Aug 27 2023
27 August 1977: Brian Bury (National Nine News, Melbourne) 27 August 1977: Mark Holden (The Young Doctors) 27 August 1980: Paula Duncan (Cop Shop) 27 August 1994: Laura Vazquez and Daniel Amalm (Home And Away) 27 August 2005: Dancing With The Stars 27 August 1995: The Eastern Creek 12-Hour Race is broadcast live on SBS …
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Sep 25 2016
The votes are in and have been counted… and readers of this website have voted Hey Hey It’s Saturday as their favourite program from 60 years of Australian television. Meanwhile, three titles not included in the original top 60 were voted in enough numbers to get into the list — Wheel Of Fortune, Matlock Police …
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Sep 12 2016
Continuing the countdown of the top 60 Australian TV shows. See also Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part V and Part VI. Feel free to share or comment and there will be a poll later in the week. 50. This Fabulous Century (Seven, 1979) Billed at the time as the most expensive documentary project ever undertaken by Australian TV, This …
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Jul 19 2011
Forty five years is probably a bit old to be playing horsey, reading storybooks or having fun with cardboard boxes and milk cartons – but ABC’s Play School is proud to be doing so as it reaches its 45th anniversary this week. The Australian series of Play School launched at 10.05am on Monday, 18 July …
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May 08 2011
In last Sunday’s TV Week Logie Awards’ tribute to those that have passed away, there was one name that was brought to our attention. Actor James Elliott, best known as “whingeing Pom” Alf Sutcliffe in 1970s drama Number 96, died in February from Lewy body dementia. He was 82. Born in Scotland, Elliott came to …
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Oct 23 2010
SBS Television is thirty years old this weekend. An initiative of the Fraser Government, the Special Broadcasting Service was established in the mid-1970s to operate the new multi-lingual radio service that had commenced in Sydney (2EA) and Melbourne (3EA). By the end of the 1970s, the organisation was given the responsibility of operating Australia’s first …
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