Channel 0/28’s first Christmas features the special A Whole World Of Christmas. Hosted by Don Dunstan, the program includes family reunions between Sydney and overseas, via satellite links. Also featured are various multicultural performances, and a nativity play presented by Chinese children. The two-hour program was repeated the following day.

The channel produced a second A Whole World Of Christmas in 1981, hosted by actor John Bluthal.

Source: TV Week, 20 December 1980 (except programs marked * Source: The Age, 24 December 1980)

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS0/28
6AM			6am Rocky And His Friends 6.30 King Leonardo 6.55 Go Health
7AM			7am Special: Mr Magoo’s 1001 Arabian Nights
8AM		8am Movie: Valiant Is The Word For Carrie. 1936 (B&W) [IMDB]	8.15 The Toothbrush Family 8.20 Space Kidettes 8.30 Casper’s Christmas Special
9AM		* 9.55 Special: Papal Christmas Midnight Mass. Via satellite from St Peter’s Basilica, Rome	9am Humphrey’s Christmas Message 9.05 Here’s Humphrey
10AM			10am Special: Carols By Candlelight (Rpt)
11AM	11am Divine Service 11.50 Close	* 11.20 Movie: The Wild North. 1951 [IMDB]
12PM		12.50pm Two’s Company	12pm Special: Charley’s Aunt
1PM		1.15 Police Woman	1.30 Movie: Sixty Glorious Years [IMDB]
2PM	2pm Movie: Life With Father. 1947 [IMDB]	2.05 Movie: Pinocchio’s Birthday Party. 1973 [IMDB]		2pm Movie: White Christmas. 1954 [IMDB]
3PM	3.55 Play School: Christmas Special	3.20 Special: Frosty’s Winter Wonderland 3.45 Special: A Year Without Santa Claus	3pm Special: The Little Match Girl 3.30 Special: King Of The Beasts
4PM	4.25 The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas 4.50 Movie: The Light Princess [IMDB]	4.40 Special: A Flintstone Christmas	4pm How 4.30 Animals Animals Animals	4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 4.30 Special: Christmas Cherries
5PM		5.30 Special: Christmas Gift Of Love	5pm Nine Will Fix It 5.30 The Bugs Bunny Show	5pm Special: Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus 5.30 Special: The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas	5.30pm Colargol Noel (France)
6PM	6.05 Christmas Around Australia	6.30 Seven National News. Malcolm Gray	6pm Here’s Lucy 6.30 National Nine News. Peter Hitchener	6pm Eyewitness News 6.30 Special: The Stable Boy’s Christmas	6pm Little Duck Blue Feature (Czechoslovakia) 6.25 The Legend Of The Christmas Tree (Poland) 6.30 Special: Spartakiad 1980 (Czechoslovakia)
7PM	7pm ABC News. Geoff Raymond 7.15 The Queen’s Christmas Message 7.30 Are You Being Served?	7pm Special: The Twelve Gifts 7.30 Movie: The Singing Nun. 1966 [IMDB]	7pm The Odd Couple 7.30 Movie: It Happened One Christmas. 1977 [IMDB]	7.30 Special: Bugs Bunny In King Arthur’s Court	7.30 Special: A Whole World Of Christmas. Don Dunstan
8PM	8pm The Liver Birds 8.40 All Creatures Great And Small			8pm Young Talent Time: Christmas Special
9PM	9.30 Special: Carols With The Rosny Choir	9.20 Special: The Dick Emery Christmas Show	9.30 The Dean Martin Show	9pm Movie: The Christmas Coal Mine Miracle. 1977 [IMDB]	9.30 The Queen’s Christmas Message * 9.40 Movie: The Maiden And The Beast (Czechoslovakia) [IMDB]
10PM	10pm Special: Shirley Bassey Christmas Special 1975 10.50 The Queen’s Christmas Message (Rpt)	10.20 Special: Stanley Baxter’s Christmas Box	10.30 The Queen’s Christmas Message 10.46 Movie: Cliff Richards And The Shadows Thank-You-Very-Much Reunion	10.50 Movie: Miracle On 34th Street. 1973 [IMDB]
11PM	11.05 Close	11.20 Movie: The Mikado. 1939 [IMDB]			11.10 Close
12AM			12am Movie: Holiday Inn. 1942 (B&W) [IMDB]	12.35am Close
1AM		1am Close	1.50 Movie: Dixie. 1943 [IMDB]
2AM
3AM			3.35 Movie: Rhythm On The River. 1940 (B&W) [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5.10 Danger Man (B&W) (Continues to 6am)