Television stations are allowed to start colour test pattern transmissions ahead of the next phase of colour tests, starting 19 October 1974, which allows sporting events to be broadcast in colour.
Full-scale colour transmission commences on 1 March 1975
TV 50 years in colour [2025]
Source: The Age Radio & TV Guide, 3 October 1974
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| 6AM | 6.45am Test Pattern, Music | |||
| 7AM | 7.30am Test Pattern, Music | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show | 7am The Non-Stop Cartoon Carnival | |
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street 8.55 Colour Test Pattern |
8.30 Romper Room | ||
| 9AM | 9.30 For Schools: Primary Maths 9.50 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9.30 Colour Test Pattern | |
| 10AM | 10.20 For Schools: Scene, Form Two Maths, Primary Science, British Social History | 10am Colour Test Pattern | 10am Colour Test Pattern | |
| 11AM | 11.55 Colour Test Pattern | 11am Temptation. Tony Barber, Barbara Rogers | 11am Vi’s Pad. Vi Greenhalf 11.40 TV Kitchen. Geraldine Dillon |
11am The Roy Hampson Show |
| 12PM | 12.15pm For Schools: Physical Science Study Course | 12pm Concentration. Lionel Williams, Joan McInnes 12.30 Homicide (Rpt) |
12pm Days Of Our Lives 12.30 The Young And The Restless 12.55 Home Edition News. Peter Hitchener |
12pm Movie: Witness To Murder. 1954 [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.05 Colour Test Pattern 1.20 For Schools: Thinkabout Talkabout, La Chasse Au Tresor, Form 3 Maths, Primary Science, Motion Geometry, Making Music |
1.30 The $25,000 Great Temptation. Tony Barber, Barbara Rogers | 1pm No Man’s Land. Mickie de Stoop 1.30 General Hospital |
1.30 The Mike Walsh Show |
| 2PM | 2pm Movie: Bluebeard. 1963 [IMDB] | 2pm Movie: Bad Day At Black Rock. 1955 [IMDB] | ||
| 3PM | 3.15 Andy Pandy 3.30 Play School |
3.30 Spending Spree. Jimmy Hannan | 3pm Ben Casey | |
| 4PM | 4pm Adventure Island 4.30 Sesame Street |
4pm Huckleberry Hound 4.30 Get Smart |
4pm Cartoon Corner. Daryl Somers, Ossie Ostrich. Includes HR Puf’n’stuf, The Bugs Bunny Show | 4pm Storytime 4.05 Fury 4.30 Gilligan’s Island |
| 5PM | 5.25 Cartoons 5.40 The Smokey Bear Show |
5pm Cheyenne | 5pm The Addam’s Family 5.30 McHale’s Navy |
5pm Lost In Space |
| 6PM | 6pm Doctor Who 6.30 GTK 6.40 Bellbird 6.55 Top This One |
6pm Bewitched 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor, David Johnston, Michelle Downes |
6pm The Lucy Show 6.30 National Nine News. Peter Hitchener, Brian Smith, Christine Howard |
6pm The Brady Bunch 6.30 Eyewitness News. Bruce Mansfield |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight |
7pm Class Of ’74 7.30 Special: Miss Victoria 1975 |
7pm A Current Affair. Mike Minehan 7.30 Showcase ’74. Gordon Boyd |
7pm 24 Hours. Mike Willesee 7.30 Kojak |
| 8PM | 8pm Private Lives 8.25 Needles And Pins 8.50 ABC News, Weather 8.55 Monday Conference. Robert Moore |
8.30 Doctor In Charge | 8.30 All In The Family | 8.30 Number 96 |
| 9PM | 9.50 ABC News, Weather | 9pm Thriller | 9pm Movie: Double Indemnity. 1973 [IMDB] | 9pm The Box 9.30 Movie: Nightmare. 1973 [IMDB] |
| 10PM | 10pm Golf: Arnold Palmer – An American Legend 10.50 Close |
10.30 The Bold Ones | 10.25 News Headlines. Peter Smith 10.30 Movie: Clash By Night. 1951 [IMDB] |
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| 11PM | 11.30 News, Weather. Tom Worland 11.40 Knock On Any Door |
11pm The Name Of The Game | ||
| 12AM | 12.40am Close | 12.30am The Power Game | 12.30am Close | |
| 1AM | 1.30 Epilogue 1.35 Close |
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