Tag: New Faces

On This Day — 12 March

12 March 1966: Jimmy Hannan (Jimmy) 12 March 1969: Ty Hardin (Riptide) 12 March 1994: Lisa Lackey (Home And Away) 12 March 1976: Bert Newton hosts the 18th annual TV Week Logie Awards from the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne. Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald) and Denise Drysdale (The Ernie Sigley Show) win the Gold Logies for …

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On This Day — 2 February

2 February 1961: Susan-Gaye Anderson (The Tarax Show) 2 February 1974: Ted Hamilton (Division 4) 2 February 1980: Karen Petersen, Judy Lynne, Alfred Sandor (The Young Doctors) 2 February 1980: Joanne Samuel and Ken James (Skyways) 2 February 1991: Georgie Parker (A Country Practice) 2 February 1992: Ten launches Bert Newton’s New Faces, reviving the …

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On This Day — 29 January

29 January 1964: Johnny O’Keefe (Sing, Sing, Sing) 29 January 1972: Johnny Young (Young Talent Time) 29 January 1977: Bert Newton (The Don Lane Show, New Faces) 29 January 1983: Val Lehman and Maggie Kirkpatrick (Prisoner) 29 January 1994: Melissa George and Jimmy Lucinia (Home And Away) 29 January 2000: Kristy Wright (Above The Law) …

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On This Day — 16 September

16 September 1972: Johnny Lockwood and Abigail (Number 96) 16 September 1972: Mary Jane Boyd (The Matt Flinders Show) 16 September 1978: Judy Lynne, Bartholomew John, Lynda Stoner (The Young Doctors) 16 September 2006: Home And Away, McLeod’s Daughters, Neighbours, Australian Idol 16 September 1956: TCN9 Sydney becomes the first TV station to begin regular …

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On This Day — 14 September

14 September 1961: Bobby Limb (The Mobil-Limb Show) 14 September 1963: Bobby Limb (Bobby Limb’s Sound Of Music) 14 September 1991: Penny Cook (GP) 14 September 1996: Isla Fisher and Martin Henderson (Home And Away) 14 September 2002: Christie Hayes and Kate Garven (Home And Away) 14 September 1971: The Seven Network celebrates 15 years …

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On This Day — 21 August

21 August 1959: Graham Kennedy (In Melbourne Tonight) 21 August 1976: Michael Charlton, Robert Moore, David Flatman, Caroline Jones, John Temple, Mike Willesee (Four Corners) 21 August 1982: Bert Newton (The Don Lane Show, New Faces) 21 August 1993: Gavin Harrison and Rebekah Elmaloglou (A Country Practice) 21 August 2004: Natalie Bassingthwaighte (Neighbours) 21 August …

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TV Week Logie Awards: 50 years ago

Quiz show host Tony Barber was awarded the Gold Logie at the 15th annual TV Week Logie Awards, held at the Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne, on 16 February 1973 and televised on the Nine Network. Bert Newton again hosted the presentation, with overseas guests Glenn Ford (Cade’s County), Loretta Swit (MASH), Gail Fisher (Mannix) and …

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On This Day — 22 July

22 July 1972: Joe Hasham (Number 96) 22 July 1978: Bert Newton (The Don Lane Show, New Faces) 22 July 1989: Simone Buchanan and Chris Mayer (Hey Dad) 22 July 2000: Joy Smithers and Erik Thomson (All Saints) 22 July 2006: Kate Ritchie (Home And Away) 22 July 1974: Nine screens a delayed telecast of …

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Out on a Limb on 26 Hill Street

In the 1960s, Bobby Limb was one of Australia’s most popular entertainers and TV personalities, winning the TV Week Gold Logie in 1964. His variety show The Mobil-Limb Show was one of Australia’s first “national” variety shows and his later production, Bobby Limb’s Sound Of Music was a long-running and multi award-winning series for the …

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Obituary: Bert Newton

Bert Newton, one of the pioneers and enduring personalities of Australian television, has died at the age of 83. He had been in hospital for several months and went into palliative care recently following complications from recent surgery to have a leg amputated. Born in 1938, Newton started in radio when still a teenager, becoming …

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