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
8AM	8am Sesame Street 8.55 The Electric Company			8am Kids’ Show 8.30 Movie: Too Many Crooks. 1959 [IMDB]
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]
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
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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