Tag: The Young Doctors

On This Day — 11 March

11 March 1972: Camilla Rountree and David Phillips (Bellbird) 11 March 1972: Leonard Teale, George Mallaby, Mike Preston, Alwyn Kurts (Homicide) 11 March 1978: Tony Alvarez and Judy McBurney (The Young Doctors) 11 March 1978: Graham Kennedy (Blankety Blanks) 11 March 1989: Jason Donovan (Neighbours) 11 March 1995: Georgie Parker (Fire) and Lisa McCune (Blue …

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On This Day — 24 February

24 February 1971: Elspeth Ballantyne and Dennis Miller (Bellbird) 24 February 1973: Tony Barber (Temptation / The Great Temptation) 24 February 1979: John Orcsik and Paula Duncan (Cop Shop) 24 February 1979: Peter Lochran, Chris Orchard, Diana McLean (The Young Doctors) 24 February 1990: Simone Buchanan (Hey Dad!) 24 February 1996: Kimberley Davies (Neighbours) 24 …

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On This Day — 16 February

16 February 1974: Paul Hogan (The Paul Hogan Show) 16 February 1980: Marcia Hines 16 February 1980: Rebecca Gilling and Margaret Laurence (The Young Doctors) 16 February 1980: Bob Dyer and Bert Newton 16 February 1991: Rebekah Elmaloglou (Home And Away) 16 February 2002: Georgie Parker and Erik Thomson (All Saints) 16 February 2008: Kate Ritchie …

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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 — 24 January

24 January 1976: Chelsea Brown (Celebrity Squares) 24 January 1976: Frankie Howerd and Kate Fitzpatrick (Up The Convicts) 24 January 1981: Peter Lochran and Karen Pini (The Young Doctors) 24 January 1998: Tennis champion Pat Rafter 24 January 2004: Christie Hayes and Sam Atwell (Home And Away) 24 January 2009: Dustin Clare, Kate Ritchie, Matthew …

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Obituary: Joy Chambers

Joy Chambers, actor, author and wife of the late Reg Grundy, has died at age 76. Named as the inaugural Miss Surf Girl by the Queensland Surf Life Saving Club in 1965, she was doing modelling work when she auditioned for a panellist role for Brisbane-based game show I’ve Got A Secret. She caught the …

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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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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 — 3 September

3 September 1977: Michael Beecher, Alfred Sandor, Cornelia Frances (The Young Doctors) 3 September 1988: Justine Clarke (Home And Away) 3 September 1994: Deborah Hutton (Looking Good) 3 September 2005: Ella Scott Lynch and Chris Hemsworth (Home And Away) 3 September 1979: Simon Townsend’s Wonder World debuts on Ten in Sydney, with Melbourne’s ATV0 following …

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On This Day — 27 August

27 August 1977: Brian Bury (National Nine News, Melbourne) 27 August 1977: Mark Holden (The Young Doctors) 27 August 1980: Paula Duncan (Cop Shop) 27 August 1994: Laura Vazquez and Daniel Amalm (Home And Away) 27 August 2005: Dancing With The Stars 27 August 1995: The Eastern Creek 12-Hour Race is broadcast live on SBS …

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