18 June 2005: Bec Cartwright and Kip Gamblin (Home And Away)
18 June 1967: Remember the Sunday night movie? Tonight, your choices are: The Hurricane (1937), Operation Petticoat (1959) and My Son John (1952).
18 June 1980: The acclaimed documentary The Last Tasmanian is shown in Perth two years after appearing in the eastern states and as a cinema release. Three years in the making, The Last Tasmanian presented a dramatised account of the genocide of 4000 Tasmanian aborigines and profiled the life of Truganini — believed to be the last full blood Tasmanian aboriginal — who died in 1876, aged in her mid-60s. The Last Tasmanian won Logie and Sammy awards in 1979 for best documentary.
18 June 1981: ABC crosses to Nottingham, UK, for the First Test, England v Australia. Coverage starts at 7.55pm and continues to 3.05am.
18 June 1985: Tonight, Nine crosses to Headingley, UK, for First Test. England v Australia. There’s also plenty of Australian drama with Neighbours and Sons And Daughters on Seven, Prisoner on Ten and the mini-series Flight Into Hell on ABC.
