ABC’s prime time line-up for Australia Day includes the Governor-General’s Australia Day Message, the Australia Day Live concert from Melbourne and the premiere of the six-part comedy And Here Comes Bucknuckle, starring Peter Curtin, Noni Hazlehurst, John Bluthal and Reg Evans. The series screens over six consecutive nights. Later, there is a repeat of the three-part 1980 drama Players To The Gallery, starring Peter Sumner, Kate Fitzpatrick and Richard Moir.

See also: Monday 26 January 1981 — VICTORIA

Source: The Australian Women’s Weekly TV World, 28 January 1981

	ABS2	ADS7	NWS9	SAS10
6AM
7AM				7am Movie: Treasure Island. 1970 [IMDB]
8AM				8.45 Movie: About Face. 1952 [IMDB]
9AM			9.10am Here’s Humphrey
10AM		10am Ready Set Go 10.30 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home	10.10 Movie: Raising The Wind. 1962 [IMDB]	10.30 Movie: Amazons Of Rome. 1963 [IMDB]
11AM		11am The Cisco Kid (B&W) 11.30 Tom And Jerry	11.49 Anne Wills Hosting 11.50 Movie: Desk Set. 1957 [IMDB]
12PM	12.30pm ABC News, Weather 12.41 Weekend Magazine (Rpt)	12pm Movie: Strange Holiday. 1969 [IMDB]		12.15pm Movie: Sunstruck [IMDB]
1PM	1.05 Swimming: 1980 Australian Championships	1.30 Movie: Navy Wife. 1935 (B&W) [IMDB]	1.44pm Head Start To Beauty 1.49 News 1.50 Movie: Apache Drums. 1951 [IMDB]
2PM	2.05 Motor Racing: 1980 Italian Grand Prix			2pm Movie: 80 Steps To Jonah. 1969 [IMDB]
3PM	3.05 Rugby Union: 1980 All Nations Cup	3pm Coronation Street	3.10 Super Monday 3.40 Cricket: Second Test. Live from Adelaide Oval
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Sesame Street	4pm Kids Only — KO 4.30 Heidi		4pm Thunder 4.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
5PM	5.30 Sam’s Luck 5.58 ABC News Headlines	5pm Elephant Boy 5.30 Celebrity Tattletales		5pm Dance Fever 5.30 The Celebrity Game
6PM	6pm Seven Little Australians 6.55 Videodisc	6pm In Search Of 6.30 Seven National News. Guy Blackmore	6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 News. Roger Cardwell, Caroline Ainslie	6pm News. Tony Dickinson, Jane Reilly 6.30 The Have A Go Show. Jimmy Hannan
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 His Excellency The Governor-General’s Australia Day Message 1981 7.40 Special: Australia Day Live. Barry Crocker, Julie Anthony, June Bronhill, Kamahl, Debbie Byrne, Air Supply, The Australian Boys Choir	7pm Welcome Back Kotter 7.30 Special: John Denver And The Ladies	7pm Hogan’s Heroes 7.30 Benson	7.05 Special: Summergirl ’81 Grand Final 7.35 Alice
8PM	8.50 Bird Of The Thunder Woman	8.30 News 8.35 Cop Shop	8pm Taxi 8.30 News 8.31 Movie: Soldier Blue. 1970 [IMDB]	8.05 Detective School 8.35 American Girls
9PM	9.40 ABC News, Weather 9.50 And Here Comes Bucknuckle PREMIERE	9.35 Skyways		9.35 Movie: Come Out Fighting. 1972 [IMDB]
10PM	10.20 Players To The Gallery	10.35 Big League Soccer	10pm New Zealand Summer Games	10.35 Mission Impossible
11PM	11.10 World Of Music 11.45 Close	11.35 The Persuaders	11pm Cricket: Second Test. Highlights	11.35 Hello Larry
12AM		12.35am Goodnight; Close	11.30 Movie: The Man Who Never Was. 1956 [IMDB]	12.05am With Joyful Praise 12.10 Close
1AM
2AM			1.30am On This Day (B&W); Close
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