The Opening Ceremony of the 10th Commonwealth Games, live from Christchurch, New Zealand.

ABC’s daily coverage of the Games comprised only of highlight segments totalling around 50 minutes each day, and two hours of live coverage on Saturdays.

Source: TV Times, 19 January 1974

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7AM		7am Seven Today	7am The Super Flying Fun Show	7am Cartoon Carnival
8AM	8am Sesame Street 8.55 The Electric Company			8.30 Romper Room
9AM	9.25 Close 9.50 Play School	9am Dina And Percy	9am Here’s Humphrey	9.30 Movie: Station West. 1948 [IMDB]
10AM	10.20 Close	10am Casey Jones 10.30 Circus Boy	10am Nature Walkabout 10.30 What’s My Line?
11AM		11pm Death Valley Showdown 11.30 The Hathaways	11am Peyton Place 11.30 A Current Affair (Rpt)	11am The Roy Hampson Show
12PM		12pm Homicide	12pm Days Of Our Lives 12.25 News 12.30 Movie: Made In Heaven. 1952 [IMDB]	12pm Room 222 12.30 The Price Is Right
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.05 Movie: Fast Company. 1952 [IMDB]	1pm Crossroads 1.30 Concentration. Lionel Williams, Joan McInnes		1.30 The Mike Walsh Show
2PM	2.15 Commonwealth Games: Opening Ceremony. Live from Christchurch, New Zealand	2pm Temptation. Tony Barber, Barbara Rogers	2pm General Hospital
3PM	3.50 Play School	3pm Emergency Line	3pm Spending Spree 3.30 Free For All. Ugly Dave Gray	3pm On Safari 3.30 The Amazing Three
4PM	4pm Adventure Island 4.30 Sesame Street	4pm Princess Knight 4.30 Huckleberry Hound	4pm Cartoon Corner	4pm The Fun Palace
5PM	5.25 The Young Producers 5.35 The Cisco Kid	5pm Rin Tin Tin 5.30 The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father	5pm Here Come The Double Deckers 5.30 Superman	5pm Jeff’s Collie 5.30 The Littlest Hobo
6PM	6pm Commonwealth Games Report: Opening Ceremony. Highlights 6.30 Rollin’ With Kenny Rogers 6.55 To Market	6pm Bewitched 6.30 Seven National News. David Johnston, Mal Walden	6pm Gambit. Peter Hitchener, Ros Wood 6.30 National Nine News. John Bailey, Brian Smith, Rosemary Margan	6pm Eyewitness News 6.30 Gilligan’s Island
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 GTK 74	7pm $25,000 Great Temptation. Tony Barber, Barbara Rogers 7.30 Search	7pm A Current Affair 7.30 Special: Three Dog Night	7pm The Price Is Right. Garry Meadows 7.30 Matlock Police
8PM	8pm The Two Ronnies 8.45 ABC News, Weather 8.50 Horizon	8.30 JC At 8.30. John Collins, Andrew Harwood	8pm Funny Face 8.30 The Smith Family	8.30 Movie: Man With A Gun. 1958 [IMDB]
9PM	9.45 Sit Yourself Down Take A Look Around. Marian Henderson, Mike McClelland	9pm Movie: See The Man Run. 1970 [IMDB]	9pm The Ernie Sigley Show. Ernie Sigley, Denise Drysdale, Colin McEwen, Sue Donovan, Joy Westmore
10PM	10.15 ABC News, Weather 10.25 Special: It’s Not All Peaches And Cream	10.30 News, Weather 10.40 Movie: Tomorrow We Live. 1945 [IMDB]	10.30 Thriller	10.10 News 10.15 The Mike Walsh Show (Rpt)
11PM	11.20 Close		11.30 News. Peter Smith 11.35 Hunter	11.45 Weather; Close
12AM		12.10am Close	12.35am Epilogue 12.40 Close
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