HSV7 screens the special The Seekers Down Under, featuring the famous Australian pop music group that had become a huge hit in Australia and overseas. Australian television was still in black and white, but this program was filmed in colour for overseas sales.

The Seekers Down Under achieved a rating of 66 (per cent of households) on its Melbourne airing, ranking it as one of the highest rating TV specials in Australia in the 20th century.

Source: TV Times, 3 May 1967

MELBOURNE
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9AM	9.05am For Schools: Form One Science, Primary Maths, Form One Maths
10AM	10.05 Play School 10.30 Close		10.28am Prologue 10.30 Playroom	10am Owly’s School 10.30 The Magic Circle Club
11AM	11.15 For Schools: For The Juniors, Physical Science Study Course	11.50am Prologue 11.55 News	11am Here’s Humphrey 11.30 Concentration	11am Dita 11.30 Girl Talk
12PM		12pm Beauty And The Beast 12.30 Movie: The Letter. 1940 [IMDB]	12pm The Danny Thomas Show 12.30 Movie: Aloma Of The South Seas. 1941 [IMDB]	12pm The Marriage Game 12.30 Noel And Mary. Noel Ferrier, Mary Hardy
1PM	1pm Matinee. Bob Cornish 1.25 For Schools: For The Juniors 1.45 This Week In Britain 1.50 Close		1.50 Fashion And Beauty	1pm Movie: Miss Pilgrim’s Progress. 1950 [IMDB]
2PM	2.40 For Schools: Form Three Maths, We Play Recorders	2pm Casebook 2.30 People In Conflict	2pm The Tommy Hanlon Show. Tommy Hanlon Jnr 2.30 Letter Charades	2.25 Sow Easy 2.30 Take A Letter 2.55 Community Service
3PM	3.30 World Film Playhouse 3.55 Cartoons	3pm It’s That Time. Ian Turpie, Vi Greenhalf, Brian Naylor, Terry Norris, Ivan Hutchinson	3pm Divorce Court 3.30 Jane Wyman Theatre	3pm Gordon And The Girls. Gordon Boyd, Glenda Raymond, Margaret Britton, Roy Hampson
4PM	4.10 The Magic Boomerang 4.35 Lassie	4pm Jungle Jim 4.30 Hawkeye And The Last Of The Mohicans	4pm White Hunter 4.30 Marvel Super Heroes	4pm William Tell 4.30 Ivanhoe
5PM	5pm Sir Francis Drake 5.25 Lens On Life Under The Sea 5.35 Adventures Of The Seaspray	5pm Rin Tin Tin 5.30 Robin Hood 5.55 SSB Club	5pm Prince Planet 5.30 The Bugs Bunny Show	5pm The Magic Circle Club 5.30 The Flintstones
6PM	6pm Something Else 6.30 F Troop 6.55 This Week In Britain	6pm Assignment Underwater 6.30 News. Brian Naylor, Rohan Rivett	6pm The Littlest Hobo 6.30 News. Eric Pearce, Kevin Sanders, Rosemary Margan	6pm Go!! Johnny Young 6.30 The Three Stooges 6.45 News. Barry McQueen
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight	7pm Coles $6000 Question. Roland Strong 7.30 Special: The Seekers Down Under	7pm The Tommy Hanlon Show. Tommy Hanlon Jnr 7.30 Danger Man	7pm Bewitched 7.30 Burke’s Law
8PM	8pm Marriage Lines 8.25 Artifacts 8.30 Wednesday Theatre: Manon [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: Bright Leaf. 1950 [IMDB]	8pm Peter Gunn 8.30 The New Breed	8.28 News Headlines 8.30 Movie: Edge Of Darkness. 1943 [IMDB]
9PM			9.30 In Melbourne Tonight. Graham Kennedy
10PM	10.35 ABC News, Weather 10.45 Close	10.30 The Casebook of Sargeant Cork	10.45 News. Eric Pearce, Kevin Sanders	10.55 The Lloyd Bridges Show
11PM		11.25 Review. Goeff Raymond, Rohan Rivett 11.45 Close	11.15 Naked City 11.45 Epilogue; Close	11.23 News Headlines 11.25 Glynis 11.55 Close
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ABAV1 Albury ABRV3 Ballarat ABEV1 Bendigo ABLV4 Gippsland ABMV4 Mildura ABGV3 Shepparton ABSV2 Swan Hill	AMV4 Albury	BTV6 Ballarat	GMV6 Shepparton	BCV8 Bendigo	STV8 Mildura	GLV10 Gippsland
9.05am For Schools: Form One Science, Primary Maths, Form One Maths 10.05 Play School 10.30 Close 11.15 For Schools: For The Juniors, Physical Science Study Course 1pm Matinee. Bob Cornish 1.25 For Schools: For The Juniors 1.45 This Week In Britain 1.50 Close 2.40 For Schools: Form Three Maths, We Play Recorders 3.30 World Film Playhouse 3.55 Cartoons 4.10 The Magic Boomerang 4.35 Lassie 5pm Sir Francis Drake 5.25 Lens On Life Under The Sea 5.35 Adventures Of The Seaspray 6pm Something Else 6.30 F Troop 6.55 Regional News 7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight 8pm Marriage Lines 8.25 Artifacts 8.30 Wednesday Theatre: Manon [IMDB] 10.35 ABC News, Weather 10.45 Close	12.30pm TV Reader’s Digest 12.55 Musical Interlude 1pm Movie: The Great Impostor. 1961 [IMDB] 2.50 Cooking 3.05 Women’s News 3.10 Peyton Place 4pm The Tommy Hanlon Show. Tommy Hanlon Jnr 4.25 Cohns Cobbers 4.30 The Magic Circle Club 4.55 Cohns Cobbers 5pm Roy Rogers 5.25 Cohns Cobbers 5.30 The Munsters 6pm The Andy Griffith Show 6.30 News 7pm The Rag Trade 7.30 My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours? 8pm Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea 9pm Movie: The Young Doctors. 1961 [IMDB]; Close	12pm Magazine 12.02 Country Man 12.30 Twenty Questions 1pm The Tommy Hanlon Show 1.30 Walkabout 1.40 Gardening 1.50 Beauty Box 2pm Let’s Cook 2.30 Movie: Cry Havoc. 1944 [IMDB] 3.52 What’s Cooking 4.07 Children’s Features 4.30 BTV Juniors 5.30 National Velvet 6pm The Pied Piper 6.30 National News 6.54 Western News 7pm The Dick Van Dyke Show 7.30 Twelve O’Clock High 8.30 Movie 10.15 Seven Days 10.35 News, Weather 10.50 Epilogue; Close	12pm Autumn Affair 12.15 The Story Of Peter Grey 12.30 The Numbers Game 1pm Movie: A Hill In Korea. 1935 [IMDB] 2.23 Divorce Court 2.48 Social Calendar 2.53 Look-n-Cook 3.08 Fashion Accessories 3.13 The Marriage Game 3.39 The Tommy Hanlon Show 4.05 Letter Charades 4.30 The Magic Circle Club 4.55 Leave It To Beaver 5.20 GMV Juniors 5.30 Flipper 6pm The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet 6.30 News 7pm Gomer Pyle USMC 7.30 My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours? 8pm The Marriage Game 8.30 Movie: Kathy O’. 1958 [IMDB] 10.30 News, Weather 10.45 Epilogue; Close	11.55am News 12pm Beauty And The Beast 1pm Adventures In Paradise 1.45 Live Hosting 2pm Cooking 2.15 Billboard 2.20 The Tommy Hanlon Show 2.50 Casebook 3.15 Divorce Court 3.45 Mack And Myer 3.55 Letter Charades 4.25 Cohns Cobbers. Includes The Lone Ranger, The Magic Circle Club, Marvel Super Heroes 5.30 Lost In Space 6.30 News 7pm Gomer Pyle USMC 7.30 Wendy And Me 8pm Movie: The Mississippi Gambler. 1953 [IMDB] 9.45 Doctor’s House Call 9.50 Coronation Street 10.15 News, Weather 10.25 Magic Carpet 11pm Close	5.45pm The Paddlewheelers. Includes Space Angel 6.05 Leave It To Beaver 6.30 Broadside 7pm ABC News (ABV2) 7.20 Sunraysia News 7.30 The Rag Trade 8pm Movie: Jesse James. 1939 [IMDB] 9.45 Sunraysia News 9.55 Close	2pm The Tommy Hanlon Show 2.30 Letter Charades 3pm Movie: Babes In Arms. 1939 [IMDB] 4.30 The Alvin Show 4.55 Junior Flying Club. Bryce Radford 5pm The Magic Circle Club 5.30 Kit Carson 6pm Bachelor Father 6.25 Gippsland News 6.30 News (GTV9) 7pm Petticoat Junction 7.30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea 8.30 Top Star Theatre 9.30 In Melbourne Tonight 10.45 News (GTV9) 11pm Epilogue; Close