Network Ten debuts its new soap E Street with two-hour episodes over two nights. The series then settled into a regular one-hour timeslot at 7.30pm Wednesday and Thursday.
The Nine Network sought to put a dent in the new show’s ratings with a re-run of a perennial favourite, the movie The Sound Of Music.
E Street fought on to run for four years.
Source: TV Week, 21 January 1989
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| 6AM | 6am Special: Cyrano De Bergerac | 6am Early News. Eric Walters 6.30 Business Today |
6am USA Today 6.30 Ten News |
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| 7AM | 7am Astroboy 7.29 The Flaxton Boys |
7am The Cartoon Connection. Michael Horrocks, Alex Wileman. Includes Pacman, He-Man Masters Of The Universe, Now You See It, Kidnapped | 7am Today | 7am Good Morning Australia | |
| 8AM | 8am The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz 8.23 Mr Men 8.30 Sesame Street |
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| 9AM | 9.30 Play School | 9.30 Fat Cat And Friends | 9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am The Muppets Go To The Movies | |
| 10AM | 10am Puddle Lane 10.15 Encounter In The Desert 10.30 Famous Five |
10am Five Mile Creek | 10am Petticoat Junction 10.30 General Hospital |
10am Mulligrubs 10.30 Ten News |
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| 11AM | 11am Jessie’s Place 11.30 The Beachcombers |
11am Tennis: Ford Australian Open. Live from National Tennis Centre, Melbourne | 11.30 Gomer Pyle USMC | 11am Another World | |
| 12PM | 12pm End Of Empire | 12pm Police Story | 12pm Santa Barbara | ||
| 1PM | 1pm Baby And Co 1.30 The Three Kingdoms |
1pm Good Times 1.30 Days Of Our Lives |
1pm The Bold And The Beautiful 1.30 One Life To Live |
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| 2PM | 2pm Spirit Bay 2.25 World Of The Wetlands 2.50 Spacewatch |
2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2pm Special: The Fifth Annual TV Academy Hall Of Fame | ||
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.55 Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends |
3.30 Diff’rent Strokes | |||
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Troubles With T-Bag 4.50 Superted |
4pm KTV 4.30 One Last Ride |
4pm Ridgey Didge 4.30 Here Come The Double Deckers |
4.30pm Kaleidoscope. Includes The Adventures Of Two Sparrow Brothers (Czechoslovakia), Madame Gusto’s Circus (UK), Water Spider (Hungary), The Blackbird Brothers (Czechoslovakia) | |
| 5PM | 5pm Jack Of Hearts 5.25 Danger Mouse 5.30 Children Of The Green Knowe 5.55 Roger Ramjet |
5pm The Three Stooges (B&W) 5.30 Mork And Mindy |
5pm Gilligan’s Island (B&W) 5.30 Perfect Match |
5pm The Electric Company 5.30 India Unveiled |
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| 6PM | 6pm The Oz Game 6.30 Man About The House |
6pm Home And Away 6.30 Seven Nightly News. Glenn Taylor, Jennifer Keyte |
6pm National Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair: Summer Edition. Terry Willesee |
6pm Ten News. David Johnston, Mal Walden, Tracey Curro, Bruce McAvaney | 6pm Inside Japan 6.30 World News. Mary Kostakidis |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Mary Delahunty 7.30 The 7.30 Report: Summer Edition. David Turnbull |
7pm Hinch. Derryn Hinch 7.30 ALF |
7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Alyce Platt 7.28 Keno 7.30 Movie: The Sound Of Music. 1965 [IMDB] |
7pm Neighbours 7.30 E Street PREMIERE |
7pm Three Ladies And Their Hot Dog Stand (Germany) 7.30 Brown Sugar |
| 8PM | 8pm Quantum. Karina Kelly, Andrew Waterworth, Geoffrey Burchfield, Jill Emberson 8.28 ABC News Update 8.30 Special: Australia Daze (see advertisement below) |
8pm Hey Dad 8.28 Midweek Tattslotto 8.30 Movie: The Black Hole. 1979 [IMDB] |
8.30 Movie: The Herdsman. 1982 (China) [IMDB] | ||
| 9PM | 9.45 ABC News 9.50 Geoffrey Robertson’s Hypothetical |
9.30 Movie: That Was Then… This Is Now. 1985 [IMDB] | |||
| 10PM | 10.50 The Late Show With Clive James | 10.25 Newsworld | 10.15 Visions: Cinema | ||
| 11PM | 11.35 Barriers Of The Mind | 11.30 High And Dry | 11pm Nightline 11.30 Miami Vice |
11.30 Movie: Manhattan. 1979 (B&W) [IMDB] | 11.35 Close |
| 12AM | 12.25am Close | 12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) | 12.30am Movie: My Wicked Wicked Ways. 1984 [IMDB] | ||
| 1AM | 1.30am Night Shift | ||||
| 2AM | 2am Movie: The Rousters. 1983 [IMDB] | ||||
| 3AM | 3.15 Movie: Any Second Now. 1969 [IMDB] | ||||
| 4AM | 4am Doctor Down Under 4.30 Father Dear Father In Australia |
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| 5AM | 5am Newsworld (Rpt) (Continues to 6am) |
5am Frank’s Place 5.30 The Young Doctors (Continues to 6am) |
5am Maya The Bee 5.30 Milton The Monster (Continues to 6am) |
