Vintage TV schedules from the 70s (US, UK, Australia + more)

London, England TV schedule for Sunday 8 October 1978.

I chose this schedule because it includes "The Clifton House Mystery", which I recently watched and enjoyed.

BBC-1
9:00AM - Camberwick Green
9:15AM - close
9:35AM - Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
10:05AM - Democracy at Work
10:30AM - Let's Go
10:45AM - Digame
11:10AM - Ensemble
11:35AM - On the Move
11:45AM - Parosi
12:00PM - The Living City
12:25PM - Family Mass
1:05PM - Farming
1:30PM - Roadworthy
1:55PM - News
2:00PM - Film: The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
3:50PM - International Show Jumping
4:45PM - Bonanza
5:35PM - Star Turn Challenge
6:00PM - News
6:10PM - Sexton Blake and the Demon God
6:40PM - Songs of Praise
7:15PM - A Horseman Riding By
8:10PM - Film: The Third Day (1965)
10:05PM - News
10:15PM - Night Voices, Day Voices
11:05PM - Read All About It
11:40PM - A Taste of Work
12:05AM - Weather

BBC-2
8:05AM - The Open University
11:50AM - Close
12:35PM - Open Door
1:05PM - The Price of Freedom
1:20PM - Rock Goes to College
2:00PM - International Tennis
4:50PM - Play Rugby
5:15PM - Rugby Special
6:45PM - Assignment
7:15PM - The World About Us
8:05PM - News
8:10PM - Wuthering Heights
9:05PM - Out of Court
9:35PM - A Spanish Legacy
10:35PM - International Tennis
11:05PM - Film: Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
12:40AM - close

ITV:
9:05AM - Focus on Soccer
9:30AM - Home Produced
10:00AM - Morning Worship
11:00AM - Doctor!
11:30AM - Happy Days
12:00PM - Weekend World
1:00PM - University Challenge
1:30PM - Space: 1999
2:30PM - The Big Match
3:?0PM - TV Movie: The Desperate Miles (1975)
4:45PM - Mr and Mrs
5:15PM - Soldiers
5:45PM - The Clifton House Mystery
6:15PM - News
6:25PM - Crado
6:50PM - Stars on Sunday
7;15PM - Return of the Saint
8:15PM - Lillie (the idiots on IMDb keep calling this a BBC series, even though it was an ITV show, produced by London Weekend Television)
9:15PM - Bless Me Father
9:45PM - News
10:00PM - Song by Song
11:00PM - Look Here
12:00AM - Police Surgeon
12:30AM - Close

Irish TV schedule for Sunday 17 April 1977. This is the very first Irish TV schedule I've posted.

There was only a single TV station in Ireland at the time. On this day, views could watch some films, a soap opera, American import "Little House on the Prairie", educational programming, religious programming, and sports programming. Not too bad I guess. 

10:40AM - King Lear - An Introduction
11:10AM - King Lear
11:30AM - Paint Along with Nancy
12:00PM - Mass
2:30PM - Film: The Hebrides
3:25PM - Film: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
4:55PM - Little House on the Prairie
5:45PM - News
6:00PM - The Angelus
6:01PM - Newsround
6:30PM - The Theologians
7:00PM - Top Score
7:30PM - The Riordans
8;00PM - Nuacht (according to Wikipedia, this was a news program)
8:10PM - Film: Spring and Port Wine (1970)
10:00PM - News
10:15PM - Sports Scene
11:15PM - Outlook
11:20PM - News

Honolulu, Hawaii TV schedule for Friday 8 January 1971.

Certainly a varied range of programs!

....and as is usually the case, many of the daytime shows are lost. The local shows are probably lost as well.

.....and the selection of films is, uh, "interesting", to say the least.

KHON, Channel 2
7:00AM - Cartoon Time
7:30AM - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
8:00AM - Romper Room
8:30AM - The New Jack La Lanne Show
9:00AM - Hawaiian Movie Trails
10:00AM - Sale of the Century
10:30AM - The Hollywood Squares
11:00AM - Jeopardy!
11:30AM - The Who, What or Where Game
12:00PM - Words and Music
12:30PM - Days of Our Lives
1:00PM - The Doctors
1:30PM - Another World
2:00PM - Somerset
2:30PM - Film: Cobra Strikes (1948) (given this is an hour-long film, either the station signed-off, or the newspaper is missing schedule info)
5:30PM - Hambrick-Basso Report
6:00PM - Lassie
6:30PM - The Andy Williams Show
7:30PM - Something Else
8:00PM - The Bold Ones
9:00PM - Rod Serling's Night Gallery
10:00PM - News
10:30PM - The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
12:00AM - News


KHVH, Channel 4
7:00AM - The Three Stooges
7:30AM - Highlights Don Robbs Show
8:30AM - Galloping Gourmet
9:00AM - Bewitched
9:30AM - That Girl
10:00AM - Dark Shadows
10:30AM - All My Children
11:00AM - The Dating Game
11:30AM - The Newlywed Game
12:00PM - General Hospital
12:30PM - One Life to Live
1:00PM - Peyton Place
1:30PM - Film: Hazard (1948)
3:00PM - Let's Make a Deal
3:30PM - The Don Robbs Show
5:00PM - The Mothers-In-Law
5:30PM - Petticoat Junction
6:00PM - News
6:30PM - The Brady Bunch
7:00PM - Nanny and the Professor
7:30PM - The Partridge Family
8:00PM - That Girl
8:30PM - Love American Style
9:00PM - The Tom Jones Show
10:00PM - News
10:30PM - The Real McCoys
11:00PM - Film: My Own True Love (1948)
12:30PM - Film: The Brides of Dracula (1960)
2:00PM - News


KGMB, Channel 9
4:55AM - Insight
5:00AM - Sunrise Semester
5:50AM - The Checkers & Pogo Show
6:00AM - Hazel
6:30AM - The Lucy Show
9:00AM - Love of Life
9:30AM - The Secret Storm
10:00AM - Film: The Triumph of Michael Strogoff (1961)
12:00PM - The Edge of Night
12:30PM - As the World Turns
1:00PM - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
1:30PM - Guiding Light
2:00PM - Search for Tomorrow
2:30PM - Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
3:00PM - The Checkers & Pogo Show
5:00PM - The Flintstones
5:30PM - Gilligan's Island
6:00PM - News
6:30PM - Here's Lucy
7:00PM - The Barbara McNair Show
8:00PM - Film: Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963)
10:00PM - News
10:30PM - Wrestling from the Civic
12:00PM - News
1:00PM - Films: The Long Gray Line (1955), Swingers' Paradise (1964), The Rookie (1959)


KHET, Channel 11
8:20AM - Americans All
8:40AM - Under Cover Adventures
9:00AM - Americans All
9:20AM - Roundabout
9:40AM - A Time of Your Life
10:00AM - Roundabout
10:20AM - A Time of Your Life
10:40AM - All About You
11:00AM - Sesame Street
12:00PM - Breakthru
12:20PM - All About You
12:40PM - Americans All
1:00PM - Quest for the Best
1:20PM - Roundabout
1:40PM - Quest for the Best
2:00PM - If You Live in a City Where Do You Live
2:30PM - A Time of Your Life
3:00PM - Seasons of Change
4:00PM - Nader Report
4:30PM - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:00PM - Sesame Street
6:00PM - What's New
6:30PM - Hawaii Now!
7:00PM - Civilisation
8:00PM - U.H. Interim 1971
9:00PM - Nader Report
9:30PM - Folk Guitar


KIKU, Channel 13
3:00PM - Film: Magnificent Rogue (1946)
4:20PM - Film: The Chicago Kid (1945)
6:00PM - Japanese Program Guide
6:05PM - Konshu No Wadai
6:45PM - Oshinko-San
7:00PM - AOI Taiyo
8:00PM - Otto Yo Otoko Yo Tsuyoku Nare
9:00PM - Jirocho Sangokushi
10:00PM - Tsukikage Hyogo

Sunday 11 November 1973 television schedule for East of England.

BBC schedules are the same for all of England, but ITV varied from area to area. In East of England, the ITV station was Anglia Television, whose ident was truly beautiful....

The reason I post this schedule is because it features a short film called "The Scene from Melbury House", an experimental film about nothing in particular, which I found enjoyable.

BBC-1
9:00AM - Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan
9:35AM - Zarabanda
10:00AM - Reportage
10:30AM - Remembrance Sunday
11:35AM - A Job Worth Doing?
12:00PM - Economics of the Real World
12:25PM - Learning in Leisure
12:50PM - Farming
1:15PM - News
1:20PM - Made in Britain
1:30PM - Serendipity
1:55PM - Mr. Benn
2:10PM - The Britain Around Us
3:00PM - Film: Bachelor Flat (1961)
4:25PM - Story Theatre
4:45PM - Ask Aspel
5:05PM - The Basil Brush Show
5:35PM - Pollyanna
6:05PM - News, weather
6:15PM - The Sunday Debate
6:50PM - Appeal on Behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain
6:55PM - Songs of Praise for Rememberence Sunday
7:25PM - The Onedin Line
8:15PM - Film: The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
10:15PM - News, Weather
10:25PM - TV Play: Wipers Three
11:25PM - Parkinson Meets Shirley Temple
12:25AM - Weather, close


BBC-2
3:20PM - Westminster
3:50PM - The Money Programme
4:35PM - Open Door
5:25PM - The Ascent of Man
6:15PM - News Review
6:50PM - Remembrance Sunday
7:25PM - The World About Us
8:15PM - The Shadow of the Tower
9:05PM - Poulenc
10:00PM - Film: The Scene from Melbury House
10:15PM - The Morecambe & Wise Show
11:00PM - News, weather
11:05PM - Up Sunday
11:30PM - sign off


Anglia Television
9:50AM - Enjoy Your Retirement
10:15AM - Remembrance Sunday Service
11:20AM - The Doris Day Show
11:50AM - Weekend World
1:10PM - Gardening Diary
1:35PM - Weather
1:40PM - Farming Diary
2:10PM - The Whiteoaks of Jalna
3:10PM - Match of the Week
4:00PM - The Golden Shot
4:50PM - The Adventures of Black Beauty
5:20PM - Aquarius
6:05PM - News
6:15PM - Long Ago and Far Away
6:35PM - Living Cinema
7:00PM - Stars on Sunday
7:25PM - Sunday Night at the London Palladium
8:20PM - Film: Carry On, Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
10:00PM - News
10:15PM - Oranges and Lemons
11:15PM - The Frost Programme
12:15AM - Angling Today
12:40AM - The Bible for Today, sign off

London, England television schedule for Thursday 13 December 1979.

Although the worst of "tape wiping" was over by 1979, there are still some lost programmes on this schedule. For example, "Pebble Mill" continued to have its tapes erased into the 1980s. Meanwhile, a very large number of episodes of "Play School" were destroyed in the early 1990s. 

BBC-1
12:45PM - Midday news
1:00PM - Pebble Mill at One
1:45PM - The Flumps
2:00PM - sign off
3:53PM - ??
3:55PM - Play School
4:20PM - Duputy Dawg
4:25PM - Jackanory
4:40PM - Screen Test
5:00PM - John Craven's Newsround
5:05PM - Blue Peter
5:35PM - Ivor the Engine
5:40PM - News
5:55PM - Nationwide
6:20PM - Tomorrow's World
7:20PM - Top of the Pops
7:55PM - Blankety Blank
8:30PM - The Dawson Watch
9:00PM - News
9:25PM - Play for Today
10:35PM - International Show Jumping
11:15PM - Platform One
11:45PM - News headlines; weather; regional news; sign off


BBC-2
11:00AM - Play School
11:25AM - sign off
4:50PM - Open University
5:40PM- Laurel and Hardy: Our Wife (1931)
5:55PM - Film: Turned Out Nice Again (1941)
7:15PM - Mid-Evening News
7:25PM - Newsweek
8:00PM - Maestro
8:30PM - Premiere
9:00PM - Kelly Monteith
9:30PM - Diamonds in the Sky
10:20PM - Richard Stilgoe
10:45PM - The White, the Black and the Purple
11:20PM - News
11:35PM - Closedown


ITV:
9:30AM - Once Upon a Time
9:45AM - This England
10:15AM - Family
11:05AM - Survival Special
11:55AM - The Bubblies
12:00PM - Animal Kwackers
12:10PM - Pipkins
12:30PM - The Sullivans
1:00PM - News
1:20PM - Thames News
1:30PM - Armchair Thriller
2:00PM - After Noon Plus
2:45PM - London Belongs to Me
3:45PM - Looks Familiar
4:15PM - Project UFO
5:15PM - Mr. and Mrs.
5:45PM - News
6:00PM - Thames News
6:25PM - Help!
6:35PM - Crossroads
7:00PM - Britain's Stongest Man
7:30PM - Charlie's Angels
8:30PM - TV Eye
9:00PM - Fallen Hero
10:00PM - News at Ten
10:30PM - Thames Report
11:00PM - The Streets of San Francisco
12:00AM - What the Papers Say
12:15AM - close

Brisbane, Australia television schedule for Saturday 12 May 1979. A mix of American, Australian, British and even Canadian programming. 

Before anyone asks "why do all the call-signs end in Q?", Brisbane is in the state of Queensland....hence, the call-signs are required to start with Q. 

I'm the only remaining guy in Australia who refers to TV stations by their call signs. 

ABQ, Channel 2
2:00PM - Pot Black
2:25PM - Table Tennis
3:10PM - Rowing
4:05PM - Soccer
5:05PM - Countdown
6:00PM - Rugby League
6:55PM - Weather
7:00PM - News
7:15PM - Sports Review
7:30PM - Parkinson in Australia
8:45PM - Four Corners
9:40PM - TV Movie: Dreamspeaker (the running time on IMDb and the TV guide contradict each other)
10:35PM - Bring on the Girls (possibly this?)
11:30PM - Greatest Fights of the Century
11:40PM - Soccer


BTQ, Channel 7
6:00AM - Sports Action
9:30AM - Boris' Breakfast Club
12:00PM - Glenview High
1:00PM - Soccer
2:00PM - Football
5:00PM - Space: 1999
6:00PM - News
6:30PM - World Around Us
7:30PM - The Incredible Hulk
8:30PM - How the West Was Won
10:30PM - Happy Ever After
11:00PM - TV Movie: The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant (1975)


QTQ, Channel 9
6:25AM - Prologue
6:30AM - Shazam!
7:00AM - Valley of the Dinosaurs
7:30AM - Turf Talk
7:50AM - Cutprice Sam
8:00AM - The Kroft Super Show
9:00AM - The New Scooby-Doo Movies
10:00AM - The Bugs Bunny Show
11:00AM - Popeye
12:00PM - Merry Melodies
12:30PM - Scooby Doo's Laff-a-Lympics
1:00PM - Sound Unlimited
3:00PM - Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
3:30PM - The Adventures of Superman
4:00PM - Curiosity Show
5:00PM - Stairway to the Stars
6:00PM - News
6:30PM - Little House on the Prairie
7:30PM - Donny and Marie
8:30PM - Film: Firecreek (1968)
10:20PM- The Protectors
10:50PM - The Baron
11:50PM - Epilogue


TVQ, Channel 0 (yes, a channel 0)
8:00AM - Fat Cat and Friends
8:30AM - On the Gold Coast
9:00AM - Rugby League
12:00PM - Travel Advice
12:30PM - A Greek Affair
1:30PM - Ant and the Aardvark
2:00PM - Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
2:30PM - Film: Tarzan Escapes (1936)
4:00PM - Junior Jury
4:30PM - What in the World
5:00PM - Young Talent Time
6:00PM - News
6:30PM - [to be announced]
7:30PM - The Rockford Files
8:30PM - Film: Rabbit, Run (1970)
10:10PM - Film: Cry of the City (1948)

Glasgow, Scotland television schedule for Saturday 8 December 1979.

Unfortunately, even in 1979 they were wiping the tapes of shows. For example, all episodes of "The Allan Stewart Tapes" are lost, as are many episodes of "Tiswas" (retrospectives featuring the show are usually forced to use off-air home VCR recordings, because few episodes survive in the archives).

BBC-1
9:05AM - Cut and Thrust
9:30AM - The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
12:12PM - Weather
12:15PM - Grandstand
4:55PM - Scoreboard
5:05PM - Tom and Jerry
5:15PM - News, Weather
5:25PM - Scoreboard
5:30PM - The Basil Brush Show
6:00PM - Doctor Who
6:25PM - The Generation Game
7:20PM - Secret Army
8:15PM - Shirley Bassey
9:00PM - Dallas
9:50PM - News, Weather
10:00PM - Sportscene
10:30PM - Scotch and Wry
11:00PM - Parkinson
12:00AM - News, Weather
12:05AM - sign off


BBC-2
11:15AM - Open University
12:30PM - sign off
2:05PM - Film: The Journey (1959)
4:15PM - Play Away
4:35PM - Horizon
5:20PM - Open Door
5:55PM - Prize Cats
6:20PM - A Diary of Britain
7:00PM - News, Sport
7:15PM - The Man America Forgot
8:10PM - The Alpine Symphony
9:00PM - Film: Baker's Bread (1976)
11:00PM - News, weather
11:05PM - Film: The Witches (1966)
12:40AM - sign off


STV:
9:05AM - Cartoon
9:15AM - Mork and Mindy
9:40AM - Cuir Car
10:00AM - Adventures in Rainbow County
10:30AM - Tiswas
12:30PM - World of Sport
5:05PM - News
5:15PM - Dinah Saur
5:30PM - Mind Your Language
6:00PM - TV Movie: San Francisco International Airport (1970)
7:45PM - The Allan Stewart Tapes
8:15PM - Search for a Star
9:00PM - The Professionals
10:00PM - News
10:15PM - Two People
11:15PM - Late Call
11:20PM - Soap
11:50PM - George Hamilton IV
12:15AM - sign off

Ireland television schedule for Monday 25 December 1978.

Normally, I only have access to Sunday Irish schedules. My source is the London newspaper "The Observer", as viewed on the newspapers.com website. However, one of the Sundays in December 1978 fell on the 24th. Since no newspaper was published on Christmas day, the Observer for the 24th features the next day's TV schedule....a Monday.

Re: "Boney M. in Concert", I have a videotaped Boney M. concert on DVD, perhaps that is the show on the schedule? The one I viewed is a good concert. It is well known (and was never really a secret) that two of the members of Boney M. didn't perform on the records, but nevertheless all four members sang at the concerts. An interesting situation to say the least.

RTE-1
10:15AM - In Search of a King
10:55AM - Urbl el Orbi
11:30AM - Mass
12:15PM - Santa Claus is Coming to Town (possibly this?)
1:00PM - Circus
2:05PM - Cartoon
2:25PM - Film: Tom Tom
4:00PM - Heritage of Ireland
4:50PM - Wanderly Wagon
5:30PM - An Taobh Thall Den Mhuirthead
5:55PM - Nuacht
6:00PM - Angelus
6:01PM - Christmas Messages
6:13PM - News
6:16PM - Festival of Carols
7:00PM - Cry of the Mountains
7:30PM - Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
8:00PM - Billy Boy
9:00PM - News
9:10PM - Film: Sleuth (1972)
11:25PM - Vivaldi's Four Seasons
12:15AM - News
12:20AM - Vespers

RTE-2
12:00PM - Switch-On
12:10PM - A Heavenly Peace
1:00PM - Lawrence Durrell's Greece
2:15PM - The Nutcracker Suite
3:55PM - The Making of Star Wars
4:45PM - Boney M. in Concert
6:01PM - Christmas Messages
6:13PM - Bing Crosby - The Christmas Years
7:05PM - Film: Moby Dick (possibly the 1956 film?)
9:00PM - Morecambe and Wise
10:15PM - This Is Your Life
10:45PM - Christmas the Way it Was
11:15PM - Film: The Student Prince (1954)

Ottawa, Canada television schedule for Monday 4 December 1972.

CBOT, Channel 4
8:00AM - Ontario Schools
8:45AM - Dr. Dressup
9:15AM - Ottawa Schools
9:45AM - Ontario Schools
10:30AM - The Friendly Giant
10:45AM - Chez Hélène
11:00AM - Sesame Street
12:00PM - Luncheon Date
1:00PM - Family Affair
1:30PM - Audubon
2:00PM - Galloping Gourmet
2:30PM - Four for the Road
3:00PM - Take 30
3:30PM - The Edge of Night
4:00PM - Family Court
4:30PM - Drop In
5:00PM - Science Workshop
5:30PM - Get Smart
6:00PM - The Lucy Show
6:30PM - News
7:00PM - Something Else
7:30PM - Irish Rovers
8:00PM - The Partridge Family
8:30PM - Cannon
9:30PM - This is the Law
10:00PM - Election Coverage
10:30PM - Man Alive
11:00PM - News
11:20PM - Viewpoint
11:30PM - Night Final
11:40PM - Sports
11:55PM - Film: Man in the Moon (1960)


CBOFT, Channel 9
9:15AM - Éducation Physique
9:30AM - Les Oraliens
9:45AM - Les 100 tours de Centour
10:00AM - Les Chiboukis
10:15AM - En Mouvement
10:30AM - Ontario Schools
11:30AM - Adventures of the Seaspray
12:00PM - Skippy
12:30PM - Boubou
1:30PM - News
2:30PM - Film: Brigade Volante (1951)
4:00PM - Bobino
4:30PM - Maigrichon et Gras-Double
5:00PM- Daktari
6:00PM - Cher Oncle Bill
6:30PM - News
7:15PM - Sur le Vif
7:30PM - Studio Libre
8:00PM - Les Forges du Saint-Maurice
8:30PM - Mont-Joye
9:30PM - Marcus Welby, M.D.
10:30PM - News
11:00PM - Appelez-Moi Lise
12:00AM - Sports
12:05AM - Film: Les Noces Vénitiennes (1959)


CJOH, Channel 13
6:45AM - Facets
6:55AM - The Mighty Hercules
7:00AM - Canada A.M.
8:30AM - Schools
9:00AM - Yoga
9:30AM - The Trouble with Tracy
10:00AM - Romper Room
10:30AM - Schools
12:00PM - The Flintstones
12:30PM - Eye Bet
1:00PM - The Merv Griffin Show
2:00PM - Edith Serei
2:30PM - Somerset
3:00PM - Another World
3:30PM - What's the Good Word
4:00PM - Anything You Can Do
4:30PM - Bewitched
5:00PM - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
6:00PM- News
6:30PM - Beat the Clock
7:00PM - The Doris Day Show
7:30PM - Rollin
8:00PM - The Protectors
8:30PM - Medical Centre
9:30PM - The Pig and Whistle
10:00PM - Ironside
11:00PM - News
11:20PM - Newsline
12:00PM - Film: 5 Fingers (1952)