The World’s Most Beautiful Tales 11.25 Bunny With The Chequered Ears (Hungary) 11.30 Women In The Eighties
12PM	12.40pm 3-2-1 Contact	12pm Movie: Hills Of Home. 1948 [IMDB]	12pm Movie: State Of The Union. 1948 (B&W) [IMDB]	12pm Movie: The Bamboo Saucer. 1967 [IMDB]	12pm Monopoly (Denmark) 12.40 Where Angels Fear To Tread (Yugoslavia)
1PM	1.10 The Flaxton Boys 1.35 Come Midnight Monday				1.40 Close
2PM	2.05 The Wild Wild World Of Animals 2.30 Silly Season Cinema	2pm McMillan And Wife	2.20 Cricket: Benson And Hedges World Series Cup. Australia v India. Live from Melbourne Cricket Ground	2pm Dad’s Army 2.30 Three’s Company
3PM	3pm Sesame Street 3.55 The Adventures Of Paddington			3pm Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy 3.30 The Facts Of Life
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Nikkolina	4pm Shirl’s Neighbourhood 4.30 Bailey’s Bird	4.30 Boomerang	4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
5PM	5pm Shadows 5.25 Bananaman 5.30 Voltron – Defender Of The Universe 5.55 Potty Time	5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Kingswood Country	5pm Puttin’ On The Hits 5.30 Blankety Blanks	5pm F Troop (B&W) 5.30 The Best Of Perfect Match	5.30 Detectives On Holidays (Poland)
6PM	6.05 Come And Get It 6.10 Inspector Gadget 6.35 Doctor Who	6pm Gimme A Break 6.30 Seven National News. Includes Tatts 2	6pm National Nine News. Peter Hitchener 6.30 Diff’rent Strokes	6pm Eyewitness News	6pm A Whole World Of Children 6.30 International Cabaret
7PM	7pm Summer National 7.30 An Evening With Pam Ayres	7pm Day By Day 7.30 Love Thy Neighbour	7pm Newhart 7.30 The Fall Guy	7pm MASH 7.30 Scarecrow And Mrs King	7pm World News 7.30 Rose De Lejos (Argentina)
8PM	8pm Women In Frame 8.30 Summer Edition: Time And The Priestleys	8pm Father Dear Father In Australia 8.30 Beyond 2000	8.30 Movie: The Best Place To Be. Part Two. 1979 [IMDB]	8.30 Prisoner RETURN	8.30 Movie: Vassa. 1983 (Russia) [IMDB]
9PM	9.25 Imagined World 9.55 Fame Is The Spur	9.30 Bergerac		9.30 World Championship Wrestling
10PM	10.45 Swimming: NSW Championships. Day One. Highlights	10.40 Newsworld	10.30 News		10.25 Berlin Alexanderplatz (Germany)
11PM	11.45 Close	11.10 Salute	11pm Cricket: Benson And Hedges World Series Cup. Highlights	11.15 Eyewitness News 11.25 The Liver Birds 11.55 Miss Jones And Son	11.25 Close
12AM		12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) (Continues to 7am)	12am Movie: The McMasters. 1970 [IMDB]	12.25am Movie: The Young Stranger. 1957 (B&W) [IMDB]
1AM			1.40 Movie: The Legend Of Rudolph Valentino. 1960 (B&W) [IMDB]
2AM				2.05 Close
3AM			3.30 Movie: SOS Pacific. 1964 (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5.10 Bonanza (Continues to 6am)