Radio announcer Grant Goldman hosts the first edition of ABC’s pop music program, Countdown.
Programs broadcast in colour indicated with (C)
Source: TV Times, 2 November 1974
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| 6AM | 6.30am Test Pattern (C) | |||
| 7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show | 7am Cartoon Carnival | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street 8.55 Test Pattern (C) |
8.30 Romper Room | ||
| 9AM | 9.10 For Schools: Face To Face, Behind The News 9.50 Play School |
9.30am Test Pattern (C) | 9am Here’s Humphrey | 9.30 Test Pattern (C) |
| 10AM | 10.20 For Schools: Physical Science, Watch, Notre Ville | 10am Test Pattern (C) | ||
| 11AM | 11am Temptation. Tony Barber | 11am Vi’s Pad 11.30 A Current Affair (Rpt) |
11am The Roy Hampson Show | |
| 12PM | 12.35pm Weekend Magazine (Rpt) | 12pm Concentration. Lionel Williams 12.30 Homicide (Rpt) |
12pm Days Of Our Lives 12.30 The Young And The Restless |
12pm Movie: Specter Of The Rose. 1946 [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.05 Test Pattern (C) 1.20 For Schools: Behind The News, Scene, Form Two Maths, Watch, For The Juniors |
1.30 The $25,000 Great Temptation | 1pm No Man’s Land 1.30 General Hospital |
1.30 The Mike Walsh Show |
| 2PM | 2pm Movie: Town Without Pity. 1961 [IMDB] | 2pm Movie: Joe Dakota. 1957 [IMDB] | ||
| 3PM | 3.10 The Magic Roundabout 3.15 Flowerpot Men 3.30 Play School |
3.30 The Dick Van Dyke Show | 3pm Ben Casey | |
| 4PM | 4pm Adventure Island 4.30 Sesame Street |
4pm Anything Can Happen | 4pm Cartoon Corner | 4pm Storytime 4.05 Batfink 4.30 Fury |
| 5PM | 5.25 Mr Squiggle 5.30 Cartoon 5.35 Lassie |
5pm UFO | 5pm The Addams Family 5.30 McHale’s Navy |
5pm Daniel Boone |
| 6PM | 6pm Doctor Who 6.30 Countdown (C) PREMIERE Grant Goldman, Johnny Farnham, Sherbet, Linda George, Skyhooks 6.55 In Gear ’74 (C) |
6pm Bewitched 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor |
6pm My Three Sons 6.30 News Centre Nine. Peter Hitchener, Brian Smith, Christine Howard |
6pm Gilligan’s Island 6.30 Eyewitness News. Bruce Mansfield |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight |
7pm Class Of ’74 7.30 Des O’Connor |
7pm A Current Affair. Mike Minehan 7.30 Toma |
7pm 24 Hours. John Bailey 7.30 Gunsmoke |
| 8PM | 8pm Flash Nick From Jindavick 8.30 News, Weather 8.35 Callan |
8pm My Good Woman 8.30 The Fenn Street Gang |
8.30 The Girl With Something Extra | 8.30 Number 96 |
| 9PM | 9.30 Sports Classics: Dawn Fraser — Wonder Swimmer | 9pm Search | 9pm The Spoiler | 9pm The Box 9.30 Movie: Mantrap. 1961 [IMDB] |
| 10PM | 10pm Sow What? 10.15 News, Weather 10.25 Paul Temple |
10pm Movie: The Mini Skirt Mob. 1968 [IMDB] | 10am Movie: The Rise And Fall Of Legs Diamond. 1960 [IMDB] | |
| 11PM | 11.15 Close | 11.25 Two On The Aisle. Ivan Hutchinson, Jim Murphy 11.55 News, Weather |
11.40 News 11.45 Movie: Affairs Of Susan [IMDB] |
11.20 Movie: Kiss In The Dark. 1949 [IMDB] |
| 12AM | 12am Close | |||
| 1AM | 1am Movie: Project Moonbase. 1953 [IMDB] | |||
| 2AM | 2.10am Epilogue 2.15 Close |
2.15 Movie: Mary Jane’s Pa. 1935 [IMDB] | ||
| 3AM | 3.40 Movie: Moment Of Truth. 1965 [IMDB] | |||
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| 5AM | 5.40 Movie: The Man Who Liked Funerals. 1959 [IMDB] (Continues to 6.45am) |
