Here we go…
Saturday: Magnum PI
Sunday: Highway To Heaven (this one surprised me. In Melbourne, HTH was always a Friday night series)
Monday: Return To Eden
Tuesday: Neighbours
Wednesday: The A Team
Thursday: Dallas
Friday: Prisoner (I suspect Prisoner was past its prime by 1986, and some stations were losing interest in the series or dropping it altogether. TV0 I think (I can’t be sure) was one station that dropped the show ahead of its eventual axing later in the year)
Return To Eden at 7:30pm Monday surprised me a little been going up against A Country Practice, noting when Richmond Hill started it was 7:30pm Wednesday and Thursday and the same with E Street. I knew that for most of its run The A Team was at 7:30pm Wednesday on metros, but I thought it might have been at 7:30pm Monday with Tour Of Duty replacing it.
It was a good qiuz though
just fyi, in February 1986, BTQ7 had A Country Practice at 7.30 Sunday and Monday, Sons And Daughters at 7.30 Tuesday and Wednesday, and British sitcoms (repeats) on Thursday and Friday.
In Melbourne I think they swapped ACP and S&D, with S&D on Sunday/Monday and ACP on Tuesday/Wednesday.
Sons And Daughters being on decline at the time was the other reason I thought Return To Eden might have been at 7:30pm Wednesday. Also noting that The A Team’s popularity was starting to wane by 1986, with The A Team screening at around 11:30pm Wednesday night in either 1987 or 1988.
Wow, this is gold!
Certainly some subtle hints of a re-brand in the ‘returning in 2000’ promo which aired in 1999.
I wanted to create a separate topic for these sorts of things, but a blink and you’ll miss it playout error on Seven Sydney in 2001:
An episode of Hypotheticals from September 2001:
That Ten logo was unique. It’s a logo of it’s time but I’m curious about who came up with the concept.
Seeing it as a child, I didn’t really think much about it. But looking it it now it makes me think there was probably some thought behind it. X is the Roman numeral for 10 and that the circumference is in fact made up of ten stylised Xes.
Off the back of @Didz awesome find capturing the first moments of Seven’s Mk.1 ‘Ribbon’ logo, I’ve managed to find a recording of its neering demise. From the evening of Saturday the 13th of September 2003, (and the early hours of Sunday the 14th), there are some telling signs it’s on the outs!
Considering the amount of screen grabs I decided to take (I’m not usually this thorough), I’ve left them in their respective Presentation and News threads.
On-Air Presentation
News
Found these on Flemishdog’s Twitter account.
A Network 0-28 ID from January 1985.
Prior to changing name to SBS and opening in Brisbane, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Newcastle and Wollongong.
Really liked this ident
incidentally, Tom’s Expert Subject on Hard Quiz last week was SBS.
And here’s the video.
Nice use of early computer animation there, especially with the Network 0-28 text.
Funny that the song mentions Hobart, seeing as how Network 0-28 wasn’t broadcasting there.
Bryant Gumbel and “Today” covers the 1986 Russell Street bombing.
As with HWT down at 44 (the address is now “46” in 2025 for reasons unknown) Flinders St, that building in this screenshot is technically still there and technically heritage listed - but it’s “facadism” - only the outside shell and nothing that might have been a heritage valuable internal feature… 
TVQ-0 Brisbane, knowing the quality of the picture it is likely recorded in SEQ. The only way that TVQ-0 would had been received in the ACT is during an E-Skip opening.
