ATV0 presents the major mini-series event, Roots, for the third consecutive night. The 12-hour mini-series was broadcast over eight nights and returned massive ratings for the 0-10 Network.
HSV7 debuts the telemovie Mama’s Gone A-Hunting, starring Gerard Kennedy, Vince Martin, Carmen Duncan and Judy Morris. The telemovie, filmed in Sydney, was one of several by actor and producer Robert Bruning.
Source: TV Times, 21 May 1977
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| 6AM | 6am Gene Autry (B&W) | |||
| 7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show | 7am Cartoon Carnival | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | |||
| 9AM | 9am Close 9.30 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Rainbow 9.30 Fat Cat And Friends |
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| 10AM | 10am Close 10.55 For Schools: Mathshow, Thinkabout/Talkabout, Science Report |
10am Survival 10.30 Hazel |
10am Dinah! | 10am Swami Sarasvati 10.15 King’s Kitchen 10.30 The Roy Hampson Show |
| 11AM | 11am The Doris Day Show 11.30 Willesee At Seven (Rpt) |
11am Another World 11.55 News |
11.30 Julia | |
| 12PM | 12.15pm Close | 12pm Movie: It’s A Wonderful Life. 1947 (B&W) [IMDB] | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | 12pm Movie: Woman Obsessed. 1959 [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon-5 1.29 Weather 1.30 For Schools: For The Juniors (B&W) 1.45 Close |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | ||
| 2PM | 2pm (to be announced) | 2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News |
2pm Vi’s Pad. Vi Greenhalf 2.30 The Celebrity Game. Mike Preston |
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| 3PM | 3pm Boney | 3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow |
3pm Pot Of Gold. Tommy Hanlon Jnr | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.25 Sir Prancelot 4.30 The Magic Roundabout 4.35 Sesame Street |
4pm The Flying Nun 4.30 The Partridge Family |
4pm The Daryl And Ossie Cartoon Show | 4pm Tarzan |
| 5PM | 5.30 Flashez. Ray Burgess, Mike Meade | 5pm The New Mickey Mouse Club 5.30 Get Smart |
5pm The Road Runner Show 5.30 My Three Sons |
5pm The Brady Bunch 5.30 Long Play. Ronnie Burns |
| 6PM | 6pm Lorne Greene’s Last Of The Wild 6.30 Bellbird 6.55 Here And Now |
6pm The Flintstones 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor |
6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News |
6pm Eyewitness News. Bruce Mansfield 6.30 Casino 10 |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Geoff Raymond 7.30 This Day Tonight. Peter Couchman |
7pm Willesee At Seven. Mike Willesee 7.30 Special: Nadia — From Romania With Love |
7pm A Current Affair. Sue Smith, Kevin Sanders 7.30 Special: Glen Campbell Down Home Down Under |
7pm Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy 7.30 Mini-Series: Roots. Part Three [IMDB] |
| 8PM | 8pm The Good Life 8.30 Movie: The Shadow Line. 1976 [IMDB] |
8.30 Movie: Mama’s Gone A-Hunting. 1977 [IMDB] | 8.30 Movie: Little Ladies Of The Night. 1976 [IMDB] | 8.30 The Benny Hill Show |
| 9PM | 9.30 The Ernie Sigley Show | |||
| 10PM | 10.10 ABC News, Weather 10.20 The Regiment |
10pm Movie: Dimension 5. 1966 [IMDB] | 10.30 Division 4 | |
| 11PM | 11.10 Close | 11.40 Close | 11.30 Chopper One | 11pm Movie: Do You Take This Stranger. 1970 [IMDB] |
| 12AM | 12am Movie: The Silent Gun. 1969 [IMDB] | 12.45am Close | ||
| 1AM | 1.15 Movie: The Beast Of Hollow Mountain. 1956 [IMDB] | |||
| 2AM | 2.30 Movie: Buchanan Rides Alone. 1958 [IMDB] | |||
| 3AM | 3.50 Movie: Thunder In The Sun. 1959 [IMDB] | |||
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| 5AM | 5am Edgar Wallace Theatre (B&W) (Continues to 6am) |
