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? |
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| 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 |
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| 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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