The Melbourne Cup is finally agreed to be televised live in Victoria, with ATV0, on behalf of the 0-10 Network, securing TV rights with the Victorian Racing Club (VRC).
ABV2 also presented a replay of the Melbourne Cup race in the early evening.
Source: TV Times, 4 November 1978
| ABV2 | HSV7 | GTV9 | ATV0 | |
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| 6AM | 6am The Samurai (B&W) 6.30 The Job Show. Brian Bury, Gail Jarvis |
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| 7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show. Marilyn Mayo | 7am The Early Bird Show | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | |||
| 9AM | 9am Close 9.30 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Melbourne Cup Preview. Phil Gibbs, Clem Dimsey | |
| 10AM | 10am Close | 10am Romper Room. Miss Patricia | 10am Dinah! | 10.30 Shoulder To Shoulder. Mickie de Stoop |
| 11AM | 11am The Munsters (B&W) 11.30 Willesee At Seven (Rpt) |
11am Another World 11.55 News |
11am Melbourne Cup Day. Michael Schildberger, Clem Dimsey, Lyndall Hobbs, Phil Gibbs. Live from Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne | |
| 12PM | 12pm Monday Conference (Rpt) | 12pm Movie: The Princess And The Pirate. 1945 [IMDB] | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon – 5 1.29 Weather 1.30 Movie: Please Don’t Eat The Daisies. 1959 [IMDB] |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | ||
| 2PM | 2pm Department S | 2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News |
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| 3PM | 3.15 Cattanooga Cats | 3pm Homicide | 3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow |
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| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Sesame Street |
4pm The New Mickey Mouse Club 4.30 Gidget |
4pm Milton The Monster 4.30 The Devlins |
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| 5PM | 5.25 Flower Stories 5.35 The Forest Rangers |
5pm Merrie Melodies 5.30 Get Smart |
5pm Family Feud 5.30 Woobinda Animal Doctor |
5.15pm The Pink Panther 5.30 Rat Patrol |
| 6PM | 6pm Racing: 1978 Melbourne Cup 6.05 Soldier And Me 6.30 The Governor And JJ 6.55 Arts And Crafts |
6pm Tabitha 6.30 Seven National News. Mal Walden |
6pm Nanny And The Professor 6.30 National Nine News. Eric Pearce, Peter Hitchener |
6pm News At Six. Bruce Mansfield, Rob Astbury, Paul Jennings |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight |
7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 Barney Miller |
7pm The Sullivans 7.30 Get Some In |
7pm All-Star Anything Goes 7.30 The Restless Years |
| 8PM | 8pm Armchair Thriller 8.30 Porridge |
8pm Carter Country 8.30 Oregon Trail |
8pm CPO Sharkey 8.30 The Young Doctors |
8.30 Delvecchio |
| 9PM | 9pm Callan 9.50 ABC News, Weather |
9.30 Another Bouquet | 9pm Coronation Street 9.30 Movie: Cisco Pike. 1972 [IMDB] |
9.30 Poldark |
| 10PM | 10pm Perspective 10.50 World Of Music |
10.30 News 10.50 Movie: Wild In The Streets. 1968 [IMDB] |
10.30 Banyon | |
| 11PM | 11.40 Close | 11pm The Evil Touch | 11.30 Movie: High Hell. 1958 (B&W) [IMDB] | |
| 12AM | 12.40am Close | 12am Movie: Paper Man. 1971 [IMDB] | ||
| 1AM | 1.30 Movie: Games. 1967 [IMDB] | 1.10am Close | ||
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| 3AM | 3.15 Movie: The Violent Four [IMDB] | |||
| 4AM | ||||
| 5AM | 5am The Edgar Wallace Theatre (B&W) (Continues to 6am) |
