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1959 In Australian Television
1959 in Australian television was the fourth year of television broadcasts in Australia. Events Television Broadcasts in Western Australia were aired for the first time on 15 October 1959 in Australia, 1959, TVW was opened by the Governor of Western Australia, Charles Gairdner, Sir Charles Gairdner. Television broadcasts in the state of Queensland (Brisbane) were aired for the very first time, starting with the Nine Network's QTQ on 16 August, followed soon after by the Seven Network's BTQ on 1 November, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC's ABQ on the next day. The first television station in Adelaide, South Australia (NWS-9) began broadcasting on 5 September. On 1 July, Australian children's TV series ''Mr. Squiggle and Friends'' debuts on Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC starting off as a temporary fill in. Years later the show has been so popular it continues to air on the ABC until 9 July 1999. Melbourne and Sydney are linked by microwave for the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emergency (1959 TV Series)
''Emergency'' is an Australian television series produced by Nine Network Melbourne station GTV-9 in 1959. Synopsis The series was set in the busy casualty department of a major fictional Melbourne hospital, and is notable for being one of the first-ever dramas shown on Australian television.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 160-161 Cast Made by Melbourne's GTV-9 in co-operation with the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and based on Britain's ''Emergency Ward 10'', ''Emergency'' starred Brian James as Dr. Geoffrey Thompson, Syd Conabere as orderly George Rogers, and Judith Godden as Nurse Jill Adamson. Moira Carleton also featured as Matron Evans. Production The series was produced primarily in the GTV-9 studio, with brief (usually pre-credit) exterior sequences shot on 35mm film by newsreel cameramen. The episodes were not broadcast live, but were kinescoped to meet programming requirements, and facilitate later screening in Sydney. The seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
About Your Garden
''About Your Garden'' was an Australian television series that aired from 31 July 1959 to 11 March 1960 on Melbourne station HSV-7. A series about gardening, it was hosted by Martha Gardener, who provided hints on gardening. A 15-minute series, it replaced ''Green Fingers'' on the HSV-7 schedule. The series is fairly obscure, and most of what is known about the series comes from old TV listings. During the 1950s, most Australian series were aired in a single city only, which was also the case with ''About Your Garden''. It is not known if the series was live or kinescoped in advance (HSV-7 likely did not have video-tape equipment at the time). Information on the archival status of the series is not available. Gardener's other works included an early 1950s radio series on station 3AW 3AW is a talkback radio station based in Melbourne. It broadcasts on 693 kHz AM. It began transmission on 22 February 1932 as Melbourne's fifth commercial radio station. The station is ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Make Clothes
''Let's Make Clothes'' is an Australian television series. It was broadcast on Melbourne station HSV-7 HSV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia. It is part of the Seven Network, one of the three main commercial television networks in Australia, its first and oldest station. It launched in time for the 1956 Summer Olympic Games in Melb ... from 29 July to 14 October 1959. In the series, Joyce Turner and Dorothy Bradfield demonstrated methods of making dresses at home. It was common at the time for Australian daytime TV series to air in only a single city, which was the case with ''Let's Make Clothes''. The archival status of the series is not known. See also *'' Strictly for Mothers'' - Another 1959 daytime series on HSV-7 References External links *{{IMDb title Seven Network original programming 1959 Australian television series debuts 1959 Australian television series endings Australian non-fiction television series Black-and-white Australian television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What's On (1950s TV Series)
''What's On'' was an Australian television program, which aired in Melbourne on station HSV-7. The short-lived weekly program aired on Wednesdays from 29 July 1959 to 14 October 1959, and was hosted by Jean Battersby. Each episode was about 13 minutes long. According to TV listings in ''The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...'' newspaper, the program presented a round-up of stage and film entertainment in the Melbourne area.https://archive.today/20130909053955/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=__4SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f7YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4879,175807 (archive link} The archival status of the program is unknown. References {{Reflist External links''What's On'' at IMDb Seven Network original programming 1959 Australian television series debuts 1959 Australian televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Argue (TV Series)
''Don't Argue'' was an Australian television series which aired from 26 July to 13 December 1959 on Melbourne television station HSV-7. Broadcast at 4:00PM on Sundays, the half-hour series featured Alwyn Kurts and Judy Banks, and was broadcast live. The exact format is unclear, but it featured an audience participation format. It likely only aired in Melbourne. Although kinescope recording was available during the run of the series, it is not known if any of the episodes were recorded using the technology. The survival rate of early HSV-7 series is highly unpredictable, with some series (like ''Hit Parade A hit parade is a ranked list of the most popular recordings at a given point in time, usually determined either by sales or airplay. The term originated in the 1930s; ''Billboard'' magazine published its first music hit parade on January 4, 1936 ...'') having at least some extant episodes, while some series are lost. References External links *{{imdb title Seven Network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rooftop Rendezvous
''Rooftop Rendezvous'' is an Australian television series which aired on ABC Television during 1959. It was a half-hour variety series hosted by Bill Brady and produced by Harry Pringle. Produced in Sydney, it was regularly kinescope Kinescope , shortened to kine , also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film, directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor. The process was pioneered during the 1940 ...d for broadcast in Melbourne (it is not known if it was also shown on ABC's stations in Brisbane and Adelaide). It is not known if any of these kinescope recordings still exist. Format It was a variety series featuring a mix of local and overseas performers. For example, one episode featured the Develleros (roller skaters), Jack Griffiths (trumpeter), Peggy Mortimer (vocalist), Warron Kermond (acrobatic dancer) and the Noel Gilmour Quintet. References External links * {{IMDb title 1959 Australian te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Baume's Viewpoint
''Eric Baume's Viewpoint'', also known simply as ''Viewpoint'', is an Australian television program which aired from 1959 to 1961 on Sydney station TCN-9. Debuting on 13 May 1959, the program was a current affairs program broadcast on Wednesdays. The program included news, comment, and interviews with controversial radio and television personality Eric Baume. See also *'' State Your Case'' *''This I Believe ''This I Believe'' was originally a five-minute program, originally hosted by journalist Edward R. Murrow from 1951 to 1955 on CBS Radio Network. The show encouraged both famous and everyday people to write short essays about their own personal ...'' References External links * 1959 Australian television series debuts 1961 Australian television series endings Australian television news shows Black-and-white Australian television shows English-language television shows Nine Network original programming {{Australia-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balance Your Budget
''Balance Your Budget'' was an Australian television game show, which aired from around 9 April 1959 to 16 June 1960 on Sydney television station TCN-9. At the time, most Australian series aired in only a single city, which was likely also the case with ''Balance Your Budget''. Described in TV listings as a "grocery quiz", it originally aired on 1:30PM on Thursdays, though it later moved to 1:00PM. It was hosted by Bob McGready. The archival status of the series is not known, though as game shows were seen as "disposable" by 1950s broadcasters, it is possible the series was wiped Lost television broadcasts are mostly those early television programs which cannot be accounted for in studio archives (or in personal archives) usually because of deliberate destruction or neglect. Common reasons for loss A significant prop .... References External links *{{IMDb title Nine Network original programming 1959 Australian television series debuts 1960 Australian television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take That (TV Series)
''Take That'' was one of the earliest Australian television series. It debuted in late 1957 and ran till March 1959. As was often the case with early Australian television, it aired only on a single station, in this case HSV-7, in Melbourne. Program synopsis and significance ''Take That'' was a slapstick comedy series set in an unruly schoolroom; one of the earliest such series produced for Australian television, and is sometimes considered to be Australia’s first, regularly scheduled sitcom. The series was produced by Crawford Productions, who made several other pioneering 1950s series, like the game show '' Wedding Day'' and the children's show ''Peters Club'' (also featuring Joff Ellen), at the Channel 7 studios in Dorcas Street, South Melbourne, before live audiences. The program, inspired by a popular radio show and the BBC’s ''Whack-O!'', was notable for its unpredictable stunts and pranks featuring noisy sound effects, onstage smokebombs and fireworks. Cast Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autumn Affair
''Autumn Affair'' is an Australian television series made by and aired by Network Seven station ATN-7, and also shown in Melbourne on Nine Network station GTV-9. Television in Australia had only been broadcasting since 1956 and Seven was the first commercial station to make drama a priority. It premiered 24 October 1958 and continued until 1959. The series was the first ever Australian television soap opera. It was also the second regular Australian-produced dramatic television series of any kind, with previous locally produced drama consisting of religious series '' The House on the Corner'', and one-off plays largely aired on ABC. Synopsis The love lives of a middle aged widow, Julia, and her daughter, Meg. Cast *Muriel Steinbeck as Julia Parrish *Queenie Ashton as Granny Bishop * Leonard Bullen as Steve Meadows * Janette Craig as Meg Parrish *John Juson as Mark *Diana Perryman as Julie *Owen Weingott as Larry Muir Production The program was conceived from a conversation betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Tonight
''Sydney Tonight'' was an Australian television variety series which aired from December 1956 to early 1959 on Sydney station ATN-7. Originally compered by Keith Walshe, it was later hosted by Roy Hampson and re-titled ''Tonight''. The series featured a format including guests, interviews, audience participation, and music. Like ''In Melbourne Tonight'', which came later, it was patterned on the groundbreaking U.S. series ''Tonight Starring Steve Allen''. In October 1958, station ATN-7 experimented by using video-tape recordings of ''Sydney Tonight'' segments as part of their morning line-up. Reviewing the morning line-up, Nan Musgrove of ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' criticised the use of the ''Sydney Tonight'' segments, saying that ''"I may be peculiar, but ladies in full warpaint and baretopped evening dresses at 7:30 a.m. wiggling their way through seductive songs are not my favorite breakfast entertainment"'', though the reviewer had more positive feelings towards the oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
