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

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS28
6AM		6am Special: Cyrano De Bergerac	6am Early News. Eric Walters 6.30 Business Today	6am USA Today 6.30 Ten News
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
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
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
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
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
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)