A pay dispute by television technicians results in strike action, restricting commercial TV programming to start at 4.00pm. ATV0 does make one exception to the restricted hours, the scheduled debut of the afternoon variety show The Mike Walsh Show, direct from Sydney.

ATV0 starts screening Number 96 in one-hour double episodes to catch up to episodes currently screening in Sydney.

Source: The Age, 5 February 1973

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
6AM
7AM
8AM	8am Sesame Street 8.55 Close
9AM	9.50 Play School
10AM	10.15 Close
11AM
12PM
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.05 Weekend Magazine (Rpt) 1.30 Four Winds To Adventure 1.55 Movie: Carry On Cabbie [IMDB]			1pm The Mike Walsh Show PREMIERE
2PM				2.30 Close
3PM	3.20 Flowerpot Men 3.35 Play School
4PM	4.05 Kimba The White Lion 4.25 Sesame Street	4pm Temptation	4pm Cartoon Corner	4pm Cartoon Carnival
5PM	5.20 Cartoons 5.40 The Cisco Kid	5pm UFO	5pm The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis 5.30 McHale’s Navy	5pm The Patty Duke Show 5.30 Gilligan’s Island
6PM	6.05 Occasional Wife 6.30 GTK 6.40 Bellbird	6pm I Dream Of Jeannie 6.30 Seven National News	6pm Here’s Lucy 6.30 National Nine News. John Bailey	6pm Eyewitness News. Ralphe Neill 6.30 Hogan’s Heroes
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 Presenting Nana Moskouri	7pm The Partridge Family 7.30 The $25,000 Great Temptation	7pm A Current Affair. Mike Willesee 7.30 Division 4	7pm The New Moneymakers. Philip Brady (see advertisement below) 7.30 Matlock Police
8PM	8pm Owen MD 8.50 News, Weather 8.55 The File On The Czar	8pm Boney	8.30 Special: The 1973 Golden Globe Awards	8.30 Number 96 (see advertisement below)
9PM	9.55 News, Weather	9pm TV Ringside		9.30 Special: David Frost And Margaret Whitlam Via Satellite
10PM	10.05 Paul Temple 10.55 Close	10.30 The Persuaders	10pm Owen Marshall	10pm Love American Style
11PM		11.30 News, Weather 11.40 Movie: Death Valley Showdown	11pm News 11.15 Movie: Stakeout On Dope Street. 1958 [IMDB]	11pm News 11.10 Tonight Italian Style
12AM			12.50am Epilogue 12.55 Close	12.10am Laugh-In
1AM				1.10 Close
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5AM