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Fox Classics

Country	Australia
Programming
Timeshift service	FOX Classics+2
Ownership
Owner	Foxtel
History
Former names	fX/fXM

FOX Classics is an Australian cable and satellite channel that specializes in showing classic movies and television series from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, although 1990s series Everybody Loves Raymond and Spin City were recently added to the line-up.

History

Fox Classics originally began as fX showing classic TV Shows^[1], and was known at night as fXM showing classic films hosted by Bill Collins^[2].

In 1998 the name FX was given to a new women's channel. The original fX changed names to Fox Classics and moved to a new channel shared with Fox Kids, which itself had moved from a block on Fox8.

This version of the channel was a night shift for the Fox Kids channel in Australia, when Fox Kids ended at a specific time (late afternoon for the most part), Fox Classics began. It was essentially, just classic movies, hosted by Bill Collins, who would give background information and trivia about the movie to the audience, before and after the movie. Eventually Fox Kids moved back to Fox8 on February 1, 2004^[3] and Fox Classics became a 24 hour channel again.

Selected programs

(not all programs may be aired at present)

• Batman
• Home Improvement
• I Love Lucy
• The Honeymooners
• M*A*S*H
• The Golden Girls
• Everybody Loves Raymond
• 3rd Rock From The Sun
• Mork and Mindy
• Laverne & Shirley
• Murphy Brown
• Caroline in the City
• Spin City
• The King Of Queens
• Mister Ed
• The Commish
• NYPD Blue
• Jake & The Fatman
• Matlock
• Hey Dad...!
• Mother and Son
• Kingswood Country

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