The VFL Grand Final — featuring Carlton versus Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground — is on delayed telecast on ABC and Seven. Live TV coverage of the Grand Final is not permitted in Victoria until 1977.

Source: TV Times, 23 September 1970

MELBOURNE
	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
6AM			6.30am Casper
7AM			7am Bomba The Jungle Boy	7.30am Building Today. Murray Jones
8AM			8am Thunderbirds 8.55 Cricket Clinic	8am Happening 70. Ross D Wyllie
9AM		9am Romper Room	9am Laurel And Hardy 9.30 Movie: Heidi. 1937 [IMDB]
10AM		10am Movie: Atoll K. 1954 [IMDB]
11AM		11.30 Abbott And Costello	11am My Friend Flicka 11.28 Sport Report 11.30 Star Soccer
12PM	12.30pm Movie: Destination Rome [IMDB]	12pm Consider Your Verdict	12.30pm World Championship Wrestling	12pm Racing: Bendigo Races. Clem Dimsey, John Russell
1PM	1.55 Sportsview	1pm Movie: Thunder Over The Plains. 1953 [IMDB]	1.30 Movie: Canyon Ambush. 1952 [IMDB]
2PM	2pm Football: VFL Grand Final Preview 2.10 Hit Scene. Dick Williams 2.40 Sportsview. Includes VFL Grand Final updates at 3pm, 3.40, 4.25, 5pm	2.30 Movie: Journey Beneath The Desert. 1961 [IMDB]	2.30 Movie: Wall Of Fury. 1962 [IMDB]
3PM		VFL Grand Final updates at 2.25, 3pm, 3.35, 4.25
4PM		4pm Movie: Men Against The Sun [IMDB]	4pm Roller Game	4.55 News
5PM	5.10 Sporting Roundup 5.20 Hound For Hire 5.30 Peter’s Adventures 5.35 Kimba The White Lion	5.30 Jeopardy	5pm Bandstand. Brian Henderson	5pm Petticoat Junction 5.30 George Of The Jungle
6PM	6pm Paulus The Wood Gnome 6.10 The Hardy Boys 6.30 Football Roundup: VFL Grand Final	6pm Seven National News. David Johnston 6.30 Football Inquest. Michael Williamson	6pm News. John Bailey, Peter Smith, Jim Taylor, Bert Bryant 6.30 Movie: The Titfield Thunderbolt. 1953 [IMDB]	6pm Cowboy In Africa
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.15 Football: VFL Grand Final Replay. Carlton v Collingwood	7pm Football: VFL Grand Final Replay. Carlton v Collingwood		7pm Daniel Boone
8PM			8pm Australia’s New Faces. Terry Dear	8pm Adam 12
9PM	9pm Four Corners 9.55 Movie: Black Spurs. 1964 [IMDB]	9pm Special: Farewell The Seekers	9pm Movie: The Story On Page One. 1959 [IMDB]	9pm The Long Arm
10PM		10pm Movie: The Love Parade. 1965 [IMDB]		10pm Garrison’s Gorillas
11PM	11.10 Misleading Cases 11.45 Sports Review	11.45 Late News	11.20 Late News 11.30 The Sex Game	11pm Journey To The Unknown
12AM	12.05am Close	12am Movie: Evil Brain From Outer Space. 1964 [IMDB]	12.30am Movie: Revenge Of The Gladiators. 1962 [IMDB]	12am Weather; Close
1AM		1.30 Close
2AM			2.05 Epilogue 2.15 Close
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12.30pm Movie: Destination Rome [IMDB] 1.55 Sportsview 2pm Football: VFL Grand Final Preview 2.10 Hit Scene. Dick Williams 2.40 Sportsview. Includes VFL Grand Final updates at 3pm, 3.40, 4.25, 5pm 5.10 Sporting Roundup 5.20 Hound For Hire 5.30 Peter’s Adventures 5.35 Kimba The White Lion 6pm Paulus The Wood Gnome 6.10 The Hardy Boys 6.30 Football Roundup: VFL Grand Final 7pm ABC News 7.15 Football: VFL Grand Final Replay. Carlton v Collingwood 9pm Four Corners 9.55 Movie: Black Spurs. 1964 [IMDB] 11.10 Misleading Cases 11.45 Sports Review 12.05am Close	5pm Cartoon Carnival 5.15 Bandstand. Brian Henderson 6pm News 6.30 Football Results 6.35 Wild Kingdom 7pm That Girl 7.25 The Dick Van Dyke Show 8pm Ironside 8.50 Football: VFL Grand Final Replay. Carlton v Collingwood 10.50 Close	5pm Bandstand 6pm News 6.30 Football Inquest. Michael Williamson 7pm Football: VFL Grand Final Replay. Carlton v Collingwood 9pm Special: Jack Benny’s Carnival Nights 9.50 Curry And Chips 10.15 Agricultural Talk 10.20 Wrestling 11.15 News 11.20 Racing: Highlights 11.45 Epilogue; Close	5pm Bandstand. Brian Henderson 6pm News 6.30 The Lucy Show 6.55 Football Scores 7pm Football: VFL Grand Final Replay. Carlton v Collingwood 9pm Dragnet 9.25 On The Buses 9.55 It Takes A Thief 10.45 Wrestling 11.30 News, Weather 11.50 Epilogue; Close	5pm Laramie 6pm News 6.25 Sport 6.30 Football Inquest 7pm Football: VFL Grand Final Replay. Carlton v Collingwood 9pm Name Of The Game 10.20 This Week In Agriculture 10.35 The New Breed 11.30 Close	5.45pm Bandstand. Brian Henderson 6.40 News, Newsreel 7pm Here’s Harry 7.30 The Andy Williams Show 8.20 The Virginian 9.35 It Takes A Thief 10.28 Tomorrow On 8 10.30 Close	5pm Bandstand. Brian Henderson 6pm News 6.30 I Dream Of Jeannie 7pm Star Trek 8pm Movie: The Perfect Furlough. 1955 [IMDB] 9.40 Movie: A Man Named Rocca. 1963 [IMDB] 11.25 Close