All four Melbourne channels report on the handing down of the Federal Budget, the first budget by the Fraser government.
Meanwhile, Nine presents live coverage of the National Football League Grand Final — North Melbourne versus Hawthorn — from Norwood Oval, Adelaide. The NFL was a night competition featuring teams from the VFL, SANFL and WAFL.
Source: TV Week, 14 August 1976. TV Times, 14 August 1976
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| 6AM | 6am Thunderbirds | |||
| 7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show | 7am Cartoon Carnival | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8.45 Rin Tin Tin (B&W) | ||
| 9AM | 9am Close 9.30 Play School (B&W) |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9.15 Swami Sarasvati 9.30 Movie: Cry Of The City. 1948 (B&W) [IMDB] |
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| 10AM | 10am For Schools: For The Juniors (B&W) 10.20 Close |
10am Celebrity Squares 10.30 Here’s Lucy |
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| 11AM | 11am Return To Peyton Place 11.30 Movie: We Were Strangers. 1949 (B&W) [IMDB] |
11am Another World 11.55 Home Edition News. Peter Hitchener |
11am The Roy Hampson Show | |
| 12PM | 12pm For Schools: Social Science (B&W) 12.20 Close |
12pm Days Of Our Lives 12.55 Home Edition News |
12pm Matlock Police (Rpt) | |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon-5. Neil Inall 1.30 For Schools: For The Juniors 1.50 Close |
1.30pm And Mother Makes Three | 1pm Search For Tomorrow 1.30 The Young And The Restless |
1pm Vi’s Pad. Vi Greenhalf 1.30 The Mike Walsh Show |
| 2PM | 2pm Medical Centre | 2pm General Hospital 2.55 Home Edition News |
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| 3PM | 3pm The Magic Roundabout 3.05 Sesame Street |
3pm Homicide (Rpt) | 3pm Dinah! | 3pm Pot Of Gold. Tommy Hanlon Jnr |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Flashez. Ray Burgess |
4pm Mister Ed (B&W) 4.30 The Monkees |
4pm Cartoon Corner. Daryl Somers, Ossie Ostrich. Includes Scooby Doo Where Are You?, Birdman And The Galaxy Trio | 4pm Land Of The Lost 4.30 Gilligan’s Island |
| 5PM | 5pm Last Of The Wild 5.30 The Goodies |
5pm The Beverly Hillbillies 5.30 Get Smart |
5pm My Three Sons (B&W) 5.30 Celebrity Squares. Jimmy Hannan |
5pm Daniel Boone |
| 6PM | 6pm Bellbird 6.55 Take Kerr |
6pm The Flintstones 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor, David Johnston, Peter Landy |
6pm National Nine News. Eric Pearce, Peter Hitchener, Jack Cannon, Brian Bury 6.30 A Current Affair. Mike Minehan |
6pm Eyewitness News. Bruce Mansfield, Tony Doherty, Briony Behets 6.30 Ernie. Ernie Sigley |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight. Peter Couchman |
7pm Bewitched 7.30 McMillan And Wife |
7pm Happy Days 7.30 Football: National Football League Grand Final. North Melbourne v Hawthorn. Live from Norwood Oval, Adelaide. |
7.30 MASH |
| 8PM | 8pm Sportsnight 8.30 The Norman Gunston Show |
8pm Chico And The Man. Includes Budget Report 8.30 Number 96. Includes Budget Report at 9pm |
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| 9PM | 9pm Warship 9.55 ABC News: Budget Report |
9.30 Budget Report 9.35 The Streets Of San Francisco |
9.30 The Don Lane Show. Don Lane, Bert Newton. Includes Budget Report Updates. | 9.35 The Box. Includes Budget Report at 10pm |
| 10PM | 10.25 Soccer: European Cup Winners’ Cup Final (Rpt) | 10.35 Budget Report. Laurie Wilson, Mike Petersen | 10.55 News Headlines | 10.40 Budget Report |
| 11PM | 11.20 Close | 11.05 Budget Report: Victoria. Merv Lincoln 11.35 Thriller |
11pm Spyforce | 11.10 Movie: Master Stroke. 1967 [IMDB] |
| 12AM | 12am Movie: Honeymoon With A Stranger. 1969 [IMDB] | |||
| 1AM | 1am Close | 1.40 Movie: The Third Secret. 1964 (B&W) [IMDB] | 1am Close | |
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| 3AM | 3.25 Movie: The Lady Vanishes. 1938 (B&W) [IMDB] | |||
| 4AM | 4.50 Movie: Night Train To Paris. 1964 [IMDB] (Continues to 6am) |
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