After six years and 1114 episodes, The Sullivans comes to an end in a movie-length presentation.

Meanwhile, Ten’s relatively new 1920s drama Carson’s Law, with a cast led by former Sullivans star Lorraine Bayly, is in the same timeslot.

40 years since The Sullivans [2016]

Source: The Sun News Pictorial, 10 March 1983. The Age, 10 March 1983.

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS0/28
6AM			6am Fabulous Funnies 6.25 Go Health 6.30 Zorro	6am Cartoons 6.15 The Three Stooges (B&W) 6.30 Superman
7AM		7am Mister Ed (B&W) 7.30 Crusader Rabbit	7am The National Today Show	7am Good Morning Australia
8AM	8am Sesame Street	8am Tom And Jerry 8.30 Bewitched
9AM	9am Close 9.05 For Schools: Roadworthy 9.30 Play School	9am Class Of ’74 (B&W) 9.30 This Is Your Life	9am Here’s Humphrey	9am The Restless Years
10AM	10am For Schools: You And Me, Waterloo Street, The Magic Bag, Families Of The World, Talkabout, Smedley’s Weekly, Macbeth, The Changing Landscape	10am Romper Room	10am Another World	10am Linus The Lionhearted 10.30 Fat Cat And Friends
11AM		11am Eleven AM	11am The Richard Simmons Show 11.30 National Nine News	11am Good Morning Melbourne. Roy Hampson, Annette Allison
12PM		12pm Movie: Women In White. Part One. 1979 [IMDB]	12pm The Mike Walsh Show	12pm Movie: The Games. 1969 [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News, Weather 1.11 For Schools: Kontakte, Behind The News, Watch, Northern Australian Documentaries, Our Multicultural Society		1.30 Days Of Our Lives
2PM		2pm Donahue	2.30 News 2.35 The Young And The Restless	2pm Clive Robertson’s Beauty And The Beast
3PM	3pm Sesame Street	3pm It Takes A Thief	3.30 The Mary Tyler Moore Show	3pm The Waltons
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Alexander Bunyip’s Billabong 4.35 Jam Sandwich	4pm Shirl’s Neighbourhood 4.30 Lassie	4pm Skippy The Bush Kangaroo 4.30 Matchmates	4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
5PM	5.05 Ritter’s Cove 5.30 Battle Of The Planets 5.54 Danger Mouse 5.58 News Headlines	5pm Wheel Of Fortune 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie	5pm Here’s Lucy 5.30 Family Feud	5pm Gilligan’s Island 5.30 The Muppet Show	5.30pm Follow Me 5.50 Hungarian Folk Tales 5.57 News Headlines
6PM	6pm Milligan/Monkey 6.55 Take Five	6pm The New Price Is Right 6.30 Seven National News. Mal Walden	6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Brian Naylor	6pm Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Jo Pearson	6pm World Soccer
7PM	7pm ABC News. Geoff Raymond 7.30 Nanny	7pm Sons And Daughters 7.30 Man About The House	7pm Sale Of The Century 7.30 The Sullivans FINAL (see advertisement below)	7pm MASH 7.30 Carson’s Law (see advertisement below)	7pm Interational Sports Magazine 7.30 World News. George Donikian
8PM	8.20 Nationwide. Peter Couchman 8.50 Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War	8pm Kingswood Country 8.30 Cop Shop		8.30 Prisoner	8pm SCOOP 8.30 Rosa De Lejos (Argentina)
9PM	9.40 ABC News, Weather 9.50 The Sunburnt Soul	9.30 The Sweeney	9.30 The Don Lane Show	9.30 The Michael Parkinson Show	9.30 Movie: The Wanton. (France) 1950 [IMDB]
10PM	10.15 Evening Music	10.30 Seven National News		10.30 The FBI
11PM	11.05 Close	11pm Knots Landing	11pm Soccer: The Road To Wembley	11.30 All Star Soccer	11.10 Melek The Singer (Turkey) 11.55 World News (Rpt)
12AM		12am The Adventures Of Dick Turpin 12.30 Close	12am Movie: Violent Playground. 1958 (B&W) [IMDB]	12.30am Nurse	12.25am Close
1AM				1.30 Close
2AM			2.05 Movie: Better A Widow. 1969 [IMDB]
3AM
4AM			4am Movie: Hardcase. 1971 [IMDB]
5AM			5.10 The Big Valley (Continues to 6am)