The series was first broadcast in Australia (and world wide) on the ABC. There it was part of the afternoon programming aimed at children, aptly titled The Afternoon Show.

For three weeks, it was broadcast from Monday through to Thursday. The Bartons' timeslot was occupied by Earthwatch on Fridays. C/o The Bartons was replaced with the BBC miniseries The Children of Green Knowe starting on 21 March 1988.

C/o The Bartons was only broadcast once in Australia and never repeated. This is a stark contrast to the show's success outside Australia, as you'll see below.

In this light, it's an understandable yet very sad fact that the show is so little known on its home turf.

In the UK, the series was broadcast by the BBC on BBC1 as part of its daily CBBC (Children's BBC) block of programming, episodes airing once a week on Mondays. The show was renamed The Bartons (dropping "C/o"), although the opening credits still show the original title.

The BBC repeated the series once; two years after its first run, between 26 June and 4 September 1991.

In both runs, the episode Suspected was absent, meaning only eleven out of the twelve episodes aired in the UK. Allegedly, this is because of the use of the word "poofter" in that episode, which is a so called "watershed word" in the UK (words that may not be used in programmes airing before 9 PM).

In the Netherlands, the series was initially broadcast by RTL4 as part of its weekday edition of the children's programming block Telekids. One episode aired every weekday just after 4 PM for two and a half weeks. Like in the UK, the title was shortened to The Bartons with the opening credits still showing the original title.

All episodes were shown, including Suspected, and with the original English soundtrack intact (subtitled in Dutch).

The Bartons was a success for RTL4; up to that point, the weekday edition of Telekids was filled with cartoons and studio segments. Adding live action drama was apparently just what slightly older kids needed to wind down after school, and The Bartons delivered.

Telekids received quite a lot of letters by fans who missed the show after it concluded its original run, asking for a repeat. In an on air response, host Irene Moors stated a repeat was planned for the summer, and made it clear that was the very last time RTL4 could show the programme as the tapes had to be returned to Australia at the end of the year.

RTL4 kept its word: the series was repeated that same year between 28 June and 7 September 1991 as part of RTL4's Saturday early evening line up (replacing the American sitcom Full House for its summer break); essentially promoting it to prime time. It was on right after the evening news, kicking off prime time and a timeslot that catered to both kids and adults. So exposure was high.

To repeat a programme in the same year as the original broadcast, was at the time unusual in The Netherlands (and, although common nowadays for in house productions, still is uncommon for purchased content).

Although RTL4 never showed The Bartons again after that, the show and the flood of letters were mentioned briefly during the marathon broadcast on RTL4's 25th anniversary on 2 October 2014, in the context of the changes Telekids went through over its ten year run. Sadly no clips were shown.

Switzerland is a strange television market. There are three main languages spoken in the country and each language basically has its own little television market, with public and commercial stations.

German speaking Swiss would watch Die 6 Bartons on the same day-and-date with the Germans and Austrians, on 3SAT. So every monday from 10 July 1995 to 25 September 1995.

In practice, most German speaking Swiss also watch the free-to-air German television stations, so they could've been watching The Bartons since 1990 and all the way up to 2000.

French speaking Swiss could watch Les Bartons* "officially" a few years earlier, on Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) in 1993. I'm not sure if this is the same dub that aired in France and Canada, but it seems likely.

The French dubbed episodes were aired every weekday at 17:25 on TSR 1 for two-and-a-half weeks, just before Beverly Hills 90210 (which, incidentally, is just called Beverly Hills there). I bet that was a nice contrast.

All episodes were aired, but I'm not sure if the series was ever repeated. I also couldn't find if the Italian speaking Swiss got their own dub of the show.

Do you know more? Please let me know!

^{*The French title of the programme is sometimes translated as Les Barton and sometimes as Les Bartons, depending on the source.}

Antena 3, Spain's first commercial television station, aired the series in the summer of 1990. The title was translated into Los Barton. Audio was dubbed in Spanish.

Episodes were aired every Sunday as part of the children's programming block La guardería ("The Nursery"). That block ran from 9:30 to 11:30; I'm not sure at what time Los Barton was on exactly.

Other than three of the episodes airing in July 1990, I have no idea of the time frame of the broadcast in Spain, as no episode titles or summaries are given in my sources.

According to this site, the series was repeated starting 10 November 1992 on Antena 3.

Do you know more? Please let me know!