ABC presents a repeat of the 1978 telemovie Because He’s My Friend, starring Jack Thompson, Warwick Poulsen, Tom Oliver and US actress Karen Black.

Poulsen won a TV Week Logie Award in 1979 for his portrayal of a teenager with an intellectual disability.

Source: TV Times, 10 January 1981

	Hobart ABT2 King Island ABKT11 Launceston ABNT3	TVT6 Hobart	TNT9 Launceston
6AM
7AM
8AM	8am Sesame Street
9AM	9am Close 9.30 Play School
10AM	10am Close
11AM			11.30am Rupert’s Roundabout 11.55 Movie: Backlash. 1956 [IMDB]
12PM		12pm Thought For The Day 12.05 Fat Cat And Friends 12.30 The Ed Allen Show
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 Baseball: Claxton Shield. South Australia v Western Australia. Live from Adelaide	1pm Movie: Silent Running. 1972 [IMDB]	1.30pm Here’s Lucy 1.55 Cartoons; Newsreel
2PM		2.30 Movie: New Moon. 1940 [IMDB]	2.55 Movie: A Woman’s Temptation. 1958 [IMDB]
3PM	3.30 The Magic Roundabout 3.35 Lassie
4PM	4pm Play School/Crystal Tipps And Alistair 4.30 Sesame Street	4pm Animals Animals Animals 4.30 Shirl’s Neighbourhood	4pm Shirl’s Neighbourhood 4.30 The Nature Of Things
5PM	5.35 The Beachcombers	5pm The Doris Day Show 5.30 The Partridge Family	5pm Bonanza
6PM	6pm The Wombles 6.05 The David Nixon Magic Show 6.30 The Governor And JJ 6.55 [ABT] Videodisc 6.55 [ABNT, ABKT] Regional News	6pm That Girl 6.30 News	6pm The New Dick Van Dyke Show 6.30 News. Jim Cox, Ray James
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.26 Weather 7.30 The Best Of Peach’s Australia	7pm Welcome Back Kotter 7.30 Benson	7pm Good Times 7.30 Nobody’s Perfect
8PM	8pm Hospital 8.30 Rumpole Of The Bailey	8pm Mind Your Language 8.30 Hart To Hart	8pm Trapper John MD
9PM	9.20 ABC News, Weather 9.30 Movie: Because He’s My Friend. 1978 [IMDB]	9.30 Thomas And Sarah	9pm How The West Was Won
10PM		10.30 American Girls	10.45 Movie: The Impersonator. 1961 [IMDB]
11PM	11pm Close	11.30 Chico And The Man	11.55 Close
12AM		12am Thought For The Day; Close
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