The Movie Show debuts with host Silvio Rivier joined by SBS film reviewer David Stratton and producer Margaret Pomeranz making her on-screen debut. The program continued until May 2004, when Stratton and Pomeranz left SBS to go to ABC for a new program, At The Movies.

See also: Thursday 30 October 1986 — CANBERRA

Source: The Age, 30 October 1986

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS28
6AM		6am Take Two	6am National Nine Early Morning News 6.30 Today. Steve Liebmann, Patrice Newell	6am Daybreak. Ron Wilson, Claudia Emery
7AM	7.30am The Carleton/Walsh Report (Rpt)	7am Mister Ed (B&W) 7.30 Quick Draw McGraw		7am Good Morning Australia. Gordon Elliott, Kerri-Anne Kennerley
8AM	8am Mr Squiggle And Friends 8.30 Sesame Street	8am Leave It To Beaver (B&W) 8.30 Space Ghost And Dino Boy
9AM	9.30 Play School	9am Rainbow 9.30 TV Education	9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 The Upchat Line
10AM	10am For Schools: Trapp Winkle And Box, Junior Craft, Secondary Drama, The Red And The Blue, A Tough Place To Play, Go Health, Infinity Ltd, What Do We Do Now	10am Romper Room 10.55 Fun In The Kitchen	10am General Hospital	10am Another World
11AM		11am Eleven AM. Richard Zachariah, Ross Symonds	11am The Sullivans 11.30 National Nine Morning News	11am Good Morning Melbourne. Roy Hampson, Annette Allison
12PM	12pm The Investigators (Rpt) 12.30 A New World (For Sure)	12pm Movie: Day Of The Evil Gun. 1968 [IMDB]	12pm Midday With Ray Martin	12pm Movie: Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll. 1961 (B&W) [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.05 For Schools: The Voyage Of The Mimi, Excuse My French, Hunter, Spare Parts In Performance, Passwords, Earthwatch		1.30 Days Of Our Lives
2PM		2pm Falcon Crest	2.30 The Young And The Restless	2pm Eyewitness News 2.30 Mission: Impossible
3PM	3pm Sesame Street 3.55 The Magic Roundabout	3pm Knots Landing	3.30 Here’s Lucy	3.30 Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 The Sooty Show 4.55 The Croc-Note Show	4pm Wombat 4.30 Lassie	4pm C’mon Kids. Joanna Moore, Robin Roenfeldt	4pm Bill Cosby’s Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids 4.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World	4.25pm Swami Sarasvati 4.30 Kaleidoscope
5PM	5pm Inspector Gadget 5.25 Roger Ramjet 5.30 The Haunted School	5pm Wheel Of Fortune. John Burgess, Adriana Xenides 5.30 Punky Brewster	5pm The Bugs Bunny Show 5.30 Happy Days	5pm The Brady Brides 5.30 Perfect Match. Greg Evans, Tiffany Lamb	5pm Everybody Here 5.30 Marco Polo’s Stone (Italy)
6PM	6pm Dancing Daze 6.30 Bananaman 6.35 Doctor Who	6pm Family Ties 6.30 Seven National News. Mal Walden	6pm National Nine News. Brian Naylor 6.30 Willesee. Mike Willesee	6pm Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Jo Pearson (see advertisement below)	6pm Rose De Lejos (Argentina) 6.30 The Noise. Annette Shun Wah
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report. John Jost	7pm Day By Day. Mark Day 7.30 Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em	7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Alyce Platt 7.30 Hardcastle And McCormick	7pm Neighbours 7.30 MASH	7pm World News. George Donikian 7.30 Five Times Dizzy. Rebekah Elmaloglou, Helen Kambos, Stavros Economidis, Mary Kostakidis
8PM	8pm Flying Start. Richard Morecroft 8.30 The Fast Lane	8pm Are You Being Served? 8.30 Beyond 2000	8.30 Murder She Wrote	8.30 Prisoner	8pm Hello Australia. George Donikian, Kay Stammers 8.30 The Movie Show PREMIERE David Stratton, Margaret Pomeranz, Silvio Rivier
9PM	9.25 Back Chat 9.30 The Carleton/Walsh Report. Richard Carleton, Max Walsh	9.30 Dave Allen At Large			9pm 9 O’Clock. Christina Koutsoukos 9.30 Movie: Bodyguard. 1980 (USSR) [IMDB]
10PM	10pm Encounters 10.50 Golf: 1986 Toshiba Australian PGA Tournament	10.30 Newsworld	10.30 News 10.40 St Elsewhere	10.25 Eyewitness News 10.45 Wrestling
11PM	11.50 Close	11pm Partners In Crime	11.45 The Odd Couple	11.45 Gridiron Football: NFL	11pm Soccer
12AM		12am News Overnight. Includes Today (NBC) (Continues to 6am)	12.20am Movie: The Hunted Lady. 1977 [IMDB]		12am Close
1AM
2AM			2am Movie: Hilda Crane. 1956 [IMDB]	2.45am Close
3AM			3.40 Movie: Tall Story. 1960 (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5.10 Bonanza (Continues to 6am)