The Nine Network launches quiz show Sale Of The Century, a revival of the 1970s Temptation format with the same host, Tony Barber, and former The Restless Years star Victoria Nicolls.
The launch of Sale Of The Century bumped the previous 7.00pm program, The Sullivans, to the new timeslot of 7.30pm Monday and Thursday nights.
See also: Monday 14 July 1980 — CANBERRA
Source: TV Times, 12 July 1980. Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 1980.
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| 6AM | 6am Thunderbirds 6.55 Go Health |
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| 7AM | 7am Jason Of Star Command 7.30 Jana Of The Jungle |
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| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8am Moby Dick 8.30 Wacky Races; Casper; Harveytoons |
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| 9AM | 9am For Schools 9.30 Play School |
9am Within These Walls | 9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Something To Sing About 9.05 Kum Kum 9.30 Rainbow |
| 10AM | 10am For Schools | 10am Romper Room | 10am The Ed Allen Show 10.30 Another World |
10am Fat Cat And Friends 10.30 The Bernard King Show |
| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM | 11.55 News | 11am Good Morning Sydney | |
| 12PM | 12.35pm Weekend Magazine (Rpt) | 12pm Movie: Side By Side [IMDB] | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | 12pm Movie: Under Ten Flags. 1960 (B&W) [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 For Schools |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | ||
| 2PM | 2pm Movie: The Walking Stick. 1970 [IMDB] | 2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News |
2.05 Movie: Cave Of Outlaws. 1952 [IMDB] | |
| 3PM | 3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow |
3.30 Love American Style 3.59 News |
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| 4PM | 4pm Alexander’s Afternoon. Includes Play School, Mr Squiggle, Earth Watch | 4pm Special: Moby Dick | 4pm Swiss Family Robinson | 4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 4.30 The Lost Islands |
| 5PM | 5.30 Sam’s Luck | 5pm The Bugs Bunny Show 5.30 Get Smart |
5pm Here’s Lucy 5.30 Family Feud |
5pm The Brady Bunch 5.30 The Gong Show |
| 6PM | 6pm The Goodies 6.30 Doctor Who |
6pm Seven Sydney News 6.30 Seven National News |
6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News |
6pm Eyewitness News |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 The Good Life |
7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 Battlestar Galactica |
7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Victoria Nicolls PREMIERE 7.30 The Sullivans |
7pm MASH 7.30 John Laws’ World |
| 8PM | 8pm Man About The House 8.30 The World On Monday |
8.30 Movie: Lucky Lady. 1975 [IMDB] | 8.30 Hart To Hart | 8.30 Prisoner |
| 9PM | 9.20 ABC News, Weather 9.30 Nationwide |
9.25 Go Lotto 9.30 The Don Lane Show |
9.30 Paris | |
| 10PM | 10.10 Cooper — Just Like That 10.35 The World Of Pam Ayres |
10.30 The John Singleton Show | ||
| 11PM | 11pm Close | 11pm Newsnight. Mike Bailey 11.30 The Olympiad |
11pm Police Story | |
| 12AM | 12.30am Close | 12am Movie: The Lawyer. 1970 [IMDB] | 12am Number 96 (Rpt) | |
| 1AM | 1am Close | |||
| 2AM | 2.20 Movie: The Bonnie Parker Story. 1958 (B&W) [IMDB] | |||
| 3AM | 3.50 Movie: The Man. 1971 [IMDB] | |||
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| 5AM | 5.15 The Big Valley (Continues to 6am) |
