The first day of Channel 0/28 (now SBS).

See also: Friday 24 October 1980 — SYDNEY

Source: TV Week, 18 October 1980

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS0/28
6AM			6am King Leonardo 6.30 Rocky And Bullwinkle 6.55 Go Health
7AM			7am Cartoons	7am The Early Bird Show
8AM	8am Sesame Street			8.55 Launching Pad
9AM	9am For Schools: Early Musical Instruments 9.30 Play School		9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 The Rovers
10AM	10am For Schools: The Magic Bag, Music Time, Tas 78, Inside Out, Mathshow, Smedley’s Weekly, Careers	10am Romper Room	10am Ed Allen Show 10.30 Another World	10am Make A Wish 10.15 Bev’s Sewing Circle 10.30 The Bernard King Show
11AM		11am Tennis: Melbourne Indoor Championship	11.55 News	11am Everyday
12PM			12pm The Mike Walsh Show	12pm Movie. Miracle In The Rain. 1954 (B&W) [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 Close 1.35 For Schools: Science Magazine, For The Juniors, Look At A Book, Australian History		1.30 Days Of Our Lives
2PM	2.40 Close		2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News	2pm The Doris Day Show 2.30 The New Dick Van Dyke Show
3PM			3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search for Tomorrow	3pm Matlock Police
4PM	4pm Alexander’s Afternoon. Includes Play School, The Friday Weekly, Lassie		4pm The Curiosity Show	4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 4.30 The Lost Islands
5PM	5.30 Pollyanna 5.58 News Headlines		5pm Here’s Lucy 5.30 Family Feud	5pm Bugs Bunny And Friends 5.30 The Brady Bunch
6PM	6pm Countrywide 6.40 Living Tomorrow 6.55 Today’s Sport	6pm Get Smart 6.30 Seven National News. Mal Walden	6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Brian Naylor	6pm Eyewitness News. David Johnston, Jana Wendt	6.30pm Opening Preview. Bruce Gyngell introduces some of the programs to be seen on Channel 0/28
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 Dave Allen At Large	7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 Special: Miss Australia 1981	7pm Sale Of The Century 7.30 Happy Days	7pm MASH 7.30 Movie. Kid Galahad. 1962 [IMDB]	7pm Who Are We? Documentary with Peter Luck
8PM	8.15 Nationwide 8.45 Sow What	8.30 Tennis: Melbourne Indoor Championship	8.30 Movie. Lassie: The New Beginning. 1979 [IMDB]		8pm Chromakey Follies (Italy)
9PM	9pm ABC News 9.10 Sportsnight			9.30 The Ted Hamilton Show	9pm Movie: The Three Sea Wolves [IMDB]
10PM			10.30 Movie. Sweet, Sweet Rachel. 1971 [IMDB]		10.30 Movie: Don’t Lean Out. (Yugoslavia)
11PM	11.40 Close	11.30 Nightmoves		11pm Movie. Dark Passage. 1947 (B&W) [IMDB]
12AM			12am Movie. The Chairman. 1969 [IMDB]	12.45am Movie. Nobody Lives Forever. 1946 (B&W) [IMDB]	12am Close
1AM		1.30am Close
2AM			2am Movie: Assault. 1971 [IMDB]
3AM			3.50 Movie. Model For Murder. 1959 [IMDB]	3.20 Close
4AM
5AM			5.15 The Big Valley (B&W) (Continues to 6.00am)