The acclaimed documentary The Last Tasmanian is shown in Perth two years after airing in the eastern states and as a cinema release. It had also already been shown on the BBC in the United Kingdom. The film, three years in the making, presented a dramatised account of the genocide of 4000 Tasmanian aborigines and profiled the life of Truganini — believed to be the last full blood Tasmanian aboriginal — who died in 1876, aged in her mid-60s.
The Last Tasmanian won a TV Week Logie Award in 1979 for best single documentary.
Source: TV Times, 14 June 1980
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| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8.30am Seven Text 8.40 The Cisco Kid (B&W) |
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| 9AM | 9am Play School 9.30 For Schools: Words And Pictures, Heil Caesar, Ensemble, Investigating, Man And Religion, Flip Slide Turn |
9.05 Here’s Humphrey | 9.15am Teletext 9.25 Daily Fable 9.30 Flapper’s Factory |
| 10AM | 10am Class Of ’75 10.30 Dinah! |
10am Rainbow 10.20 Terry Willesee’s Perth (Rpt) 10.45 Ryan’s Hope |
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| 11AM | 11.25 Today. Stephanie Quinlan, Brian Jackson 11.55 News |
11.10 Search For Tomorrow 11.35 General Hospital |
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| 12PM | 12pm Days Of Our Lives | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | |
| 1PM | 1.30pm For Schools: Here In The West, Musical Triangles, The Magic Bag, Kontakte | 1pm Another World | 1.35 Movie: You’ll Never See Me Again. 1973 [IMDB] |
| 2PM | 2pm The Young And The Restless 2.30 Homicide |
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| 3PM | 3.30 Coronation Street | 3pm Marcus Welby MD | |
| 4PM | 4pm Alexander’s Afternoon. Includes Play School, Sesame Street | 4pm Children’s Program. Includes Shirl’s Neighbourhood 4.50 My Three Sons |
4pm Battle Of The Planets 4.25 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 4.55 Jason Of Star Command |
| 5PM | 5.30 The Basil Brush Show 5.58 News Headlines |
5.20 Family Feud. Tony Barber 5.55 Here’s Lucy |
5.25 Hogan’s Heroes |
| 6PM | 6pm The Goodies 6.30 Doctor Who 6.55 Videodisc |
6.30 News | 6pm News. Russell Goodrich, Barrie Barkla 6.30 Terry Willesee’s Perth |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 Holiday With Bill Peach |
7pm Willesee At Seven 7.35 MASH |
7pm The Young Doctors 7.30 News 7.35 The Sullivans |
| 8PM | 8pm Mastermind 8.30 A Family Affair |
8.45 Quincy ME | 8.40 Prisoner |
| 9PM | 9.20 News, Weather 9.30 Nationwide |
9.45 Special: The Last Tasmanian | 9.40 Dallas |
| 10PM | 10.10 Lawn Bowls: Jack High | 10.40 Kojak | |
| 11PM | 11.10 Close | 11.45 On The Buses | 11.40 Ironside |
| 12AM | 12.15am Close | 12.40am God Bless Australia; Close | |
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BTW3 Bunbury GSW9 Albany |
VEW8 Kalgoorlie |
GTW11 Geraldton |
| 8am Sesame Street 9am Play School 9.30 For Schools: Words And Pictures, Heil Caesar, Ensemble, Investigating, Man And Religion, Flip Slide Turn 1.30pm For Schools: Here In The West, Musical Triangles, The Magic Bag, Kontakte 4pm Alexander’s Afternoon. Includes Play School, Sesame Street 5.30 The Basil Brush Show 5.58 News Headlines 6pm The Goodies 6.30 Doctor Who 6.55 [ABAW] Regional News 6.55 Videodisc 7pm ABC News 7.30 Holiday With Bill Peach 8pm Mastermind 8.30 A Family Affair 9.20 News, Weather 9.30 Nationwide 10.10 Lawn Bowls: Jack High 11.10 Close |
12pm Midweek. Kathy Reading 1pm The Mike Walsh Show 2.15 Movie: Third Girl From The Left. 1973 [IMDB] 3.30 Close 5pm The Curiosity Show 5.55 Birthday Calls 6.05 Untamed World 6.35 News 7.05 Terry Willesee’s Perth 7.30 Local News 7.50 Sunburnt Country 8.50 News 8.55 Benson 9.25 The Moneychangers 11pm Close |
12pm Midday Matinee. Brenda White, Shirley McKinlay 1pm The Mike Walsh Show 2.30 Close 5.30 Flapper’s Factory 6pm The Brady Bunch 6.30 News 6.35 Celebrity Tattletales 7pm Happy Days 7.30 Laverne And Shirley 8pm The Bionic Woman 9pm Movie: The Grasshopper. 1970 [IMDB] 10.30 Close |
5.30pm The Brady Bunch 6pm News 6.15 Local News 6.25 Weather 6.30 Celebrity Tattletales 7pm The Young Doctors 7.30 Western Farmers News 7.40 The Bionic Woman 8.40 The Love Boat 9.40 The Sullivans 10.40 Close |
