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

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
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
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)