Source: TV Week, 26 December 1981
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| 6AM | 6am Rocky And His Friends 6.30 King Leonardo 6.55 Go Health |
6.30am Plastic Man | |||
| 7AM | 7am Michael Bentine’s Potty Time 7.30 Elephant Boy |
7am Cartoons | 7am Good Morning Australia | ||
| 8AM | 8am Sesame Street | 8am The Adventures Of Black Beauty 8.30 The Tomorrow People |
8am Big Blue Marble 8.30 My Friend Flicka |
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| 9AM | 9am Close 9.30 Play School |
9am Catch Us If You Can 9.30 Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels |
9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am Eyewitness News 9.05 Texas |
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| 10AM | 10am Close | 10am Romper Room | 10am Follyfoot 10.30 The Nature Of Things |
10am Fat Cat And Friends 10.30 The Bernard King Show |
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| 11AM | 11am Tennis: Marlboro Australian Men’s Open Championship. Live from Kooyong, Melbourne | 11.30 National Nine News | 11am Laredo | ||
| 12PM | 12pm Movie: That Funny Feeling. 1965 [IMDB] | 12pm Movie: Kisses For My President. 1964 (B&W) [IMDB] | |||
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 Wild Wild World Of Animals 1.35 The Roman Holidays 1.55 Speed Buggy |
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| 2PM | 2.15 Cattanooga Cats 2.55 Lassie |
2pm Julia 2.25 News 2.30 Movie: Man Without A Country. 1973 [IMDB] |
2pm The Celebrity Game 2.30 The Doris Day Show |
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| 3PM | 3.20 Zoom The White Dolphin 3.35 Little Blue 3.45 Jamie And The Magic Torch |
3pm Personality Squares 3.30 McHale’s Navy (B&W) |
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| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Crystal Tipps And Alistair 4.35 Sesame Street |
4pm How 4.30 Animals Animals Animals |
4pm Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 4.30 Take Hart |
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| 5PM | 5.35 The Beachcombers 5.53 News 5.55 Mr Rossi Looks For Happiness |
5pm Nanny And The Professor 5.30 Gomer Pyle USMC |
5pm F Troop (B&W) 5.30 Dance Fever |
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| 6PM | 6.55 Videodisc | 6.30pm Seven National News. Malcolm Gray | 6pm The Young Doctors 6.30 National Nine News |
6pm Eyewitness News. Rod McNeil, Charles Slade | 6.27 News Headlines 6.30 Find Out Talk About |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.30 Presto Chango It’s Magic |
7pm Willesee 81. Mike Peterson 7.30 A Country Practice |
7pm The Odd Couple 7.30 Special: 1981 The Year In Review |
7pm MASH 7.30 Project UFO |
7pm Rock And Roller (Yugoslavia) 7.30 World News |
| 8PM | 8.30 Special: A Special Kenny Rogers | 8.30 Stone | 8.30 Movie: The King And I. 1956 [IMDB] | 8.30 Bellamy | 8pm SCOOP |
| 9PM | 9.20 Hi De Hi | 9.30 Knots Landing | 9.30 Night Stalker | 9pm Movie: White Horse Inn (Germany) [IMDB] | |
| 10PM | 10.05 ABC News, Weather 10.15 The Dick Emery Show |
10.30 Nightmoves: New Year’s Eve Special | 10.30 Movie: The Last Waltz. 1976 [IMDB] Simulcast FOXFM | 10.45 Paradis Latin | |
| 11PM | 11.05 Victor Borge | 11.10 The Tonight Show | 11.45 New Year’s Eve Message | ||
| 12AM | 12am Special: Queen 12.50 Close |
12am New Year’s Eve Greeting 12.05 Movie: Meet Me In Las Vegas. 1956 [IMDB] |
12.15am Movie: The Pink Jungle. 1968 [IMDB] | 12.45am Movie: Keep On Rockin’. 1970 [IMDB] | 12.05am Close |
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| 2AM | 2.10 Close | 2.20 Movie: East Of Sudan. 1964 [IMDB] | 2.30 Close | ||
| 3AM | 3.55 Movie: Claudia And David. 1946 [IMDB] | ||||
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| 5AM | 5.10 Danger Man (B&W) (Continues to 6am) |
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| REGIONALS | ||||
| ABAV1 Albury ABRV3 Ballarat ABEV1 Bendigo ABLV4 Gippsland ABMV4 Mildura ABGV3 Shepparton ABSV2 Swan Hill |
AMV4 Albury |
BTV6 Ballarat |
GMV6 Shepparton |
BCV8 Bendigo STV8 Mildura GLV8 Gippsland |
| 8am Sesame Street 9am Close 9.30 Play School 10am Close 1pm ABC News 1.10 Weather 1.11 Wild Wild World Of Animals 1.35 The Roman Holidays 1.55 Speed Buggy 2.15 Cattanooga Cats 2.55 Lassie 3.20 Zoom The White Dolphin 3.35 Little Blue 3.45 Jamie And The Magic Torch 4pm Play School 4.30 Crystal Tipps And Alistair 4.35 Sesame Street 5.35 The Beachcombers 5.53 News 5.55 Mr Rossi Looks For Happiness 6.55 Regional News 7pm ABC News 7.30 Presto Chango It’s Magic 8.30 Special: A Special Kenny Rogers 9.20 Hi De Hi 10.05 ABC News, Weather 10.15 The Dick Emery Show 11.05 Victor Borge 12am Special: Queen 12.50 Close |
9.28am Program Highlights 9.30 Here’s Humphrey 10.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 11am Tennis: Australian Men’s Open. Live from Kooyong, Melbourne 6.15pm District News 6.30 Seven National News (HSV7) 6.55 Weather 7pm Welcome Back Kotter 7.30 Family 8.30 The Professionals 9.30 Movie: Guys And Dolls. 1955 [IMDB] 12.10am Close |
10am Here’s Humphrey 11am Tennis: Australian Men’s Open. Live from Kooyong, Melbourne 6.30pm Six News. Includes Seven National News (HSV7) 7.30 The World Around Us 8.28 Weather 8.30 Knots Landing 9.30 Special: 1981 News Review 10pm Special: Prophesies Of Nostradamus 12am Epilogue 12.05 Close |
8.25am Morning Meditation 8.30 Ruff ‘N Reddy 9.30 HR Puff ‘N Stuff 10am Here’s Humphrey 11am Tennis: Australian Men’s Open. Live from Kooyong, Melbourne 6.30 Seven National News (HSV7) 7pm Regional News 7.10 The Muppet Show 7.40 Trapper John MD 8.35 Prisoner 9.30 Baretta 10.30 Movie: Hello Dolly. 1969 [IMDB] 1am Close |
8.30am Thought For The Day 8.35 Flappers Factory 9.05 Cartoons 9.30 Movie: Pony Soldier. 1952 [IMDB] 11am Bailey’s Bird 11.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World 11.55 Go Health 12pm Movie: Abbott And Costello Meet The Keystone Kops. 1955 [IMDB] 1.30 Tennis: Australian Men’s Open. Live from Kooyong, Melbourne 6pm Cartoons 6.15 Regional News 6.30 Seven National News (HSV7) 7pm Diff’rent Strokes 7.30 Special: Doug Hemming Magic Show 8.30 Movie: The Music Man. 1962 [IMDB] 11pm Breezin’: New Year’s Eve Special 12am Movie: The Roaring Twenties. 1939 (B&W) [IMDB] 1.40 Close |
