Sep 11 2023
11 September 1971: Terence Donovan (Division 4) and Sue Donovan (Matlock Police) 11 September 1971: Ted Hamilton (Division 4) 11 September 1976: Graeme Blundell (Alvin Purple) 11 September 1976: Jon English (Number 96) 11 September 1993: Dieter Brummer and Melissa George (Home And Away) 11 September 1999: Sigrid Thornton (Seachange) 11 September 2004: Wil Traval …
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Aug 24 2023
24 August 1974: Paul Cronin (Matlock Police) 24 August 1974: Paul Karo (The Box) 24 August 1991: Melissa Tkautz and Bruce Samazan (E Street) 24 August 1996: Melissa George (Home And Away) 24 August 2002: Peter Phelps (Stingers) 24 August 2002; Myles Pollard and Bridie Carter (McLeod’s Daughters) 24 August 1982: ABC debuts a ten-part …
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Jul 08 2023
8 July 1972: Grigor Taylor, Michael Pate, Paul Cronin, Vic Gordon (Matlock Police) 8 July 1995: Melissa George (Home And Away) and Kimberley Joseph (Gladiators) 8 July 2000: Bec Cartwright (and sister Kristy) and Kym Valentine (and sister Shayne) 8 July 2006: Aaron Jeffery and Michelle Langstone (McLeod’s Daughters) 8 July 1972: ABC has live …
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Jul 05 2023
5 July 1975: Skyhooks 5 July 2003: Sibylla Budd and Dan Spielman (The Secret Life Of Us) 5 July 1964: The 1957 film Heaven Knows Mr Allison is broadcast on GTV9, Melbourne. Starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum, the film went on to become the decade’s highest rating movie screening — attracting a rating of 59 …
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Jun 30 2023
Actress Judi Farr, best known from classic comedies like My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours? and Kingswood Country, has died. With a career across film, stage and television, Farr came to fame as Rita Stiller in the 1960s sitcom My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours? (pictured below with co-stars Gordon Chater and John Meillon) She reprised the …
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Jun 14 2023
Peter Flett, actor from stage, film and television, has died. Born in the NSW town of Dungog, Flett’s working life was set to take a very different direction when at age 15 he left school and became a hairdresser’s apprentice in Sydney, going on to win NSW Apprentice of the Year. But with only eight months …
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Jun 11 2023
11 June 1988: Christopher Truswell (Hey Dad!) 11 June 1994: Melissa George (Home And Away) Monday 11 June 1973: Tanya Halesworth fronts the new daytime current affairs program No Man’s Land, from GTV9, Melbourne, targetted towards female viewers. TCN9 later launches a short-lived Sydney-based program of the same name, though the Melbourne-based original eventually …
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May 27 2023
Having already produced successful dramas Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police based around the Victorian police force, Crawford Productions took a different path with its 1973 action drama, Ryan. Instead of focusing on the police force, the central character, Michael Ryan (Rod Mullinar) is a private investigator. The only other regular characters are Ryan’s secretary …
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Feb 26 2023
The question around the ongoing viability of three commercial networks has been raised, on and off, for many years. It was a question asked right back to when the federal government first permitted a third commercial network in the early 1960s — and in 1973 the industry itself was almost willing to sacrifice some of …
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Dec 23 2022
Tony Barry, veteran film and television actor across Australia and New Zealand, has died peacefully after a long illness. He was 81. Born in Queensland, he grew up in Sydney. Despite early ambitions of following his father into becoming an aircraft engineer, Barry tried various jobs after leaving school. He eventually scored some minor bit …
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