ABC debuts the late night music show, Rocturnal, hosted by David Woodhall and produced at ABS2. The program was inspired by the ABCFM radio show of the same name.
Source: TV Week, 25 February 1978
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| 7AM | 7am Earlybirds | |||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8.30 Fat Cat And Friends | ||
| 9AM | 9am For Schools: Close Up 9.30 Play School |
9am Ready, Set, Go 9.30 Cartoon Corner |
9.30am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Close |
| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Ugly Duckling, Le Nouvel Arrive, Careers, Words And Pictures, Colonials | 10am It’s A Woman’s World. Lionel Williams | 10.30 The Mike Walsh Show | 10.45 King’s Kitchen |
| 11AM | 11am Thirty Minutes Worth 11.30 Willesee At Seven (Rpt) 11.57 News |
11am Touch Of Elegance | ||
| 12PM | 12pm Monday Conference (Rpt) | 12pm Movie: Twilight For The Gods. 1958 [IMDB] | Tony Murphy hosts the afternoon programs. 12.01pm Movie: Haunts Of The Very Rich. 1972 [IMDB] |
12pm The Young And The Restless |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon-5 1.29 Weather 1.30 Close 1.40 For Schools: Primary Science, Way They Live There |
1.25 Slimming 1.30 News 1.31 Days Of Our Lives |
1pm Another World | |
| 2PM | 2.20 Close | 2pm Homicide (Rpt) | 2.30 General Hospital | 2pm Pot Of Gold |
| 3PM | 3pm Dinah! | 3.30 Ryan’s Hope | 3pm Matlock Police (Rpt) | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Sesame Street |
4pm SPECCO 4.30 The New Mickey Mouse Club |
4pm The Super Cartoon Show | 4pm Crackerjack. Dean Davis |
| 5PM | 5.30 Nutty Squirrels 5.40 Gentle Ben |
5pm Batman 5.30 The Beverly Hillbillies |
5pm Jabberjaw 5.30 The Bugs Bunny Show |
5pm Petticoat Junction 5.30 Gilligan’s Island |
| 6PM | 6.05 My Favourite Martian 6.30 Doctor Who 6.55 Take Kerr |
6pm Family Feud. Tony Barber 6.30 Seven National News. Kevin Crease, Pam Tamblyn |
6pm Room 222 6.30 News. Roger Cardwell, Caroline Ainslie, Sue Baron |
6pm News. Tom Blackburn, Peta Peter 6.30 The Brady Bunch |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight. Glenn Taylor |
7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 The Dick Emery Show |
7pm Laverne And Shirley 7.30 Special: Sinatra — The Main Event |
7pm Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy 7.35 The Restless Years |
| 8PM | 8pm Journey Into India 8.30 Robin’s Nest 8.55 Recipes |
8pm The Rag Trade 8.30 Police Woman |
8.30 News 8.31 Rosetti And Ryan |
8.35 Get Christie Love |
| 9PM | 9pm ABC News 9.05 Hazell 9.55 Perspective |
9.30 Movie: Revenge For A Rape. 1976 [IMDB] | 9.35 Rafferty | |
| 10PM | 10.50 Rocturnal. David Woodhall PREMIERE | 10.30 Shannon’s Mob | 10.35 The Box | |
| 11PM | 11.20 Close | 11pm Department S | 11.30 On This Day (B&W) 11.35 Epilogue; Close |
11.35 Police Surgeon |
| 12AM | 12am Goodnight; Close | 12am Close | ||
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