The Nine Network launches its new adults-only drama Chances. Initially screening twice a week, the series struggled to catch on and was later cut back to one episode per week before playing out its last episodes late at night.
30 years since Chances [2021]
Source: TV Week, 26 January 1991
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| 6AM | 6am The Adventures Of Gulliver 6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection. Includes The Snorks, Scooby And Scrappy Doo, She-Ra Princess Of Power, Secret Squirrel |
6am Wowser 6.30 ITN World News 6.55 Business Today |
Ten Newswatch (cont’d) 6.30am Aerobics Oz Style |
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| 7AM | 7am Astroboy 7.30 Square One TV |
7am Today | 7am Good Morning Australia | ||
| 8AM | 8am Turn On 8.20 Sesame Street |
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| 9AM | 9.20 Parental Guidance Recommended 9.30 Play School |
9am The Littlest Hobo 9.30 Fat Cat And Friends |
9am Here’s Humphrey 9.30 Movie: Journey Back To Oz. 1972 [IMDB] |
9am ‘Til Ten. Joan McInnes, Tony Murphy | |
| 10AM | 10am Puddle Lane 10.15 Noddy 10.30 Rod Jane And Freddy 10.42 The Giddy Game Show |
10am Beverly Hillbillies 10.30 In Search Of |
10am Mulligrubs 10.30 General Hospital |
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| 11AM | 11am Mr Squiggle And Friends 11.30 The Roadies’ Tale |
11am Eleven AM | 11.20 Cricket: Fourth Test. Australia v England. Day Five. Live from Adelaide | 11am Another World | |
| 12PM | 12pm Camera Script 12.30 Baby And Co |
12pm Movie: Holiday. 1938 (B&W) [IMDB] | 12pm Santa Barbara | ||
| 1PM | 1pm Korea: The Unknown War 1.53 Back In The Eighties |
1pm The Bold And The Beautiful 1.30 Donahue |
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| 2PM | 2pm The Stars 2.30 The Campbells |
2pm Perry Mason (B&W) | 2.30 Carson’s Law | 2pm Vremya (Russia) 2.40 Close |
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| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.55 The Adventures Of Portland Bill |
3pm The New Leave It To Beaver 3.30 Family Ties |
3.30 The Lone Ranger | ||
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 East Of The Moon |
4pm Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4.30 Now You See It |
4pm Lassie 4.30 Double Dare |
4pm Kaleidoscope. Includes Seabert (Belgium), The Adventures Of Damian The Cat (Czechoslovakia), The Adventures Of Tin Tin (France) 4.30 Safari (Czechoslovakia) |
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| 5PM | 5pm Inspector Gadget 5.23 The Ratties 5.30 Danger Bay 5.55 Roger Ramjet |
5pm Family Feud 5.30 Wheel Of Fortune |
5.58pm Keno | 5pm The Goodies 5.30 The Addams Family (B&W) |
5pm The Fox And The Fool (Greece) 5.30 Helena (Italy) |
| 6PM | 6pm House Rules | 6pm Seven Nightly News. Jennifer Keyte 6.30 Home And Away |
6pm National Nine News. Brian Naylor 6.30 A Current Affair. Jana Wendt |
6pm Ten Eyewitness News. David Johnston 6.30 MASH |
6pm And Love Tomorrow (France) 6.30 World News. Mary Kostakidis |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Edwin Maher 7.30 The 7.30 Report. John Jost |
7pm Hinch. Derryn Hinch 7.30 A Country Practice |
7pm Sale Of The Century Classics 7.30 All Together Now |
7pm Neighbours 7.30 Alien Nation |
7pm The Great Depression |
| 8PM | 8pm Square Peg Round Hole 8.28 ABC News Update 8.30 The Best Of GP |
8.30 In The Heat Of The Night | 8pm Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show. Jacki MacDonald 8.30 Chances PREMIERE |
8.30 Movie: Hanover Street. 1979 [IMDB] | 8pm The Conquest Of Space (Canada) 8.30 The Cutting Edge: Circumstances (Netherlands) |
| 9PM | 9.20 You Are Never Ever The Same Person Again 9.28 ABC News Update 9.30 Take Me Home |
9.30 Jake And The Fatman | 9.40 Movie: Happy New Year 1949. 1986 (Yugoslavia) [IMDB] | ||
| 10PM | 10.30 Lateline. Kerry O’Brien | 10.30 Mini-Series: The Life And Loves Of A She Devil. Part Two [IMDB] | 10.30 Nightline | 10.50 Ten Eyewitness News | |
| 11PM | 11pm American Football: NFL 25th Superbowl. Highlights | 11.35 Today (NBC) | 11pm Cricket: Fourth Test. Highlights 11.30 E! Entertainment |
11.20 Donahue | 11.45 Movie: Dark Side Of The Moon. 1986 (Denmark) [IMDB] |
| 12AM | 12.40am Movie: The Shape Of Things To Come. 1979 [IMDB] | 12.20am Prisoner | |||
| 1AM | 1.30am Close | 1.35am Special: Silent Shame | 1.20 Ten Newswatch (Continues to 6.30am) | 1.15am Close | |
| 2AM | 2.30 Rituals 2.55 Generations |
2.40 Movie: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. 1967 [IMDB] | |||
| 3AM | 3.20 The Dave Thomas Show 3.45 Charters And Caldicott |
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| 4AM | 4.45 Trial By Jury | ||||
| 5AM | 5.10 Holiday World 5.35 The Tomorrow People (Continues to 6am) |
5am Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future 5.30 Starting Out (Continues to 6am) |
