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

See also: Friday 24 October 1980 — MELBOURNE

Source: The Australian Women’s Weekly, Your TV Magazine, 22/29 October 1980.

	ABN2	ATN7	TCN9	TEN10	SBS0/28
6AM			6am King Leonardo And His Short Subjects 6.30 Rocky And Bullwinkle 6.55 Go Health
7AM			7am Birdman And The Galaxy Trio 7.30 Dinky Dog
8AM	8am Sesame Street	8am Magazine 7	8am Skatebirds 8.30 King Kong 8.55 God’s Wonderful World
9AM	9am For Schools: Early School Instruments 9.30 Play School	9am Helen: A Woman Of Today	9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Something To Sing About 9.05 The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali 9.30 Rainbow
10AM	10am For Schools: The Magic Bag, Music Time, Tas ’78, Inside Out, Mathshow, Smedley’s Weekly, Getting A Job	10am Romper Room. Miss Helena	10am The Ed Allen Show 10.30 Another World	10am Fat Cat And Friends 10.30 The Bernard King Show
11AM		11am Eleven AM	11.55 News	11am Good Morning Sydney
12PM		12pm Tennis: Melbourne Indoor Championship. Live from Melbourne.	12pm The Mike Walsh Show	12pm Movie: Pieces Of Dreams. 1970 [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News, 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			2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News	2pm Movie: The Elevator. 1974 [IMDB]
3PM			3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow	3.30 That Girl
4PM	4pm Alexander’s Afternoon. Includes Play School, The Friday Weekly, Lassie, Pollyanna		4pm The Curiosity Show	4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 4.30 Studio Ten
5PM			5pm Here’s Lucy 5.30 Family Feud	5pm Gilligan’s Island 5.30 Hogan’s Heroes
6PM	6pm Countrywide 6.40 In Your Garden	6pm Seven Sydney News. Steve Liebmann 6.30 Seven National News. Mike Peterson	6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Brian Henderson	6pm Eyewitness News. Katrina Lee, Ron Wilson	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: 1981 Miss Australia Quest. Live from Melbourne.	7pm Sale Of The Century. Tony Barber, Victoria Nicolls 7.30 Safeway New Faces. Bert Newton	7pm MASH 7.30 The Benny Hill Show	7pm Who Are We? Documentary with Peter Luck
8PM	8.15 Nationwide. Clive Hale, Richard Carleton, Paul Murphy, Andrew Olle, Richard Palfreyman, Maxine McKew, Jenny Brockie 8.45 Soccer: Match Of The Day	8.30 Movie: Green Eyes. 1976 [IMDB]	8.30 What’ll They Think Of Next. Geoff Stone	8.30 Movie: Shark! 1970 [IMDB]	8pm Chromakey Follies (Italy)
9PM	9.45 ABC News, Weather 9.54 Sportscene		9pm Barnaby Jones		9pm Movie: Three Sea Wolves [IMDB]
10PM		10.30 Tennis: Melbourne Indoor Championship	10pm Columbo	10.20 Movie: With A Song In My Heart. 1952 [IMDB]	10.30 Movie: Don’t Lean Out. (Yugoslavia)
11PM	11.40 Close		11.30 The Evil Touch
12AM		12.30am Close	12am Movie: The Chairman. 1969 [IMDB]	12.40am Hotel Story	12am Close
1AM				1.40 Something To Sing About 1.45 Close
2AM			2am Movie: Assault. 1971 [IMDB]
3AM			3.50 Movie. Model For Murder. 1959 [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5.10 The Big Valley (Continues to 6am)