The mini-series Roots: The Next Generations, the sequel to the highly-popular Roots, makes its debut on the 0-10 Network.
See also: Monday 28 May 1979 — MELBOURNE
Source: TV Week, 26 May 1979
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| 6AM | 6am Thunderbirds | |||
| 7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show | 7.30am The Electric Company | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8am Fat Cat And Friends 8.30 Rainbow 8.55 Something To Sing About |
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| 9AM | 9am For Schools: Samba Et Bouboune 9.30 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Movie: Flame In The Streets. 1962 (B&W) [IMDB] | |
| 10AM | 10am Close 10.20 For Schools: Careers, The Art Of The Motion Picture, Flip Slide Turn, The Arcade Show |
10am Romper Room. Miss Patricia | 10am Room 222 10.30 Celebrity Squares |
10.30 The Bernard King Show |
| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM. Steve Liebmann | 11am Another World 11.55 National Nine News |
11am Good Morning Sydney. Maureen Duval | |
| 12PM | 12pm Close 12.35 Weekend Magazine |
12pm Movie: The Sunshine Patriot. 1968 [IMDB] | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | 12pm Movie: Man On A String. 1971 [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1pm News, Weather 1.11 Close 1.35 For Schools: Music Time, Words And Pictures, Science Skills, Environmental Man |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1.30 The Steve Raymond Show | |
| 2PM | 2pm Department S | 2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 National Nine News |
2.30 The FBI | |
| 3PM | 3pm Close | 3pm I Spy | 3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow |
3.30 Bugs Bunny And Friends |
| 4PM | 4pm ARVO. Includes Play School, Mr Squiggle And Friends, Basil Brush, Famous Five | 4pm Michael Bentine 4.30 Flipper |
4pm Razzle Dazzle 4.30 Scooby Doo |
4pm Battle Of The Planets 4.30 Superman |
| 5PM | 5pm The Bugs Bunny Show 5.30 Get Smart |
5pm Here’s Lucy 5.30 Family Feud |
5pm Tarzan | |
| 6PM | 6pm The Goodies 6.30 Doctor Who 6.55 This Week In Britain |
6pm Willesee At Six PREMIERE 6.30 Seven National News. Roger Climpson |
6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Brian Henderson |
6pm Eyewitness News. Katrina Lee, John Bailey |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 Are You Being Served? |
7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 The Incredible Hulk |
7pm The Sullivans 7.30 Hawaii Five O |
7pm MASH 7.30 Mini-Series: Roots The Next Generations. Part One [IMDB] |
| 8PM | 8pm Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em 8.30 The Oracle |
8.30 Cop Shop | 8.30 Vegas | |
| 9PM | 9.20 ABC News 9.30 Nationwide. Clive Hale, Richard Carleton |
9.30 The Sweeney | 9.30 The Don Lane Show | 9.30 Prisoner |
| 10PM | 10.10 The World Of Pam Ayres 10.35 Joan Armatrading |
10.30 Monty Python’s Flying Circus | 10.30 Softly Softly Task Force | |
| 11PM | 11.35 The Cuckoo Waltz | 11pm Seven National News 11.30 Yus My Dear! |
11pm Big Valley | 11.30 Special Branch |
| 12AM | 12am Close | 12am Close | 12am Movie: The Happy Ending. 1969 [IMDB] | 12.30am Close |
| 1AM | 1.55 Movie: A Blueprint For Murder. 1953 (B&W) [IMDB] | |||
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| 3AM | 3.15 Movie: An American Dream. 1966 [IMDB] | |||
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| 5AM | 5am Danger Man (Continues to 6am) |
