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.
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| 6AM | 6am Gene Autry (B&W) | |||
| 7AM | 7am Star Trek 7.30 Look Listen Laugh And Learn |
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| 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] |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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] | |||
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| 5AM | 5am Danger Man (Continues to 6am) |
