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Friday 28 February 1975 - MELBOURNE

The last day of black and white television with colour transmission officially launching at 12.00am on Saturday 1 March 1975. ABV2, HSV7 and ATV0 stayed on-air all night for the occasion.  Colour programs indicated with (C)

Source: TV Week, 1 March 1975
(except programs marked * Source: The Sun News-Pictorial, Melbourne, 28 February 1975)
  ABV2 HSV7 GTV9 ATV0  
6AM     6.30am Test Pattern (C)    
7AM 7.50am Test Pattern (C) 7am Super Flying Fun Show (C) 7am Cartoon Carnival  
8AM

8am Sesame Street
8.55 Test Pattern (C)

 8.30am Test Pattern (C) 8.30 Romper Room  
9AM

9.10 For Schools:
9.10 Le Voyage Du Jericho, 9.30 Behind The News
9.50 Play School

9am Here's Humphrey (C)

 9.30 Test Pattern (C)  
10AM

10.20 For Schools:
10.20 Men And Science, 10.50 The Living Body, 11.15 For The Juniors, 11.35 Face To Face, 12.15pm Form One Maths

 10am Tennis: Davis Cup.  New Zealand vs Australia (C)
Live from New Zealand		 10am Test Pattern (C) 10.45 Family Care  
11AM

11am Vi's Pad
11.30 A Current Affair (Rpt)

 11am Roy Hampson  
12PM

12pm Days Of Our Lives
12.30 The Young And The Restless

 12pm Movie: April Showers [IMDB]  
1PM

1pm ABC News
1.10 Test Pattern
1.20 For Schools:
1.20 Behind The News, 1.40 The Endless Chain, 2.35 For The Juniors

1pm As The World Turns
1.25 News Centre Nine
1.30 No Man's Land

 * 1.30 The Mike Walsh Show (C)  
2PM

2pm General Hospital
2.30 Another World

  
3PM

3.15 Play School
3.45 Adventure Island

3pm Search For Tomorrow (C)
3.30 Spending Spree

 3pm Matlock Police  
4PM

* 4.15 Andy Pandy
* 4.30 Sesame Street

4pm Anything Can Happen
4.30 Huckleberry Hound

 4pm Cartoon Corner
Daryl Somers

4pm Storytime
* 4.05 Rod Rocket (C)
4.30 Jonny Quest

  
5PM

* 5.25 Mr Squiggle
* 5.35 Cartoons
* 5.40 Lassie

 5pm Sugarfoot

5pm Superman
5.30 My Three Sons

 5pm Tarzan  
6PM

6.05 My Favourite Martian
6.30 Irish Rovers
6.55 Production 75

6pm The Flintstones
6.30 Seven National News
Brian Naylor, David Johnston

6pm The Unisexers
 FINAL
6.30 News Centre Nine
Peter Hitchener

6pm Hogan's Heroes
6.30 Eyewitness News
Bruce Mansfield

  
7PM

7pm ABC News
7.30 This Day Tonight

* 7pm Class Of 75
* 7.30 The Streets Of San Francisco

7pm A Current Affair
7.30 Divison Four

7pm Gomer Pyle USMC
7.30 Matlock Police

  
8PM

* 8pm First National Music Industry Awards
Brian May and the ABC Melbourne Show Band
8.50 ABC News
8.55 A Family At War

 * 8.30 Special: Crowning Of 1975 Moomba Queen

8.30 The Odd Couple

 8.30 Number 96  
9PM 9.45 Sow What 9pm Special: Black and White Nostalgia
Highlights from black and white TV programs on the eve of the launch of colour television		 9pm Movie: Terror In The Sky 9pm Cool Million  
10PM

10pm Pot Black
10.25 ABC News
10.35 Concerto: South Australian Symphony Orchestra

 10.30 Special: Homicide Story

10.25 News Centre Nine
10.30 Movie: The Man Who Could Cheat Death. 1959 [IMDB]

 * 10.30 Movie: Secret Of Blood Island. 1965 [IMDB]  
11PM

* 11.10 Special: Marlene Dietrich - I Wish You Love
* 11.57 Aunty Jack Introduces Colour

  
"C-DAY" - OFFICIAL CHANGEOVER TO COLOUR TRANSMISSION
12AM * 12.02am Countdown (C)

* 12am Official Opening Of Colour (C)
* 12.05 Special: Bacharach 74

* 12am Golden Years Of Hollywood: California. 1946 [IMDB] (C)

* 12am Movie: Von Ryan's Express [IMDB] (C)

  
1AM

* 1am Monty Python's Flying Circus (C)
* 1.30 Senator McLennan's Message (C)
 * 1.32 Tennis: World Championships 1973 (C)
(continues to 8am)

 1am Special: Inside Alvin Purple (C)  
2AM 2am Special: The Musical West (C)

2.30 Epilogue (C)
2.35 Close

 2.15 Movie: The Big Circus [IMDB] (C)  
3AM 3am Special: The World Of Hugh Hefner (C)    
4AM 4am Special: Dowager In Hotpants (C)

4.25 Movie: Taffy And The Jungle Hunter [IMDB] (C)
(continues to 6.15am)

  
5AM

5am Special: Playboy Bunny Of The Year (C)
(continues to 6.00am)

  

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