Nine’s big-budget current affairs gamble 60 Minutes makes its Adelaide debut, a day after Sydney and Melbourne. Featuring reporters Ray Martin, George Negus and Ian Leslie, 60 Minutes got off to a slow start in the ratings but soon built up to become one of Nine’s flagship properties in the decades to follow.

60 Minutes turns 40 [2018]

Source: TV Guide, 10 February 1979

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7AM	7.50am Test Pattern, Music
8AM	8am Sesame Street	8.30am Test Pattern	8.55am Test Pattern	8.30am Test Pattern
9AM	9am For Schools: Musical Triangles 9.20 Close 9.30 Play School	9am Ready, Set, Go 9.30 Cartoon Corner	9am The Job Show. Brian Bury, Gail Jarvis 9.30 Here’s Humphrey	9.30 Laurel And Hardy
10AM	10am For Schools: Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel 10.25 Cricket: Sixth Test. Australia v England. Day 3. Live from Sydney Cricket Ground	10am Movie: Act Of Reprisal (B&W) [IMDB]	10.30 Movie: Heatwave. 1974 [IMDB]	10am Fat Cat And Friends 10.30 Return Engagement (B&W)
11AM		11.30 Willesee At Seven (Rpt) 11.57 News		11am Touch Of Elegance. Jaye Walton
12PM	12.30pm ABC News 12.40 Weather 12.41 Weekend Magazine (Rpt)	12pm Dinah!	Tony Murphy hosts the afternoon programs 12pm Movie: Getting Away From It All. 1971 [IMDB]	12pm The Young And The Restless 12.30 Another World
1PM	1.05 Cricket (cont’d)	1pm Movie: Murieta. 1965 [IMDB]	1.25 Head Start To Beauty. Feres Trabilsie 1.30 News Brief 1.31 Days Of Our Lives	1.30 The Steve Raymond Show
2PM			2.30 General Hospital	2.30 Blankety Blanks
3PM		3pm Bluey	3.30 Ryan’s Hope	3pm The Celebrity Game 3.30 The New Dick Van Dyke Show
4PM		4pm Merrie Melodies 4.30 The Monkees	4pm The Super Cartoon Show. Robin Roenfeldt, Joanna Moore	4pm Crackerjack. Dean Davis, Helen Woods. Includes Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
5PM	5.35 The Magic Roundabout 5.40 The Beachcombers	5pm Get Smart 5.30 Sergeant Bilko (B&W)	5pm Bonanza 5.55 Summer Rock. Darryl Cotton	5pm Superman 5.30 Arnie
6PM	6.05 Rob Roy 6.30 The Ghost And Mrs Muir 6.55 This Week In Britain	6pm Family Feud. Tony Barber 6.30 News. Kevin Crease	6pm Here’s Lucy 6.30 News. Roger Cardwell, Caroline Ainslie	6pm News. Tom Blackburn 6.30 Treasure Hunt. Mike Minehan
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 Horse Talk	7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 In Search Of	7pm The Young Doctors 7.30 60 Minutes. Ian Leslie, George Negus, Ray Martin PREMIERE	7pm Bewitched 7.35 Chico And The Man
8PM	8pm The Liver Birds 8.30 Armchair Thriller	8.30 Barney Miller	8.30 News Brief 8.31 Movie: The Virginia Hill Story. 1974 [IMDB]	8.05 Alice 8.35 Movie: Massacre Harbour. 1966 [IMDB]
9PM	9.20 ABC News, Weather 9.25 The Disappearing World	9pm Fish 9.30 Cop Shop	9.55 World Masters Snooker
10PM	10.30 Special: An Ark For Our Time	10.30 Thriller	10.55 Supersonic	10.05 Boxing: Ron Wilson v Tony Mundine, Steve Dennis v Robert Coley. From Brisbane Festival Hall
11PM	11.30 Cricket: Sixth Test. Australia v England. Highlights		11.25 On This Day (B&W); Epilogue; Close	11.15 The Untouchables (B&W)
12AM	12am Close	12am Close		12.15am Close
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