Game show The Price Is Right is revived after almost a decade off-air — this time re-named The New Price Is Right and hosted by Ian Turpie
Source: TV Week, 5 September 1981
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| 6AM | 6am Rocky And His Friends 6.30 King Leonardo And His Short Subjects 6.55 Go Health |
6.30am Mister Jaw 6.55 Religion |
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| 7AM | 7am Wombat 7.25 Land Of The Lost 7.50 New Shmoo |
7am Scooby Doo And Scrappy Doo 7.30 The Bang Shang Gang |
7am Good Morning Australia. Gordon Elliott, Sue Kellaway | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8.15 Mister Ed (B&W) 8.37 The Cisco Kid |
8am Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space 8.30 Mighty Mouse |
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| 9AM | 9am Close 9.30 Play School |
9am Magazine 7 9.30 Mixed Blessings |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 Texas |
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| 10AM | 10am Close | 10am Romper Room | 10am Here’s Lucy 10.30 Another World |
10.30 The Bernard King Show | |
| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM | 11.55 News | 11am Good Morning Sydney | ||
| 12PM | 12.35pm Weekend Magazine (Rpt) | 12pm Movie: Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein. 1948 (B&W) [IMDB] | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | 12pm Movie: The FBI Story. 1974 [IMDB] | |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 Wild Wild World Of Animals 1.35 The Original Laurel And Hardy (B&W) 1.55 The Beachcombers |
1.45 Movie: Francis Covers The Big Town. 1955 (B&W) [IMDB] | 1.30 Days Of Our Lives | ||
| 2PM | 2.20 Lassie 2.45 Charlton And The Wheelies 2.55 The Adventures Of Sir Prancelot |
2.30 Young And The Restless 2.55 News |
2pm Marcus Welby MD | ||
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street | 3.35 The Bugs Bunny Show | 3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow |
3pm The Bionic Woman | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Mr Squiggle And Friends |
4pm Shirl’s Neighbourhood 4.30 Lassie, Jeff’s Collie (B&W) |
4pm You Asked For It 4.30 Matchmates |
4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World | |
| 5PM | 5pm Grange Hill 5.30 Park Ranger |
5pm Wheel Of Fortune. Ernie Sigley, Adriana Xenides 5.30 Beverly Hillbillies |
5pm Welcome Back Kotter 5.30 Family Feud. Daryl Somers |
5pm Batman 5.30 The Brady Bunch |
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| 6PM | 6pm Wayne And Shuster 6.25 The Goodies 6.54 Videodisc |
6pm The New Price Is Right. Ian Turpie PREMIERE 6.30 Seven National News. Roger Climpson, Ross Symonds, Mike Bailey |
6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Brian Henderson |
6pm Eyewitness News. Ron Wilson, Sue Kellaway | 6pm Follow Me 6.27 News Headlines 6.30 Brazil Pandeiro (Brazil) |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 Butterflies |
7pm Willesee 81 7.30 That’s Incredible |
7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Victoria Nicolls 7.30 The Sullivans |
7pm MASH 7.30 John Laws’ World |
7.30 World News. George Donikian |
| 8PM | 8am Robins Nest 8.25 Nationwide 8.55 Fox |
8.30 Movie: Circus World. 1964 [IMDB] | 8.30 Hawaii Five O | 8.30 Prisoner | 8pm Isaura The Slave (Brazil) 8.30 The Life Of Puccini (Italy) |
| 9PM | 9.45 News, Weather 9.55 Country Music |
9.25 Go Lotto 9.30 The Don Lane Show |
9.30 Bellamy | 9.45 Artur Rubenstein (France) | |
| 10PM | 10.45 Close | 10.30 The Night Stalker | 10.45 Close | ||
| 11PM | 11.20 Newsnight. Ross Symonds, Mike Bailey 11.50 Thriller |
11pm Kojak | 11.30 Flo | ||
| 12AM | 12am Movie: One Day In London. 1965 [IMDB] | 12.30am Close | |||
| 1AM | 1.20am Close | ||||
| 2AM | 2am Movie: The Prey. 1977 | ||||
| 3AM | 3.40 Movie: Against The Wind. 1949 (B&W) [IMDB] | ||||
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| 5AM | 5.10 The Baron (B&W) (Continues to 6.00am) |
