Don Lane returns to television and debuts on the Ten Network with his new comedy/game show You’ve Got To Be Joking. The series did not last beyond its first year.
Source: TV Week, 14 February 1987
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| 6AM | 6am Today | 6am Focus On Living 6.30 Good Morning Australia |
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| 7AM | 7am Cartoon Connection. Includes The Adventures Of Gulliver, The Smurfs, She-Ra Princess Of Power, Roman Holidays | ||||
| 8AM | 8am Today’s Special 8.30 Sesame Street |
8.30 Here’s Humphrey | 8.30 Good Times | ||
| 9AM | 9.30 Play School | 9am Romper Room | 9.30 Possession | 9am Jazzercise 9.30 Fat Cat And Friends |
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| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Little Tim And The Brace Sea Captain, For The Juniors, Words Fail Me, Encounter France, Clay Play, Flip Slide Turn, Australian Studies | 10am The Lionel Williams Show | 10.30 Adelaide Today | 10am Another World | |
| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM 11.59 News |
11am National Nine News 11.30 The Sullivans |
11am Touch Of Elegance 11.58 News |
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| 12PM | 12pm A Big Country 12.30 Scene |
12pm Knots Landing | 12pm Midday With Ray Martin | 12pm The Young And The Restless 12.58 News |
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| 1PM | 1pm For Schools: Masterworks From The World’s Great Museums, Detective, Let’s Go Maths, Insight, Five School, Piggeldy And Frederick | 1pm Movie: The Singing Nun. 1956 [IMDB] | 1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1pm Hotel 1.58 News |
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| 2PM | 2.58 News | 2.30 Coronation Street | 2pm Movie: A Warm December. 1973 [IMDB] | ||
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street | 3pm The New Price Is Right | 3.30 The Young Doctors | 3.58 News | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Mr Squiggle And Friends |
4pm Wombat 4.30 Lassie |
4pm C’mon Kids | 4pm Fraggle Rock 4.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World |
4.30pm Kaleidoscope. Includes Animated Puppets (Japan), The Adventures Of Tin Tin (France) |
| 5PM | 5pm The Afternoon Show. James Valentine. Includes Shagman Of The Submerged Worlds, Return Of The Antelope | 5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Kingswood Country |
5pm The Bugs Bunny Show 5.30 The Newlywed Game |
5pm Bewitched 5.30 Perfect Match |
5pm The Electric Company 5.30 The Noise. Annette Shun Wah |
| 6PM | 6pm The Kids Of Degrassi Street 6.30 EastEnders |
6pm Have A Go. Jonathan Coleman, Ian Rogerson 6.30 Seven National News. Kevin Crease, Anne Fulwood, Peter Marker, Keith Martyn |
6pm National Nine News. Caroline Ainslie, Rob Kelvin 6.30 Willesee. Mike Willesee |
6pm Eyewitness News. Graeme Goodings, Guy Blackmore, Max Stevens, Anne Wills | 6pm Brookside 6.30 World News. George Donikian |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. John Bok, Mark Aiston, Jane Reilly 7.30 The 7.30 Report. Dale Sinclair |
7pm State Affair. Keith Conlon 7.30 Special: The Charles And Diana All-Star Rock Concert |
7pm Sale Of The Century 7.30 Murder She Wrote |
7pm Neighbours 7.29 News 7.30 You’ve Got To Be Joking. Don Lane, Paula Goodman PREMIERE |
7pm International Airport (Italy) 7.30 Worlds Apart |
| 8PM | 8pm Fresh Fields 8.30 Yes Minister |
8.28 News 8.30 Spenser For Hire |
8.29 News 8.30 Mini-Series: Sins. Part One [IMDB] |
8.30 Soccer: National Indoor League. Highlights | |
| 9PM | 9pm Four Corners | 9.15 The Equalizer | 9.30 Hill Street Blues | 9pm 9 O’Clock. Christina Koutsoukos, Silvio Rivier 9.30 Movie: The Devils In The Hills. 1984 (Italy) [IMDB] |
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| 10PM | 10pm ABC News 10.05 The Burrows Collection |
10.15 Dempsey And Makepeace | 10.30 Motor Racing: Daytona 500 | 10.30 Night Court | |
| 11PM | 11.05 Clive James At Home 11.50 Close |
11.15 Grundy 11.45 Today (NBC) |
11pm After MASH 11.30 Movie: The Good Guys And The Bad Guys. 1969 [IMDB] |
11.20 Vox Populi (Rpt) 11.40 Close |
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| 12AM | 12.30am Movie: The Goddess. 1958 [IMDB] | ||||
| 1AM | 1.45am Close | 1.25am Close | |||
| 2AM | 2.30 Movie: The Young Rebel. 1970 [IMDB] | ||||
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| 4AM | 4.30 The Best Of Jackie Gleason (B&W) | ||||
| 5AM | 5.30 National Nine News (Continues to 6am) |
