The SBS Christmas night special A Song For Peace reunites 60 families in war torn Lebanon via satellite with relatives waiting in a studio in Sydney. The program was hosted by Karim Barbara and Clarissa Kaye-Mason.

Source: TV Week, 20 December 1986

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6AM		News Overnight (cont’d)	6am Early Morning News 6.30 Today
7AM		7am Special: The City That Forgot Christmas 7.25 The Smurfs 7.50 Special: Christmas Comes To Pacland
8AM		8.15 Special: Christmas World
9AM		9am Romper Room 9.55 Papal Mass. Live from St Peter’s, Rome	9am Here’s Humphrey 9.30 Turn Round Australia	9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 The Magical World Of Gigi
10AM			10am Special: Carols By Candlelight. Brian Naylor (Rpt)	10am Special: Christmas World 10.30 Special: A Child Is Born
11AM	11am Divine Service			11am The Down Under Show
12PM	12pm Never Never Land	12pm Movie: Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. 1964 [IMDB]	12pm Movie: Christmas Lillies Of The Field. 1979 [IMDB]	12pm Movie: Bundle Of Joy. 1956 [IMDB]
1PM	1.30 Movie: Gulliver’s Travels [IMDB]	1.15 Movie: Mary And Joseph — A Story Of Faith. 1979 [IMDB]
2PM			2pm Special: Godunov – The World To Dance In	2pm Matlock Police	2.20pm Movie: Friends For Life. 1971 (USSR) [IMDB]
3PM	3pm Earthstars 3.40 Santa’s Pocket Watch	3.35 The Smurfs	3pm Special: Red Skelton’s Christmas Dinner	3pm Special: Mr Kruger’s Christmas 3.30 Superfriends	3.50 Movie: Pessi And Illusia. 1983 (Finland) [IMDB]
4PM	4pm Play School 4.35 Grange Hill	4pm The Tomorrow People 4.25 Family Classics 4.50 Tom And Jerry 4.55 Special: Celebrity Fun Cruise	4pm Animals Animals Animals 4.30 Special: Danny’s Egg	4pm Special: Cameron Daddo Christmas Show
5PM	5pm Special: Christmas Carols		5pm Small Wonder 5.30 Webster	5pm Gilligan’s Island (B&W) 5.30 Perfect Match	5.10 Special: Cinderella (Germany)
6PM	6pm Circus World Championships: Highlights	6pm Gimme A Break 6.30 Seven National News. Includes Tatts 2	6pm National Nine News 6.30 Six Thirty. John Gatfield, Jane Phelan	6pm Eyewitness News
7PM	7pm ABC News. Mary Delahunty 7.30 The Queen’s Christmas Message 7.40 Special: Romeo And Juliet On Ice	7pm Day By Day 7.30 Movie: Meet Me In St Louis. 1945 [IMDB]	7pm The Newlywed Game. Ian Turpie 7.30 Special: Champions On Ice	7pm MASH 7.30 You Again	7pm World News 7.30 Special: A Song For Peace (see advertisement below)
8PM	8.25 All Creatures Great And Small		8.30 Movie: True Grit. 1969 [IMDB]	8pm MASH 8.30 TJ Hooker	8.30 The Mysteries
9PM	9.55 Special: Christmas In Washington	9.30 Movie: Bring Me Sunshine — A Tribute To Eric Morcambe		9.30 Cheers
10PM	10.45 The Queen’s Christmas Message (Rpt) 10.55 Close		10.55 The Queen’s Christmas Message	10pm Night Court 10.30 Eyewitness News 10.45 Special: A Christmas Evening With Noel	10.30 Movie: Warm Greetings From The Planet Earth. 1982 (Czechoslovakia) [IMDB]
11PM			11.05 Movie: Jet Pilot. 1957 [IMDB]
12AM		12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) (Continues to 7am)		12.45am American Football NFL	12.10am Close
1AM			1.10 Movie: A Wedding. 1978 [IMDB]
2AM
3AM			3.45 Chuck Connors’ Western Adventures	3.45 Close
4AM
5AM			5.10 Animal Express 5.35 The New You Asked For It (Continues to 6am)