Tag: The Sullivans

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 — 10 March

10 March 1973: James Laurenson (Boney) 10 March 1979: Julieanne Newbould, Michael Smith, Victoria Nicolls (The Restless Years) 10 March 1990: Mark Mitchell (TV Week Logie Awards) 10 March 2007: Amy Mizzi and Chris Hemsworth (Home And Away) 10 March 1967: New TV station — BTW3, Bunbury, Western Australia — GWN7 turns 50 [2017] 10 …

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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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On This Day — 26 February

26 February 1972: Gerard Kennedy (Division 4) 26 February 1977: Norman Yemm (The Sullivans) 26 February 1977: John Cornell and Paul Hogan (The Paul Hogan Show) 26 February 1966: New TV station — SDQ4, Southern Downs, Queensland. 26 February 1975: The ABC sketch comedy special Basically Black features members of the National Black Theatre: Bindi …

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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 — 10 February

10 February 1968: The Seekers 10 February 1973: Judy Morris (Certain Women) 10 February 1979: Ray Martin, Ian Leslie, George Negus (60 Minutes) 10 February 1979: Lorraine Bayly (The Sullivans) 10 February 1990: Jana Wendt (A Current Affair) 10 February 1996: Kristy Wright and Shane Ammann (Home And Away) 10 February 2001: Holly Valance and …

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On This Day — 5 February

5 February 1964: Bob Dyer (BP Pick-A-Box) 5 February 1977: Paul Cronin and Lorraine Bayly (The Sullivans) 5 February 1983: Tony Barber (Sale Of The Century) 5 February 2000: Lisa McCune and Martin Sacks (Blue Heelers) 5 February 2005: Chris Hemsworth and Rebecca Cartwright (Home And Away) 5 February 1968: Adventure series Skippy The Bush Kangaroo …

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On This Day — 27 January

27 January 1973: Bert Newton (The Graham Kennedy Show) 27 January 1979: Paul Cronin (The Sullivans) 27 January 1979: Susan Hannaford (The Sullivans) 27 January 1979: Don Lane (The Don Lane Show) 27 January 1996: Kimberley Davies and Steven Jacobs (Just Kidding) 27 January 2001: Ben Tari, Ling-Hsueh Tang, Erik Thomson, Libby Tanner, Georgie Parker …

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On This Day — 26 January

26 January 1974: Number 96 26 January 1975: Pete Smith (The Ernie Sigley Show) 26 January 1980: Zoe Bertram (The Restless Years), Michael Caton (The Sullivans), Daryl Somers, Ossie Ostrich, Jacki MacDonald (Hey Hey It’s Saturday), Don Lane and Bert Newton (The Don Lane Show). 26 January 1991: Nicole Kidman 26 January 2002: McLeod’s Daughters, …

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