''The Bert Newton Show'' was an Australian television series which aired from 1959 to 1960. Aired at 6:30PM Saturdays on Melbourne station

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, it was aimed at teenagers and featured acts lip-syncing their songs. It competed with the popular ABC series ''

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'' and HSV-7's '' Swallow's Juniors''. It was preceded on GTV's line-up by ''Laurel and Hardy'' and followed by ''

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''. In 1960, it moved to Thursdays and became ''Hi-Fi Club'', running for several more months.

Episode status

An excerpt of ''Hi-Fi Club'' (which looks like a

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d film transfer of a video-tape or vice versa) appears on

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suggesting that episode or episodes are still extant, although exactly how much footage still exists is unknown. An episode under the title ''The Bert Newton Show'' is held by the National Film and Sound Archive

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bert Newton Show Seven Network original programming Nine Network original programming Australian music television series 1959 Australian television series debuts 1960 Australian television series endings 1989 Australian television series debuts Pop music television series English-language television shows Black-and-white Australian television shows