After the demise of Number 96 and The Box, the 0-10 Network had commissioned Crawford Productions to produce a new ‘quality’ adults-only soap opera drama. The company responded with Hotel Story, proposing 26 weekly episodes. After only seven episodes were produced network executives previewed the opening episode and immediately canned production. With the premature cancellation of the show generating media coverage ATV0 proceeded to rush the completed handful of episodes to air, leaving viewers to see for themselves what all the fuss was about.

The short saga of Hotel Story [2017]

Source: TV Times, 9 July 1977 and The Age, 13 July 1977.

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
6AM			6am Thunderbirds
7AM			7am The Super Flying Fun Show	7am The Early Bird Show
8AM	8am Sesame Street 8.55 Test Pattern, Music			8.30 The Littlest Hobo
9AM	9.30 Play School		9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Rainbow 9.30 Fat Cat And Friends
10AM	10am For Schools: Behind The News, Science (B&W), The Arcade Show, Thinkabout/Talkabout, Natural Science, Inside Economics	10am Fay 10.30 Hazel	10am Dinah!	10am Swami Sarasvati 10.15 King’s Kitchen 10.30 The Roy Hampson Show
11AM		11am The Doris Day Show 11.30 Willesee At Seven (Rpt)	11am Another World 11.55 News	11.30 Harriet’s Back In Town
12PM	12.30pm Test Pattern, Music	12pm Movie: The Diary Of Anne Frank. 1959 (B&W) [IMDB]	12pm The Mike Walsh Show	12pm Movie: Caprice. 1967 [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon-5 1.29 Weather 1.30 For Schools: For The Juniors, Three Weeks In Haruli’s Life, Our Asian Neighbours		1.30 Days Of Our Lives
2PM			2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News	2pm Vi’s Pad. Vi Greenhalf 2.30 The Celebrity Game. Mike Preston
3PM	3pm Test Pattern, Music	3pm Ryan	3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow	3pm Pot Of Gold. Tommy Hanlon Jnr, Bernard King
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 The Magic Roundabout 4.35 Sesame Street	4pm The Flying Nun 4.30 The Partridge Family	4pm Cartoons. Daryl Somers, Ossie Ostrich	4pm Lost In Space
5PM	5.30 Flashez. Ray Burgess	5pm The New Mickey Mouse Club 5.30 Get Smart	5pm Superman 5.30 My Three Sons	5pm The Brady Bunch 5.30 Hogan’s Heroes
6PM	6pm Lorne Greene’s Last Of The Wild 6.20 Here It Is 6.30 Bellbird 6.55 Police File	6pm The Flintstones 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor, Peter Landy, Ilona Komesaroff	6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Eric Pearce, Peter Hitchener	6pm News At Six. Bruce Mansfield, Rob Astbury, Clem Dimsey 6.30 $30,000 Treasure Hunt. Chard Hayward
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight. Peter Couchman	7pm Willesee At Seven. Mike Willesee, Trish Sheppard, Stuart Littlemore, Helen Wellings, Howard Gipps, Paul Makin 7.30 Special: Royal Command Variety Performance	7pm A Current Affair. Sue Smith, Kevin Sanders 7.30 Columbo	7pm Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy 7.30 MASH
8PM	8pm Cricket Highlights: Second Test. England v Australia 8.30 The Fight Against Slavery			8.30 Hotel Story PREMIERE Carmen Duncan, Terence Donovan, Max Meldrum, George Spartels, Richard Lawson, Frank Taylor, Rod McLennan (see advertisement below)
9PM	9.20 The World About Us		9.30 Movie: Captain Newman MD. 1963 [IMDB]	9.30 Something Special. Denise Drysdale
10PM	10.10 ABC News 10.20 World Of Music	10.10 Special: The Queen’s Garden
11PM	11pm Close	11.10 Queen’s Silver Jubilee 11.40 Movie: Laxdale Hall. 1953 (B&W) [IMDB]		11pm National Football League. Port Adelaide v East Perth
12AM		12.50am Close	12am Movie: Never Too Late. 1965 [IMDB]
1AM			1.45 Movie: Dear Heart. 1965 (B&W) [IMDB]	1am Close
2AM
3AM			3.35 Movie: Beyond The Forest. 1948 [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5am Edgar Wallace Theatre (B&W) (Continues to 6am)