ABC broadcasts the Australian Opera production of Prokofiev’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s War And Peace. The telecast, produced jointly between ABC and BBC, is from a dress rehearsal performance held at the Sydney Opera House on 26 September 1973, two days ahead of its first performance. Although Australian television was still in black and white, the performance was recorded in colour for BBC transmission.

War And Peace was the first opera to be performed at the Sydney Opera House, ahead of its official opening on 20 October 1973.

Source: TV Times, 13 October 1973

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
6AM
7AM			7.30am Playroom
8AM		8.30am Cartoons	8am Hey Hey It’s Saturday. Daryl Somers, Ossie Ostrich. Includes Thunderbirds, Rocky And His Friends, Space Kidettes, Lancelot Link	8am Cartoon Carnival
9AM		9am Mattel’s Magical World 9.30 The Osmonds		9am The Saturday Show. Sherry Wheeler
10AM		10am Get Smart 10.30 Tomfoolery
11AM		11am The Jetsons 11.30 Huckleberry Hound	11am McHale’s Navy 11.30 Tales Of Wells Fargo	11.30 The Rovers
12PM	12pm Sportsview. Includes NSW Open Golf, Water World, Pot Black, English Premier League	12pm Movie: Wings And The Woman. 1942 [IMDB]	12pm World Championship Wrestling	12pm Barrier Reef 12.30 Topper
1PM		1.45 Movie: The First Of The Few. 1943 [IMDB]	1pm Movies: The Iron Cross. 1964 [IMDB]; Rock Pretty Baby. 1957 [IMDB]	1pm Great Adventure
2PM				2pm Movie: Cardboard Cavalier. 1949 [IMDB]
3PM
4PM		4.30 This Week Has Seven Days	4pm The Curiosity Show	4pm What In The World. Sandy Palmer, Gary Carvolth 4.30 Junior Jury. Noel O’Connor
5PM	5pm Sporting Roundup 5.15 Sports Film 5.35 Adventures On The Riverbank 5.50 Cattanooga Cats	5.30 Jeopardy. Mal Walden	5pm Riverboat	5pm Here Comes The Grump 5.30 Eyewitness News. Bruce Mansfield
6PM	6.30 Golden Silents 6.55 Weather	6pm Seven National News 6.30 Movie: Knights Of The Round Table [IMDB]	6pm National Nine News 6.30 The Mouse Factory	6pm The Brady Bunch 6.30 Young Talent Time
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 Four Corners. Caroline Jones, John Temple, Jim Downes, Peter Ross, Stuart Littlemore		7pm Here’s Lucy 7.30 Movie: Carry On Cleo. 1965 [IMDB]	7.30 Movie: Lonely Are The Brave. 1962 [IMDB]
8PM	8.25 Opera: War And Peace	8.45 Penthouse Club. Michael Williamson, Mary Hardy. Includes Tattslotto
9PM	9.55 ABC News		9.10 Movie: Carry On Regardless. 1963 [IMDB]	9.40 The Name Of The Game
10PM	10pm Opera: War And Peace (cont’d)		10.55 Cade’s County
11PM	11.25 Close	11.15 News, Weather 11.30 Star Soccer	11.55 News	11.10 Rowan And Martin’s Laugh-In
12AM			12am Movie: The Blonde From Peking. 1967 [IMDB]	12.10am Weather; Close
1AM		1.15am Close
2AM
3AM			3am Epilogue; Close
4AM
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