27 October 1960: Gaynor Bunning (The Bobby Limb Show)
27 October 1962: John Laws (Startime)
27 October 1973: Garry Meadows (The Price Is Right)
27 October 1979: Ilona Rodgers and John Waters (The Sullivans)
27 October 1990: Tammy MacIntosh (The Flying Doctors)
27 October 2001: Georgie Parker (All Saints) and Jane Allsop (Blue Heelers)
27 October 2007: Tim Campbell and Ada Nicodemou; Mark Furze and Simone McAullay (Home And Away)
27 October 1956: Six weeks after beginning regular transmissions, Sydney’s TCN9 is officially opened with speeches by Prime Minister Robert Menzies and Dame Pattie Menzies, New South Wales Premier Joe Cahill, Cardinal Norman Gilroy and the Archbishop of Sydney Howard Mowll — TV At 60: TCN9, Australia’s first Channel [2016]
27 October 1975: Darwin channel NTD8 resumes on-air transmission ten months after the station was wiped out by Cyclone Tracy — Cyclone Tracy: “The day Darwin died” [2014]
27 October 1978: The Seven Network presents the Miss Australia 1979 pageant, live from Brisbane. Hosted by Roger Climpson with Mike Higgins and Annette Allison.
27 October 1980: Channel 0/28 premieres its news service, Worldwide News, screening every weeknight presented by George Donikian.
27 October 1986: Neighbours makes its first appearance on British television, premiering in a daytime timeslot on BBC1. SBS premieres evening news bulletin 9 O’Clock, presented by Christina Koutsoukos.
27 October 2008: SBS premieres comedy series Swift And Shift Couriers, starring Paul Fenech, Ian Turpie, Amanda Keller, Brendan Jones and Melissa Tkautz.
27 October 2009: The Seven Network drama series All Saints comes to an end after 493 episodes — Seven to check out from All Saints [2009]