1 March 1980: Sinan Leong and Adrian Bernotti (Arcade) 1 March 1980: Graham Kennedy 1 March 1985: Rowena Wallace 1 March 1997: Lisa McCune (Blue Heelers) 1 March 2003: Delta Goodrem and Jay Bunyan (Neighbours) 1 March 2008: Callan Mulvey, Indiana Evans, Mark Furze (Home And Away) 1 March 1968: New TV Station — GTS4, …
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Feb 29 2024
On This Day — 29 February
29 February 1992: Bruce Samazan (E Street) 29 February 1976: The second series of 1850s drama Rush, and the first to be produced in colour, debuts on ABC in Queensland, with other states following on 1 March. 29 February 1980: Network Ten puts the axe to its big-budget series Arcade, after only six weeks on-air. …
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Jan 20 2024
On This Day — 20 January
20 January 1973: James Elliott (Number 96) 20 January 1979: Mike Walsh (The Mike Walsh Show) 20 January 1990: Matt Day (A Country Practice) 20 January 1996: Emma Harrison and Richard Grieve (Neighbours) 20 January 2001: Holly Valance, Madeleine West, Krista Vendy (Neighbours) 20 January 2007: Aaron Jeffery and Simmone Jade Mackinnon (McLeod’s Daughters) 20 …
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May 23 2021
Obituary: Lorrae Desmond
Australian showbusiness legend Lorrae Desmond, known by many as Shirley Gilroy in A Country Practice, has died at age 91. News of her passing was circulated on social media by former colleagues, including former A Country Practice co-stars Shane Withington and Wendy Strehlow. She was my mentor, my friend and an unending source of wisdom, …
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Dec 31 2020
ABC’s Sixty-One, Here We Come!
Sixty years ago, as we were coming to an end to 1960, ABC was planning an ambitious variety special to welcome 1961. Sixty-One, Here We Come! was a 65-minute program produced at the studios of ABV2, Melbourne, and in a rare technical feat was relayed via microwave links for direct broadcast in Sydney. American-born actress …
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Mar 14 2020
Nineties soap gets online re-run
YouTube: southaustraliatv Of all the vintage soaps to get a new lease on life online, Network Ten‘s Echo Point would have been way down the list of likely candidates. It ranks on the list of some of Australian TV’s most infamous soapie disasters among such titles like Arcade, Holiday Island, Paradise Beach and Family And …
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Jan 20 2020
Arcade: Going from hero to zero
By the turn of the ’80s it was the unofficial benchmark for each commercial network to have two successful soapie dramas in the schedule. Seven had Cop Shop and Skyways, and Nine had The Sullivans and The Young Doctors. The then 0-10 Network had the popular Prisoner and teen drama The Restless Years. For some reason, …
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Oct 14 2019
Obituary: Patrick Ward
Actor Patrick Ward, star of various Australian films and television series, has died at the age of 69. He left school in Sydney at the age of 14 and at the age of 16 began as a dancer before joining the Independent Theatre in Sydney and trained as an actor. He starred as lawyer Mike …
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