Source: The Age Green Guide, 11 August 1988
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| 6AM | 6am Learning Network | 6am TVAM. John Barton, Kay McGrath | 6am National Nine Early News 6.30 Business Today |
6am The Real Ghostbusters 6.30 Eyewitness News |
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| 7AM | 7am Voltron Defender Of The Universe 7.30 The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz 7.56 Worzel Gummidge |
7.30 Cartoon Connection | 7am Today. George Negus, Elizabeth Hayes | 7am Good Morning Australia. Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Mike Gibson | |
| 8AM | 8.20 Sesame Street | ||||
| 9AM | 9.20 Parental Guidance Recommended 9.30 Play School |
9.20 Community Service 9.30 Fat Cat And Friends |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Good Morning Melbourne. Roy Hampson, Annette Allison | |
| 10AM | 10am For Schools: For The Juniors, Happy Birthday Moon, Science Topics, Geography Today, Infinity Ltd, Dreamtime, Behind The News | 10am The First Churchills | 10am Diff’rent Strokes 10.30 General Hospital |
10am Mulligrubs 10.30 Eyewitness News |
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| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM | 11.30 National Nine News. George Donikian | 11am Another World | ||
| 12PM | 12pm EastEnders | 12pm Movie: The Bitch. 1979 [IMDB] | 12pm Midday With Ray Martin | 12pm Santa Barbara | |
| 1PM | 1pm Parental Guidance Recommended 1.10 Countrywide 1.40 For Schools: Trapp Winkle And Box, Bongiorno Italia, Power House |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1pm The Bold And The Beautiful 1.30 Too Close For Comfort |
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| 2PM | 2.55 The Croc-Note Show | 2pm Quincy ME | 2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2pm Emergency | 2.25pm Bicentennial Diary 2.30 Telecom Report |
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.55 Jimbo And The Jetset |
3pm Bewitched 3.30 The Partridge Family |
3.30 Maude | 3pm The Six Million Dollar Man | 3pm TV Ed |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 The Berenstain Bears 4.55 Telebugs |
4pm Wombat 4.30 Lassie |
4pm C’mon Kids | 4pm Ridgey Didge 4.30 Flipper |
4pm Zoom The White Dolphin 4.30 Kaleidoscope |
| 5PM | 5pm The New Adventures Of Beans Baxter 5.25 Super Ted 5.30 You Can’t Do That On Television |
5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Press Your Luck |
5pm Live At Five 5.58 Keno |
5pm The Munsters (B&W) 5.30 Perfect Match |
5pm Oshin (Japan) 5.30 Tutankhamun’s Egypt (UK) |
| 6PM | 6pm Inspector Gadget 6.30 The Oz Game |
6pm Home And Away 6.30 Seven Nightly News. Glenn Taylor, Jennifer Keyte |
6pm National Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair |
6pm Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Mal Walden, Tracey Curro | 6pm The Noise 6.30 World News |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Mary Delahunty 7.30 The 7.30 Report. John Jost |
7pm Hinch At Seven. Derryn Hinch 7.30 Family Ties |
7pm Sale Of The Century 7.30 Dynasty |
7pm Neighbours 7.30 Richmond Hill |
7pm Sport Report 7.30 Australian Mosaic |
| 8PM | 8pm Quantum 8.28 ABC News 8.30 Federal Referendum 1988: No Case 8.35 The Last Resort |
8pm Hey Dad! 8.28 Tattslotto 8.30 Movie: Danger Down Under. 1987 [IMDB] |
8.30 Mini-Series: Fresno. Part III [IMDB] | 8.30 Special: 1988 Bicentennial Fashion Awards | 8pm Malgudi Days (India) 8.30 The Disappearance Of John Avlakiotis (Greece) |
| 9PM | 9.30 Blah Blah Blah. Andrew Denton | 9.30 Sixteen Days Of Glory | 9.15 Sneak Preview 9.30 Tonight With Paul Murphy |
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| 10PM | 10.30 The World Tonight | 10.30 Newsworld. Susie Elelman | 10.30 Graham Kennedy’s News Show. Graham Kennedy, Ken Sutcliffe | 10.30 TJ Hooker | 10pm Six Women Conductors (Sweden) |
| 11PM | 11pm Made In Australia 11.30 Lost Empires |
11.30 Don’t Rock The Boat | 11.30 Soap | 11.30 Superstar Wrestling | 11.20 Breaking The Silence (UK) |
| 12AM | 12.30am Close | 12am Today (NBC) | 12am Movie: Purple Rain. 1984 [IMDB] | 12.30am Brothers McGregor | 12.30am Bicentennial Diary 12.35 Close |
| 1AM | 1am Night Shift | ||||
| 2AM | 2am Newsworld (Rpt) | 2.10 Movie: Lady Caroline Lamb. 1972 [IMDB] | |||
| 3AM | 3am The Borgias | ||||
| 4AM | 4am Wings | 4.35 Bonanza | |||
| 5AM | 5am The Onedin Line (Continues to 6am) |
5.30 The Young Doctors (Continues to 6am) |
5am Space Angel 5.30 The New Three Stooges (Continues to 6am) |
