The Melbourne Cup is broadcast live on all four Adelaide channels.

Source: TV Guide, 30 October 1976

ADELAIDE
	ABS2	ADS7	NWS9	SAS10
6AM
7AM				7am The New Earlybirds
8AM	8am Sesame Street
9AM	9am Play School 9.30 For Schools: Science At Work (B&W), Australian History, People Of Many Lands, History 1917-1971 (B&W), Man And His World, The Cow, Inside Out			9am Close
10AM		10am Cartoon Corner 10.30 Ready Set Go!		10.45 Cooking With King
11AM		11am It’s A Woman’s World. Lionel Williams	11am Here’s Humphrey	11am Touch Of Elegance. Jaye Walton
12PM	12.30pm ABC News 12.40 Horizon-5. Neil Inall	12pm The Mike Walsh Show	Anne Wills hosts the afternoon programs 12pm Movie: War-Gods Of The Deep. 1965 [IMDB]	12pm The Young And The Restless 12.30 Solomon’s Home Beautiful 12.35 Another World
1PM	1pm Today At One 1.40 1976 Melbourne Cup. Live from Melbourne	1.30 1976 Melbourne Cup. Live from Melbourne	1.25 Slimming With Pat. Pat Davies 1.30 1976 Melbourne Cup. Live from Melbourne	1.30 1976 Melbourne Cup. Live from Melbourne
2PM	2.50 For Schools: The Wanderer Butterfly	2.30 Homicide (B&W)	2.45 (to be announced)	2.30 Pot Of Gold
3PM	3.20 Sesame Street	3.30 The Real McCoys (B&W)	3pm General Hospital	3.30 The Doris Day Show
4PM	4.15 Cricket: Sheffield Shield. South Australia v Western Australia. Live from Adelaide Oval	4pm Pam And Steve’s Super Fun Show. Includes Wacky Races, The Cisco Kid, The Flying Nun	4pm The Channel Niners’ Super Cartoon Show. Dean Davis, Helen Woods	4pm Cricket: Sheffield Shield. South Australia v Western Australia. Live from Adelaide Oval
5PM		5.30 Gomer Pyle USMC	5pm Land Of The Giants
6PM	6pm Bellbird 6.55 Take Kerr With Graham Kerr	6pm Class Of ’75 6.30 Seven National News. Alec Macaskill	6pm Celebrity Squares. Jimmy Hannan 6.30 News. Roger Cardwell	6pm News. John Bok 6.30 Bewitched
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight. Clive Hale	7pm Casino 10. Philip Brady 7.30 When Things Were Rotten	7pm Here’s Lucy 7.30 Mod Squad	7pm The Celebrity Game. Mike Preston 7.30 Matlock Police
8PM	8pm Torque. Peter Wherrett 8.30 Who Do You Think You Are?	8pm One Day At A Time 8.30 Beacon Hill	8.30 Barnaby Jones	8.35 Number 96
9PM	9pm ABC News, Weather 9.05 Beryl’s Lot 9.55 Rottnest Winter		9.30 Movie: A Safe Place. 1972 [IMDB]	9.35 The Box
10PM	10.45 Close	10.30 Star Soccer		10.35 Movie: Bullfighter And The Lady. 1950 [IMDB]
11PM		11.30 Thirty Minutes Worth	11.15 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 11.45 On This Day (B&W); Epilogue; Close
12AM		12am Goodnight; Close		12am Close
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