Monday 9 February 1981 — VICTORIA

Seven debuts game show Catch Us If You Can, a mix of studio and on-location games and Candid Camera-type stunts. The show is hosted by ’60s pop star Bryan Davies with presenters including Deborah Gray, Russell Newman, Grant Dodwell, Ian Macrae, Marty Morton, Mark Kounnas and Edith Bliss.

The show was not a success and was quietly taken off-air by the end of April.

Source: TV Week, 7 February 1981 (Except SBS: Source The Age, 5 February 1981)

MELBOURNE
	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS0/28
6AM			6am Rocky And His Friends 6.30 King Leonardo 6.55 Go Health
7AM			7am Cartoons	7am The Early Bird Show
8AM	8am Sesame Street			8.55 Launching Pad
9AM	9.05 For Schools: For The Juniors 9.30 Play School		9am Here’s Humphrey	9am The Celebrity Game 9.30 The Doris Day Show
10AM	10am For Schools: Waterloo Street, The Erg Report, The Wind In The Wires, Flip Slide Turn, Communications, Neighbours: Oceania	10am Romper Room	10am The Big Valley	10am Fat Cat And Friends 10.30 The Bernard King Show
11AM		11am Within These Walls	11am Division 4 11.55 News	11am Good Morning Melbourne. Annette Allison, Roy Hampson
12PM	12pm Close 12.35 Weekend Magazine (Rpt)	12pm Movie: A Dandy In Aspic. 1968 [IMDB]	12pm Movie: Foster And Laurie. 1975 [IMDB]	12pm Movie: Onionhead. 1958 (B&W) [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 Close
2PM	2.15 For Schools: Out ‘N’ About 2.45 Close	2pm Medical Centre	2pm Movie: Overlord. 1975 [IMDB]	2pm Texas
3PM		3pm Police Woman	3.40 Cricket: Third Test. Australia v India. Live from the Melbourne Cricket Ground	3pm Marcus Welby MD
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Sesame Street	4pm Flipper 4.30 The Best Of Shirl’s Neighbourhood		4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
5PM	5.35 The Beachcombers 5.58 ABC News Headlines	5pm $50,000 Letterbox 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie		5pm Hogan’s Heroes 5.30 Personality Squares. Jimmy Hannan
6PM	6pm Laff-A-Bits 6.05 The Swiss Family Robinson 6.30 The Governor And JJ 6.55 Today’s Sport	6pm Catch Us If You Can PREMIERE 6.30 Seven National News	6pm Here’s Lucy 6.30 National Nine News	6pm Eyewitness News	6pm Follow Me 6.27 News Headlines. George Donikian, Diane Ashley 6.30 Seven For Seven (Yugoslavia)
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 Porridge	7pm Willesee ’81 7.30 Barry Jones’ Wide World	7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Victoria Nicolls 7.30 The Sullivans	7pm The Restless Years 7.30 The Dukes Of Hazzard	7.30 Peter’s Baby (Sweden)
8PM	8pm Leave It To Charlie 8.25 The World On Monday	8.30 Cop Shop	8.30 The Love Boat	8.30 Movie: Hunters Are For Killing. 1970 [IMDB]	8.27 News Headlines 8.30 Cinema (Italy)
9PM	9.15 ABC News, Weather 9.25 Nationwide 9.55 Pot Black	9.30 Skyways	9.30 The Don Lane Show		9.30 World News. George Donikian
10PM	10.20 Sight And Sound	10.30 Movie: Then Came Bronson. 1968 [IMDB]		10.20 Movie: Catch Me A Spy. 1971 [IMDB]	10pm Warriors Of The Sun (France)
11PM	11.20 Close		11pm Cricket: Third Test. Australia v India. Highlights 11.30 Diamonds In The Sky		11pm Close
12AM		12.20am Close	12.30am Movie: Cry Panic. 1974 [IMDB]	12am Oil Strike North
1AM				1am Close
2AM			2am Movie: Can Ellen Be Saved? 1974 [IMDB]
3AM			3.30 Movie: The Man. 1971 [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5.10 Danger Man (B&W) (Continues to 6am)