''Lovely to Look At'' is an Australian fashion show television series broadcast on Melbourne station GTV-9 from March 1957 to November 1957. Episodes were 15-minutes in duration, broadcast live, originally aired at 10:15PM on Sundays though towards the end of the run the episodes were broadcast at 10:30PM. Each episode typically was preceded on the schedule by a newscast and followed by ''Epilogue'' and station sign-off. It is notable as representing an early effort by GTV-9 at locally produced content. It was compered by Maxwell Gibb. The series was directed by

Rod Kinnear Rodney Scott Kinnear (11 May 1931 – 2 May 2006) was an Australian director, best known for his work in TV. Select credits *''Lovely to Look At'' (1957) (TV series) *'' Tragedy in a Temporary Town'' (1959) *'' The Big Day'' (1959) *''No Picnic T ...

, who had previously been a press photographer. ''The Age'' provides additional information on the series, listing Ian Holmes as technical director, and George Havrillay as set designer, and noting that each episode went through three rehearsals before broadcast. It also listed Arlene Andrewartha, Elaine Grayden, Rae Crawley as among the models used by the series. It is not known if any of the episodes were

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, and it is possible (though not confirmed) that the series is

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