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

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
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
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)