Bert Newton makes a return to television with The Bert Newton Show on Seven, followed by the debut of Australian-made soapie The Power, The Passion. Both shows are an attempt to break the dominance of the Nine Network’s Midday With Ray Martin in the early afternoon.

Source: Sunday Sun TV Extra, 19 March 1989

	ABQ2	BTQ7	QTQ9	TVQ10	SBS28
6AM		6am TVAM	6am National Nine Early News 6.30 Business Today	6am USA Today 6.30 Ten News
7AM	7am Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea 7.25 Vicky The Viking 7.56 The Wonderful World Of Oz	7.30 Cartoon Connection	7am Today	7am Good Morning Australia
8AM	8.20 Sesame Street
9AM	9.20 PGR — Parental Guidance Recommended 9.30 Play School	9.30 Fat Cat And Friends	9am Here’s Humphrey 9.30 Another World	9am ‘Til Ten
10AM	10am For Schools: For The Juniors, Infant Maths, Infinity Limited, How We Used To Live	10am Falcon Crest	10.30 General Hospital	10am Mulligrubs 10.30 Ten News
11AM		11am Eleven AM	11.30 National Nine Morning News	11am Richmond Hill
12PM	12pm I Spy	12pm The Bert Newton Show PREMIERE(see advertisement below)	12pm Midday With Ray Martin	12pm Santa Barbara
1PM	1pm Staying In Touch 1.30 For Schools: Masterworks Of The World’s Great Museums, Zig Zag, A Vous La France, A Lightly Story, Write Now!	1pm The Power The Passion PREMIERE  (see advertisement below)	1.30 Days Of Our Lives	1pm The Bold And The Beautiful 1.30 Movie: Desert Legion [IMDB]
2PM		2pm Movie: This Happy Feeling. 1958 [IMDB]	2.30 The Young And The Restless
3PM	3pm Sesame Street 3.55 The Adventures Of Spot	3.30 Still The Beaver	3.30 Diff’rent Strokes	3.30 One Life To Live	3pm TV Ed
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Gumby 4.55 Telebugs	4pm Wombat 4.30 Now You See It	4pm C’mon Kids	4pm Double Dare 4.30 Lassie	4pm World Soccer (Rpt)
5PM	5.02 Henry’s Leg 5.30 Doctor Who	5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 Family Ties	5pm Happy Days 5.30 Eye On Australia. Terry Willesee	5pm Gilligan’s Island 5.30 Perfect Match	5pm Rin (Japan)
6PM	6pm The Oz Game 6.35 Robin’s Nest	6pm Seven Nightly News 6.30 Home And Away	6pm National Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair	6pm Ten News	6pm Helena (Italy) 6.30 World News. Mary Kostakidis
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report	7pm Hinch 7.30 A Country Practice	7pm Sale Of The Century 7.30 The Cosby Show	7pm Neighbours 7.30 Page One	7pm Sport Report. Les Murray 7.30 Australian Mosaic
8PM	8pm Home James 8.30 Fawlty Towers	8.30 Mini-Series: The Deliberate Stranger.  Part II [IMDB]	8pm A Different World 8.30 Movie: Britannia Hospital. 1982 [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: Mrs Delafield Wants To Marry. 1986 [IMDB]	8pm Tonight 8.30 Movie: Caravaggio. 1986 [IMDB]
9PM	9pm Four Corners 9.45 English Soccer
10PM	10.40 ABC News	10.25 Newsworld. Clive Robertson	10.50 Graham Kennedy Coast To Coast. Graham Kennedy, John Mangos	10.30 The Untouchables (B&W)	10pm Voices And Visions
11PM	11pm Movie: Lady Godiva. 1955 [IMDB]	11.30 Hi De Hi	11.50 St Elsewhere	11.30 The Wrestling Stars	11pm In The Dark Shadows Of Vesuvius
12AM	12.30am Close	12am Today (NBC)	12.50am Movie: The Premonition. 1976 [IMDB]	12.30am Movie: The Notorious Landlady. 1962 (B&W) [IMDB]	12am Close
1AM
2AM		2am Movie: Of Human Bondage. 1964 (B&W) [IMDB]	2.40 Movie: Ash Wednesday. 1973 [IMDB]
3AM		3.50 Stingray		3am Movie: Stage Fright. 1950 (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM		4.35 My Husband And I	4.35 Kojak
5AM		5am Newsworld (Rpt) (Continues to 6am)	5.30 Happy Days (Continues to 6am)	5am Marine Boy 5.30 Alvin And The Chipmunks (Continues to 6am)