Tag: Sons And Daughters

On This Day — 4 March

4 March 1967: Les Dayman, Leonard Teale, Jack Fegan (Homicide) 4 March 1970: Kevin Miles (The Link Men) 4 March 1972: Roger Moore (The Saint, The Persuaders), Robert Reed (The Brady Bunch), Gerard Kennedy (Division 4), Juliet Mills (Nanny And The Professor) 4 March 1972: Mike Willesee (A Current Affair) 4 March 1995: Janet Jackson …

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On This Day — 13 February

13 February 1982: Kim Lewis (Sons And Daughters) 13 February 1988: Peter O’Brien and Rebecca Gibney (The Flying Doctors) 13 February 2010: Luke Jacobz and Esther Anderson (Home And Away) 13 February 1967: ABC premieres afternoon series Something Else, set in a family-owned Sydney hotel called The George, starring Lois Ramsey, Benita Collings, Liza Goddard, …

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On This Day — 4 February

4 February 1978: Noeline Brown and Ugly Dave Gray (Blankety Blanks) 4 February 1984: Michael Long and Rowena Wallace (Sons And Daughters) 4 February 1984: Caroline Ainslie (NWS9, Adelaide) 4 February 1995: Lisa McCune (Blue Heelers) 4 February 2006: Amy Mathews and Chris Hemsworth (Home And Away) 4 February 1972: Mike Willesee and John Bailey …

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On This Day — 18 January

18 January 1975: Elaine Lee (Number 96) 18 January 1997: Nicola Charles and Emma Harrison (Neighbours) 18 January 2003: Tammin Sursok and Kip Gamblin (Home And Away) 18 January 1982: The premiere of the Seven Network soap opera Sons And Daughters with episodes one, two and three combined into a movie-length debut — Sons And …

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On This Day — 16 January

16 January 1982: Peter Phelps and Pat McDonald (Sons And Daughters) 16 January 1982: Jane Reilly and Tony Dickinson (Eyewitness News, SAS10 Adelaide) 16 January 1988: Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan (Neighbours) 16 January 2010: Kym Valentine and Carla Bonner (Neighbours) 16 January 1983: HSV7 screens the telemovie A Special Place, the story of a …

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On This Day — 12 January

12 January 1961: Lorrae Desmond (The Lorrae Desmond Show) 12 January 1974: Jimmy Hannan (Spending Spree, Split Second) 12 January 1985: Kim Lewis (Sons And Daughters) 12 January 1991: Alyssa-Jane Cook (E Street) 12 January 2002: Ada Nicodemou, Ryan Kwanten, Zac Drayson, Kimberley Cooper (Home And Away) 12 January 2008: Kate Ritchie and Amy Mathews …

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Obituary: Les Dayman

Les Dayman, actor best known for his stage and television work, including leading roles in Homicide and E Street, has died at the age of 85. His first TV roles were in plays Weather At Pinetop and Dark Corridor, both produced by ABC in Adelaide. This was followed in 1966 by his first major TV role …

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The Wicked City: ill-fated 1880s drama

In 1971, the Seven Network had bold plans for a new “provocative and bawdy” series set in Melbourne in the 1880s. The network had a proposal titled Man Of Property, starring Robin Ramsay, formerly of Bellbird, in the lead role of a strait-laced English doctor living in Melbourne at the end of the gold rush …

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On This Day — 10 September

10 September 1977: Ray Burgess (Flashez) 10 September 1983: Kim Lewis and Ian Rawlings (Sons And Daughters) 10 September 1988: Kylie Mole (Maryanne Fahey, The Comedy Company) and Greg Evans (Perfect Match) 10 September 2001: Madeleine West, Blair McDonough, Carla Bonner (Neighbours) 10 September 2005: Paul O’Brien and Jodi Gordon (Home And Away) 10 September …

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On This Day — 28 August

28 August 1958: Panda Lisner (In Melbourne Tonight) 28 August 1959: Johnny O’Keefe (Six O’Clock Rock) 28 August 1965: Pop star Normie Rowe 28 August 1976: Victoria Quilter and Lucky Grills (Bluey) 28 August 1982: Rowena Wallace (Sons And Daughters) 28 August 1993: Cathy Godbold (Newlyweds) 28 August 1999: Jesse Spencer and Brooke Satchwell (Neighbours) …

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