26 July 1969: George Mallaby (Homicide)
26 July 1975: Jack Thompson
26 July 1980: Tony Alvarez, Jennifer Murphy, John O’May from the theatre production Evita
26 July 1997: Jo Beth Taylor (Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show, Hey Hey It’s Saturday)
26 July 2003: Madeleine West and Ryan Moloney (Neighbours)
26 July 2008: Nadine Garner and Damien Richardson (City Homicide)
26 July 1965: The official opening of Adelaide’s third commercial channel, SAS10. Later to become SAS7 in 1987 — Seven Adelaide turns 50 [2015], Adelaide’s Great TV Channel Swap [2017]
26 July 1995: ABC premieres drama series Correlli, starring Deborra-lee Furness and introducing Hugh Jackman.
26 July 2002: The Seven Network begins coverage of the XVII Commonwealth Games from Manchester, United Kingdom. SBS premieres Aussie Jokers, a nine-part series looking at the connection between ethnicity and humour in Australia. The first episode features George Kapiniaris, returning to Greece where he finds himself torn between his Greek and Australian origins.
26 July 2005: ABC premieres documentary series Dust To Dust, going behind the scenes of the funeral industry.
26 July 2006: ABC comedy show The Glass House reaches its 200th episode and features guest star Molly Meldrum.
