The 1978 Australian Popular Song Festival is presented live from the studios of ATV0, 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 — SYDNEY
Source: TV Times, 22 July 1978
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| 6AM | 6am Thunderbirds | |||
| 7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show. Marilyn Mayo | 7am The Early Bird Show | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | |||
| 9AM | 9am For Schools: How We Used To Live, Bookworm 9.30 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 King’s Kitchen 9.45 Bev’s Sewing Circle |
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| 10AM | 10am For Schools: Behind The News, People Of The Australian Western Desert (B&W), Our Asian Neighbours, The Arcade Show, The Colonials, Mathshow | 10am Romper Room | 10am Dinah! | 10am Movie: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes. 1939 (B&W) [IMDB] |
| 11AM | 11am The Munsters (B&W) 11.30 Willesee At Seven (Rpt) |
11am Another World 11.55 News |
11.30 Shoulder To Shoulder | |
| 12PM | 12pm This Week Today 12.30 A Big Country (Rpt) |
12pm Movie: Saskatchewan. 1954 [IMDB] | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | 12pm News 12.03 Movie: A Prowler In The Heart. 1973 [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon-5 1.29 Weather 1.30 For Schools: For The Juniors, Writers’ Workshop, The Living Body, Secondary Social Science |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1.30 As The World Turns | |
| 2PM | 2pm Mannix | 2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News |
2.30 Ryan’s Hope | |
| 3PM | 3pm Close | 3pm Homicide | 3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow |
3pm Matlock Police |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Sesame Street |
4pm The Flying Nun 4.30 Batman |
4pm Superman (B&W) 4.30 The Bugs Bunny Show |
4pm Marie’s Multi-Coloured Magic Machine |
| 5PM | 5.30 Sir Prancelot/The Magic Roundabout 5.40 The Feathered Serpent |
5pm The Jetsons 5.30 Get Smart |
5pm Family Feud. Tony Barber 5.30 My Three Sons (B&W) |
5pm The Brady Bunch 5.30 Hogan’s Heroes |
| 6PM | 6.05 F Troop (B&W) 6.30 Doctor Who 6.55 Tomorrow’s Sport |
6pm Bewitched 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor |
6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News. Eric Pearce, Peter Hitchener |
6pm News At Six. Bruce Mansfield |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Geoff Raymond 7.26 Weather 7.30 This Day Tonight. Mike Minehan |
7pm Willesee At Seven. Mike Willesee 7.30 The Muppet Show |
7pm The Sullivans 7.30 Leyland Brothers Trekabout |
7pm Blankety Blanks 7.30 Special: The 1978 Australian Popular Song Festival. Barry Crocker |
| 8PM | 8pm Commonwealth Games: Preview . Peter Meares 8.30 It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum |
8.30 Movie: Jane Eyre. 1971 [IMDB] | 8.30 Movie: Volcano: Krakatoa, East Of Java. 1969 [IMDB] | 8.30 Movie: Hatari! 1962 [IMDB] |
| 9PM | 9pm Fathers And Families | |||
| 10PM | 10.15 ABC News, Weather 10.25 Country Road. Johnny Chester |
10.35 Nightmoves. Lee Simon | ||
| 11PM | 11.25 Close | 11pm Movie: Satan’s School For Girls. 1973 [IMDB] | 11.30 The Peter Couchman Show | |
| 12AM | 12.35am Close | 12.30am Movie: Take The Money And Run. 1969 [IMDB] | 12.45am Movie: Them! 1954 (B&W) [IMDB] | |
| 1AM | ||||
| 2AM | 2am Movie: Along Came A Spider. 1969 [IMDB] | 2.25 Close | ||
| 3AM | 3.30 Movie: You’re A Big Boy Now. 1967 [IMDB] | |||
| 4AM | ||||
| 5AM | 5am Gideon’s Way (B&W) (Continues to 6am) |
