13 February 1982: Kim Lewis (Sons And Daughters)
13 February 1988: Peter O’Brien and Rebecca Gibney (The Flying Doctors)
13 February 2010: Luke Jacobz and Esther Anderson (Home And Away)
13 February 1967: ABC premieres afternoon series Something Else, set in a family-owned Sydney hotel called The George, starring Lois Ramsey, Benita Collings, Liza Goddard, Stanley Walsh, Barbara Joss and Jack Allan.
13 February 1989: Network Ten premieres three-part mini-series Tanamera: Lion Of Singapore, starring Christopher Bowen, Khym Lam, Lewis Fiander, Ed Devereaux, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Gary Sweet, Anne-Louise Lambert, Robert Coleby, Sinan Leong and Tushka Bergen.
13 February 1990: Kerry O’Brien presents ABC’s new late night current affairs program, Lateline.
YouTube: Trevor Trevalgen
13 February 1992: ABC presents the movie-length debut of its new police drama Phoenix, starring Paul Sonkkila, Simon Westaway, Nell Feeney, Sean Scully and Andy Anderson.
13 February 1994: The Fast Forward special 38 And A Bit Fabulous Years Of Australian Television (Seven) takes a comical look at Australia’s television history — featuring Magda Szubanski, Marg Downey, Gina Riley, Michael Veitch, Jane Turner, Geoff Brook, Steve Blackburn, Alan Pentland, Glenn Robbins and Peter Moon.
13 February 1996: Ex-pat Aussie Clive James makes a guest appearance in Neighbours (Ten), playing the part of a postman.
13 February 2004: The debut of ABC‘s weekly pop culture magazine Mondo Thingo, hosted by Amanda Keller (pictured).
13 February 2005: The premiere of reality show Celebrity Overhaul (Nine), hosted by Deborah Hutton and Dr John Tickell.
13 February 2006: Bert Newton marks his return to the Nine Network after 20 years with the premiere of Bert’s Family Feud. The debut of the first series of The Biggest Loser Australia (Ten) with host Ajay Rochester.
13 February 2008: The premiere of true crime drama Underbelly on Nine. The series, a dramatic re-enactment around Melbourne’s gangland killings between 1995 and 2004, aired in all states except in Victoria due to upcoming criminal trials of people depicted in the series.
13 February 2010: Nine begins coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter Games from Vancouver, Canada, with hosts Eddie McGuire, Leila McKinnon, Ken Sutcliffe, Alissa Camplin and Steve Bradbury.
