See also: Monday 29 January 1979 — MELBOURNE
Source: TV Week, 27 January 1979
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| 6AM | 6am The Samurai 6.30 The Job Show |
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| 7AM | 7am The Holiday Fun Show | |||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8.30am Fat Cat And Friends | ||
| 9AM | 9am Close 9.30 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Rainbow 9.25 With Joyful Praise 9.30 Marvel Superfriends 9.50 Jonny Quest |
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| 10AM | 10am Close | 10am Romper Room | 10am Untamed World | 10.10 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids 10.30 Good Morning Sydney. Maureen Duval |
| 11AM | 11.25 Cricket: Fifth Test. Australia v England. Live from Adelaide | 11am The Wonderful World Of Brother Buzz 11.30 The Cisco Kid (B&W) |
11am Room 222 11.55 News |
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| 12PM | 12pm Movie: Five Fingers. 1952 (B&W) [IMDB] | 12pm Movie: East Of Sudan. 1964 [IMDB] | 12pm News 12.30 The Waltons |
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| 1PM | 1.30pm ABC News 1.40 Weather 1.41 Weekend Magazine (Rpt) |
1.30 The Big Valley | 1.30 The Steve Raymond Show | |
| 2PM | 2.05 Cricket (cont’d) | 2pm Space 1999 | 2.20 Cricket: World Series Cricket: International Cup Grand Final. Live from VFL Park, Melbourne | 2.28 News 2.30 Almost Anything Goes |
| 3PM | 3pm Bewitched (B&W) | 3.28 News 3.30 Journey To The Centre Of The Earth |
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| 4PM | 4pm Professor And The Enquiring Minds 4.30 Solo One |
4pm Laurel And Hardy 4.30 The Brady Bunch |
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| 5PM | 5pm The Partridge Family 5.30 Pebbles And Bamm Bamm |
5pm Daniel Boone | ||
| 6PM | 6.30 The Ghost And Mrs Muir 6.55 This Week In Britain |
6pm I Dream Of Jeannie 6.30 Seven National News. Roger Climpson, Mike Bailey |
6pm Family Feud. Tony Barber 6.30 National Nine News. Brian Henderson, Alan Wilkie |
6pm Eyewitness News. Katrina Lee, John Bailey, John Cootes, David Ellyard |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 Horse Talk. Heath Harris, Suzy Jarratt |
7pm Willesee At Seven. Mike Willesee 7.30 On The Buses |
7pm Cricket (cont’d) | 7pm The New Dick Van Dyke Show 7.30 Emergency |
| 8PM | 8pm The Liver Birds 8.30 Armchair Thriller |
8pm And Mother Makes Five 8.30 Cop Shop |
8.30 Special: Steve And Eydie Salute To Irving Berlin | |
| 9PM | 9.20 ABC News, Weather 9.30 The Disappearing World |
9.30 Alvin Purple | ||
| 10PM | 10.20 Cricket: Fifth Test. Australia v England. Highlights 10.50 An Ark For Our Time |
10pm Barney Miller 10.30 News. John Bok, Mike Bailey |
10.30 News. Brian Henderson, Alan Wilkie | 10pm Australians At War |
| 11PM | 11.50 Close | 11pm Carter Country 11.30 Billy Liar |
11pm The Big Valley | 11pm His Excellency The Governor-General’s Australia Day Message 11.15 Movie: Moving Target. 1973 [IMDB] |
| 12AM | 12am Close | 12am Movie: The Man In The Net. 1959 (B&W) [IMDB] | 12.30am Close | |
| 1AM | 1.30 Movie: Death Of A Scoundrel. 1956 (B&W) [IMDB] | |||
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| 3AM | 3.30 Movie: Paris Blues. 1961 (B&W) [IMDB] | |||
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| 5AM | 5am Danger Man (B&W) (Continues to 6am) |