Australia Day 1985 includes the opening ceremony of the inaugural (and only) Australia Games, formed as part of Victoria’s 150th anniversary celebration. Over the next ten days the Australia Games included over 2000 competitors from 25 countries in 23 sports.

Other Australian programming on the day includes the Australia Day Concert from Melbourne, the Governor General’s Address To The Nation and movies The FJ Holden, On Our Selection and All At Sea.

Who remembers the Australia Games? [2015]

Source: TV Star, 25 January 1985

MELBOURNE
	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS0/28
6AM			6am Thunderbirds	Music Video (cont’d) 6.30am Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
7AM		7am Stax 7.30 The Smurfs	7am Heathcliff And Dingbat 7.30 Swiss Family Robinson	7am The Early Bird Show
8AM		8am The Flintstones 8.30 He Man And The Masters Of The Universe	8.30 You Asked For It
9AM		9am Sounds. Donnie Sutherland	9am Boomerang 9.30 Gomer Pyle USMC
10AM			10am The Merrie Melodies Show 10.20 Cricket: World Series Cup. Sri Lanka v West Indies. Live from Adelaide
11AM
12PM	12.30pm All-Star Soccer	12pm Movie: Son Of Lassie. 1945 [IMDB]		12pm Movie: The Fantastic Plastic Machine. 1969 [IMDB]
1PM	1.30 Baseball: Federation Of Asia Championship. Australia v Japan			1.40 Movie: Smiley Gets A Gun. 1959 [IMDB]
2PM		2pm Movie: Son Of Kong. 1933 (B&W) [IMDB]	2pm Thrillseekers 2.30 Cricket (cont’d)
3PM		3.25 Movie: Buck Privates. 1941 (B&W) [IMDB]		3.25 The New Three Stooges	3.10pm The Songs I Like (Yugoslavia)
4PM				4pm Lost In Space	4.10 Movie: On Our Selection. 1932 (B&W) [IMDB]
5PM	5pm International Pro-Celebrity Golf 5.50 The Red And The Blue 5.55 Cosmos	5pm Alias Smith And Jones 5.59 Tatts 2		5pm The Down Under Show	5.35 Farewell To The Flying Aces (France)
6PM	6.45 The Governor General’s Australia Day Address To The Nation 1985	6pm Seven National News 6.30 Runaway Island	6.30 National Nine News	6pm Eyewitness News. Charles Slade, Jennifer Keyte 6.30 The Best Of Young Talent Time	6.30 World News
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.26 Weather 7.30 Enterprise	7.25 Super 66 7.30 The Australia Games ’85: Opening Ceremony. Live from Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre. Includes Tattslotto Draw	7pm Benson 7.30 The Love Boat	7.30 MASH	7pm Australian Tableland 7.30 Bound For Botany Bay
8PM	8pm Summer Season Of Opera And Ballet: Rigoletto. Simulcast ABCFM		8.30 Fantasy Island	8.30 Special: Australia Day Concert. Live from Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne.	8.30 Movie: What Can You Do With A Billion? (Italy) [IMDB]
9PM			9.30 Movie: The FJ Holden. 1977 [IMDB]
10PM	10.15 The Governor General’s Australia Day Address To The Nation 1985 (Rpt) 10.30 ABC News, Weather 10.40 Movie: Dead End. 1937 (B&W) [IMDB]			10.30 Movie: All At Sea. 1977 [IMDB]	10.10 Movie: Neighbours (Spain) [IMDB]
11PM		11pm Big League Soccer	11.30 Tales Of The Unexpected		11.35 The Best Of Continental Drift
12AM	12.10am Close	12.15am Don King’s World Class Boxing	12am Movie: The Birthday Party. 1968 [IMDB]	12.15am Music Video. John Torv (Continues to 6am)	12.25am Close
1AM		1.15 Close
2AM			2.25 Movie: Moon Of The Wolf. 1972 [IMDB]
3AM			3.45 Movie: Please Turn Over. 1960 [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5am World Of Survival (Continues to 6am)