10 August 1968: Gerard Kennedy (Hunter) 10 August 1974: Ernie Sigley (The Ernie Sigley Show) 10 August 1991: Georgie Parker (A Country Practice) 10 August 1996: Swimmer Kieren Perkins with Kristy Wright and Nic Testoni (Home And Away) 10 August 2002: Alison Whyte and Lisa McCune (Marshall Law) 10 August 2002: Rove McManus (Rove Live) …
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Jun 15 2023
On This Day — 15 June
15 June 1968: Tony Ward and Gabrielle Hartley (Hunter) 15 June 1985: Penny Cook and Grant Dodwell (A Country Practice) 15 June 1991: Rachael Beck (Hey Dad!) 15 June 1967: Melbourne’s ATV0 created history when it telecasts the Pakenham race meeting in colour — the first live colour telecast in Australia . Only ATV0 executives, …
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Nov 11 2022
Obituary: Martin Vaughan
Actor Martin Vaughan, who played the lead role in the ABC mini-series Power Without Glory, has died at the age of 91. Born in Queensland, Vaughan came to Melbourne as an adult and began work as a public servant before discovering an interest in amateur theatre. His interest turned professional when he signed with The …
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Nov 26 2021
TV Week Logie Awards: 50 years ago
The 62nd annual TV Week Logie Awards were meant to happen this Sunday 28 November. While the awards will not be taking place — for a second year in a row — we continue the annual rundown of past Logies presentations to coincide with what would have been this year’s Logies weekend. Starting with the …
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Jun 01 2021
Obituary: John Gregg
John Gregg, veteran actor on film, stage and television, has died at the age of 82. Born in Tasmania, Gregg was set to take over running the family farm but instead wound up scoring an audition at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Hobart. He had a season with the Melbourne Theatre Company …
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Jun 28 2019
TV Week Logie Awards: 50 years ago
In Melbourne Tonight host Graham Kennedy won the Gold Logie for Best Male Personality On Australian Television at the 11th annual TV Week Logie Awards. The awards were hosted by Bert Newton and held at Melbourne’s Southern Cross Hotel on Friday 21 March 1969. The presentation was telecast by the Nine Network, shown live to …
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Mar 11 2019
50th anniversary of Division 4
Division 4 was one of the trifecta of police dramas from Crawford Productions that came to define Australian television drama in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The series was born after Crawfords and the Nine Network were in a conundrum over what to do with its popular spy drama, Hunter. The show’s lead actor …
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Feb 03 2019
Obituary: Carmen Duncan
Australian film and television actress Carmen Duncan has died at the age of 76. The actress died in hospital in Sydney on Sunday afternoon. Duncan first came to fame in the late 1960s appearing on dramas including The Battlers, You Can’t See Round Corners, Delta and Hunter. She went on to play the part of …
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