Neighbours debuts on Network Ten after being axed by the Seven Network in 1985. It is the first time an Australian series has changed networks.
Cameron Daddo, Simon Watts and Gwen Soares host the new Network Ten children’s program Off The Dish. The show marks Daddo’s TV hosting debut after appearing on talent quest series Star Search.
See also: Monday 20 January 1986 — SYDNEY
Source: TV Week, 18 January 1986.
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| 6AM | 6am Nightline USA 6.30 Today |
6am Daybreak. Ron Wilson, Ann Sanders | |||
| 7AM | 7am Crusader Rabbit 7.30 To Rome With Love |
7am Good Morning Australia | |||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8am Jabberjaw 8.30 Josie And The Pussycats |
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| 9AM | 9am Flash Gordon 9.25 The Toothbrush Family 9.30 Play School |
9am The Onedin Line | 9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 Animal World |
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| 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 | 11.05am Drunken City (Greece) | |
| 12PM | 12.40pm 3-2-1 Contact | 12pm Movie: Tarzan The Ape Man. 1932 (B&W) [IMDB] | 12pm Tennis: Nabisco Masters Finals | 12pm Movie: Cloak And Dagger. 1945 (B&W) [IMDB] | 12pm Movie: Minestrone. 1981 (Italy) [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1.10 The Flaxton Boys 1.35 Come Midnight Monday |
1.45 Close | |||
| 2PM | 2.05 Wild Wild World Of Animals 2.30 Watch This Space |
2pm McMillan And Wife | 2.30 Bonanza | 2pm Dad’s Army 2.30 Three’s Company |
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| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.55 Paddington |
3.30 The New You Asked For It | 3pm Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy 3.30 The Facts Of Life |
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| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 The Beachcombers |
4pm Shirl’s Neighbourhood 4.30 Bailey’s Bird |
4pm Animals Animals Animals 4.30 Boomerang |
4pm Off The Dish PREMIERE 4.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World |
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| 5PM | 5pm The Maestro’s Company 5.25 Bananaman 5.30 News Free Zone |
5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Kingswood Country |
5pm Puttin’ On The Hits 5.30 Blankety Blanks. Daryl Somers |
5pm F Troop (B&W) 5.30 The Best Of Perfect Match |
5.30 Lesniewski Family (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. Mal Walden. Includes Tatts 2 |
6pm National Nine News. Peter Hitchener 6.30 Diff’rent Strokes |
6pm Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Jo Pearson | 6pm 620 Soul Train 6.45 Man And Technology (Italy) |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC Summer National. Richard Morecroft 7.30 Never The Twain 7.55 Porridge |
7pm Day By Day. Mark Day 7.30 Simon And Simon |
7pm Newhart 7.30 Harcastle And McCormick |
7pm Neighbours (see advertisement below) 7.30 The David Johnston Collection |
7pm World News 7.30 Inside Japan (Japan) |
| 8PM | 8.25 The Spanish Civil War | 8.30 Cagney And Lacey | 8.30 Cover Up | 8.30 Movie: The Children Nobody Wanted. 1981 [IMDB] | 8pm The Ariake Tideland (Japan) 8.30 And Life Goes On (Italy) |
| 9PM | 9.25 Blott On The Landscape | 9.30 Marlowe Private Eye | 9.30 Eye To Eye | 9.30 Movie: Gikor. (USSR) [IMDB] | |
| 10PM | 10.20 The Road To Wembley | 10.35 Newsworld | 10.30 National Nine News | 10.30 Eyewitness News 10.40 Hotel |
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| 11PM | 11.15 Close | 11pm Ryan’s Four | 11pm Hawaii Five-O | 11.40 Matt Houston | 11pm Close |
| 12AM | 12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) (Continues to 7am) |
12am Movie: The Borgia Stick. 1967 [IMDB] | 12.40am Armchair Thriller | ||
| 1AM | 1.55 Movie: Destiny Of A Spy. 1969 [IMDB] | 1.40 Close | |||
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| 3AM | 3.50 Movie: Distant Early Warning. 1975 [IMDB] | ||||
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| 5AM | 5.10 Bonanza (Continues to 6am) |
