Saturday afternoon in Adelaide is dominated by local league football coverage and pop music shows. The latter is covered by ABC’s Hit Scene, Nine’s locally-produced Move and Ten’s local Zap and Melbourne-based Hit Parade and Happening 71.

Prime time included football replays across three channels, plus local variety shows Showcase on NWS9 and Saturday Tonight on SAS10.

Source: TV Week, 3 April 1971

	ABS2	ADS7	NWS9	SAS10
6AM
7AM				7am Fantastic Flicks
8AM		8.30am Cartoons. Includes Abbott And Costello, Space Ace, Robin Hood	8.30am Stars Of Tomorrow	8.30 Turf Guide
9AM			9.30 Wacky Quack. Includes Spiderman, Prince Planet, The Beatles, Here’s Humphrey	9am Saturday Party
10AM
11AM		11.30 Football: Seconds League. Glenelg v Port Adelaide	11.30 Football: Seconds League. Sturt v Woodville	11am Tarzan
12PM	12.15pm Your Garden 12.30 Hit Scene. Dick Williams			12pm Hit Parade. Ross D Wyllie 12.30 Zap. Ron Kosmider
1PM	1pm British Soccer 1.45 Football: Seconds League			1.30 Happening 71. Ross D Wyllie, Trevor Spry, Johnny Young, Ian Meldrum, Maggie Stewart, Megan Hicks, Stan Rofe
2PM	2.15 Movie: Confidentially Connie. 1953 [IMDB]	2.15pm Movie: Cattle Drive. 1951 [IMDB]	2.10pm Move. Vince Lovegrove
3PM	Football Updates at 3.25, 4.10, 4.45 3.30 Rugby League: 1968 Grand Final	3.45 Movie: Courage Of Lassie. 1946 [IMDB]
4PM	4.15 Surfing: 1969 Australian Surfing Championships. Highlights		4pm Roller Game
5PM	5.15 Sporting Roundup 5.40 Smokey Bear	5.30 Football Report. Ian Day	5pm The Tim Conway Show 5.30 Football Inquest. Max Hall	5.30 Aquaman
6PM	6pm King Arthur 6.30 Thursday Creek Mob 6.55 Weather	6pm News, Weather. Tony Curtis, Jill McLaughlin 6.30 Football Report	6pm Animal Doctor 6.30 News. Eldon Crouch 6.55 Today’s Main Race	6pm Dastardly And Mutley 6.30 The Queen And I
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.15 Sports Review. Alf Gard, Bob Bower 7.25 Football: League Football Replay	7pm Football Replay: Glenelg v Port Adelaide	7pm Football: League Football Replay	7pm Animal World 7.30 Movie: The Mouse That Roared. 1959 [IMDB]
8PM	8.15 Four Corners. Mike Willesee	8pm Bonanza	8pm Country Music. Reg Lindsay
9PM	9.10 Movie: The Night Of The Grizzly. 1966 [IMDB]	9pm Perry Mason	9pm Movie: Dragnet. 1967 [IMDB]	9pm Saturday Tonight. Noel O’Connor, Alistair McHarg, Veronica Overton
10PM	10.45 Contract To Kill	10pm Football: Victorian Football League	10.50 Showcase. Ian Fairweather.	10.30 Movie: Wayward Love. 1964 [IMDB]
11PM	11.10 Football Highlights: Victorian Football League	11pm Wrestling	11.50 Epilogue 11.55 Close
12AM	12.10am Close	12am Close		12.15am Close
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