ATV0’s evening variety show Ernie, hosted by Ernie Sigley, begins a week of shows presented live from Hong Kong.

The special week was to roughly coincide with the channel’s 12th birthday the previous month.

Source: TV Times, 4 September 1976

MELBOURNE
	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
6AM			6am Thunderbirds
7AM			7am The Super Flying Fun Show	7am Cartoon Carnival
8AM	8am Sesame Street			8.40 Launching Pad 8.45 Rin Tin Tin (B&W)
9AM	9am Close 9.30 Play School		9am Here’s Humphrey	9.15 Swami Sarasvati 9.30 Movie: For The Love Of Mike. 1960 (B&W) [IMDB]
10AM	10am Close		10am Celebrity Squares 10.30 Here’s Lucy
11AM		11am Return To Peyton Place 11.30 Movie: The Mortal Storm. 1940 (B&W) [IMDB]	11am Another World 11.55 News	11am The Roy Hampson Show
12PM	12.35pm Weekend Magazine (Rpt)		12pm Days Of Our Lives 12.55 News	12pm Matlock Police
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon-5 1.30 Movie: Sparrows Can’t Sing. 1962 (B&W) [IMDB]	1.30 And Mother Makes Five	1pm Search For Tomorrow 1.30 The Young And The Restless	1pm Vi’s Pad. Vi Greenhalf 1.30 The Mike Walsh Show
2PM		2pm Medical Centre	2pm General Hospital 2.55 News
3PM	3pm Sesame Street	3pm Homicide	3pm Dinah!	3pm Pot O’ Gold. Tommy Hanlon Jnr, Bernard King
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Flashez	4pm Mister Ed (B&W) 4.30 The Monkees	4pm Cartoon Corner	4pm It’s About Time 4.30 Gilligan’s Island
5PM	5pm The Last Of The Wild 5.30 The Goodies	5pm The Beverly Hillbillies 5.30 Get Smart	5pm McHale’s Navy (B&W)	5pm Lost In Space
6PM	6pm Soccer 6.55 This Week In Britain	6pm The Flintstones 6.30 Seven National News	6pm National Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair	6pm Eyewitness News 6.30 Ernie. Live from Hong Kong (see advertisement below)
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.26 Weather 7.30 This Day Tonight	7pm Bewitched 7.30 Bluey	7pm Happy Days 7.30 Rhoda	7.30 The Bionic Woman
8PM	8pm Man About The House 8.30 Power Without Glory	8.30 The Dick Emery Show	8.30 Baretta	8.30 Movie: Matt Helm. 1975 [IMDB]
9PM	9.20 Monday Conference	9pm Doctor In The House 9.30 Superstar	9.30 The Don Lane Show
10PM	10.15 ABC News, Weather 10.25 Golden Spring	10.30 The Untouchables (B&W)		10pm Movie: Every Man Needs One. 1972 [IMDB]
11PM	11.20 Close	11.30 Alias Smith And Jones	11pm Movie: At Any Price [IMDB]	11.30 Movie: New Orleans After Dark. 1958 (B&W) [IMDB]
12AM		12.30am Close	12.45am Movie: Psychiatrist
1AM				1am Close
2AM			2.25 Movie: Man In The Middle [IMDB]
3AM
4AM			4am Movie: Me And The Colonel [IMDB] (Continues to 6am)
5AM

 

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8am Sesame Street 9am Close 9.30 Play School 10am Close 12.35pm Weekend Magazine (Rpt) 1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon-5 1.30 Movie: Sparrows Can’t Sing. 1962 (B&W) [IMDB] 3pm Sesame Street 4pm Play School 4.30 Flashez 5pm The Last Of The Wild 5.30 The Goodies 6pm Soccer 6.55 Regional News 7pm ABC News 7.26 Weather 7.30 This Day Tonight 8pm Man About The House 8.30 Power Without Glory 9.20 Monday Conference 10.15 ABC News, Weather 10.25 Golden Spring 11.20 Close	3.58pm Program Highlights 4pm Speed Racer 4.25 The Adventures Of Black Beauty 4.50 Buddies Club News 4.55 Superman 5.20 Daktari 6.20 Local News 6.30 National News 7pm Welcome Back Kotter 7.30 Marcus Welby MD 8.30 Starsky And Hutch 9.25 Meet Your Member 9.30 Special: Nana Moskouri 10.30 Thrillseekers	3pm Days Of Our Lives 3.25 The Young And The Restless 3.45 Cartoon Corner 4pm Here’s Humphrey 4.55 The World Around Us 5pm Underdog 5.30 The Flintstones 5.55 Flipper 6.20 Local News 6.30 National News 7pm Bewitched 7.30 Celebrity Squares. Jimmy Hannan 8pm Special: Perry Como In Australia 9pm Starsky And Hutch 10pm The Box 10.50 Number 96 11.20 News 11.40 Epilogue; Close	11.55am Regional News 12pm Movie: The Street With No Name. 1948 [IMDB] 1.30 Days Of Our Lives 2.15 The Mike Walsh Show 3.35 Valley Of The Dinosaurs 4.05 Batman 4.30 Batfink 4.55 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo 5.20 Gidget 5.45 Celebrity Squares 6.15 Regional News 6.30 National News 7pm The Mary Tyler Moore Show 7.30 The Streets Of San Francisco 8.25 McCoy 10.10 Rich Man Poor Man 12am Late News; Close	1pm Thought For The Day 1.05 News 1.10 Marcus Welby MD 2pm Days Of Our Lives 2.55 The Young And The Restless 3.20 The Celebrity Game 3.50 Cartoons 4pm The Flintstones 4.25 Gilligan’s Island 4.50 Cartoons 5pm Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea 5.50 Julia 6.20 Local News 6.30 National News 6.55 [STV] This Week In Parliament 7pm [BCV/GLV] Celebrity Squares 7.05 [STV] On The Land 7.19 [STV] Stock Report 7.30 The Bionic Woman 8.30 Doctor’s Hospital 9.30 The Don Lane Show 11pm On The Buses 11.30 Thought For Tomorrow; Close