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
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| 6AM | 6am The Samurai (B&W) 6.30 The Job Show. Brian Bury, Gail Jarvis |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 12PM | 12pm Honeymoon Suite | 12pm Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy 12.30 Perfect Match. Dave Allenby |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 4PM | 4pm Milton The Monster 4.30 Quick Draw McGraw |
4pm Mission Magic 4.30 Marine Boy |
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| 5PM | 5pm My Friend Flicka 5.30 Woobinda Animal Doctor |
5pm Gilligan’s Island 5.30 Ripcord |
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| 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 |
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| 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] | ||
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| 3AM | 3.15 Movie: Only Two Can Play. 1962 (B&W) [IMDB] | |||
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| 5AM | 5am Seaway (Continues to 6am) |
