The 1978 Australian Popular Song Festival is presented live from the studios of ATV0, Melbourne, hosted by Barry Crocker and special guest star Julie Anthony, with the finalists including Debbie Byrne, Mary Jane Boyd, John St Peeters, Lee Conway, Little Pattie, Bryan Davies, Leon Berger, Andy Lupton and Graeme Connors.
See also: Friday 28 July 1978 — MELBOURNE
Source: TV Week, 22 July 1978
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| 6AM | 6am The Thunderbirds | |||
| 7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show. Marilyn Mayo | |||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8.30am Fat Cat And Friends 8.55 Comment |
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| 9AM | 9am For Schools: How We Used To Live, Bookworm 9.30 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Movie: All For Mary. 1956 (B&W) [IMDB] | |
| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Behind The News, People Of The Australian Western Desert (B&W), Our Asian Neighbours, The Colonials, Mathshow | 10am Romper Room | 10am Dinah! | 10.30 Good Morning Sydney. Maureen Duval |
| 11AM | 11am Eleven AM | 11am Another World 11.55 News |
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| 12PM | 12pm This Week Today 12.30 A Big Country (Rpt) |
12pm Movie: The Laughing Lady. 1947 [IMDB] | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | 12pm Eyewitness News 12.30 Movie: Marines, Let’s Go. 1961 [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon-5 1.29 Weather 1.30 For Schools: Watch, Writers Workshop, The Living Body, Secondary Social Studies |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | ||
| 2PM | 2pm Homicide | 2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News |
2.30 Mod Squad | |
| 3PM | 3pm Special: Chaser | 3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow |
3.30 Chico And The Man | |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Sesame Street |
4pm Happy Go Round | 4pm The Addams Family (B&W) 4.30 Nanny And The Professor |
4pm The Way It Is 4.30 Rugby League: Amco Shield (Rpt) |
| 5PM | 5pm The Adventures Of Sir Prancelot 5.40 The Feathered Serpent |
5pm The Porky Pig Show 5.30 The Flintstones |
5pm Family Feud 5.30 Happy Days |
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| 6PM | 6.05 F Troop 6.30 Doctor Who 6.55 The Red And The Blue |
6pm Bewitched 6.30 Seven National News. John Bok |
6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Brian Henderson |
6pm Eyewitness News. Eric Walters |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight. Clive Hale |
7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 The Muppet Show |
7pm The Sullivans 7.30 Black Sheep Squadron |
7pm Blankety Blanks. Graham Kennedy 7.30 Special: The 1978 Australian Popular Song Festival. Barry Crocker. Live from Melbourne |
| 8PM | 8pm Commonwealth Games: Preview. Peter Meares 8.30 Dave Allen At Large |
8pm One Day At A Time 8.30 Cop Shop |
8.30 Movie: Up The Front. 1972 [IMDB] | 8.30 Westside Medical |
| 9PM | 9.15 Soap 9.40 ABC News, Weather 9.50 Sportscene |
9.30 Movie: The Yearling. 1946 [IMDB] | 9.30 Movie: Norwood. 1970 [IMDB] | |
| 10PM | 10.20 Movie: Two For The Road. 1967 [IMDB] | |||
| 11PM | 11pm Close | 11.25 Movie: Pete Kelly’s Blues. 1955 [IMDB] | ||
| 12AM | 12am Movie: The Last Outpost. 1935 (B&W) [IMDB] | 12.30am Movie: Take The Money And Run. 1969 [IMDB] | ||
| 1AM | 1.30 Close | 1.15am Movie: Madame X. 1966 [IMDB] | ||
| 2AM | 2am Movie: Along Came A Spider. 1969 [IMDB] | 2.50 Movie: Desire In The Dust. 1960 (B&W) [IMDB] | ||
| 3AM | 3.30 Movie: You’re A Big Boy Now. 1967 [IMDB] | |||
| 4AM | 4.30 Movie: She’s Working Her Way Through College [IMDB] (Continues to 6am) |
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| 5AM | 5am Gideon’s Way (B&W) (Continues to 6am) |
