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On This Day — 23 February

23 February 1966: Graham Kennedy (In Melbourne Tonight) 23 February 1974: Carl Bleazby and Dorothy Bradley (Bellbird) 23 February 1980: Anne Semler and Syd Heylen (Arcade) 23 February 1980: George Negus, Ray Martin, Gerald Stone, Ian Leslie (60 Minutes) 23 February 1991: Tammy MacIntosh (Chances) 23 February 2002: Ada Nicodemou and Max Theoharis (Home And …

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Obituary: John Barton

John Barton, former journalist and TV presenter, has died peacefully at age 73. He started as a cadet reporter at The Brisbane Telegraph in the late 1960s. In the 1970s he moved to television, to ABC‘s This Day Tonight, working in Perth and then back in Brisbane. When TDT was axed in 1978, Barton and a …

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On This Day — 4 February

4 February 1978: Noeline Brown and Ugly Dave Gray (Blankety Blanks) 4 February 1984: Michael Long and Rowena Wallace (Sons And Daughters) 4 February 1984: Caroline Ainslie (NWS9, Adelaide) 4 February 1995: Lisa McCune (Blue Heelers) 4 February 2006: Amy Mathews and Chris Hemsworth (Home And Away) 4 February 1972: Mike Willesee and John Bailey …

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On This Day — 1 February

1 February 1975: Ken James and Judy Nunn (The Box) 1 February 1992: Georgie Parker 1 February 1997: Isla Fisher (Home And Away) 1 February 2003: Brian Vriends and Libby Tanner (All Saints) 1 February 1983: Network Ten‘s Prisoner returns for the new year to reveal the identity of the two characters killed in the …

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On This Day — 30 January

30 January 1958: Graham Kennedy (and Panda Lisner posing as the “mystery bride”) (In Melbourne Tonight) 30 January 1963: Bobby Limb (The Mobil-Limb Show) 30 January 1971: Belinda Taubman (Sound Of Music) 30 January 1993: Kym Wilson (A Country Practice) 30 January 2010: Rebecca Breeds and Lincoln Lewis (Home And Away) 30 January 1984: Network …

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On This Day — 21 January

21 January 1970: Ross D Wyllie (Uptight) 21 January 1978: Marcia Hines (Marcia Hines Music) 21 January 1989: Rachel Friend (Neighbours) 21 January 2006: Myles Pollard and Bridie Carter (McLeod’s Daughters) 21 January 1973: ABC launches its new weekly interview series With Gerald Stone, fronted by the former This Day Tonight reporter. The first program covers …

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On This Day — 20 January

20 January 1973: James Elliott (Number 96) 20 January 1979: Mike Walsh (The Mike Walsh Show) 20 January 1990: Matt Day (A Country Practice) 20 January 1996: Emma Harrison and Richard Grieve (Neighbours) 20 January 2001: Holly Valance, Madeleine West, Krista Vendy (Neighbours) 20 January 2007: Aaron Jeffery and Simmone Jade Mackinnon (McLeod’s Daughters) 20 …

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On This Day — 3 January

3 January 1976: Debbie Byrne  3 January 1981: 25 Years of Television 3 January 1987: Pamela Stephenson, Sir Les Patterson (Barry Humphries), Andrew Clarke (Les Patterson Saves The World) 3 January 1998: Bert Newton (Good Morning Australia) and wife Patti 3 January 2004: Patrick Harvey and Kate Keltie (Neighbours) 3 January 2009: Kym Valentine and …

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On This Day — 7 July

7 July 1971: Kamahl 7 July 1973: Johnny Lockwood and Candy Raymond (Number 96) 7 July 1979: Bruce Barry, Deborah Coulls, Bartholomew John (Skyways) 7 July 1990: Sharyn Hodgson and Julian McMahon (Home And Away) 7 July 2007: Jodi Gordon and Paul O’Brien (Home And Away) 7 July 1982: The Mike Walsh Show celebrates its 2000th …

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On This Day — 6 July

  6 July 1974: John Hargreaves (And The Big Men Fly) 6 July 1974: Bob Francis and Anne Wills (Penthouse Club, Adelaide) 6 July 1996: Melissa George (Home And Away)   6 July 1987: With Perth still only having two commercial channels versus the three east coast commercial networks, some Network Ten programs are showing …

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