See also: Wednesday 26 September 1979 — SYDNEY, Wednesday 26 September 1979 — MELBOURNE
Source: TV Guide, 22 September 1979
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| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8.30am Test Pattern |
| 9AM | 9am For Schools: Careers – Getting A Job 9.30 Play School |
9.15 Here’s Humphrey |
| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Behind The News, City Living, Man And His World, Exploring Science, The Magic Bag, Words And Pictures | 10.15 Cartoons 10.30 The Many Wives Of Patrick |
| 11AM | 11am Roundabout. Judy Kelly 11.30 King’s Kitchen. Bernard King 11.55 News |
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| 12PM | 12pm Test Pattern | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 For Schools: Neighbours: Four Families In Europe, Waterloo Street, Exploring Science (1) , Exploring Science (2), Man And Religion |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives |
| 2PM | 2.15 News 2.17 The Young And The Restless 2.45 Return To Peyton Place |
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| 3PM | 3pm Test Pattern | 3.15 Hazel 3.40 Tennessee Tuxedo |
| 4PM | 4pm ARVO. Includes Play School, Sesame Street, Horse In The House | 4pm Encyclopaedia Brittanica 4.30 What’s Happening |
| 5PM | 5pm Community Billboard 5.05 Flipper 5.40 And Mother Makes Three |
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| 6PM | 6pm The David Nixon Show 6.30 Doctor Who 6.55 Regional News |
6.10 Regional News 6.30 National News |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 The Wild With Harry Butler |
7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 The Sullivans |
| 8PM | 8pm The Inventors 8.30 Tycoon |
8pm The Rockford Files |
| 9PM | 9.20 ABC News, Weather 9.30 Nationwide |
9pm Movie: Night Watch. 1973 [IMDB] |
| 10PM | 10.10 Soccer: Match Of The Day | |
| 11PM | 11.05 In Performance At Wolf Trap 11.55 Close |
11pm News 11.10 The FBI |
| 12AM | 12.10am Close | |
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