The TV Week Logie Awards are broadcast on Network Ten for the first time, hosted by Michael Parkinson.
Channels also break into normal programming for live via satellite coverage of the latest Space Shuttle launch.
Source: TV Week, 4 April 1981. Sydney Morning Herald, 10 April 1981
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| 6AM | 6pm King Leonardo And His Short Subjects 6.30 Rocky And His Friends 6.55 Go Health |
6.30am Marvel Superheroes | |||
| 7AM | 7am Mighty Mouse 7.30 Help! It’s The Hair Bear Bunch |
7am Good Morning Australia | |||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8am Magazine Seven | 8am King Kong 8.30 Uncle Croc’s Block 8.55 God’s Wonderful World |
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| 9AM | 9am Close 9.30 Play School |
9am Mister Ed (B&W) 9.25 Felix The Cat 9.30 Wombat |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Something To Sing About 9.05 Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 Texas |
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| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Flip Slide Turn, Science World, River, Make Music Yours, Waterloo Street, Look Here | 10am Romper Room | 10am The Ed Allen Show 10.30 Another World |
10.30 The Bernard King Show | |
| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM | 11am Good Morning Sydney | |||
| 12PM | 12pm Close | 12pm Movie: Companions In Nightmare. 1967 [IMDB] | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | 12pm Movie: The Daughter Of Rosie O’Grady. 1950 [IMDB] | |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 For Schools: Avventura, Upper Primary Art/Craft, Music Time, For The School Leaver |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | |||
| 2PM | 2.35 Close | 2pm The Streets Of San Francisco | 2.30 The Young And The Restless | 2pm Love American Style 2.30 That Girl |
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| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street | 3pm This Is Your Life 3.30 Tom And Jerry |
3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow |
3pm Emergency | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Gather Your Dreams |
4pm Shirl’s Neighbourhood 4.30 Flipper |
4pm The Curiosity Show | 4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 4.30 Studio Ten |
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| 5PM | 5pm Hunter’s Gold 5.30 Little Lord Fauntleroy |
5pm $50,000 Letterbox 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie |
5pm Here’s Lucy 5.30 Family Feud |
5pm Superman (B&W) 5.30 Personality Squares. Jimmy Hannan |
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| 6PM | 6pm Countrywide. Neil Inall 6.40 In Your Garden 6.54 At The Show. Neil Inall |
6pm Catch Us If You Can. Bryan Davies 6.30 Seven National News. Roger Climpson, Ross Symonds |
6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Brian Henderson, Ron Casey, Alan Wilkie |
6pm Eyewitness News. Ron Wilson, Katrina Lee, John Cootes, David Ellyard | 6.27pm News Headlines 6.30 A Whole World Of Soccer. David Fordham |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 The Two Ronnies |
7pm Willesee ’81 7.30 Movie: King Of Kings. 1962 [IMDB] |
7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Victoria Nicolls 7.30 Safeway New Faces. Bert Newton |
7pm The Restless Years 7.30 MASH |
7.30 World News. George Donikian |
| 8PM | 8.10 Nationwide. Clive Hale 8.40 Soccer: Match Of The Day |
8.30 Special: Blood Ivory | 8.30 Special: The 1981 TV Week Logie Awards. Michael Parkinson. Live from Centrepoint Conference Centre, Sydney. | 8pm Nonstop Nonsense (Germany) 8.30 Nick Verlaine (France) |
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| 9PM | 9.30 ABC News, Weather 9.35 Space Shuttle Launch 9.55 Sportsnight |
9.50 Space Shuttle Launch 9.55 Movie (cont’d) |
9.45 Space Shuttle Launch 9.55 Special (cont’d) |
9.30 Movie: Operation Arsenal (Poland) [IMDB] | |
| 10PM | 10.45 Newsnight. Ross Symonds, Mike Peterson, Mike Bailey | 10.40 News Headlines 10.45 Backstairs At The White House |
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| 11PM | 11.10 Close | 11.15 Movie: Village Of The Damned. 1960 (B&W) [IMDB] | 11pm Eyewitness News Special: Space Shuttle Launch | 11.10 Close | |
| 12AM | 12.45am Close | 12am The Evil Touch 12.30 Movie: St Valentine’s Day Massacre. 1967 [IMDB] |
12am Movie: The Sweet Smell Of Success. 1957 (B&W) [IMDB] | ||
| 1AM | 1.45am Something To Sing About 1.50 Close |
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| 2AM | 2.30 Movie: The Blob. 1958 [IMDB] | ||||
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| 4AM | 4.10 Movie: Marty. 1955 [IMDB] | ||||
| 5AM | 5.10 The Baron (Continues to 6am) |
