In the wake of recent political events in Canberra and with an election campaign now in progress as a result, ATV0 becomes the first Melbourne channel to launch a regular one-hour newscast, Eyewitness Newshour. The format is short-lived, however, and the channel reverts Eyewitness News back to a half-hour format two months later.
All four channels broadcast the Australian Labor Party’s election speech by Gough Whitlam at 8.30pm. (The Liberal-National Country Party’s election speech by caretaker Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser was broadcast across all four channels at 8.30pm the following night)
Source: TV Times, 22 November 1975. (Except programs marked * as listed in The Age, 24 November 1975)
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7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show | 7am Cartoon Carnival | ||
8AM | 8am Sesame Street | |||
9AM | 9am Close 9.10 For Schools: Natural Science, Writers Workshop 9.50 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am The Doctors (B&W) 9.20 Swami Sarasvati 9.30 Pot Of Gold. Tommy Hanlon Jnr |
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10AM | 10.20 For Schools: Macbeth In Camera (B&W), Counterpoint (B&W), Scan (B&W) | 10am Charles Skase 10.55 News |
10am Another World | 10.30 The Roy Hampson Show |
11AM | 11am Return To Peyton Place 11.30 Movie: Savage Innocents. 1961 [IMDB] |
11am Vi’s Pad. Vi Greenhalf 11.45 TV Kitchen |
11.30 Movie: Blanche Fury. 1948 (B&W) [IMDB] | |
12PM | 12.40pm Weekend Magazine (Rpt) | 12pm Days Of Our Lives | ||
1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.20 For Schools: Thinkabout Talkabout (B&W), Starting Point (B&W), Modern Egypt, Scan (B&W), Folk Tales |
1pm The Young And The Restless 1.25 News 1.30 No Man’s Land. Mickie de Stoop |
1.30pm The Mike Walsh Show | |
2PM | 2pm Jason King | 2pm General Hospital | ||
3PM | 3.20 Andy Pandy (B&W) 3.35 Play School (B&W) |
3pm Homicide (B&W) | 3pm Dinah! | 3pm Matlock Police (B&W) |
4PM | 4pm Sesame Street 4.52 Adventure Island (B&W) |
4pm Huckleberry Hound 4.30 Death Valley Showdown |
4pm Cartoon Corner. Daryl Somers, Ossie Ostrich. Includes Lancelot Link, The Beatles | 4pm Launching Pad 4.05 The Three Stooges (B&W) 4.30 The Addams Family (B&W) |
5PM | 5.17 The Wombles 5.22 Cartoons (B&W) 5.28 Magic Ball 5.40 Adventures Of The Sea Spray (B&W) |
5pm Hazel 5.30 Class Of ’75 |
5pm Nanny And The Professor 5.30 Sigmund And The Sea Monsters |
5pm Laramie (B&W) |
6PM | 6.05 My Favourite Martian (B&W) 6.30 GTK (B&W) 6.40 Bellbird 6.55 Take Kerr |
6pm The Doris Day Show 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor, David Johnston, Peter Landy |
* 6pm The Lucy Show 6.30 News Centre Nine. Peter Hitchener, Brian Henderson |
* 6pm Eyewitness Newshour. Bruce Mansfield, Briony Behets |
7PM | 7pm ABC News. Geoff Raymond 7.30 This Day Tonight. Peter Couchman |
7pm The Little People 7.30 Space 1999 |
7pm A Current Affair. Mike Minehan 7.30 Colditz |
7pm Casino 10. Steve Raymond 7.30 I Spy |
8PM | 8pm A Big Country * 8.30 Election Policy Speech: Australian Labor Party |
* 8.30 Election Policy Speech: Australian Labor Party | * 8.30 Election Policy Speech: Australian Labor Party | * 8.30 Election Policy Speech: Australian Labor Party |
9PM | * 9pm ABC News * 9.05 The Norman Gunston Show * 9.35 Monday Conference. Robert Moore |
9pm Mannix | 9pm Nakia | * 9pm Number 96 * 9.30 The Rookies |
10PM | * 10.30 ABC News * 10.40 Special Branch |
10pm Movie: Tea And Sympathy. 1956 [IMDB] | * 10pm Election ’75 Report * 10.10 Movie: Hot Blood. 1956 [IMDB] |
* 10.30 Mission: Impossible |
11PM | * 11.30 Close | * 11.45 Movie: Bulldog Drummond In Africa. 1938 (B&W) [IMDB] | * 11.30 Movie: The Perfect Marriage. 1946 (B&W) [IMDB] | |
12AM | * 12.25am The Men From Shiloh * 12.55 Close |
* 12.45am Epilogue * 12.50 Close |
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1AM | * 1.10am Close | |||
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