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

	ABN2	ATN7	TCN9	TEN10
6AM			6am Thunderbirds
7AM			7am The Super Flying Fun Show. Marilyn Mayo
8AM	8am Sesame Street			8.30am Fat Cat And Friends 8.55 Comment
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
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
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)
5AM			5am Gideon’s Way (B&W) (Continues to 6am)