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)