Source: TV Week, 15 August 1981
| ABC3 | CTC7 | |
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| 6AM | ||
| 7AM | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | |
| 9AM | 9am Close 9.30 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey 9.55 The Ed Allen Show |
| 10AM | 10am Close 10.20 For Schools: Deutschland Spiegel, How We Used To Live, Science About, Words And Pictures, Smedley’s Weekly |
10.30 Movie: East Of Sumatra. 1953 [IMDB] |
| 11AM | 11.55 News | |
| 12PM | 12pm Close 12.35 Weekend Magazine (Rpt) |
12pm The Mike Walsh Show |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 Close |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives |
| 2PM | 2.15 For Schools: Out ‘N’ About, Inside Creation | 2.25 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News 2.58 Gomer Pyle USMC |
| 3PM | 3pm Sesame Street | 3.30 Cartoons |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Mr Squiggle And Friends |
4pm My Friend Flicka 4.30 Wombat |
| 5PM | 5pm Grange Hill 5.30 Park Ranger |
5pm Bewitched 5.25 Community Billboard 5.30 The Muppet Show |
| 6PM | 6pm Monkey 6.40 So The Story Goes 6.55 Regional News |
6pm Capital Seven News. John Bok 6.30 Seven National News (ATN7) |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.28 Home Sweet Home 7.58 Cricket: Fifth Test. England v Australia. Live from Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England |
7pm Sale Of The Century 7.30 The Sullivans |
| 8PM | 8.25 Prisoner | |
| 9PM | 9.25 Hart To Hart | |
| 10PM | 10pm ABC News, Weather 10.08 Nationwide. Clive Hale 10.38 Cricket (cont’d) |
10.25 News 10.30 Upstairs Downstairs |
| 11PM | 11.30 It’s A Living 11.55 Local Member |
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| 12AM | 12am Movie: Lover Come Back. 1962 [IMDB] | |
| 1AM | 1.40 Close | |
| 2AM | ||
| 3AM | 3.05am Close | |
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