The day of the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. The event was given saturation coverage on ABC and commercial stations across Australia. ADS7 and GTS4/BKN7 were among the few commercial stations in Australia to provide an alternative to the live coverage — with ADS7 instead playing a John Wayne movie and screening a delayed telecast of the wedding the following day.

Royal Weddings: 1981 and today [2011]

See also: Wednesday 29 July 1981 — VICTORIA

Source: TV Week, 25 July 1981

ADELAIDE
	ABS2	ADS7	NWS9	SAS10
6AM
7AM
8AM	8am Sesame Street			8.55am The Wots-a-name Show
9AM	9am Breakaway 9.30 Play School	9am Ready Set Go 9.30 Cartoon Corner	9am Here’s Humphrey	9am What In The World 9.30 Animal World
10AM	10am Close 10.25 For Schools: Neighbours, Science Report, Investigating, Families Of The World, Ensemble	10am It’s A Woman’s World	10am Movie: 25 Years — Impressions. 1976	10am Fat Cat And Friends 10.30 Bernard King Show
11AM		11am Celebrity Tattletales 11.30 Willesee ’81 11.57 News	11.30 The Mike Walsh Show	11am Touch Of Elegance
12PM	12.30pm ABC News, Weather	12pm Movie: The Eddie Duchin Story. 1956 [IMDB]		12pm The Young And The Restless
1PM	1.40 For Schools: Behind The News, For The Juniors, Shakespeare In Perspective		1pm Search For Tomorrow 1.30 Home Decorations With Clarksons 1.35 Days Of Our Lives	1pm Another World
2PM	2.55 Sesame Street	2pm Special: Royal Wedding Preview (NBC)	2.30 General Hospital	2.30 Matlock Police
3PM	3.50 Play School	3pm Coronation Street 3.30 Family Feud	3.15 The Lucy Show 3.45 Cartoons	3.30 McHale’s Navy
4PM	4.20 The Basil Brush Show 4.50 Worzel Gummidge	4pm Flipper 4.30 Klips	4pm Super Wednesday. Includes Match Mates	4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
5PM	5.15 Jukes Of Piccadilly 5.40 Videodisc 5.45 ABC News	5pm Welcome Back Kotter 5.30 Wheel Of Fortune	5pm Special: The Royal Wedding Preview. Caroline Ainslie	5pm The Flintstones 5.30 Gilligan’s Island
6PM	6.15 Special: The Royal Wedding 1981: The Marriage Of His Royal Highness Prince Charles The Prince Of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer. BBC Coverage	6pm State Affair. Guy Blackmore 6.30 Seven National News. Kevin Crease	6pm Nine Action News. Roger Cardwell, Caroline Ainslie 6.15 Special: The Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer	6pm Eyewitness News. Tony Dickinson, Jane Reilly 6.15 Special: The Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. BBC Coverage
7PM		7pm In Search Of 7.30 Movie: The Sons Of Katie Elder. 1965 [IMDB]
8PM
9PM		9.45 Newsbreak	9.30 Ford Superquiz
10PM	10.15 ABC News, Weather 10.25 Special: The Prince For Our Times	10pm The Duke	10pm Nine Action News (cont’d) 10.15 Special: The Royal Wedding (cont’d) 10.45 Movie: The Dove. 1974 [IMDB]
11PM	11.15 Special: The Royal Wedding (Rpt)	11pm Doctor In Charge 11.30 Please Sir
12AM	12.30am Special: The Royal Wedding Departure	12am Goodnight 12.05 Close	12.30am Special: The Royal Wedding (cont’d)	12.15am Close
1AM	1.15 Close		1.15 On This Day (B&W) 1.20 Epilogue 1.25 Close
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REGIONALS
ABLN2 Broken Hill NSW ABCS7 Ceduna ABGS1 Mt Gambier ABRS3 Riverland ABNS1 Spencer Gulf North ABWS7 Woomera	GTS4 Spencer Gulf North BKN7 Broken Hill NSW	RTS5A Riverland	SES8 Mt Gambier
8am Sesame Street 9am Breakaway 9.30 Play School 10am Close 10.25 For Schools: Neighbours, Science Report, Investigating, Families Of The World, Ensemble 12.30pm ABC News, Weather 1.40 For Schools: Behind The News, For The Juniors, Shakespeare In Perspective 2.55 Sesame Street 3.50 Play School 4.20 The Basil Brush Show 4.50 Worzel Gummidge 5.15 Jukes Of Piccadilly 5.40 Regional News 5.45 ABC News 6.15 Special: The Royal Wedding 1981: The Marriage Of His Royal Highness Prince Charles The Prince Of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer. BBC Coverage 10.15 ABC News, Weather 10.25 Special: The Prince For Our Times 11.15 Special: The Royal Wedding (Rpt) 12.30am Special: The Royal Wedding Departure 1.15 Close	12pm Movie: Texas Lady. 1956 [IMDB] 1.30 Woman’s World 2.30 Rooms 3pm Panel Probe 3.30 Fat Cat And Friends 4pm Here’s Humphrey 5pm Wombat 5.30 My Friend Flicka 6pm Hogan’s Heroes 6.20 Local News 6.30 National News 7pm Green Acres 7.29 Tide Times — West 7.30 The Love Boat 8.29 Tide Times — East 8.30 The Ropers 8.55 National News 9pm Movie: One Hundred Rifles. 1969 [IMDB] 11pm Tomorrow’s Programs 11.05 Close	12.30pm Midweek This Week. Includes Movie: Her Twelve Men. 1954 [IMDB], Eight Is Enough, Pre-School Program 3.30 Close 5pm Shirl’s Neighbourhood 5.30 Bewitched 6pm Sale Of The Century 6.30 National News 7pm Special: The Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer 11pm Close	11am Fat Cat And Friends 11.30 The Mike Walsh Show 1pm Days Of Our Lives 1.50 The Young And The Restless 2.20 Woman’s World 3pm Upstairs Downstairs 4pm Children’s Hour: KO, The Mouse Factory 5pm The Flintstones 5.30 Sale Of The Century 6pm National News 6.20 Regional News 6.30 Special: The Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer 12am Close