Nine’s The Mike Walsh Show presents its final episode for 1981, extending from its usual 90 minute format to 2 hours. Highlight of the year’s final episode is the pantomime The Wizard Of Oz, featuring The Mike Walsh Show‘s showbiz reporter John Michael Howson as Dorothy.

Source: Woman’s Day/TV Day, 25 November 1981

	ABN2	ATN7	TCN9	TEN10	SBS0/28
6AM			6am Rocky And Bullwinkle 6.30 King Leonardo 6.55 Go Health	6.30am Something To Sing About 6.35 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
7AM		7am Wombat 7.25 Just William 7.50 The Adventures Of Black Beauty	7am Scooby Doo 7.25 The Toothbrush Family 7.30 Odd Ball Couple	7am Good Morning Australia
8AM	8am Sesame Street	8.15 Tomorrow People 8.37 The Cisco Kid	8am Fonz And The Happy Days Gang 8.30 Cartoons
9AM	9am Close 9.30 Play School	9am Magazine 7 9.30 Good Times	9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 Texas
10AM	10am For Schools: Words And Pictures, Dockside, Lower Primary Science	10am Romper Room	10am Follyfoot 10.30 Division 4	10.30 The Bernard King Show
11AM	11am Close	11am Eleven AM	11.30 News	11am Good Morning Sydney
12PM		12pm Tennis: NSW Women’s Open	12pm The Mike Walsh Show	12pm Movie: That Kind Of Woman (B&W) [IMDB]
1PM	1pm ABC News, Weather 1.11 For Schools: Roadworthy, Behind The News, Watch
2PM	2.15 Close		2pm The Big Valley 2.55 News	2pm Marcus Welby MD
3PM	3pm Sesame Street		3pm Family Hour Special	3pm Chopper Squad
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Laff A Bits 4.35 Jam Sandwich		4pm The Curiosity Show	4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 4.30 Studio Ten
5PM	5.05 The Flying Kiwi 5.31 The Phoenix And The Carpet		5pm Nanny And The Professor 5.30 Gomer Pyle	5pm Batman 5.30 McHale’s Navy
6PM	6pm The Ghost And Mrs Muir 6.25 Fred Bassett 6.30 Wayne And Shuster 6.54 Videodisc	6pm The New Price Is Right 6.30 Seven National News	6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News	6pm Eyewitness News	6.27pm World News Headlines 6.30 In The Wake Of Odysseus (Greece)
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 All Creatures Great And Small	7pm Willesee ’81 7.30 Please Sir	7pm The Odd Couple 7.30 Sheriff Lobo And BJ And The Bear	7pm Alice 7.30 The Dukes Of Hazzard	7pm Luzie, Terror Of The Streets (Germany) 7.30 World News
8PM	8.20 Nationwide 8.50 Summer Spectrum	8pm Lovely Couple 8.30 A Country Practice	8.30 Hill Street Blues	8.30 Concrete Cowboys: Eldorado, Part One	8pm SCOOP 8.30 Wallenstein
9PM	9.50 ABC News	9.30 Skyways	9.30 National Nine News	9.30 Movie: Viva Knievel. 1977 [IMDB]
10PM	10pm Music Around Us 10.25 Close	10.30 Newsnight	10pm The Johnny Carson Show		10pm Thursday’s World Of Drama: A Light Shining In The Darkness (Sweden)
11PM		11.30 Movie: Fra Diavolo. 1933 (B&W) [IMDB]	11pm Gunsmoke	11.40 Van Der Valk	11.30 Close
12AM			12am Movie: Sylvia (B&W) 1965 [IMDB]	12.40am Something To Sing About 12.45 Close
1AM		1.20am Close
2AM			2.10 Movie: The Young Lions. 1958 [IMDB]
3AM
4AM
5AM			5.10 The Baron (Continues to 6am)