American actors Beau and Lloyd Bridges star in the telemovie Shimmering Light, a co-production between ABC and American company Trans-Atlantic Enterprises. The telemovie, filmed on location in Sydney, also starred John Meillon, Victoria Shaw, Mark Hembrow, Wendy Playfair, Victoria Shaw, Patrick Ward and Ingrid Mason. It was one of six telemovies produced by the ABC and Trans-Atlantic Enterprises joint venture.

See also: Tuesday 12 December 1978 — SYDNEY, Tuesday 12 December 1978 — CANBERRA

Shimmering Light took ABC to the surf [2020]

Source: TV Times, 9 December 1978

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
6AM			6am The Samurai (B&W) 6.30 The Job Show. Brian Bury, Gail Jarvis
7AM			7am The Super Flying Fun Show	7am The Early Bird Show
8AM	8am Sesame Street
9AM	9am For Schools: Inside Creation 9.30 Play School		9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 Porky Pig 9.45 King’s Kitchen
10AM	10am Close 10.50 For Schools: Inside Creation	10am Romper Room	10am Room 222	10am Movie: Colorado Territory. 1949 (B&W) [IMDB]
11AM	11.20 Close	11am Tennis: South Australian Women’s Classic. Live from Memorial Drive Courts, Adelaide	11am Division 4 11.55 News
12PM			12pm Honeymoon Suite	12pm Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy 12.30 Perfect Match. Dave Allenby
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 Close		1.30 Silent Number	1pm Pyramid Challenge. Malcolm Searle 1.30 The Steve Raymond Show
2PM			2.30 The Bob Newhart Show 2.55 News	2.30 Please Don’t Eat The Daisies
3PM	3.25 Play School 3.55 Cricket: Sheffield Shield. NSW v Victoria		3pm The Big Valley	3pm Petticoat Junction 3.30 Lassie’s Rescue Rangers
4PM			4pm Milton The Monster 4.30 Quick Draw McGraw	4pm Mission Magic 4.30 Marine Boy
5PM			5pm My Friend Flicka 5.30 Woobinda Animal Doctor	5pm Gilligan’s Island 5.30 Ripcord
6PM	6.10 Laurel And Hardy (B&W) 6.30 The Governor And JJ 6.55 Today’s Sport	6pm Fish 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 Wildlife Safari To Mexico	7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 Barney Miller	7pm Family Feud 7.30 Get Some In	7pm Blansky’s Beauties 7.30 The Restless Years
8PM	8pm Movie: Shimmering Light. 1978 [IMDB]	8pm Carter Country 8.30 Tennis: Adelaide International. From Memorial Drive Courts, Adelaide	8pm CPO Sharkey 8.30 The Young Doctors	8.30 Delvecchio
9PM	9.30 ABC News, Weather 9.40 Survival In Limbo		9pm Coronation Street 9.30 National Nine News. Peter Hitchener	9.29 News 9.30 Poldark
10PM	10.30 World Of Music	10.30 News 10.50 Movie: The Fakers. 1969 [IMDB]	10pm Lanigan’s Rabbi	10.29 News 10.30 Banyon
11PM	11.30 Close		11.30 Rhoda	11.30 Movie: Naked Gun. 1956 [IMDB]
12AM		12.35am The Nancy Walker Show	12am Movie: The Mouse That Roared. 1959 [IMDB]	12.55am Close
1AM		1.05 Close	1.30 Movie: I’m All Right Jack. 1960 (B&W) [IMDB]
2AM
3AM			3.15 Movie: Only Two Can Play. 1962 (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5am Seaway (Continues to 6am)