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.

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)

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).