''Patrick O'Hagan Sings'' was an Australian television series starring the Irish tenor
of the same name. It was produced by station
ATN-7
ATN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Seven Network in Australia. The licence, issued to a company named Amalgamated Television Services, a subsidiary of John Fairfax & Sons, was one of the first four licences (two in Sydney, two ...
in November 1958, and began being broadcast in early 1959. Unlike most Australian-produced series of the era, which were live, ''Patrick O'Hagan Sings'' was produced directly on film, with a total of 26 episodes made, each of which was designed to fit in a quarter-hour time-slot. Patrick O'Hagan sang songs in the series.
In Sydney the series aired on ATN-7, and aired at 3:00PM on Tuesdays. In Melbourne, the series aired on station
GTV-9
GTV is a commercial television station in Melbourne, Australia, owned by the Nine Network. The station is currently based at studios at 717 Bourke Street, Docklands. GTV-9 is the home of the Australian Open tennis coverage.
History
GTV-9 was ...
at 3:00PM on Thursdays.
The
National Film and Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting, and providing access to a national c ...
holds a near-complete run of the series, as 16mm picture and sound negatives.
A different series by this title aired in 1965 on
ABC Television ABC Television most commonly refers to:
*ABC Television Network of the American Broadcasting Company, United States, or
*ABC Television (Australian TV network), a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia
ABC Television or ABC ...
.
[ (ABC episode)]
See also
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Australian Walkabout
''Australian Walkabout'' is a TV series made for the ABC and BBC by director Charles Chauvel. It was the last project completed by Chauvel prior to his death.
Lee Robinson later got the rights to the series and sold it to Germany and Japan.
...
'' - Another 1950s-era Australian-produced filmed series
References
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Seven Network original programming
Nine Network original programming
1959 Australian television series debuts
1959 Australian television series endings
1965 Australian television series debuts
1965 Australian television series endings
Australian music television series
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Australian English-language television shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows