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Retro: Melbourne/Gippsland, Australia Sat, Oct 19, 1974

from TV Week-Victoria edition (Melbourne region)

Ratings
A-adult
AO-recommended for adults only

0 ATV0 Melbourne
2 ABV2 Melbourne
7 HSV7 Melbourne
8 GLV8 Gippsland
9 GTV9 Melbourne

Morning
7.30
9 Playroom

8.00
0 Cartoon Carnival
7 Movies "Operation Camel"/"The Three Pirates"/"Rio Bravo"
9 Hey Hey It's Saturday

11.00
0 On Safari "Bears of Yellowstone"
9 test pattern (c)

11.30
0 Topper "Topper's Amnesia"

11.40
2 Chess Report "Challenge to Fischer-Candidates' Tournament Final"

Afternoon
noon
0 Movie "Adventures of Robin Hood"
2 Sportsview
9 World Championship Wrestling (more on the promotion at http://www.worldchampionshipwrestling.com.au/index.html; Mike Cleary hosted on Saturdays, with Jack Little and Wayne Kirby calling the action Sundays at noon)

1.00
7 Cricket Cup: South Australia at Western Australia (c/live from Perth)
9 Movie "The Night We Got the Bird"

2.00
0 Australian Indoor Tennis Championships (c/live from Holdern Pavilion, Sydney)

2.30
9 Bong Bong Race Carnival (c/live horse racing from Sydney, and the daily double from Randwick)

3.00
7 Cartoons

3.30
7 Cricket Cup cont'd (c)

4.00
0 What in the World

4.30
0 Junior Jury
8 This Week Has Seven Days (this HSV7 program was edited in various lengths for regional channels; 8 signed-on at noon weekdays and 4.30 on weekends)
9 Look, Listen, Laugh, Learn

5.00
0 Superfriends

5.35
2 Enchanted House

5.45
2 Larry the Lamb "The Great Toytown War"
7 News/Sport/Weather

Evening
6.00
0-8-9 News (GLV relayed news from 9)
2 Magic Roundabout
7 Cricket Cup cont'd (c)

6.05
2 Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kids "Operation G-Minus"

6.30
0 Young Talent Time
2 Lorne Greene's Last of the Wild "Cheetah"
8 This Week in Agriculture
9 Lion at World's End (the story of Christian the lion, who was purchased by two Aussies who fell in love with the lion cub after seeing him for sale at Harrods in London)

6.45
8 Movie "In the Doghouse"

6.55
2 Weather

7.00
2 News/Weather

7.30
0 Movie "In Harm's Way" (A)
2 Dad's Army "A Solider's Farewell"
9 Ironside "Class of '40" (A)

8.00
2 Four Corners
7 Penthouse Club (variety show, which also included the Tattslotto draw and trotting from Royal Melbourne Fairgrounds)

8.30
0 Movie "Buck and the Preacher" (AO)
8 Penthouse Club (Tattslotto at 9.30; given the length, I'm guessing this was JIP)

8.45
2 Play "The Misanthrope" (presentation of the French classic from the Greenroom at the School of Drama, University of New South Wales)

10.00
2 A Place in the Country (visting England's Wallington Hall, located 20 mi south of the Scottish border)

10.25
2 Certain Women (sign-off 11.10)
9 Movie "The Americano" (A)

10.30
0 Australian Indoor Tennis Championships (followed by weather just before sign-off at 12.30)

11.15
7-8 News/Weather (8 signs-off at 11.30)

11.30
7 Star Soccer: highlights of Wolverhampton-Carlisle (sign-off 12.45)

Late Night
midnight
9 Movie "The Hi-Jackers" (A)

2.20
9 Epilogue (sign-off 2.25)
 
Realized afterwards that I bunged up GLV's callsign and channel...that should read GLV10. GLV didn't move to ch 8 until 1980, in order for ATV0 to move to ch 10.
 
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