Tag: Sunnyside Up

On This Day — 18 March

18 March 1964: Bill Collins (Sunnyside Up) 18 March 1978: Florence Henderson (The Brady Bunch) and Graham Kennedy (Blankety Blanks) 18 March 1978: Paul Cronin, Richard Morgan, Susan Hannaford (The Sullivans) 18 March 2000: Anne Charleston, Kym Valentine, Dan Paris, Melissa Bell (Neighbours) 18 March 2006: Jason Smith and Isabel Lucas (Home And Away) 18 …

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On This Day — 15 February

15 February 1962: Bill Collins (Sunnyside Up) 15 February 1964: Ken Delo (The Delo And Daly Show) 15 February 1975: Abigail (Class Of ’75) 15 February 1975: Gary Day (Homicide) 15 February 1992: Kym Wilson (A Country Practice, Video Smash Hits) 15 February 2003: Vince Colosimo and Claudia Karvan (The Secret Life Of Us) 15 …

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On This Day — 4 January

4 January 1962: “Honest John” Gilbert and Syd Heylen (Sunnyside Up) 4 January 1967: Normie Rowe 4 January 1975: ABC Sportsman Of The Year 4 January 1992: Alyssa-Jane Cook (E Street) 4 January 2003: Daniel Collopy and Tammin Sursok (Home And Away) 4 January 1971: The acclaimed US children’s program Sesame Street debuts on ABC …

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On This Day — 17 June

17 June 1967: Graham Kennedy (In Melbourne Tonight) 17 June 1967: Don Lane (Tonight With Don Lane) 17 June 1978: Rowena Wallace, Jo-Anne Moore, George Mallaby (Cop Shop) 17 June 1995: Kylie Minogue 17 June 2000: Kate Ritchie (Home And Away) 17 June 1959: ABC presents the first Australian television adaptations of Shakespeare, with Hamlet …

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TV Week Logie Awards: 25 years ago

The 62nd annual TV Week Logie Awards were meant to happen this Sunday 28 November. While the awards will not be taking place — for a second year in a row — we continue the annual rundown of past Logies presentations to coincide with what would have been this year’s Logies weekend. Today it’s back to 1996 — …

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Classic TV Guides: Homicide Squad

  In May 1981, the Seven Network and Crawford Productions had announced plans to produce a new Sydney-based crime drama, The Squad, with a telemovie pilot soon to go into production. It was heralded as the first Sydney-based series from the Melbourne-based Crawford empire, which had several successful cop dramas under its belt by this …

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Prisoner stars before Prisoner

Last week marked the 40th anniversary of the debut of Prisoner. Most of the actors from the series had come from established acting backgrounds, though for many it was Prisoner that made them household (and even international) names even though they were not necessarily strangers to television. So what were some of the Prisoner cast …

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TV At 60: The first TV Week Awards

It was the issue of TV Week dated 1 January 1959 that announced the winners of the first TV Week Awards — what would become the Logie Awards. During 1958, TV Week had invited Melbourne readers of its magazine to vote for their TV favourites for the year. There was no glamorous ceremony for handing …

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Obituary: Val Jellay

Val Jellay, veteran showbiz performer and wife of the late Maurie Fields, has died at the age of 89. Son Marty Fields tweeted the sad news earlier today: “My mum, Val, passed away today of pneumonia. She lived an amazing life. She’s back with her beloved Maurie now. I will miss her very much.” Born …

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Obituary: Bob Horsfall

Bob Horsfall, an entertainer from the early days of Australian television, has died at the age of 90. From a career that began as a child performer at the Tivoli Theatre in the 1930s, Horsfall went in to radio — working at stations including 3KZ, 3AW, 3UZ and 2UE. He later made the transition to …

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