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 | |
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| 6AM | 6am King Leonardo And His Short Subjects 6.30 Rocky And Bullwinkle 6.55 Go Health |
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| 7AM | 7am Birdman And The Galaxy Trio 7.30 Dinky Dog |
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| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8am Magazine 7 | 8am Skatebirds 8.30 King Kong 8.55 God’s Wonderful World |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 5PM | 5pm Here’s Lucy 5.30 Family Feud |
5pm Gilligan’s Island 5.30 Hogan’s Heroes |
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| 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 |
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| 2AM | 2am Movie: Assault. 1971 [IMDB] | ||||
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| 5AM | 5.10 Big Valley (Continues to 6am) |