Tag: Number 96

On This Day — 22 July

22 July 1972: Joe Hasham (Number 96) 22 July 1978: Bert Newton (The Don Lane Show, New Faces) 22 July 1989: Simone Buchanan and Chris Mayer (Hey Dad) 22 July 2000: Joy Smithers and Erik Thomson (All Saints) 22 July 2006: Kate Ritchie (Home And Away) 22 July 1974: Nine screens a delayed telecast of …

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On This Day — 21 July

21 July 1973: Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell (Homicide) 21 July 1973: Tanya Halesworth and Susan Peacock (No Man’s Land) 21 July 1979: Terry Norris, Louise Philip, Greg Ross (Cop Shop) 21 July 1979: Don Lane and Bert Newton (The Don Lane Show) 21 July 1984: Rowena Wallace (Sons And Daughters) 21 July 1990: Simone Buchanan (Hey Dad), …

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On This Day — 17 July

17 July 1976: Daryl Braithwaite 17 July 1976: Justine Saunders (Number 96) 17 July 1993: Gavin Harrison and Kym Wilson (A Country Practice) 17 July 1999: Alan Fletcher and Nicola Charles (Neighbours) 17 July 2004: Carla Bonner and Stephen Lovatt (Neighbours) 17 July 1963: GTV9’s In Melbourne Tonight presents a special edition — In Yallourn …

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On This Day — 14 July

14 July 1973: Peter Aanensen (Bellbird) 14 July 1973: Candy Raymond and Vicki Raymond (Number 96) 14 July 1979: Elspeth Ballantyne, Patsy King, Fiona Spence (Prisoner) 14 July 1990: Jana Wendt (A Current Affair) 14 July 2001: Gretel Killeen (Big Brother), Judith McGrath (All Saints), Cornelia Frances (The Weakest Link), Jackie O (Popstars), Ita Buttrose …

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On This Day — 12 July

12 July 1969: Ted Hamilton, Chuck Faulkner, Gerard Kennedy (Division 4) 12 July 1975: Serge Lazareff, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Gus Mercurio (Cash And Company) 12 July 1975: Joe Hasham, Margaret Laurence, Pamela Gibbons (Number 96) 12 July 1980: Gerard Maguire and Sheila Florance (Prisoner) 12 July 1997: Tempany Deckert and Ben Unwin (Home And Away) 12 …

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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 — 5 July

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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Obituary: Judi Farr

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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On This Day — 29 June

29 June 1974: Joe Hasham (Number 96) and Paul Karo (The Box) 29 June 1991: Gina Riley, Marg Downey, Jane Turner, Steve Blackburn, Magda Szubanski (Fast Forward) 29 June 1996: Tasma Walton and Lisa McCune (Blue Heelers) 29 June 2002: Ditch Davey and Caroline Craig (Blue Heelers) 29 June 1987: Nine begins a re-run of …

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On This Day — 27 June

27 June 1971: Bob and Dolly Dyer (BP Pick-A-Box) 27 June 1981: Lynda Stoner and Bill Stalker (Cop Shop) 27 June 1987: Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue (Neighbours) 27 June 1987: Peter O’Brien (The Flying Doctors) 27 June 1992: Mat Stevenson (Home And Away), Jeremy Sims (Chances), Toni Pearen (E Street), Kym Wilson (A Country …

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