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 1972: ABC premieres World War II drama Over There, starring John Meillon, Judy Morris and John Hargreaves.

28 June 1979: ABC premieres drama series Patrol Boat, starring Andrew McFarlane, Robert Coleby and Danny Adcock.

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 on Ten.

28 June 2008: SBS premieres six-part reality series The Nest, featuring families where children have stayed living at home well into adulthood. Commentary and analysis is provided by demographer Bernard Salt, financial expert Scott Pape and social psychologist Dina McMillan.


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