Guest-starring a young Ian Turpie.
Video courtesy of A Room in the Past.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary in 2014, Seven replayed episode 383 - “The Assassin”. Made in 1973, it was one of the first to be produced in colour.
This was the introduction to that episode, presented by Daniel MacPherson
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20 October 1958: ATN7 Sydney debuts its first breakfast session, Today, including Australia’s first TV “soapie”, Autumn Affair. 15 minute episodes at 8.45am on Monday to Wednesday mornings.
Autumn Affair later aired on GTV9 in Melbourne.
20 October 1973: ABC is the host broadcaster for the opening ceremony of the Sydney Opera House. The telecast is produced in colour for overseas screening (it was one of the first colour TV broadcasts in New Zealand) and archival purposes, but airs here in black and white. ABC’s coverage was simulcast through the commercial channels.
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That evening, Four Corners was presented live from the Opera House — followed by the Royal Opening Concert featuring the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Philharmonia Choir.
The 0-10 Network also presented a 90-minute special broadcast on the night of the official opening — Mike Walsh At The Sydney Opera House.
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When SBS showed the opening of Sydney Opera House during the first series of Australia in Colour last year, it had the black and white footage digitally coloured. Will it have been more cost effective to ask the ABC to provide the actual colour telecast?
Perth didn’t get a refresh until a few months later as it was O&O’ed by WIN at the time alongside the Adelaide station
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24 October 1959: ADS7, Adelaide’s second TV station, is officially opened. It is now Channel Ten.
24 October 1980: SBS officially opens Channel 0/28 in Sydney and Melbourne. The opening introduction by Bruce Gyngell is also shown in Canberra on CTC7.
The first program on the new channel was a documentary, Who Are We?, presented by Peter Luck.
TV Week’s two-page preview of the new channel:
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They couldn’t find a better stock photo?
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Missed this yesterday
The Chaser’s notorious ‘Eulogy’ song. Personally, I didn’t mind the song, thought it was funny at the time.
Probably wouldn’t stand well in the PC environment we are slowly growing up in.
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SBS opening including
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possibly taken from SBS’ 10th anniversary special? 
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25 October 1980: SBS Channel 0/28’s second day of transmission includes a children’s variety show from Spain, La Sonrisa De Un Niño, made in 1978. As well as featuring Spanish performers the show opens with US teen pop star Leif Garrett.
Later in the night, a collection of comedy specials to have featured in the Montreux Comedy Festival.
Including To Norway, Land Of The Giants, featuring John Cleese,
and Slim Sala Bim, which is advertised above as Danish but was actually from Norway. But from what I’ve seen it’s little in dialogue and seems to be in English anyway?
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Channel 0/28 evening opener. Courtesy of gonadsftw.
Day 3 of Channel 0/28 features its first live sports coverage, a soccer game between Australia’s National Youth Team and Johnny Warren’s All Stars, followed by the Grand Final of the Philips Soccer League, live from Canberra.
Given the new channel’s coverage being just Sydney and Melbourne, its Grand Final coverage was shown in Brisbane on QTQ9.
In Adelaide, all four channels were busy with other commitments that afternoon (ABC had golf, ADS7 had Tennis, Nine had cricket from 4.00pm, and Ten had its annual Telethon all day) but NWS9 showed a delayed screening the following night at 10.30pm.
I don’t know about any regional broadcasts except that BCV/STV/GLV8 showed the Grand Final live on the Sunday afternoon.
EDIT: The Sydney Morning Herald did a positive write up of SBS’ sports coverage debut, including the commentary from Les Murray and Johnny Warren who showed they were naturals from day one it seems (although Les had been a commentator before when Ten had PSL coverage a few years earlier)
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uvxjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x-YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3006%2C10320144
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27 October 1980: George Donikian presents the first Worldwide News on SBS Channel 0/28. The bulletin aired weeknights at 9.30pm but by March it was moved to 7.30pm.
(Image is not from the first bulletin, just indicative of the presentation in the early days)
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Pretty standard news opener there.
29 October 1983: The Seven Network* screens two hours of movies in 3D. The broadcast was carried on some regional stations, such as CTC7 in Canberra.
(* excluding BTQ7 in Brisbane which did so the previous night)
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31 October 2018
The Ten Network officially unveils its new logo at 6:30pm.
It was also the day that we all broke MediaSpy.
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1 November 1959: BTQ7, Brisbane’s second TV station, is officially opened.
1 November 2009: The Seven Network launches its secondary channel, 7TWO.
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1 November 1962: TNQ-7 launches in Townsville.
1 November 2001: Fly TV launches, sharing bandwidth with ABC Kids.
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Fly TV was shut down in 2003 after the ABC were unable to secure government funding to keep the channel on-air.
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