Tag: The Comedy Company

On This Day — 16 February

16 February 1974: Paul Hogan (The Paul Hogan Show) 16 February 1980: Marcia Hines 16 February 1980: Rebecca Gilling and Margaret Laurence (The Young Doctors) 16 February 1980: Bob Dyer and Bert Newton 16 February 1991: Rebekah Elmaloglou (Home And Away) 16 February 2002: Georgie Parker and Erik Thomson (All Saints) 16 February 2008: Kate Ritchie …

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On This Day — 10 September

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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On This Day — 30 July

30 July 1983: Lorraine Bayly (Carson’s Law) 30 July 1988: ‘Kylie Mole’ (Maryanne Fahey, The Comedy Company) 30 July 2005: Stefan Dennis and Natalie Bassingthwaighte (Neighbours) 30 July 2022: Ian Smith, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Annie Jones, Stefan Dennis (Neighbours) 30 July 1972: Sunday night movies are Woman Of Straw (1964), The Pink Panther (1964) …

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On This Day — 23 July

23 July 1966: Brian Henderson (Bandstand) and wife Mardi 23 July 1977: Garry McDonald (The Garry McDonald Show) 23 July 1988: Kylie Minogue (Neighbours) 23 July 2005: Alexandra Davies and Christopher Gabardi (All Saints) 23 July 1938: Bert Newton is born in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. He began his career in radio in the …

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On This Day — 15 July

15 July 1978: Paul Hogan (The Paul Hogan Show) 15 July 1995: Lisa McCune and John Wood (Blue Heelers) 15 July 2000: Caroline Craig, John Wood, Jane Allsop (Blue Heelers) 15 July 2006: Tammy MacIntosh and Peter Phelps (All Saints) 15 July 1958: The play Murder Story, based on the real-life murder of a London …

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Melbourne Cup Flashbacks

This year’s running of the Melbourne Cup will be like no other — with no crowds present while Melbourne continues to flatten the curve of coronavirus cases. But the race day will still go ahead and will be covered by Network Ten for the second year since re-gaining the rights to cover the “race that …

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Classic TV Guides: The Sammys

In 1976, the Variety Club of Australia, TV Times and the Seven Network launched The Australian TV And Film Awards, nicknamed “The Sammys”. The name was derived from the trophy’s design in the shape of a seal — Sammy the Seal! The awards were a rival to the long-running TV Week Logie Awards, which were …

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Nineties soap gets online re-run

YouTube: southaustraliatv Of all the vintage soaps to get a new lease on life online, Network Ten‘s Echo Point would have been way down the list of likely candidates. It ranks on the list of some of Australian TV’s most infamous soapie disasters among such titles like Arcade, Holiday Island, Paradise Beach and Family And …

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30 years since Tonight Live began

Thirty years ago, the Seven Network and lawyer-turned-comedian Steve Vizard gave the 10.30pm timeslot a shake-up with their new variety show, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard. Vizard had been part of the team involved in the late-night sketch comedy series The Eleventh Hour, made for HSV7, Melbourne, in 1985. While many of his fellow cast …

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30 years since 10 TV Australia

The year 1988 was one of the best for the Ten Network. Ratings were high on the back of the Olympic Games, Ten News, hit shows Neighbours and The Comedy Company, Sydney rugby league and a strong line-up of movies. It also marked the network’s expansion into Perth, and in Brisbane the conversion from the …

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