1974 in Australian television

This is a list of Australian television-related events in 1974.

Events

• 18 March – The Reg Grundy Organisation's new Australian daily soap opera for teenagers set in a secondary school Class of 74 starts screening on Seven Network and is shown five nights a week. The following year it was changed to Class of 75, before getting axed.
• 1 April – Long running American soap opera The Young and the Restless starts its first broadcast in Australia on Nine Network.
• 9 June – Australian horror anthology series The Evil Touch airs its final episode on Nine Network.
• 21 June – A new short lived Australian science fiction television series for children called Alpha Scorpio debuts on ABC only running for six episodes.
• October – Test colour transmissions commence across all networks.
• 8 November – Australian music program Countdown premieres on ABC with Grant Goldman as the first host.
• 31 December – News Limited and Nine Network have launched a 28-hour telethon to raise funding for the relief effort of Darwin, Northern Territory after the city was wiped out by Cyclone Tracy.

Debuts

New International Programming

• 21 January – The Electric Company (ABC)
• 15 February/4 April – Hawkins (15 February: Seven Network - Sydney, 4 April: Seven Network - Melbourne)
• 1 April – The Young and the Restless (Nine Network)
• 1 April – Dusty's Trail (Nine Network)
• 15 April – Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! (Nine Network)
• 21 April – Kojak (The 0-10 Network)
• 6 May – The Beachcombers (ABC)
• 13 May – Mission: Magic! (The 0-10 Network)
• 26 May – Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (ABC)
• 27 May – Wild, Wild World of Animals (ABC)
• 10 June – Bailey's Comets (Nine Network)
• 26 June – Shaft (Seven Network)
• 30 June – The Six Million Dollar Man (The 0-10 Network)
• 1 July – Thriller (Seven Network)
• 20 July – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids (ABC)
• 28 July – My Favorite Martians (ABC)
• 3 August – Jack the Ripper (1973) (ABC)
• 18 August – Man About the House (ABC)
• 14 September – Needles and Pins (ABC)
• 22 September – Happy Days (Nine Network)
• 17 October – The Ascent of Man (ABC)
• 19 October – Speed Buggy (ABC)
• 3 November – Adam's Rib (Seven Network)
• 6 November/9 December – Doc Elliot (6 November: Nine Network - Sydney, 9 December: Nine Network - Melbourne)
• 12 December – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Nine Network)
• Inch High, Private Eye (Nine Network)
• Super Friends (1973) (The 0-10 Network)

Television shows

1950s

• Mr. Squiggle and Friends (1959–1999).

1960s

• Football Inquest (1960–1974)
• Four Corners (1961–present).
• It's Academic (1968–1978)
• Division 4 (1969–1975)
• GTK (1969–1974)

1970s

• Hey Hey It's Saturday (1971–1999, 2009–2010).
• Young Talent Time (1971–1988)
• Countdown (1974–1987).

Ending this year

See also

• 1974 in Australia
• List of Australian films of 1974

References