''Adelaide Tonight'' was a nightly variety show, running four days a week at 9.30 pm on
Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television netw ...
,
NWS-9
NWS is an Australian television station based in Adelaide, Australia. It is owned-and-operated by the Nine Network. The station callsign, ''NWS'', is an initialism of The NeWs South Australia.
History
Origins
NWS-9 was the first television ...
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
. The show was broadcast live from Studio 1 between 1959 and 1973. The show was similar to ''
In Melbourne Tonight
''In Melbourne Tonight'', also known as ''IMT'', was a highly popular nightly Logie award-winning Australian variety television show produced at GTV-9 Melbourne from 6 May 1957 to 1970.
Overview
Graham Kennedy was the show's main host and sta ...
'' with
Graham Kennedy
Graham Cyril Kennedy AO (15 February 1934 – 25 May 2005) was an Australian entertainer, comedian and variety performer, as well as a personality and star of radio, theatre, television and film. He often performed in the style of vaudevilli ...
.
The comperes and presenters on the show were Lionel Williams,
Kevin Crease
Kevin John Crease (8 May 1936 – 12 April 2007) was a South Australian television presenter and news presenter. He was most noted for presenting South Australian edition of the Nine Network's'' National Nine News'' with Rob Kelvin between 1987 a ...
,
Ernie Sigley
Ernest William Sigley (2 September 1938 – 15 August 2021) was an Australian television host, comedian, variety performer, radio presenter and singer. Known as a pioneer of radio and television in Australian, he was often styled as a "little A ...
, Ian Fairweather, Gerry Gibson, Roger Cardwell and
Anne Wills
Anne Shirley Wills (born 3 October 1944) is an Australian television and radio personality based in Adelaide. Wills holds the record for the most number of Logies won by a person in the history of the awards, winning 19 Most Popular State Perso ...
.
Creator and host Lionel Williams who won a Logie award for the program died in 2016, aged 87.
References
External links
''Adelaide Tonight'' at IMDb
Mass media in Adelaide
Australian variety television shows
Television shows set in Adelaide
Black-and-white Australian television shows
Nine Network original programming
1959 Australian television series debuts
1973 Australian television series endings
1960s Australian television series
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