''The Inventors'' was an

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ABC TV program which ran from 1970 to 1982. At its peak it was one of the ABC's highest rating programs. In each episode, a number of inventors would show their invention, and it was critiqued by a panel of three judges, who announced a winner at the end of the show. Most episodes were 30 minutes long, though the end-of-year finale, in which a yearly winner was announced, ran longer. For the majority of the show's run, the host was Geoff Stone, and the panel was

Leo Port Leo Weiser Port (7 September 192226 August 1978) was an Australian businessman, engineer, television personality, and Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1975 until his sudden death in 1978. Biography Leo Weiser Rapoport was born in Kraków, Poland i ...

, Diana Fisher and Vic Nicholson.Team from ABC series The Inventors

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Port died in 1978 and was replaced by Neville Stephenson. In 1980, all of the presenters except Fisher left to start a similar program on the

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, ''What'll They Think Of Next?''Inventors, The
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