The Nine Network debuts mini-series The Flying Doctors, starring Andrew McFarlane, Lorna Patterson, Maurie Fields, Val Jellay, Vikki Hammond, Steve Bisley and Max Cullen. The success of the mini-series leads to an ongoing series of the same name that runs for seven years. The Flying Doctors was produced by Crawfords Australia and sold well overseas.
Source: TV Week, 27 April 1985
| ABV2 | HSV7 | GTV9 | ATV10 | SBS0/28 | |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| 6AM | News Overnight (cont’d) | 6am Woody Woodpecker 6.25 Go Health 6.30 Fonz And The Happy Days Gang |
6am Felix The Cat 6.05 Popeye 6.30 McHale’s Navy (B&W) |
||
| 7AM | 7am Flintstone Frolics 7.30 Mickey And Donald |
7am Today | 7am Good Morning Australia. Gordon Elliott, Kerri-Anne Kennerley | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8am Leave It To Beaver (B&W) 8.30 The Jetsons |
|||
| 9AM | 9am The Banana Splits 9.25 Crystal Tipps And Alistair 9.30 Play School |
9am Catwalk (B&W) 9.30 Snake Gully With Dad And Dave |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am All My Children | |
| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Hunter, The Colonials, Come To The Library, The Magic Bag, The Cow Who Fell In The Canal, Tikki Tikki Tembo, Australian History, Six Australians, Kontakte, Junior Secondary Maths | 10am Romper Room | 10am Another World | 10am That Girl 10.30 Fat Cat And Friends |
|
| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM | 11am Here’s Lucy 11.30 National Nine News |
11am Good Morning Melbourne. Roy Hampson, Annette Allison | 11am Cartoons 11.10 Follow Me 11.30 Daughter Of The Porter (Lebanon) |
|
| 12PM | 12pm Movie: When The Circus Came To Town. 1981 [IMDB] | 12pm Midday With Ray Martin | 12pm After Noon | 12.45pm Movie: The Other Woman. 1978 (Egypt) [IMDB] | |
| 1PM | 1.45pm Close | 1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1.30 Movie: Probe. 1972 [IMDB] | ||
| 2PM | 2pm Donahue | 2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2.10 Close | ||
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street 3.55 Paddington |
3pm Cop Shop | 3.30 General Hospital | 3.30 Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Mr Squiggle And Friends |
4pm Wombat 4.30 Here’s Boomer |
4pm The Edison Twins 4.30 The Ossie Ostrich Video Show |
4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World | |
| 5PM | 5pm Danger — Marmalade At Work 5.30 Ulysses 31 5.55 Come And Get It |
5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 The New Price Is Right |
5pm Happy Days 5.30 Blankety Blanks. Daryl Somers |
5pm Hogan’s Heroes 5.30 Perfect Match |
5.30 Zora And Her Gang (Germany) |
| 6PM | 6pm Inspector Gadget 6.30 ABC National. Richard Morecroft, Geraldine Doogue |
6pm Neighbours 6.30 Seven National News. Mal Walden. Includes Tatts 2 |
6pm National Nine News. Brian Naylor 6.30 Willesee. Mike Willesee |
6pm Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Jo Pearson | 6pm Olympic Airways Soccer League. Les Murray |
| 7PM | 7.30 Fresh Fields 7.55 Fawlty Towers |
7pm Day By Day. Mark Day 7.30 Sons And Daughters |
7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Delvene Delaney 7.30 Mini-Series: The Flying Doctors. Part One [IMDB] (see advertisement below) |
7pm MASH 7.30 V The Series |
7pm World News. George Donikian 7.30 Frontiers |
| 8PM | 8.30 Minder | 8.30 Movie: The Blue Lagoon. 1980 [IMDB] | 8.30 Movie: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. 1975 [IMDB] | 8.30 In The Shadow Of The Great Oak (Italy) | |
| 9PM | 9.20 Police | 9.30 The Mike Walsh Show | 9.30 Issues 85. Margaret Throsby | ||
| 10PM | 10.05 A New World (For Sure) 10.35 All-Star Soccer Highlights |
10.30 Newsworld 10.55 Hammer House Of Horror |
10.15 Movie: Thanassis The Madman (Greece) [IMDB] | ||
| 11PM | 11.55 Close | 11pm Hawaii Five-0 | 11pm Eyewitness News 11.10 Matt Houston |
11.25 Close | |
| 12AM | 12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) (Continues to 7am) |
12am Movie: The Gene Krupa Story. 1960 [IMDB] | 12.10am Mississippi | ||
| 1AM | 1.10 The Merv Griffin Show | ||||
| 2AM | 2.05 Movie: Texas. 1941 (B&W) [IMDB] | 2.10 Close | |||
| 3AM | 3.55 Movie: The Red Badge Of Courage. 1974 [IMDB] | ||||
| 4AM | |||||
| 5AM | 5.10 The Big Valley (Continues to 6am) |
