<P> Test broadcasting of colour began in the late 1960s . The full changeover to colour transmission did not occur until 1975 . </P> <P> Following the new medium's establishment in most major metropolitan and regional centres, television continued to expand to remote areas, most notably those in the northern and western parts of Australia--Darwin, for example, did not receive television until ABD - 6 and NTD - 8 launched in 1971 . Similarly, VEW - 8 launched in Kalgoorlie on 18 June 1971, and ITQ - 8 launched in Mount Isa on 11 September 1971 . The youngest network, the 0 / 10 Network, as it was then known, launched the controversial sex - melodrama serial Number 96 in March 1972 . The success of this program led to this third network becoming commercially viable . </P> <P> In 1972 it was announced that all stations would move to colour on 1 March 1975, using the European PAL standard mandated in 1968 . The slogan used to sell colour television to the Australian public was' March first into colour' . Australia was to have one of the fastest change - overs to colour television in the world--by 1978 over 64% of households in Sydney and Melbourne had colour television sets . </P> <P> Government subsidies provided for the production of local series led to a boom in Australian - produced content . Some of the most popular series included Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4 which started during the 1960s and Matlock Police which began in 1971; variety series Young Talent Time; comedy / variety series Hey Hey It's Saturday, which ran for 28 years until 1999, music show Countdown; soap operas Bellbird which had started in late 1967, Number 96 and The Box, and the World War II - themed The Sullivans . Against the Wind, the first major mini-series produced for commercial television, was shown on the Seven Network . Later hospital drama The Young Doctors ran for 1396 episodes between 1976 and 1983, becoming at the time it ended Australia's longest running drama series . </P>

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