ABC debuts Nationwide, the current affairs show replacing This Day Tonight.

ATV0 launches its new morning show, Everyday, with Roy Hampson and Annette Allison.

ATV0 also begins a re-run of the 1977 mini-series Roots over six consecutive nights as a lead-in to the airing of the sequel Roots: The Next Generations later in the year.

HSV7 begins a repeat screening of the ABC comedy series Alvin Purple, starring Graeme Blundell.

Nationwide running towards the ’80s [2019]

See also: Monday 19 February 1979 — SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Source: TV Times, 17 February 1979. The Age Green Guide, 15 February 1979.

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
6AM			6am The Samurai 6.30 The Job Show. Brian Bury, Gail Jarvis
7AM			7am The Super Flying Fun Show. Marilyn Mayo	7am The Early Bird Show. Michael McCarthy, Kerry Daniel
8AM	8am Sesame Street
9AM	9am For Schools: La France Telle Qu’elle Est 9.30 Play School		9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 The Bernard King Show
10AM	10am For Schools: Make Way For Ducklings, Careers, Films As Evidence, Mathshow, The Arcade Show	10am Romper Room	10am Here’s Lucy 10.30 Celebrity Squares	10am Matlock Police (B&W)
11AM		11am Fish 11.30 Willesee At Seven (Rpt)	11am Another World 11.55 News	11am Everyday. Roy Hampson, Annette Allison PREMIERE
12PM	12pm Close 12.35 Weekend Magazine (Rpt)	12pm Movie: Her Twelve Men. 1954 [IMDB]	12pm The Mike Walsh Show	12pm Movie: The Dark Mirror. 1946 [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 Close 1.35 For Schools: Music Time, Words And Pictures, Science Close Up, Asian Neighbours		1.30 Days Of Our Lives	1.30 The Steve Raymond Show
2PM	2.55 Close	2pm Homicide	2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News	2.30 The FBI
3PM		3pm The Streets Of San Francisco	3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow	3.30 The Brian Keith Show
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Sesame Street	4pm Flipper 4.30 The Partridge Family	4pm Razzle Dazzle. Rory O’Donoghue	4pm The Land Of The Lost 4.30 Battle Of The Planets
5PM	5.30 Catweazle	5pm The Flintstones 5.30 Get Smart	5pm Family Feud. Tony Barber 5.30 My Three Sons	5pm Superman 5.30 Gomer Pyle USMC
6PM	6pm ABC News Headlines 6.05 The Goodies 6.30 Doctor Who 6.55 Today’s Sport	6pm Welcome Back Kotter 6.30 Seven National News. Mal Walden	6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Brian Naylor	6pm Eyewitness News. Bruce Mansfield, Annette Allison
7PM	7pm ABC News. Geoff Raymond 7.30 The Stationary Ark	7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 Mind Your Language	7pm The Sullivans 7.30 Happy Days	7pm MASH 7.30 Sword Of Justice
8PM	8pm The Liver Birds 8.30 Armchair Thriller	8pm Doctor Down Under 8.30 Cop Shop	8.30 The Love Boat	8.30 Mini-Series: Roots. Part One [IMDB] (see advertisement below)
9PM	9.20 ABC News, Weather 9.30 Nationwide. Clive Hale, Sonia Humphrey, Richard Carleton PREMIERE	9.30 The Naked Vicar Show	9.30 The Don Lane Show
10PM	10.10 The Earth Belongs To Everyone	10.30 Alvin Purple		10.30 Peter Couchman Tonight
11PM	11pm Close	11pm Late News 11.20 Serpico	11pm All You Need Is Love	11.45 Movie: Requiem For A Heavyweight. 1962 [IMDB]
12AM		12.20am Close	12am Movie: The Legend Of Custer. 1968 [IMDB]
1AM			1.30 Movie: The Naked Earth. 1959 [IMDB]	1.40am Close
2AM
3AM			3am Movie: Seven Keys To Baldpate. 1947 (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM			4am Movie: The Last Shot You Hear. 1969 [IMDB]
5AM			5am Danger Man (Continues to 6am)