13 October 1965: Barry Creyton, Maggie Dence, Hazel Phillips, Gordon Chater (The Mavis Bramston Show)
13 October 1973: Tom Richards (Matlock Police)
13 October 1979: The Sammy Awards
13 October 1979: Jeanne Little and Mike Walsh (The Mike Walsh Show) with Sue Smith
13 October 1984: Penny Cook and Grant Dodwell (A Country Practice)
13 October 1990: Nicolle Dickson (Home And Away)
13 October 2001: Ada Nicodemou and Kimberley Cooper (Home And Away) and Kym Valentine (Neighbours)
13 October 2007: Indiana Evans and Mark Furze (Home And Away)
13 October 1973: ABC presents the Australian Opera production of Tolstoy’s War And Peace. Recorded in September, it was the first opera to be performed at the Sydney Opera House ahead of its official opening on 20 October.
13 October 1975: ATN7 Sydney premieres morning news and current affairs program Eleven AM as a local program before extending nationally in the 1980s — 20 years since the last Eleven AM [2019]
13 October 1978: The Nine Network presents the TV Week King Of Pop Awards, hosted by Glenn Shorrock with special guests Kate Bush and Leif Garrett.
13 October 1994: The Seven Network premieres comedy special Big Girl’s Blouse, starring Gina Riley, Magda Szubanski and Jane Turner, ahead of an eight-episode series to follow in 1995 — Big Girl’s Blouse turns 20 [2014]
13 October 1995: SBS presents the documentary The Flying Nun, profiling Queensland’s Sister Anne-Maree Jensen, a 40-year-old Catholic nun who has been flying her single engine Cessna across some of the most remote parts of south-western Queensland in conducting her ministry across her bush parish.
13 October 2004: The Seven Network premieres observational series Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.
13 October 2005: Network Ten premieres drama series The Surgeon, starring Justine Clarke, Sam Worthington, Katie Wall, Nicholas Bell, Chum Ehelepola, Matt Zeremes and Matthew Newton.
13 October 2007: The Nine Network and Foxtel announce the purchase of Australian broadcast rights to the 2010 XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2012 Games of the XXX Olympiad in London — the deal believed to be worth around $110 million.
