Seven had a local bulletin for several years starting in 1982. Originally it was a similar format to the 6.30 news. By the mid 80s it was rebranded as Newsworld and presented from where they did the news updates. With the Fairfax takeover in 1987 it was replaced with Clive Robertson’s Newsworld from Sydney.
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Thursday 27 February 1975
from The Sydney Morning Herald (all times local)
ABN-2
8.00am Sesame Street
8.55 Colour test pattern (and at regular intervals)
9.30 Play School
9.55 Programmes for schools (and at 10.20, 10.40, 11.20, Noon, 1.50, 2.10, 2.40)
1.00pm News
3.15 Flower Pot Men
3.30 Play School
4.00 Adventure Island
4.30 Sesame Street
5.25 Happening World
5.40 The Aeronauts
6.05 My Favourite Martian
6.30 GTK
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 Checkout
7.00 News
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 An Evening with Carla Fracci
8.45 Who Killed Jenny Langby?
9.35 News in Brief
9.40 Retrospect: The Breaker
10.35 News
10.45 ABC Melbourne Show Band on Tour
11.45 Closedown
ATN-7
10.00am Romper Room
11.00 Morning Market
11.02 Cartoons
11.30 Hazel
Noon Movie: All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
1.30 Name That Tune
2.00 High Rollers
2.30 Until Tomorrow
3.00 Return to Peyton Place (A)
3.30 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
4.00 Gigantor
4.30 The Flying Nun
5.00 Mister Ed
5.30 The Jetsons
6.00 Bewitched
6.30 Seven National News with Roger Climpson
7.00 Class of 75
7.30 No Honestly (A)
8.00 And Mother Makes Five (A)
8.30 Father, Dear Father (A)
9.00 The Protectors (Double episode) (A)
10.00 Thriller: In the Steps of a Dead Man (AO)
11.30 Maverick
12.30am Closedown
TCN-9
6.45am Colour test pattern (and at 10am)
6.55 Alfie
7.00 Super Flying Fun Show
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.00 A Current Affair (Rpt)
11.30 No Man’s Land
Noon The Young and the Restless (A)
1.00 As the World Turns (A)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (A)
2.00 Another World (Colour) (A)
2.30 General Hospital (Colour) (A)
3.00 Search for Tomorrow (Colour) (A)
3.25 Spending Spree
3.55 Alfie
4.00 Daryl Somers’ Cartoon Corner
5.00 McHale’s Navy
5.30 The Dick Van Dyke Show
6.00 The Unisexers
6.30 News Centre Nine
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Little House on the Prairie
8.30 All in the Family (A)
9.00 The Ernie Sigley Show
10.30 Movie: The Death of Me Yet (1971)
12.00am Viewpoint
12.05 Closedown
TEN-10
7.00am Children’s programmes
9.00 Colour test pattern
10.15 Family Care
10.30 Religious programme
10.35 Movie: The Man I Love (1947) (A)
Noon The Mike Walsh Show
1.30 Movie: That Night in Rio (1941)
3.00 Hawaiian Eye
4.02 Cartoon (Colour)
4.30 Fury
5.00 Tarzan
6.00 Eyewitness News
6.30 The Brady Bunch
7.00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7.30 Matlock Police
8.30 Number 96
9.00 The Box
10.00 The Honeymooners
10.30 Movie: Up from the Beach (1965)
12.25am Religious programme
12.30 Closedown
Over in Australia, this is the second-to-last day of black and white television as our neighbours from across the Tasman entered colour television on 1 March 1975. Back home, colour television came to New Zealand two years before in 1973.
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7.30pm is an interesting timeslot for Dallas. It was airing at 9.30pm on Tuesdays in Sydney that week.
My father used to love Tales of the Gold Monkey. A bit of a rip off of Raiders of the Lost Arc. Trying to cash in on the success of that movie didn’t pay for the one season wonder.
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Friday 28 February 1975
from The Sydney Morning Herald (all times local)
ABN-2
8.00am Sesame Street
8.55 Colour test pattern (and at regular intervals)
9.30 Play School
9.55 Programmes for schools (and at 10.00, 10.20, 10.40, 11.20, Noon, 1.30, 1.50, 2.10, 2.40)
1.00pm News
3.15 Flower Pot Men
3.30 Play School
4.00 Adventure Island
4.30 Sesame Street
5.25 Squiggle
5.40 Lassie
6.05 My Favourite Martian (Rpt)
6.30 The Irish Rovers
6.55 Gardening
7.00 News
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 The Harry Secombe Show
8.50 A Family at War (Rpt, A)
9.45 Sportscene
9.55 News
10.05 Pot Black
10.30 Sportscene
11.10 Neil Diamond: In Concert
11.57 Aunty Jack Introduces Colour (Colour)
12.02am Countdown (Colour)
1.00 Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Colour, Rpt)
1.30 World Championship Tennis 1973 (Colour) (Continues to 8am)
ATN-7
10.00am Romper Room
11.00 Tennis: Davis Cup (Live)
3.00pm Return to Peyton Place (A)
3.30 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (Rpt)
4.00 Gigantor (Rpt, G)
4.30 The Flying Nun (Rpt, G)
5.00 Mister Ed (Rpt, G)
5.30 The Jetsons (Rpt, G)
6.00 Bewitched (Rpt, G)
6.30 Seven National News with Roger Climpson
7.00 Class of 75
7.30 The Morecambe and Wise Show (A)
8.30 Father, Dear Father (A)
9.00 Movie (The Golden Years of Hollywood): Random Harvest (1942) (Rpt, A)
12.01am Movie: Black Orpheus (1959) (Colour, G)
2.00 Movie: Torture Garden (1967) (Colour, AO)
4.00 Movie: The View from Pompey’s Head (1955) (Colour, G)
5.30 Movie: Magic Boy (1959) (Colour, G) (Continues to 7am)
TCN-9
6.45am Colour test pattern (and at 10am)
6.55 Alfie
7.00 The Super Flying Fun Show
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.00 A Current Affair (Rpt)
11.30 No Man’s Land
Noon The Young and the Restless (Colour, A)
1.00 As the World Turns (Colour, A)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (Colour, A)
2.00 Another World (A)
2.30 General Hospital (A)
3.00 Search for Tomorrow (A)
3.24 Spending Spree
3.55 Alfie
4.00 Daryl Somers’ Cartoon Corner
5.00 McHale’s Navy (Rpt, G)
5.30 The Dick Van Dyke Show (Rpt, G)
6.00 The Unisexers
6.30 News Centre Nine
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Division 4
8.30 All in the Family (A)
9.00 Upstairs, Downstairs (A)
10.00 Movie: Home from the Hill (1960) (A)
12.40am Movie: The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) (Colour)
2.10 Movie: The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) (Colour)
3.40 Movie: The Terror of the Tongs (1961) (Colour, AO)
5.15 Movie: First Men in the Moon (1964) (Colour, Rpt) (Continues to 7am)
TEN-10
7.00am Children’s programmes (Rpt’s)
9.00 Colour test pattern
10.15 Family Care
10.30 Religious programme
10.35 Movie: Arms Against the Law (A)
Noon The Mike Walsh Show (Colour)
1.30 Movie: Ramona (1936) (Rpt, A)
3.00 Hawaiian Eye (Rpt)
4.02 Cartoons (Rpt, G)
4.30 Fury (Rpt, G)
5.00 Tarzan (Rpt, G)
6.00 Eyewitness News
6.30 The Brady Bunch (Rpt, G)
7.00 Gomer Pyle, USMC (Rpt, G)
7.30 Adam-12 (Double episode) (A)
8.30 Number 96
9.00 The Box
10.00 The Honeymooners (Rpt, G)
10.30 Bridge Loves Bernie (G)
11.00 Jigsaw (AO)
12.05am Movie: Can-Can (1960) (Colour, Rpt, G)
2.30 Movie: Johnny Guitar (1954) (Colour, Rpt, G)
4.15 Movie: Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) (Colour, Rpt, G)
5.50 Movie: My Wild Irish Rose (1947) (Colour, Rpt, G) (Continues to 7.25am)
This (28 February 1975) was the last day of black and white television in Australia as it transitioned to colour at midnight (local time) on the morning of Saturday 1 March 1975. Colour television came to New Zealand on 31 October 1973 - about two years before Australia followed suit.
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I always remember Dallas being in the 9.30 slot on Tuesdays. But in Melbourne it was on at 7.30pm for a while. They did try the year before to have movies on at 8.30pm every night. In 1983 they were still trying to do that on most nights except for the days Prisoner was on.
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I wonder what year Donahue jumped from Seven to Ten.
According to my research, Donahue moved to Ten in June 1989.
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There was a four year gap, in Sydney at least, between Seven airing it and Ten picking it up in June 1989. It was a novelty to see an American chat show like that on our screens in the early 1980s. I remember watching it on Seven before 11AM when I was home sick from school. Some regional stations still had it as part of their daytime schedule during those four years, however. I think NBN and perhaps WIN did.
I remember them promoting themselves as “the movie station” at one point around that time.
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… it was WIN that imported the program from the US …
Despite being both under same ownership, there was a difference between TCN and GTV9 in that GTV did not stay on air overnight. It had the movie California, introduced by Hal Todd, starting at midnight and then shut down at 2.30am.
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Funny that GTV didn’t stay on air overnight, yet they were one of the first TV stations to go 24/7 in 1976.
A momentous occasion and GTV decides against staying on air all night.
Today’s TV: 28.2.1982, Melbourne
Source: Woman’s Day / TV Day
The Moomba Birdman Rally was seriously one of my annual viewing highlights back in the day 
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The Birdman Rally was always fun to watch. I guess the last time it was televised was in 1989.
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I used to think it was purely a Melbourne event. I didn’t realise until years later that there were also Birdman Rallies in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. Not sure about Brisbane or anywhere else?
Did not know that. Well it would not be the same if they were not leaping into dirty brown water.
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Today’s TV: 1.3.1980, Sydney
Source: TV Week
Melbourne / Regional Victoria / Mt Gambier
Source: TV Times
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