17 August 1974: Brendon Lunney (Rush)
17 August 1985: Shane Withington and Anne Tenney (A Country Practice)
17 August 1991: Matthew Krok and Rachael Beck (Hey Dad)
17 August 2002: Bec Cartwright and Ben Unwin (Home And Away)
17 August 2002: Holly Valance and Blair McDonough (Neighbours)
17 August 1959: All three Sydney channels present coverage of Princess Alexandra’s visit to Canberra in what is still considered to be a rare technical feat, requiring weeks of planning by technical staff, particularly as there was at the time no TV services operating in Canberra itself.
17 August 1994: The final ever episode of Hey Dad! sees a bank robber (played by Bill Conn) on the run taking the household hostage.
17 August 1998: ABC premieres the mockumentary series The Games, a parody of the organisation planning the Sydney Olympic Games. Starring John Clarke, Bryan Dawe and Gina Riley.
17 August 2006: Network Ten premieres the talk show David Tench Tonight, with the host a fictional computer-animated character played by actor Drew Forsythe.
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