Tag: The Box

On This Day — 18 March

18 March 1964: Bill Collins (Sunnyside Up) 18 March 1978: Florence Henderson (The Brady Bunch) and Graham Kennedy (Blankety Blanks) 18 March 1978: Paul Cronin, Richard Morgan, Susan Hannaford (The Sullivans) 18 March 2000: Anne Charleston, Kym Valentine, Dan Paris, Melissa Bell (Neighbours) 18 March 2006: Jason Smith and Isabel Lucas (Home And Away) 18 …

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On This Day — 8 March

8 March 1975: Paul Karo (The Box) 8 March 1980: Stuart Wagstaff (Stuart Wagstaff’s World Playhouse) 8 March 1980: Lorraine Bayly (The Sullivans) 8 March 1997: Tempany Deckert and Kristy Wright (Home And Away) 8 March 2003: Aaron Jeffery and Lisa Chappell (McLeod’s Daughters) 8 March 2008: Conrad Coleby and Jodi Gordon (Home And Away) …

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The Box at 50

By 1973, Melbourne-based Crawford Productions was at its peak, with long-running police dramas Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police and a new series, Ryan, all in production. But television drama was going through a generational change in the 1970s — police and crime shows were falling towards the outer while Number 96, launched in 1972, …

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On This Day — 11 February

11 February 1970: Singer Ronnie Burns 11 February 1981: Mike Walsh and Jeanne Little (The Mike Walsh Show) 11 February 1989: Nicolle Dickson and Alex Papps (Home And Away) 11 February 2006: Kate Ritchie and Joel McIlroy (Home And Away) 11 February 1967: Australian soprano June Bronhill stars in her own ABC special, June Bronhill …

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On This Day — 1 February

1 February 1975: Ken James and Judy Nunn (The Box) 1 February 1992: Georgie Parker 1 February 1997: Isla Fisher (Home And Away) 1 February 2003: Brian Vriends and Libby Tanner (All Saints) 1 February 1983: Network Ten‘s Prisoner returns for the new year to reveal the identity of the two characters killed in the …

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On This Day — 11 January

11 January 1964: Singer Frank Ifield 11 January 1967: Tommy Hanlon Jnr (The Tommy Hanlon Show) 11 January 1975: Barrie Barkla (The Box) 11 January 1992: Kate Raison and Marcus Graham (E Street) 11 January 2003: Carla Bonner, Kym Valentine, Madeleine West (Neighbours) 11 January 1993: Tony Barber returns to TV as host of Ten’s …

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Happy New Year from 1974!

Happy New Year from the stars of the 0-10 Network, as featured on the front cover of Woman’s Day (25 cents!) for its preview of the network’s 1974 television season: Garry Meadows, host of game show The Price Is Right Bettina Welch, Joe Hasham, Pat McDonald, Ron Shand and Elaine Lee from Number 96 Former …

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The Wicked City: ill-fated 1880s drama

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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On This Day — 13 September

13 September 1975: Ken James (The Box) 13 September 1986: Alyce Platt (Sale Of The Century) 13 September 1997: Brett Climo and Lisa McCune (Blue Heelers) 13 September 2003: Jenni Baird and Martin Lynes (All Saints) 13 September 2008: Jack Campbell and Virginia Gay (All Saints) 13 September 1966: GTV9 celebrates ten years of Australian …

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