''Theatre Royal'' is a Logie award-winning Australian
vaudeville variety television show produced at
BTQ-7
BTQ is the Brisbane television station of the Seven Network in Australia. BTQ was the second television station to launch in Brisbane, going to air on 1 November 1959, after QTQ (station of the Nine Network) launched three months earlier.
Alon ...
Queensland from 1961 to 1968.
Overview
George Wallace Jnr was the show's main host and star attraction.
The show reproduced the stage of the defunct
Theatre Royal in Brisbane, complete with curtains, footlights, stage props, dancing girls, and camera shots replicating the ambience of a bygone era.
In 1962
Gladys Moncrieff
Gladys Moncrieff (13 April 1892 – 8 February 1976) was an Australian singer who was so successful in musical theatre and recordings that she became known as 'Australia's Queen of Song' and 'Our Glad'.
Life and career
Early years
Moncrieff ...
made guest appearances on the show.
Other people appearing on the show included
Brian Cahill
Brian John Cahill MBE (16 February 1931 – 8 March 2015) was an Australian radio and television presenter, newsreader and politician who worked first in radio, and then in television from 1959 until 1982. In 1983, Cahill was elected to the ...
,
Dick McCann Dick McCann may refer to:
*Dick McCann (American football)
Richard P. McCann was an American football executive who was the first president of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and general manager of the Washington Redskins of the National Football Le ...
,
Gay Kayler and
Rowena Wallace
Rowena Wallace (born 23 August 1947) is an English-born Australian stage and screen actress, most especially in the genre of television soap opera. She is best known for her Gold Logie-winning role as conniving Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton/M ...
. One very popular episode of the show was produced at the
RAAF Base Amberley.
The show won six consecutive
Logie Awards
The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards; colloquially known as The Logies) is an annual gathering to celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The first ceremony was held in 1959 as the ...
from 1962 to 1967.
See also
* List of Australian television series
Future shows
Seven
* ''The 1% Club'' (Seven Network game show 2023–)
* ''Apartment Rules'' (Seven Network reality 2023–)
* '' Animals Aboard with Dr Harry'' (Seven Network reality 2023–)
* ''Armchair Experts'' (Seven Network sports ...
* The Contact Show
''The Contact Show'' was an Australian daytime television variety series which aired on TCN-9 during 1960. Featuring Bob Geraghty and George Wallace Jnr, it featured a mix of comedy and music.
The series proved short-lived.
Aired at 2:00PM in ...
* The George Wallace Show
''The George Wallace Show'' was an Australian television series which aired in 1960. Starring George Wallace Jnr, it was a variety series aired in a daytime time-slot on Sydney station TCN-9. Aired at 2:00PM, it aired against ''Your Home'' on A ...
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, id=1075775, title=Theatre Royal
Australian variety television shows
Australian television talk shows
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in Queensland
Black-and-white Australian television shows
1961 Australian television series debuts
1968 Australian television series endings
1960s Australian television series