Oct 24 2023
Les Dayman, actor best known for his stage and television work, including leading roles in Homicide and E Street, has died at the age of 85. His first TV roles were in plays Weather At Pinetop and Dark Corridor, both produced by ABC in Adelaide. This was followed in 1966 by his first major TV role …
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Sep 14 2023
In 1971, the Seven Network had bold plans for a new “provocative and bawdy” series set in Melbourne in the 1880s. The network had a proposal titled Man Of Property, starring Robin Ramsay, formerly of Bellbird, in the lead role of a strait-laced English doctor living in Melbourne at the end of the gold rush …
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Sep 10 2023
10 September 1977: Ray Burgess (Flashez) 10 September 1983: Kim Lewis and Ian Rawlings (Sons And Daughters) 10 September 1988: Kylie Mole (Maryanne Fahey, The Comedy Company) and Greg Evans (Perfect Match) 10 September 2001: Madeleine West, Blair McDonough, Carla Bonner (Neighbours) 10 September 2005: Paul O’Brien and Jodi Gordon (Home And Away) 10 September …
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Aug 28 2023
28 August 1958: Panda Lisner (In Melbourne Tonight) 28 August 1959: Johnny O’Keefe (Six O’Clock Rock) 28 August 1965: Pop star Normie Rowe 28 August 1976: Victoria Quilter and Lucky Grills (Bluey) 28 August 1982: Rowena Wallace (Sons And Daughters) 28 August 1993: Cathy Godbold (Newlyweds) 28 August 1999: Jesse Spencer and Brooke Satchwell (Neighbours) …
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Aug 07 2023
7 August 1976: Anne Wills (NWS9, Adelaide, afternoon host) 7 August 1982: Glenn Wheatley and Sons And Daughters‘ Gaynor Martin 7 August 1993: Kimberley Davies (Neighbours) and Lisa Lackey (Home And Away) 7 August 2004: Christie Hayes, Bec Cartwright, Beau Brady (Home And Away) 7 August 2010: Tessa James and Amy Mathews (Home And Away) …
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Jul 21 2023
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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Jun 25 2023
25 June 1983: Cornelia Frances and Brian Blain (Sons And Daughters) 25 June 1988: Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan (Neighbours) 25 June 1994: Lisa McCune (Blue Heelers) 25 June 2005: Jason Smith and Isabel Lucas (Home And Away)
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Jun 18 2023
18 June 2005: Bec Cartwright and Kip Gamblin (Home And Away) 18 June 1967: Remember the Sunday night movie? Tonight, your choices are: The Hurricane (1937), Operation Petticoat (1959) and My Son John (1952). 18 June 1980: The acclaimed documentary The Last Tasmanian is shown in Perth two years after appearing in the eastern states and …
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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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Dec 31 2022
It seems that 2022 will be best remembered for holding a giant re-set of some of our biggest TV names and shows, as some of our highest-profile presenters have decided to call it a day — either temporarily or perhaps longer term. It is hard to recall a year where so many key personalities have …
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