28 June 1980: Tina Bursill and Gerard Kennedy (Skyways)
28 June 2003: Jay Bunyan and Delta Goodrem (Neighbours)
28 June 2008: Indiana Evans, Mark Furze, Christie Hayes (Home And Away)
28 June 1967: The debut of the 26-part drama series You Can’t See Round Corners, starring Ken Shorter and Rowena Wallace. The series was an adaptation of the novel written by Jon Cleary — You Can’t See Round Corners… and a star is born [2017]
28 June 1971: The final edition of Bob and Dolly Dyer’s Pick A Box — the quiz show that began on radio in 1948 and converted to television in 1957. One of the first ‘national’ shows on Australian television — 50 years since Pick-A-Box ended [2021]
28 June 1982: The debut of Nine’s National Today Show which had replaced the one-hour news bulletin National Nine News Today that had launched earlier in the year in the 7am timeslot. The National Today Show is the program now known as Today — Today celebrates 40 years [2022]
28 June 1993: Former Seven Network lifestyle show Live It Up, hosted by Trisha Goddard, is relaunched as a weekday afternoon program, 3.30pm on Ten.
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I had forgotten about Tina Bursill, who went on to a fine acting career.
There was a Trisha Goddard on English tv when we were there last month and I wondered if it is the same Trisha Goddard I remembered in Australia, and after just checking, yes it is.