New Year’s Eve is celebrated with concert specials on all four networks but two stand out.
GTV9 has a highlights package of the 2SM/Moove Concert Of The Decade which was held outside the Sydney Opera House the previous month. Performers included Sherbet, Skyhooks, Hush, Dragon, Max Merritt, Marcia Hines, Russell Morris, Ted Mulry Gang, Jon English, Ol ’55, Stevie Wright, Colleen Hewett and Doug Parkinson.
ATV0 has live coverage of the Festival Of Sydney New Year’s Eve Concert from the Sydney Opera House, hosted by Grahame Bond and including performances by Rolf Harris, Marcia Hines, Jon English, John St Peeters and The Angels.
See also: Monday 31 December 1979 — QUEENSLAND, Monday 31 December 1979 — PERTH
Source: TV Times, 29 December 1979
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| 6AM | 6am Hoppity Hooper 6.20 King Leonardo 6.40 Rocky And His Friends |
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| 7AM | 7am Cartoons | 7am The Early Bird Show | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8.55 Launching Pad | ||
| 9AM | 9am Close 9.30 Play School |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Fat Cat And Friends 9.30 The Electric Company |
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| 10AM | 10am Close | 10am Romper Room | 10am The Ed Allen Show 10.30 Untamed World |
10am African Album 10.30 Laurel And Hardy |
| 11AM | 11am Tennis: Australian Open. Live from Kooyong, Melbourne | 11.30 Celebrity Squares | 11am Family At War | |
| 12PM | 12.35pm Weekend Magazine (Rpt) | 12pm Movie | 12pm Movie: Story Of Alexander Graham Bell. 1939 [IMDB] | |
| 1PM | 1pm News 1.10 Weather 1.11 All-Ireland Football Final 1979: Kerry vs Dublin 1.50 Basketball: Australian Clubs Championships |
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| 2PM | 2pm Celebrity Charades 2.30 The Bob Newhart Show 2.55 National Nine News |
2pm The Generation Game | ||
| 3PM | 3.20 All-Ireland Hurling Final: Galway vs Kilkenny | 3pm The Donna Fargo Show 3.30 Sam 3.55 Cricket: Australia vs West Indies. Live from Melbourne Cricket Ground |
3pm All’s Fair 3.30 The Cisco Kid |
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| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.25 Sesame Street |
4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 4.30 Superman |
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| 5PM | 5.25 Flower Stories 5.59 News Headlines |
5pm Tarzan | ||
| 6PM | 6pm Royal Command Performance 6.55 Today’s Sport |
6.30pm Seven National News. Malcolm Gray | 6pm What’s Happening 6.30 National Nine News |
6pm Eyewitness News 6.30 Gomer Pyle USMC |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Greg Pearce 7.30 People’s Command Performance |
7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 Barry Jones’ Wide World |
7pm The Odd Couple 7.30 Diff’rent Strokes |
7pm Wild Kingdom 7.30 Eyewitness News. Jana Wendt 7.31 Big Hawaii |
| 8PM | 8pm Special: Concert Of The Decade | 8.30 Special: Festival Of Sydney New Year’s Eve Concert. Live from Sydney Opera House | ||
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9.30 ABC News, Weather |
9pm Special: Dick Clark And A Cast Of Thousands | ||
| 10PM | 10pm Cricket | |||
| 11PM | 11.10 New Year’s Rocking Eve 1979 | 11pm Special: Elton John At Wembley | ||
| 12AM | 12.40am Special: Elton John | 12am New Year’s Greetings 12.02 Nightmoves |
12am Movie: Song Of Norway. 1970 [IMDB] | |
| 1AM | 1.40 Close | |||
| 2AM | 2am Close | 2.15 Movie: Take Me High [IMDB] | 2am Close | |
| 3AM | 3.45 Movie: Crimson Blade. 1964 [IMDB] | |||
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| 5AM | 5.15 Danger Man (Continues to 6am) |
