The Opening Ceremony of the XI Commonwealth Games, broadcast live from Edmonton, Canada, on ABC with repeats in the evening.
Source: TV Times, 29 July 1978
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| 6AM | (5.30am) Commonwealth Games: Preview 6am Commonwealth Games: Opening Ceremony. Live from Edmonton, Canada |
6am Thunderbirds | ||
| 7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show | 7am The Early Bird Show | ||
| 8AM | 8.30 Sesame Street | |||
| 9AM | 9am For Schools: How We Used To Live, Bookworm 9.30 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 King’s Kitchen 9.45 Sewing |
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| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Behind The News, People Of The Australian Western Desert (B&W), Living Here And There, The Arcade Show, The Colonials, Science Magazine | 10am Romper Room. Miss Patricia | 10am Dinah! | 10am Movie: Stranger At My Door. 1956 (B&W) [IMDB] |
| 11AM | 11am The Munsters (B&W) 11.30 Willesee At Seven (Rpt) |
11am Another World 11.55 News |
11.30 Shoulder To Shoulder | |
| 12PM | 12pm This Week Today 12.30 A Big Country |
12pm Movie: The Westerner. 1940 (B&W) [IMDB] | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | 12pm News 12.03 Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy 12.30 The Box |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon-5 1.29 Weather 1.30 For Schools: For The Juniors, Inside Out, Bookworm, The Living Body, Social Science |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1.30 As The World Turns | |
| 2PM | 2pm Mannix | 2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News |
2.30 Ryan’s Hope | |
| 3PM | 3pm Close | 3pm Homicide | 3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow |
3pm Matlock Police |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Sesame Street |
4pm The Flying Nun 4.30 Batman |
4pm Superman (B&W) 4.30 The Bugs Bunny Show |
4pm If These Walls Could Speak 4.30 Marie’s Multi-Coloured Magic Machine. Marie Van Maaren |
| 5PM | 5.30 Mr Men 5.40 The Feathered Serpent |
5pm The Jetsons 5.30 Get Smart |
5pm Family Feud. Tony Barber 5.30 My Three Sons (B&W) |
5pm The Brady Bunch 5.30 Hogan’s Heroes |
| 6PM | 6.05 F Troop 6.30 Doctor Who 6.55 Tomorrow’s Sport |
6pm Bewitched 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor |
6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Eric Pearce, Peter Hitchener |
6pm News At Six. Bruce Mansfield, Rob Astbury |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Geoff Raymond 7.30 This Day Tonight. Mike Minehan |
7pm Willesee At Seven. Mike Willesee 7.30 Eight Is Enough |
7pm The Sullivans 7.30 Special: Calypso’s Search For The Britannic |
7pm The Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 Special: Circus World Championships |
| 8PM | 8pm Commonwealth Games: Opening Ceremony. Highlights (Rpt) 8.30 It Ain’t Half Hot Mum |
8.30 Movie: Dark Of The Sun. 1968 [IMDB] | 8.30 Movie: Fantastic Voyage. 1966 [IMDB] | |
| 9PM | 9pm Fathers And Families | 9pm Movie: They Call Me Mister Tibbs. 1970 [IMDB] | ||
| 10PM | 10.15 ABC News, Weather 10.25 Country Road. Johnny Chester |
10.20 Nightmoves. Lee Simon | 10.30 Movie: The Dead Don’t Die. 1974 [IMDB] | |
| 11PM | 11.20 Commonwealth Games: Opening Ceremony. Highlights (Rpt) 11.50 Close |
11.10 The Peter Couchman Show | ||
| 12AM | 12.20am Close | 12.30am Movie: Fever Heat. 1968 [IMDB] | 12.30am Movie: The Curse Of The Crimson Altar. 1968 [IMDB] | |
| 1AM | ||||
| 2AM | 2.10 Movie: Johnny Reno. 1966 [IMDB] | 2.45 Close | ||
| 3AM | 3.30 Movie: Madron. 1971 [IMDB] | |||
| 4AM | ||||
| 5AM | 5am Gideon’s Way (B&W) (Continues to 6am) |
