Channel 0/28’s afternoon test pattern is replaced by a test broadcast by public access organisation Open Channel. 0/28 would host several such test broadcasts over the following years in the lead up to regular trials and licencing of community television stations.

See also: Saturday 6 February 1982 — WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Source: Woman’s Day/TV Day, 9 February 1982. The Age, 5 February 1982.

MELBOURNE
	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS0/28
6AM			6am Thunderbirds
7AM		7am Cartoon Corner	7am Ballet Shoes 7.30 Falcon Island	7.30am Launching Pad 7.35 Cartoons
8AM			8am Family Hour Festival	8.30 Operation Petticoat
9AM		9am Sounds  Donnie Sutherland	9am Muggsy 9.30 The World Of Survival	9am Superman 9.30 The Rovers
10AM			10am Snacker 10.55 Cricket: McDonald’s Cup. Queensland v Victoria. Live from Brisbane	10am The Land Of The Lost 10.30 The Magic Wok
11AM				11am Let’s Go Greek
12PM		12pm Movie: Francis Goes To The Races. 1951 [IMDB]		12pm Movie: Jacqueline. 1957 (B&W) [IMDB]	12pm Community Television Test Transmission operated by Open Channel: 12.03 Sign On, 12.20 Make Me Psychic, 12.31 Kiss In Australia, 1.16 Projections, 1.55 Tub Film, 1.57 Let’s Develop Education, 2.27 Sister If You Only Knew, 3.16 Proud To Live, 3.59 Close (see advertisement below)
1PM				1.50 Movie: Mark Of The Renegade. 1951 [IMDB]
2PM	2pm Soccer: Road To Wembley	2pm Movie: Son Of Ali Baba. 1952 [IMDB]	2.30pm Wide World Of Sports
3PM	3pm Surfboat Championship Carnival	3.30 Movie: All Ashore. 1953 [IMDB]	3pm Cricket (cont’d)	3.20 Movie: My Friend Flicka. 1943 [IMDB]
4PM	4.30 Gymnastics 4.55 Sports Review Of 1981				4.40pm People You Meet
5PM	5.20 Australian Horse Trial Championships	5pm The Partridge Family 5.30 Bailey’s Bird		5pm The Australasian Oaks Carnival	5pm International Sports Magazine
6PM	6pm Countdown Summer	6pm Seven National News 6.30 Star Trek		6pm Eyewitness News 6.30 Young Talent Time	6pm Movie: Listen To My Song (Spain) [IMDB]
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 The Good Old Days	7.30 Eight Is Enough	7pm National Nine News 7.30 Charlie’s Angels	7.30 Parkinson	7.30 World News
8PM	8.15 Great Railway Journeys Of The World	8.25 Super 66 8.30 The Sweeney	8.30 Hill Street Blues	8.30 Movie: The Five Pennies. 1959 [IMDB]	8pm Cervantes (Spain) 8.55 Movie: Guru Is Coming (Germany) [IMDB]
9PM	9.15 ABC News 9.25 Rush	9.30 Tattslotto 9.35 Movie: Boeing Boeing. 1965 [IMDB]	9.30 Washington Behind Closed Doors
10PM	10.15 Blake’s Seven			10.45 Movie: The Honkers. 1972 [IMDB]	10.35 Movie: Hello Martian (Italy) [IMDB]
11PM	11.10 Close	11.35 Big League Soccer	11.30 Spyforce
12AM		12.50am Close	12.30 Movie: Scream Peggy Scream. 1973 [IMDB]	12.40am Movie: Mississippi Mermaid. 1969 [IMDB]	12am Close
1AM			1.55 Movie: The Interns. 1962 [IMDB]
2AM				2.45 Close
3AM
4AM
5AM			5.10 The Seaway (Continues to 6am)