Bert Newton hosts the TV Week Logie Awards, telecast live from the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne. Overseas guests include British actor Peter Wyngarde and American actors Peter Graves and Robert Young.
Barry Crocker (Barry Crocker’s The Sound Of Music) and Maggie Tabberer (Maggie) won the Gold Logies for Most Popular Male and Female Personality, and a special Gold Logie was awarded to the Apollo 11 team for “providing TV’s greatest moment” with the moon landing.
TV Week Logie Awards — 50 years ago [Blogged 2020]
Source: TV Times, 18 March 1970. The Age, 20 March 1970.
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| 7AM | 7am The Super Flying Fun Show | 7am Fredd Bear’s Breakfast A Go-Go. Fredd Bear, Judy Banks, Colin McEwan, Michael McCarthy | ||
| 8AM | 8.30am Romper Room | 8.30 Playroom | ||
| 9AM | 9.10am For Schools: Form One Maths, Current Affairs | 9.30 Princess Knight | 9am Here’s Humphrey | 9am The Marvellous Munchkin Show 9.30 Owly’s School |
| 10AM | 10.10 Play School 10.40 Close 10.50 For Schools: Map And The Landscape, Nature Study, Physical Science Study Course |
10am Abbott And Costello 10.30 Woman’s World. Belle Nicholson, John Eden |
10am Hennesey 10.25 Tell Me Dr Brothers 10.30 Mrs Thursday |
10am Kindy 10.30 The Magic Circle Club |
| 11AM | 11.30 Maggie. Maggie Tabberer | 11.30 Divorce Court | 11am The Marriage Game 11.30 Roundabout |
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| 12PM | 12pm People In Conflict 12.30 Movie: The Midnight Story. 1957 [IMDB] |
12pm Days Of Our Lives 12.30 Movie: Gilded Cage. 1956 [IMDB] |
12.30pm Dr Kildare | |
| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.05 Close 1.15 For Schools: Form Two Maths, Physical Science Study, Nature Study, The Met Set |
1.45 Fun With Food | 1.30 Dragnet | |
| 2PM | 2pm Beauty And The Beast. John Laws | 2pm Peyton Place 2.30 General Hospital |
2pm Movie: Oh Men! Oh Women! 1957 [IMDB] | |
| 3PM | 3.20 Tennis: International Tournament. Live from Sydney | 3pm The Eleventh Hour | 3pm The Nurses | 3.27 News 3.30 The Game Game Show |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Adventure Island |
4pm Shazam 4.30 Cannonball |
4pm The Porky Pig Show 4.30 Superman |
4pm The Flintstones 4.30 Tarzan |
| 5PM | 5pm Squiggle/The Magic Roundabout 5.15 Gentle Ben 5.40 Lassie |
5pm Gomer Pyle USMC 5.30 Get Smart |
5pm Archie 5.30 It’s About Time |
5.30 Blind Date. Jeremy Cordeaux |
| 6PM | 6.05 The Val Doonican Show | 6pm I Dream Of Jeannie 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor |
6pm The Lucy Show 6.30 News. Eric Pearce, Kevin Sanders, Rosemary Margan |
6pm 0 Melbourne News. Geoff Raymond 6.30 The Patty Duke Show |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News, Newsreel 7.26 Weather 7.30 This Day Tonight. Bill Peach |
7pm To Rome With Love 7.30 The Best Of Homicide |
7pm My World And Welcome To It 7.30 Barry Crocker’s Sound Of Music |
7pm The Rovers 7.30 Daniel Boone |
| 8PM | 8pm Dad’s Army 8.30 The New People |
8.30 Movie: King Of Kings. 1962 [IMDB] | 8.30 Special: TV Week Logie Awards. Bert Newton. Live from Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne (see advertisement below) | 8.30 Name Of The Game |
| 9PM | 9.08 ABC News 9.10 Sue Becker 9.20 Opera: The Marriage Contract |
9.30 Movie: Seven Thieves. 1960 [IMDB] | ||
| 10PM | 10.15 ABC News 10.25 Tennis: International Tournament. Highlights |
10pm Movie: Beast With A Million Eyes. 1956 [IMDB] | ||
| 11PM | 11.25 Close | 11.25 Movie: She-Wolf Of London. 1946 [IMDB] | 11.25 News 11.35 Eric Pearce 11.37 Movie: Sons Of Matthew [IMDB] |
11.30 News |
| 12AM | 12.35am News 12.50 Close |
12am Close | ||
| 1AM | 1.25am Epilogue 1.30 Close |
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| 9.10am For Schools: Form One Maths, Current Affairs 10.10 Play School 10.40 Close 10.50 For Schools: Map And The Landscape, Nature Study, Physical Science Study Course 1pm ABC News 1.05 Close 1.15 For Schools: Form Two Maths, Physical Science Study, Nature Study, The Met Set 3.20 Tennis: International Tournament. Live from Sydney 4pm Play School 4.30 Adventure Island 5pm Squiggle/The Magic Roundabout 5.15 Gentle Ben 5.40 Lassie 6.05 The Val Doonican Show 6.55 Regional News 7pm ABC News, Newsreel 7.26 Weather 7.30 This Day Tonight. Bill Peach 8pm Dad’s Army 8.30 The New People 9.08 ABC News 9.10 Sue Becker 9.20 Opera: The Marriage Contract 10.15 ABC News 10.25 Tennis: International Tournament. Highlights 11.25 Close |
4pm Cartoons 4.50 Cobbers Club 5.05 Jet Jackson 5.30 Dennis The Menace 5.55 The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis 6.20 Local News 6.27 Stock Sales Report 6.30 National News 7pm The Jerry Lewis Show 8pm Division 4 9pm Hong Kong 10pm Greatest Fights Of The Century 11pm District News 11.10 Close |
4pm Here’s Humphrey 4.55 Party Night 5.30 The Real McCoys 5.55 Car 54 Where Are You? 6.20 Local News 6.30 National News 7pm The Flying Nun 7.30 Barry Crocker’s Sound Of Music 8.30 It Takes A Thief 9.25 Stock Report 9.30 Journey To The Unknown 10.30 Turf Talk 10.35 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea 11.50 News 12am Epilogue; Close |
11.55am News 12pm The Loretta Young Show 12.25 Maggie 12.55 News 1pm Coronation Street 1.25 A Taste For Food 1.30 Movie: Female On The Beach. 1955 [IMDB] 3pm Strictly For The Birds 3.30 The Marriage Game 4pm Cartoons 4.30 Rin Tin Tin 5pm Blind Date 5.30 The Flintstones 6pm Green Acres 6.20 Local News 6.30 National News 7pm Movie: Lost In Alaska [IMDB] 8.25 Roving Eye 8.30 (To Be Announced) 9pm The Name Of The Game 10.30 Strange Report 11.20 News 11.45 Epilogue 11.50 Close |
1.55pm News 2pm General Hospital 2.20 Days Of Our Lives 2.45 Maggie 3.10 Desilu Playhouse 4pm Superman 4.30 Teleclub 5pm Rifleman 5.25 McHale’s Navy 5.50 The Lucy Show 6.15 Local News 6.30 National News 7pm The Rovers 7.30 Daniel Boone 8.30 Movie: Home At Seven. 1953 [IMDB] 10.10 Wrestling 11.05 News 11.15 Epilogue; Close |
5.15pm The Paddlewheelers 5.50 Lost In Space 6.40 News 7pm Gomer Pyle USMC 7.30 Barry Crocker’s Sound Of Music 8.25 Roving Eye 8.30 Strange Report 9.50 Return Engagement 10.10 News 10.20 Tomorrow On 8 10.22 Close |
5pm The Mickey Mouse Club 5.25 Sergeant Preston 5.50 Rifleman 6.15 Local News 6.30 National News 6.55 Billboard 7pm The Double Life Of Henry Phyfe 7.30 Barry Crocker’s Sound Of Music 8.30 Movie: The Delicate Delinquent. 1957 [IMDB] 10.20 Motor Sports Action 10.35 Country And Western Hour. Reg Lindsay 11.35 Close |
