Robin Williams, star of Good Morning Vietnam, is Vladimir Ivanov.
He led a normal life in Moscow until the day the circus went to New York.
What the heck is that?
I defect.
Now he's learning the funny ways of the West.
Good morning, Vlad. How you doing?
You don't have to thank me. You have to pay me.
Who could you be?
G.A.Y.
For the first time on television, Moscow on The Hudson, Monday, 8.30 on 10.
Come back next week.
They are called Olympic Hope Force.
But hope plays a small role here.
For it will take a courage, a discipline, and a sheer will few of us will ever know.
And if their effort is true, then they too will be known as Olympians.
The human spirit. It still lives in the Olympic Games.
The Colgate Tata Control and Uncle Toby's Muesli present the Games of the 24th Olympiad on Channel 10.
Good evening from the Eyewitness Newsroom.
And there was drama tonight for our royal visitors as the ferry carrying the Queen and Prince Philip
almost struck another vessel during their state reception.
The SS South Stain carrying the royal couple and 500 guests narrowly missed the other vessel
as it pulled away from Melbourne's North Wharf.
The SS South Stain has never conveyed such a distinguished crowd.
And for a second, it looked as if its moment of glory was to be cut short.
It's going to hit.
It didn't, and the night proceeded with guests of honour and passengers unaware of the near miss.
The only other royal appointment today was at the Walter and Eliza Hall Research Institute.
Prince Philip was given a tour through the laboratories specialising in the study of malaria and cancer.
Sandra Adoricio, Eyewitness News.
The state government says it will lay charges against the Dandenong City Council
following last month's tragic accident at a Dandenong swimming pool
where a wall collapsed on dozens of school children.
One teenager is now a paraplegic and her parents are also filing claims against the council.
31 children were injured when the retaining wall collapsed.
While most escaped with minor cuts and bruises, 13-year-old Daniela De Toro was seriously injured
and is now a paraplegic.
The pool is operated by the Dandenong City Council,
which has attempted to distance itself from responsibility for the collapse,
saying the wall was not built by council staff.
However, the state government now says the council will face at least two charges.
The charges will be laid by the Department of Labour,
which has been given legal advice that the council was the supervising authority
for the retaining wall's construction.
As such, the department believes the council should bear a large part of the responsibility.
A 24-year-old Geelong man has been committed to stand trial on driving charges
following a tragic car accident last year near Geelong.
Police Sergeant Russell Thompson and another man were knocked down and killed
during a routine car check on the Midland Highway last September.
A second police officer was also seriously injured.
24-year-old Leslie Simon-Yurchik was committed in the Geelong Magistrates Court today
on charges of failing to stop and failing to render assistance.
Controversial Sydney Dr Geoffrey Eddleston will learn next week
if he's to be struck from the New South Wales Medical Register.
Earlier today Dr Eddleston was found guilty by the state's medical tribunal
on numerous charges of professional misconduct.
The tribunal's findings on Dr Eddleston could hardly have been more damning.
The flamboyant former operator of plush 24-hour medical centres
had it ruled misled and played with the tribunal.
Some evidence it found raised doubts about the quality of medical services
provided by Eddleston's practices,
and especially about his honesty and motives,
and the legality and morality of his business and administrative practices.
Of the seven complaints found by the tribunal to have been proven,
three related to over-servicing,
and three to the practice of laser surgery by an employee
who was not a registered medical practitioner.
Flesh flooding continues to hamper residents of Newcastle in coastal New South Wales.
In the latest deluge, homes, shops and main streets in Newcastle are awash.
After a wall of water, three metres high flowed into the city earlier today.
The freak torrential downpour came in a half-hour burst around 2 this afternoon,
with 37 millimetres recorded in a 10-minute time.
Please expect the flooding to subside in the morning.
In strife-torn New Caledonia, 14 Canach separatists have appeared in court,
charged over the kidnapping last Friday of 27 gendarmes.
At the same time, the search continues for 16 other gendarmes
still held captive on the island of Ovea.
The Canachs were all handcuffed and wore the same clothes they had on
when arrested on Ovea at the weekend.
They were charged with the murder of three gendarmes,
hacked to death last Friday,
as well as the officer who died in a Sydney hospital.
Also, they were charged with taking part in an armed uprising
and associating with criminals.
From the court, they were taken to the penitentiary on a small headland
near the outskirts of New Meir.
Another seven have also been arrested on Ovea.
The news blackout on the operation on Ovea remains in force,
but it is known the troops from the French equivalent to the SAS
are scouring land littered with underground limestone caves.
Another group of Canachs were arrested at Sanlouis,
where a barrage erected by whites has been demolished by CRS troops
operating outside their normal functions in the city.
The Federal Government has laughed off the opposition's latest compromise
over television ownership in this country.
The coalition says it will agree to a 100% audience reach for single network owners
if extra licenses are allowed in capital cities,
but the Government dismisses this suggestion as completely unworkable.
An issue is whether TV networks are allowed to have stations in each capital city,
and so far the opposition has had two leaders meetings,
two shadow cabinets, and now two joint party meetings to try to make up its mind.
Last week, Mr Howard was rolled by his front bench,
which decided to confine TV owners to the old audience reach of 60%.
The Government wants 75%.
But by today, the opposition were preparing to change their minds completely
and have no audience limits at all.
But even before the opposition had reached agreement on its package,
the Government had ruled out any hope of compromise on the prospect of more commercial TV licenses.
The concept of a fourth commercial television channel is palpable nonsense.
It doesn't make any economic sense at all,
given the kind of revenue base that existing channels are already struggling with.
Finally, Melbourne's weather for tomorrow,
a mild and cloudy day with a fresh south-easterly wind
and a top temperature of 20 degrees after an overnight low of 13.
That's the news for now. Till we see you again, good night.
David Johnston, Mel Bolden and Tracy Kuro
giving Melbourne three of the best reasons ever for watching eyewitness news,
first at 6 on Channel 10.
There are hundreds of lovely things you can make for yourself, your family and your home.
All you need is a little encouragement, a little help and a lot of bright ideas.
All you need is Super Stitch.
Published in weekly parts for filing in these binders,
Super Stitch will show you with step-by-step instructions how to improve your sewing,
how to be creative with needle crafts and how to knit really beautiful things like this.
Here's something you can make tomorrow.
All you need is Super Stitch.
This is Loch Ness.
There's a local legend that the Loch Ness Monster will surface for a glass of Bell's Scotch.
They say she'll come up for Bell.
It's been blended with their finest single malt whiskeys for 150 years.
She takes it with too much water anyway.
Birds chirping
Horn honking
Music
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Why is this Magna looking so gloomy?
Cause Ford Telstar's now very roomy.
And come here with sharing a tear.
Cause there's more talk in Telstar gear.
Camrys who thought that they were nippier.
Fine Telstar gear is nippier.
Now Bintar is feeling out of date.
Cause new Telstars look absolutely great.
The new Ford Telstar, the classiest of its class.
Packers pick pack the pick of the potatoes.
Packers pick pick potatoes at peak.
Potatoes packed by packers pick are the pick of potatoes to cook and to eat.
So pick up a pack of packers pick pack.
The pick of potatoes picked at their peak.
It's the original one man and three babies.
Sound of beer?
Seven o'clock in the morning.
Scotch?
And he's learning from the bottom up how to be a successful malt whisker.
Where's mommy? Keep the extra diapers.
If you thought Tom Selleck had a hard time doing it.
This is cold and the cheese isn't hot, it melted down.
Wait till you see Michael Keaton do it.
Hello.
He's still gonna work around the house.
Kenny!
Don't paint your sister.
The Comedy Smash Mr. Mom.
8.30 Thursday night on Channel 10.
7.30 Friday.
A tough assignment takes Jonathan and Mark into the underworld of a suburban school.
You know, like snitches.
Drugs are a disease, not a schoolyard game.
All right pal, you don't want a deal? Forget it.
But for Mark, this assignment has tragic consequences.
I can't go back there. They think I'm the enemy. I'm a narc.
My friend's lying in a hospital right now because he believed in what she was doing.
Highway to Heaven. Friday, 7.30 on 10.
World Expo 88 is the biggest event ever staged in the Southern Hemisphere.
Saturday night, join us for Expo at Night Live featuring the Little River Band.
Glenn Fry, futuristic laser light displays and special effects that will create a moving sea of color and excitement.
Presented by the Commonwealth Bank, Kodak, and Laser Light.
Expo at Night Live, Saturday night, exclusive to 10.
Lightly salted, delicately sliced Smith's lights.
The daintiest way to stutter your face.
Whiskers time, whiskers time is the time we love the best.
We're really good mates. Nelson lets me know when he wants his whiskers.
And I see to it that he always has it.
He's particularly fond of the handy cans.
He gets all the variety he wants from whiskers.
Whiskers time, there's no better time.
Hey buddy. Whiskers time is the time we love the best.
It's not what you make, it's how you make it.
The proof of the pudding's in the tasting.
Your cherry pie's the apple of my eye.
Your chocolate cake would make a grown man cry.
And I must say, it's gonzer, absolutely bonzer.
You ought to be, who ought to be?
You ought to be congratulated.
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