Melbourne Cup Day, 1974. The first Melbourne Cup to be telecast in colour, but Melbourne viewers were still denied the chance to see it live on TV.
Colour programs indicated with (C)
Source: TV Times, 2 November 1974
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| 6AM | 6.30am Test Pattern (C) | |||
| 7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show | 7am Cartoon Carnival | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street 8.55 Test Pattern (C) |
8.30 Romper Room | ||
| 9AM | 9.50 Play School | 9.30am Test Pattern (C) | 9am Here’s Humphrey | 9.30 Test Pattern (C) |
| 10AM | 10.15 Test Pattern (C) | 10am Test Pattern (C) | ||
| 11AM | 11am Temptation. Tony Barber | 11am Vi’s Pad 11.30 A Current Affair (Rpt) |
11am The Roy Hampson Show | |
| 12PM | 12pm Concentration. Lionel Williams, Joan McInnes 12.30 Homicide (Rpt) |
12pm Days Of Our Lives 12.30 The Young And The Restless 12.55 News |
12pm Movie: Into The Straight. 1949 [IMDB] | |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.05 Movie: Summer Holiday. 1963 [IMDB] |
1.30 (to be advised) | 1pm No Man’s Land 1.30 Melbourne Cup |
1.30 The Mike Walsh Show |
| 2PM | 2.50 QT Hush | 2pm Movie: The Ten Million Dollar Grab. 1966 [IMDB] | 2pm Movie: Every Night At Eight. 1935 [IMDB] | |
| 3PM | 3.15 Magic Roundabout 3.20 Flowerpot Men 3.35 Play School |
3.30 The Dick Van Dyke Show | 3pm Ben Casey | |
| 4PM | 4pm Adventure Island 4.30 Sesame Street |
4pm Anything Can Happen. Ian Meldrum. Includes Cool McCool, Hazel | 4pm Cartoon Corner | 4pm Batfink 4.30 Fury |
| 5PM | 5.25 Cartoons 5.40 Sea Lab 2020 |
5pm UFO | 5pm The Addams Family 5.30 1974 Melbourne Cup (C) |
5pm Daniel Boone |
| 6PM | 6pm 1974 Melbourne Cup 6.05 Doctor Who 6.30 GTK 6.40 Bellbird 6.55 This Week In Britain |
6pm Bewitched 6.30 Seven National News. Includes Melbourne Cup Replay |
6pm My Three Sons 6.30 News Centre Nine. Peter Hitchener, Brian Smith, Christine Howard |
6pm Gilligan’s Island 6.30 Eyewitness News. Includes Melbourne Cup Replay (C) |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.26 Weather 7.30 This Day Tonight. Bill Peach |
7pm Class Of ’74 7.30 Homicide |
7pm A Current Affair. Mike Minehan 7.30 Perry Mason |
7pm 24 Hours. John Bailey, Claudia Wright, Michael Carlton, Steve Raymond 7.30 Special: Yanomami — A Vanishing People |
| 8PM | 8pm Rush | 8.30 Melbourne Cup Day 1974 | 8.30 Men Of Affairs | 8.30 Number 96 |
| 9PM | 9pm 1974 Melbourne Cup (C) 9.10 ABC News, Weather 9.15 Chequerboard 9.55 ABC News, Weather |
9pm Frost Over Australia | 9pm The Ernie Sigley Show | 9pm The Box 9.30 Movie: Horror Of Party Beach. 1964 [IMDB] |
| 10PM | 10.05 Gala Performance | 10pm Movie: Catch As Catch Can [IMDB] | 10.30 News 10.35 1974 Melbourne Cup 10.40 Danger Man |
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| 11PM | 11.05 Chess Report 11.30 Close |
11.40 Prime Minister’s Conference | 11.40 Spyforce | 11pm Movie: Nora Prentiss. 1947 [IMDB] |
| 12AM | 12.20am Close | 12.10am Movie: The Girl In The Kremlin. 1957 [IMDB] | ||
| 1AM | 1.10am The Psychiatrist 1.40 Weather, Close |
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| 2AM | 2.10 Epilogue, Close | |||
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