9 February 1966: Bob Dyer (BP Pick-A-Box) 9 February 1974: Briony Behets and George Mallaby (The Box) 9 February 1974: Jeff Kevin (Number 96) 9 February 1980: Paul Cronin, Susan Hannaford, Michael Caton, Ilona Rodgers (The Sullivans) 9 February 1985: Jana Wendt, Ian Leslie, Jeff McMullen, George Negus (60 Minutes) 9 February 1991: Gayle Blakeney …
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Feb 08 2024
On This Day — 8 February
8 February 1967: Gordon Boyd (Showcase) 8 February 1975: Josephine Knur (The Unisexers) 8 February 1975: Graham Kennedy (The Graham Kennedy Show) 8 February 1992: Rachael Beck and Julie McGregor (Hey Dad!) 8 February 1997: William McInnes and Tasma Walton (Blue Heelers) 8 February 2003: Georgie Parker (All Saints) 8 February 1978: ABC launches a …
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Sep 14 2023
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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Mar 29 2021
Classic TV Guides: Meet Prince Philip
In March 1971, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, toured Australia as part of the golden jubilee celebration for the Royal Australian Air Force. The half-hour special Meet Prince Philip, was telecast live from Adelaide with the Prince interviewed by reporters from each of the four networks. Seven and Nine followed up the interview with a …
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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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Mar 11 2019
50th anniversary of Division 4
Division 4 was one of the trifecta of police dramas from Crawford Productions that came to define Australian television drama in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The series was born after Crawfords and the Nine Network were in a conundrum over what to do with its popular spy drama, Hunter. The show’s lead actor …
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Nov 15 2016
40 years since The Sullivans
Every now and then a TV network will knock back a proposal, only to see it get picked up and become a success elsewhere. One of those programs was a World War II drama called The Sullivans. The concept had been offered by Crawford Productions to the Seven Network, which declined to pick it up. With …
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