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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Aug 17 2015
The 1959 Australian visit by Princess Alexandra (pictured) was cause for Sydney’s three TV channels to jointly cover some of the official events during her brief stay in Canberra. Covering events from the national capital was a considerable technical exercise for ABC in setting up local outside broadcast facilities and getting pictures sent direct from Canberra to Sydney …
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Nov 11 2009
Sammys golden night out The fourth annual Australian TV and Film Awards, the Sammys, have been presented at Sydney’s Seymour Centre. Winning the Gold Sammy awards, for excellence in performance during the year, were daytime TV host Mike Walsh and singer and TV presenter Marcia Hines. For Walsh it is his second Gold Sammy and …
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May 03 2009
After more than twenty years in television it had been a long time coming – but the 21st anniversary TV Week Logie Awards finally saw Bert Newton win his first Gold Logie. Newton, a veteran Logies host as well as host of New Faces and sidekick on The Don Lane Show, had been nominated several …
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Sep 29 2008
Happy the War bride When Alice Morgan and Michael Watkins (Megan Williams and John Walton, pictured) walk down the aisle together on The Sullivans, the bride’s dress will bring back happy memories for one viewer, Mrs Emmett of Victoria, who wore the same dress on her own wedding day in 1943 and offered it to …
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Aug 04 2008
Cover: The Love Boat Tasmania’s holocaust The Australian-made film The Last Tasmanians, which has already aired in Britain and been sold to other countries, is to be shown on Australian TV later in the year. The 90-minute movie tells of the extermination of Tasmanian Aboriginals in the late nineteenth century, and received rave reviews when …
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