21 April 1971: Ken James (Barrier Reef, The Group)

21 April 1973: Jamie Redfern (Young Talent Time) and Liberace

21 April 1979: Lynda Stoner and Gil Tucker (Cop Shop)

21 April 1984: Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Bert Newton (New Faces, Tonight With Bert Newton)

21 April 1990: Adam Willits and Craig McLachlan (Home And Away) and Alyce Platt (Family And Friends)

21 April 2001: Suzie Wilks (Changing Rooms) and Jamie Durie (Backyard Blitz)

21 April 2007: Aaron Jeffery and Simmone Jade Mackinnon (McLeod’s Daughters)

21 April 2012: Carrie Bickmore (The Project), Hamish Blake (Hamish And Andy’s Gap Year), Asher Keddie (Offspring, Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo)


21 April 1991: To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Anzac campaign, Ten screens a one-hour documentary Gallipoli: The Anzac Legend, narrated by Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell.

21 April 1993: Ernie Dingo hosts the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Charity Gala (Seven), from the Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne, featuring appearances by Marty Putz, Ross Daniels, Rachel Berger, Greg Championand the musical cabaret The Monte Carlos. Network Ten current affairs host Derryn Hinch presents a two-hour special, The Skase Mirage, featuring exclusive interviews with Christopher Skase, the high-flying businessman turned recluse. Skase had fled Australia four years earlier to Spain after being charged with criminal offences following the collapse of his Qintex empire. He died in Majorca in 2001 — Hinch chases Skase [2018]

21 April 1996: Daryl Somers hosts the 38th annual TV Week Logie Awards from the Melbourne Park Function Centre and telecast on the Nine Network — TV Week Logie Awards: 25 years ago [2021]

21 April 2004: The Blue Heelers episode Reasonable Doubt, is performed live-to-air.

21 April 2007: ABC debuts comedy series The Sideshow, hosted by Paul McDermott.

Lowdown

21 April 2010: ABC debuts comedy series Lowdown, created by Adam Zwar and Amanda Brotchie, set in the world of celebrity journalism.

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