Tag: This Is Your Life

On This Day — 20 September

20 September 1975: Mike Willesee (This Is Your Life) 20 September 1997: Tempany Deckert (Home And Away) 20 September 2003: Tammin Sursok and Sam Atwell (Home And Away) 20 September 2008: Rebecca Gibney and Erik Thomson (Packed To The Rafters) 20 September 1971: The 0-10 Network launches His And Hers, a panel show hosted by Sydney …

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Obituary: Ron Barassi

Ron Barassi, one of the legends of Australian rules football, has died at the age of 87. He died from complications suffered after a fall. In a football career spanning 40 years he played 254 games, including six premierships, and coached 515. In 1996 he was named in the Australian Football League’s Team Of The …

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On This Day — 14 September

14 September 1961: Bobby Limb (The Mobil-Limb Show) 14 September 1963: Bobby Limb (Bobby Limb’s Sound Of Music) 14 September 1991: Penny Cook (GP) 14 September 1996: Isla Fisher and Martin Henderson (Home And Away) 14 September 2002: Christie Hayes and Kate Garven (Home And Away) 14 September 1971: The Seven Network celebrates 15 years …

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On This Day — 30 August

30 August 1969: Elspeth Ballantyne (Bellbird) 30 August 1975: Steven Zammit, Johnny Young, Karen Knowles (Young Talent Time) 30 August 1975: Mike Willesee (This Is Your Life) 30 August 1980: Michael Caton (The Sullivans) 30 August 2003: Caroline Craig (Blue Heelers) 30 August 2008: Tessa James and Lincoln Lewis (Home And Away) 30 August 1960: …

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On This Day — 25 July

25 July 1981: Gordon Jackson, Helen Morse, Brian Brown (A Town Like Alice) 25 July 1987: Jacki MacDonald and Daryl Somers (Hey Hey It’s Saturday) 25 July 1992: Rebekah Elmaloglou (Home And Away) and Kieren Perkins 25 July 2009: Todd Lasance and Jessica Tovey (Home And Away) 25 July 1978: The one-hour special The Barry …

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Obituary: Bert Newton

Bert Newton, one of the pioneers and enduring personalities of Australian television, has died at the age of 83. He had been in hospital for several months and went into palliative care recently following complications from recent surgery to have a leg amputated. Born in 1938, Newton started in radio when still a teenager, becoming …

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Penthouse Club: Mary Hardy, trots and Tattslotto

 YouTube: kylegalley For almost a decade, watching The Penthouse Club was a Saturday night tradition in Melbourne. Debuting on HSV7 on 10 October 1970, it was a variety show with intermittent live crosses to the Saturday night harness racing and would link up segments with Sydney’s The Club Show with Rex Mossop. It was …

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Obituary: Mike Willesee

Veteran journalist and producer Mike Willesee has died at the age of 76. He been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2016. Perth-born Willesee was the son of politician Don Willesee. His TV career started as a reporter and presenter of Four Corners and This Day Tonight for the ABC back in the 1960s (pictured), and …

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Happy 80th Birthday, Bert

Happy 80th Birthday to Bert Newton! One of our first and certainly most enduring TV stars, Newton started in TV at the age of 19 as host of The Late Show at HSV7 from August 1957. While he has not had a regular place on television for some years (his last contract with the Nine …

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Mike Willesee on Australian Story

Veteran television journalist, presenter and producer Mike Willesee is profiled in next Monday’s edition of Australian Story. In the first of a two-part episode titled Behind The Mask, Australian Story looks back at the 50 year career of the first of a generation of Willesees to grace our screens as he faces his greatest challenge — …

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