TEN10 screens the debut of landmark US mini-series Roots. The series aired in Melbourne a month later.

Source: Sun Herald, 17 April 1977

	ABN2	ATN7	TCN9	TEN10
6AM			6am Gene Autry (B&W)
7AM		7.15am These Children Are Ours 7.30 Bible World	7am Day Of Discovery 7.30 Garner Ted Armstrong
8AM		8am Television Tutorial	8am Insight 8.30 It Is Written	8.30am Amco Shield
9AM		9am Big League Replay: Manly v Parramatta	9am Cathedral Of Tomorrow	9.30 Hour Of Power
10AM		10am Star Soccer	10am Here’s Humphrey 10.55 Point Of View	10.30 Grecian Scene
11AM	11am Divine Service	11am Sportsaction	11am English Rugby League	11.30 Occupation
12PM	12pm Hammy Hamster’s Adventures On The Riverbank 12.20 Little Big Time 12.45 In Your Garden		12pm Championship Wrestling	12pm Variety Italian Style
1PM	1pm Four Corners (Rpt) 1.55 A Big Country	1pm Movie: Little Giant (B&W) [IMDB]	1pm World Of Sport	1pm Movie: Living It Up [IMDB]
2PM	2.25 Sykes 2.55 Motor Racing: Sandown Car Track	2.30 Movie: Sergeant Deadhead [IMDB]	2pm Movie: Run Silent Run Deep (B&W) [IMDB]
3PM			3.30 Movie: The Mountain. 1956 [IMDB]	3pm Here Come The Girls
4PM	4.55 Arthur!	4pm Movie: Ride The Wild Surf [IMDB]		4pm The Cowboys 4.30 Who What Or Where?
5PM	5.20 Mr Squiggle And Friends 5.35 Roman Holidays		5.30 Ask The Leyland Brothers	5pm Young Talent Time
6PM	6pm Countdown 6.55 Weather	6pm Seven National News 6.30 Seven’s Big League	6pm National Nine News 6.30 The Wonderful World Of Disney	6pm Eyewitness News 6.30 Special: Monte Carlo Circus
7PM	7pm ABC News. Includes Weekend Magazine 7.40 The Duchess Of Duke Street	7.30 This Is Your Life	7.30 Hawaii Five O	7.30 The Six Million Dollar Man
8PM	8.30 Beyond Reasonable Doubt	8pm The Practice 8.30 Movie: Kansas City Bomber. 1972 [IMDB]	8.30 Mini-Series: Howard — The Amazing Mr Hughes. Part I [IMDB]	8.30 Mini-Series: Roots. Part I [IMDB]
9PM	9.20 ABC News, Weather 9.30 Country Matters
10PM	10.20 Music Makers	10.30 Bill Collins’ Showbiz	10.30 Shades Of Green	10.30 The FBI
11PM	11pm Polo: Australia v England 11.45 Close	11pm On The Rocks 11.30 The Protectors	11.30 Good News	11.30 Movie: Broadway’s Deadly Gold [IMDB]
12AM		12am Bible World 12.30 Close	12am Insight 12.30 Movie: The Night Creatures. 1962 [IMDB]	12.50am People Needing People 12.55 Close
1AM			1.55 Movie: Death Knocks Twice [IMDB]
2AM
3AM			3.20 Movie: The Unsuspected. 1947 (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5am Edgar Wallace Presents (Continues to 6am)