The final 1973 episode of the top-rating series Number 96 sets up a number of cliffhangers to keep viewers on edge until the series returns in the new year.

Source: TV Week, 15 December 1973

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6AM
7AM		7am Seven Today	7am The Super Flying Fun Show	7am Cartoon Carnival
8AM	8am Sesame Street 8.55 Close			8.30 Romper Room
9AM	9.10 For Schools: Social Studies 9.30 Close 9.50 Play School	9am Dina And Percy 9.53 Housekeeping Club	9am Here’s Humphrey	9.30 Movie: Warm Body [IMDB]
10AM	10.20 For Schools: Asep; Australian Museum Films; Social Studies	10am Surfside Six 10.53 Housekeeping Club	10am Play Your Hunch 10.30 Good Morning Vi 10.32 What’s My Line
11AM	11.35 Close	11am Beauty And The Beast 11.53 Housekeeping Club	11am Peyton Place 11.30 A Current Affair (Rpt)	11am The Roy Hampson Show
12PM		12pm Homicide	12pm Days Of Our Lives 12.25 News 12.30 No Man’s Land. Mickie de Stoop, Susan Peacock	12pm Movie: Dragonfly Squadron. 1954 [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.05 Close 1.15 For Schools: Asep 1.35 Close	1pm Crossroads 1.30 Concentration. Lionel Williams, Joan McInnes	1pm The Long Hot Summer	1.30 The Mike Walsh Show
2PM	2.35 For Schools: Social Studies; Australian Museum Films	2pm Temptation. Tony Barber, Barbara Rogers	2pm General Hospital
3PM	3.20 Andy Pandy 3.35 Play School	3pm Matt Lincoln	3pm Spending Spree. Jimmy Hannan 3.30 Free For All. Ugly Dave Gray	3pm Password. Philip Brady 3.30 The Detectives
4PM	4.05 Adventure Island 4.30 Sesame Street	4pm Princess Knight 4.30 Linus The Lionhearted	4pm Cartoon Corner. Daryl Somers. Includes Spiderman, Top Cat	4pm Storytime 4.05 Fun Palace. Rod Kirkham. Includes The Three Stooges, Dastardly And Muttley
5PM	5.25 Squiggle 5.35 Cartoons 5.40 Lassie	5pm Rin Tin Tin 5.30 The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father	5pm Fractured Flickers 5.30 Primus	5pm Jeff’s Collie 5.30 The Littlest Hobo
6PM	6.05 Doctor Who 6.30 SOS Presents Hawaii 6.55 Melbourne Preview. Graeme Evans	6pm Mister Ed 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor, David Johnston	6pm The Godfathers 6.30 National Nine News. John Bailey, Brian Smith, Rosemary Margan	6pm Eyewitness News. Ralphe Neill 6.30 Gilligan’s Island
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight. Bill Peach	7pm $25,000 Great Temptation. Tony Barber, Barbara Rogers 7.30 Homicide	7pm A Current Affair. Mike Willesee 7.30 Hawaii Five-0	7pm The Price Is Right. Garry Meadows, Jenny Hoyle, Jacqueline Merton, Anne Davidson 7.30 Matlock Police
8PM	8pm The Inventors. Geoff Stone 8.30 ABC News In Brief, Weather 8.35 Out Of The Unknown	8.30 Nancy	8.30 Nearest And Dearest	8.30 Number 96
9PM	9.25 Pot Black 9.50 Sow What? Kevin Heinze	9pm Special: Inside Alvin Purple	9pm The Spoiler	9pm Movie: Across The Bridge. 1958 [IMDB]
10PM	10.05 ABC News, Weather 10.15 Rugby Union: England v Australia	10pm In Concert	10pm Movie: Lucky Jim. 1957 [IMDB]
11PM		11.30 Seven National News 11.40 Two On The Aisle. Ivan Hutchinson, Jim Murphy	11.45 News 11.50 Movie: So Red The Rose. 1935 [IMDB]	11pm News. Bruce Mansfield 11.05 The Mike Walsh Show (Rpt)
12AM	12am Close	12.10am Movie: Six Of A Kind [IMDB]		12.35am Weather 12.40 Close
1AM		1.20 Close
2AM			2.50am Close
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