The Sydney debut of ABC drama series Rush, the Melbourne-based series set in the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s. The series made its Melbourne debut the previous week. The first series of Rush was produced in black and white, while a second series, set in New South Wales in 1860, was made in colour in 1976.
Source: TV Week, 24 August 1974
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| 6AM | 6.55am Crusader Rabbit | 6.55am Alfie | ||
| 7AM | 7am Seven Today. Bruce Webster, Pat Lovell | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show. Marilyn Mayo | 7am Prince Planet 7.30 Dobie Gillis |
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| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street 8.55 The Electric Company |
8am Kids’ Show 8.30 Movie: Too Many Crooks. 1959 [IMDB] |
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| 9AM | 9.25 Close | 9am Astroboy 9.25 Popeye 9.30 The Mighty Hercules 9.35 Paramount 9.40 Secret Service |
9am Here’s Humphrey | |
| 10AM | 10am Romper Room | 10am Hey Hey It’s Holidays. Daryl Somers, Ossie Ostrich | 10am Yoga 10.15 Switched On Living 10.30 Who Cares 10.35 Movie: Gunpoint. 1966 [IMDB] |
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| 11AM | 11am Play School 11.30 Soccer: 1974 FIFA World Cup. Scotland v Yugoslavia (Rpt) |
11am Special: King Thrushbeard | 11.30 No Man’s Land. Mickie de Stoop 11.55 News |
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| 12PM | 12pm Temptation. Tony Barber, Barbara Rogers | 12pm Movie: Alaskan Seas. 1954 [IMDB] | 12pm The Mike Walsh Show | |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.05 Behind The Legend 1.35 Islands Of Australia |
1pm Concentration. Lionel Williams 1.30 Movie: Abbott And Costello Hold That Ghost. 1941 [IMDB] |
1.30 Days Of Our Lives | 1.30 Room 222 |
| 2PM | 2pm The Beachcombers 2.25 Gentle Ben 2.50 QT Hush |
2pm The Young And The Restless 2.30 General Hospital |
2pm Run For Your Life | |
| 3PM | 3.15 The Magic Roundabout 3.20 Flowerpot Men 3.35 Play School |
3pm The Saint | 3.25 News 3.30 Spending Spree. Jimmy Hannan |
3pm The Price Is Right. Garry Meadows |
| 4PM | 4.05 Adventure Island 4.30 Sesame Street |
4pm Superman 4.30 The Munsters |
4pm Top Cat 4.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo 4.55 Alfie |
4pm News 4.02 National Velvet 4.30 Gilligan’s Island |
| 5PM | 5.25 It’s A Happening World 5.40 The Adventures Of Gulliver |
5pm The Bugs Bunny Show 5.30 Blind Date |
5pm Car 54 Where Are You? 5.30 McHale’s Navy |
5pm Daniel Boone |
| 6PM | 6pm Target. David Champtaloup, Bob Watson, Anne Stone, Brendon Lunney, Cathy Scott 6.30 GTK 6.40 Bellbird 6.55 Check Out |
6pm Bewitched 6.30 Seven National News. Roger Climpson, Alan Wilkie |
6pm The Lucy Show 6.30 News. Brian Henderson |
6pm Eyewitness News. Eric Walters 6.30 24 Hours. John Bailey |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight |
7pm Class Of ’74 7.30 Doctor In Charge |
7pm A Current Affair. Mike Minehan 7.30 Ironside |
7pm Hogan’s Heroes 7.30 Matlock Police |
| 8PM | 8pm Rush PREMIERE | 8pm And Mother Makes Three 8.30 $25,000 Great Temptation. Tony Barber, Barbara Rogers |
8.30 The Odd Couple | 8.30 Number 96 |
| 9PM | 9.40 ABC News In Brief, Weather 9.45 Till Death Us Do Part |
9pm McMillan And Wife | 9pm The Ernie Sigley Show. Ernie Sigley, Denise Drysdale, Colin McEwan, Sue Donovan, Joy Westmore, Rosemary Margan | 9pm The Box |
| 10PM | 10.15 ABC News, Weather 10.25 Opera: Tosca |
10.30 Movie: King Kong v Godzilla. 1963 [IMDB] | 10.30 Movie: House Of Numbers. 1957 [IMDB] | 10pm The Mike Walsh Show (Rpt) |
| 11PM | 11.30 Movie: Diplomat Corpse [IMDB] | |||
| 12AM | 12.15am Close | 12am Close | 12.15am Viewpoint 12.20 Close |
12.50am Who Cares? 12.55 Close |
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