The Nine Network and News Limited launch a 28-hour telethon to raise funds for the victims of Cyclone Tracy that had destroyed the city of Darwin just days earlier on Christmas Eve.
Programs broadcast in colour indicated with (C)
Cyclone Tracy: ‘The day Darwin died’ [2014]
Source: The Age, 31 December 1974 and TV Times, 28 December 1974
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| 6AM | 6.30am Test Pattern (C) | |||
| 7AM | 7.50am Test Pattern (C) | 7am Thunderbirds | 7am The Non-Stop Cartoon Carnival | |
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street 8.55 The Electric Company |
8am Fractured Flickers 8.30 Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon |
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| 9AM | 9.25 Test Pattern (C) 9.50 Play School |
9am Test Pattern (C) | 9am Here’s Humphrey | 9.30 Test Pattern (C) |
| 10AM | 10.20 Test Pattern (C) | 10am Test Pattern (C) | ||
| 11AM | 11am Huckleberry Hound 11.30 The Hathaways |
11am What’s My Line 11.30 A Current Affair (Rpt) |
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| 12PM | 12pm Tennis: Australian Open. Live from Kooyong, Melbourne. | 12pm Tennis: Australian Open (C) Live from Kooyong, Melbourne | 12pm Tennis: Australian Open (C) Live from Kooyong, Melbourne | 12pm Movie: Blaze Of Noon. 1947 [IMDB] |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Tennis (cont’d) |
1.30 Matlock Police | ||
| 2PM | 2.30 The Doctors | |||
| 3PM | 3.59 Cricket: Third Test (C) Live from Melbourne Cricket Ground | 3.30 Room 222 | ||
| 4PM | 4pm Cricket: Third Test (C) Live from Melbourne Cricket Ground | 4pm Magilla Gorilla 4.30 Fury |
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| 5PM | 5pm Daniel Boone | |||
| 6PM | 6pm Wild Wild World Of Animals 6.30 Bobby Goldsbro 6.55 This Week In Britain |
6pm Bewitched 6.30 Seven National News |
6pm My Three Sons 6.30 News Centre Nine |
6pm Hogan’s Heroes 6.30 Eyewitness News |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 Special: New Year Concert By The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 1974 |
7pm The Adventures Of Black Beauty 7.30 Homicide |
7pm A Current Affair 7.30 Nine Network/News Limited Darwin Appeal (Continues to 6.30pm)  |
7pm Temperature’s Rising 7.30 Special: Paul Anka At Caesar’s Palace |
| 8PM | 8.40 ABC News, Weather 8.45 Seven Of One |
8.30 Return To Peyton Place | 8.30 Movie: Carry On Spying. 1965 [IMDB] | |
| 9PM | 9.45 ABC News, Weather 9.55 Comedy Playhouse |
9pm Nine O’Clock News 9.30 Special: Sport In ’74 |
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| 10PM | 10.25 Cricket Highlights 10.55 Movie: Twelve O’Clock High. 1950 [IMDB] |
10.30 Special: Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour | 10.10 Special: Raquel (C) | |
| 11PM | 11.25 Late News 11.35 The Campbells Are Coming |
11.10 Movie: Goin’ To Town. 1935 [IMDB] | ||
| 12AM | 12.35am Close | 12am Close | ||
| 1AM | 1am Close | |||
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