TVQ0 airs the first episode of Prisoner. The Melbourne-based drama took viewers behind-the-scenes of a fictional women’s prison. Prisoner was originally commissioned for 16 episodes but high ratings saw it become an ongoing series — lasting for 692 episodes over eight years.
40 years of Prisoner [2019]
Source: The Courier-Mail, 27 February 1979
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| 7AM | 7am Boris’ Breakfast Club | 7.55am Prologue | 7am Breakfast With Jacki MacDonald | |
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8am The Job Show 8.30 Here’s Humphrey |
8.30 Fat Cat And Friends | |
| 9AM | 9am Play School 9.30 For Schools: Careers, For The Juniors, Bookworm, Science Report, Lower Primary Science, Investigating |
9am Romper Room | 9.25 Anne’s Corner 9.30 Dinah! |
9am The Electric Company 9.30 The Bernard King Show |
| 10AM | 10am Cartoons 10.25 Answers For Today 10.30 Ben Casey |
10.30 Coronation Street | 10am The John Crook Show 10.30 Movie: Kiss And Make Up [IMDB] |
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| 11AM | 11.30 The Doris Day Show | 11am Another World 11.55 News |
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12pm Homicide | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | 12pm Movie: PJ. 1968 [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1.35 For Schools: Science Skills, Watch, Exploring Science, Looking At A Document | 1pm Ryan’s Hope 1.25 News Headlines 1.30 Movie: Red Pony [IMDB] |
1.30 General Hospital | 1.30 The Steve Raymond Show |
| 2PM | 2pm Search For Tomorrow 2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News |
2.30 The Waltons | ||
| 3PM | 3.30 Family Feud | 3pm Days Of Our Lives | 3.30 My Three Sons | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Sesame Street |
4pm Wombat 4.30 Captain Caveman |
4pm It’s Now 4.30 Scooby Doo |
4pm Superman 4.30 The Brady Bunch |
| 5PM | 5.30 Catweazle | 5pm CB Bears 5.30 Get Smart |
5pm Nanny And The Professor 5.30 Happy Days |
5pm Gilligan’s Island 5.30 Hogan’s Heroes 5.59 Lotto. Jacki MacDonald |
| 6PM | 6pm News Headlines 6.01 The Goodies 6.30 Doctor Who 6.55 This Week In Britain |
6pm News 6.30 Haydn Sargent’s Brisbane |
6pm News 6.30 Today Tonight |
6pm News 6.30 The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 The Stationary Ark |
7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 Special: Super Stars Super Sounds |
7pm The Young Doctors 7.30 Family |
7pm MASH 7.30 The Restless Years |
| 8PM | 8pm Jokes 8.30 The Onedin Line |
8.30 Movie: Eliza Fraser. 1976 [IMDB] | 8.30 Mini-Series: Evening In Byantium. Part One [IMDB] | 8.30 Prisoner PREMIERE (see advertisement below) |
| 9PM | 9.20 ABC News, Weather 9.30 Nationwide |
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| 10PM | 10.10 Movie: Roman Scandals. 1933 (B&W) [IMDB] | 10.50 Premier Soccer | 10.30 Police Story | 10.30 Switch |
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