Nine’s big-budget current affairs gamble 60 Minutes makes its debut. Featuring reporters Ray Martin, George Negus and Ian Leslie, 60 Minutes got off to a slow start in the ratings but soon built up to become one of Nine’s flagship properties in the decades to follow.

60 Minutes turns 40 [2018]

Source: TV Week, 10 February 1979.

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
6AM			6am Gene Autry (B&W)
7AM			7am Star Trek 7.30 Look Listen Laugh And Learn
8AM	8.30am Tennis: Grand Slam Semi-Finals 1979	8.45am Jimmy Swaggart Telecast	8am Day Of Discovery 8.30 Good News	8.30am You Say The Word
9AM	9.55 Divine Service	9.15 It Is Written 9.45 Sunday Magazine	9am Rex Humbard Hour	9.30 Hour Of Power
10AM	10.55 Cricket: Sixth Test. Australia v England. Live from Sydney Cricket Ground.	10am World Of Sport Replay	10am Here’s Humphrey 10.53 Point Of View	10.30 Mass For You At Home
11AM		11.55 World Of Sport	11am Special: Moved By The Spirit 11.30 You Me And Education	11am Greek Affair
12PM			12pm International Wide World Of Sport	12pm Variety Italian Style
1PM	1pm A Fisherman’s World 1.35 Cricket (cont’d)		1pm Movie: Eighteen In The Sun. 1964 [IMDB]	1pm Racing Review 1.45 Movie: Joe Butterfly. 1957 [IMDB]
2PM		2.30pm Movie: Last Of The Badmen. 1957 [IMDB]	2.30 Movie: Twelve To The Moon. 1960 (B&W) [IMDB]
3PM				3.20 Movie: Has Anybody Seen My Gal? 1952 [IMDB]
4PM		4pm Movie: Francis Covers The Big Town. 1953 (B&W) [IMDB]	4pm The Curiosity Show
5PM		5.30 Good Times	5pm World Of Adventure	5pm High Chaparral
6PM	6.10 The Kenny Everett Video Show 6.45 So The Story Goes 6.55 Weather	6pm Seven National News. Mal Walden 6.30 The Wonderful World Of Disney	6pm National Nine News. Peter Hitchener. Includes Sunday Magazine 6.30 New Faces. Bert Newton	6pm News At Six. Bruce Mansfield 6.30 Wonder Woman
7PM	7pm ABC News. Includes Weekend Magazine 7.40 All Creatures Great And Small	7.30 Special: Mickey’s 50th Anniversary	7.30 60 Minutes PREMIERE Ray Martin, George Negus, Ian Leslie (see advertisement below)	7.30 The Rockford Files
8PM	8.30 The Governor	8.30 Movie: The Ambushers. 1967 [IMDB]	8.30 Mini-Series: Washington Behind Closed Doors [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: The Omega Man. 1971 [IMDB]
9PM	9.45 ABC News, Weather 9.55 Cricket: Highlights. Sixth Test. Australia v England
10PM	10.25 Motor Racing: Highlights. 1979 International Round Two		10.45 Movie: My Favourite Wife. 1940 (B&W) [IMDB]	10.25 Kojak
11PM	11.25 Close	11pm To Be Announced		11.25 The McLean Stephenson Show 11.55 Close
12AM		12.30am Insight	12.30am Movie: Violent Enemy. 1968 [IMDB]
1AM		1am Close
2AM			2.05 Movie: Billy Liar. 1963 (B&W) [IMDB]
3AM			3.35 Movie: I Believe In You. 1953 (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5am Danger Man (Continues to 6am)