Sons and Daughters Broadcast guide

The Broadcast history of Sons and Daughters

Australia
🇦🇺 Seven Network aired the first episode as a 90-minute special in January 1982, during the Christmas/New Year non-ratings period, and the official broadcast date of the final episode was 19 August 1987. There are 972 half-hour episodes however, during the series' original run later episodes were shown in an hour-long format, although no figures are available for how many of these longer episodes made up the show's run. The series was broadcast on the 7 Network, initially four days a week for half an hour at 19:00, but in later years, in two one-hour shows per week, and finally in one one-hour show per week (although this may have varied in different parts of Australia). Sons and Daughters became the highest rated programme in its slot and was the most-watched Australian soap of the '80s. The series eventually began to suffer from declining ratings and was ultimately cancelled. Through, the 1990s, the programme was also repeated in various regions of Australia, usually in early morning and daytime slots.

Seven Network began another re-run in October 2006 airing weekdays at 10:00. This was discontinued in early 2007, then resumed in July 2008 airing Wednesday night usually around midnight (double episodes effective November 2011).

7TWO began repeating the show in November 2009 from episode one, airing each weekday at 09:30, with current episodes airing from Season 5.

Foxtel channel UKTV repeated the series between 1997 and 2000 but was stopped with two years of episodes left to go.

International

 * Netherlands: Shown by TROS television, but only at the rate of one-or-two episodes per week. The series returned to Dutch TV in the mid-90s, where it was shown on RTL4, but the rerun was short-lived. Sons and Daughters was shown from 19:00 to 19:30 on BRTN1, in the afternoon on TROS and in the morning on RTL4.


 * Belgium: Belgian station BRTN1 aired Sons and Daughters five days per week, with the run ending in 1990.


 * Spain: Spanish television aired approximately 150 episodes of the series in 1987 from Monday to Friday at 19:00.


 * Ireland: The series has aired more than once in Ireland, on RTE1, where it went out in a mid-afternoon slot.


 * Azores: Broadcast here in the early to mid-1990s.


 * New Zealand: Ran from January 1986 to December 1989. It began life on TV2, but was moved to TV1 when Neighbours came along.

ITV began un-networked broadcasts Sons and Daughters in 1983, meaning different ITV regions were free to show the series as and when they wished resulting in different areas of the UK seeing different eras of the series at any one time.

ITV Annual End of Year Episode Numbers

 * Channel 5 also aired the entire series. Episodes 1 - 212 were shown on Channel 5 at 13:30 Monday to Friday between March and December 1998 after which, it was dropped for a while. It did however return to Channel 5 on 5 January 2002 (from episode 213) in an early morning slot at around 04:00-05:00 every Saturday and Sunday morning where two episodes were shown back to back until they reached the end of the series on 6 November 2005. The series gained a new level of UK fans in this early morning slot as the Aussie cult classic Prisoner Cell Block H had previously aired in the same time slot and when that ended, Sons and Daughters replaced it.