Tommy Hanlon Jr. was an American-born actor, comedian, television host and circus ringmaster, notable for his career in Australia after emigrating there in 1959, where he became a Gold Logie-award-winning media personality, in 1962. Hanlon was notable for his early television appearances on daytime television and as host of the Australian version of United States game show It Could Be You.
The 10th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 22 March 1968 at the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. British television actress Violet Carson and American television actors Christopher George, Peter Breck and Cheryl Miller appeared as guests. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards for 1968:
The 12th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 20 March 1970 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. Miss World 1968 winner Penelope Plummer, British television actor Peter Wyngarde and American actors Peter Graves and Robert Young appeared as guests. Peggy Lipton, star of the US series The Mod Squad, was also originally scheduled to appear but cancelled at the last minute due to a severe middle-ear infection. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards for 1970:
The 13th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 26 March 1971 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American television actors Michael Cole, Peter Haskell, Bob Crane and Karen Jensen appeared as guests. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards for 1970:
The 14th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 18 February 1972 at the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne. The awards were broadcast live on the Nine Network in Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide and broadcast later elsewhere. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. The awards featured appearances by Rock Hudson and Roger Moore. Juliet Mills, Kenneth Connor and Robert Reed were also present.
The 15th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 16 February 1973 at the Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton was the Master of Ceremonies. American film star Glenn Ford and television actors Michael Cole, Gail Fisher and Loretta Swit were in attendance as guest presenters. The programme is remembered for a drunken, incoherent acceptance speech from Cole which concluded with a swear word.
The 16th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday, 8 March 1974 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton was the Master of Ceremonies. Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida and American television actors Tige Andrews, David Cassidy and Macdonald Carey appeared as guests.
The 17th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 7 March 1975 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. It was the first time the Awards were telecast in Colour. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American film star John Wayne and television actors Lee Majors and William Conrad, British actor Edward Woodward and his wife Michele Dotrice, and Australian-born British television stars Keith Michell and Diane Cilento appeared as guests. Each of the guest presenters were given special souvenir Logies.
The 18th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 12 March 1976 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American film star Lee Marvin, television actors Henry Winkler, Martin Milner and Arte Johnson, and British actors Gordon Jackson and Susannah York appeared as guests.
The 19th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 25 March 1977 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American film star Burt Lancaster and television actors Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Susan Seaforth and Bill Hayes, British actors Robin Nedwell and Geoffrey Davies, and Australian actor Jack Thompson appeared as guests. Kate Jackson, star of Charlie's Angels, was scheduled to appear but cancelled at the last minute to start filming on the television movie James at 15.
Lorrae Desmond was an Australian Gold Logie-award-winning singer, recording artist, radio and television presenter, character actor, and playwright, with a career that spanned over 55 years both locally and in the United Kingdom.
The 1st Annual TV Week Logie Awards were the first awards ever to be awarded for work within the Australian television industry. Television had begun production in Australia only three years earlier, in 1956.
The 3rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Saturday 18 March 1961 at Chevron-Hilton Hotel in Sydney. Jimmy Edwards from the BBC series Whack-O! was the Master of Ceremonies. The Awards presentation was televised in a half-hour live broadcast on ABN-2, Sydney, with delayed broadcast on ABC stations in other capital cities during the following week. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards for 1961:
The 5th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were announced on Wednesday 26 March 1963 by TV Week. The award ceremony was to have taken place at the Chevron-Hilton Hotel in Sydney on 23 March 1963 and been broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), with Tony Hancock and Marie McDonald as guest presenters, but Hancock cancelled his trip to Australia due to illness. The presentation ceremony was postponed until July on board cruise liner Changsha. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards for 1963:
The 6th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Saturday 21 March 1964 aboard the Lloyd Triestino cruise liner Marconi Liber in Sydney. The winner of the Gold Logie was Bobby Limb. The awards were broadcast on the Nine Network. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards for 1964:
The 7th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 26 March 1965 at Palais de Danse, St Kilda in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Gerald Lyons from the ABC was the Master of Ceremonies. American television actress Donna Douglas was a guest presenter. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards for 1965:
The 8th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Monday 21 March 1966 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. British television actors Jimmy Edwards, Doris Speed, Arthur Leslie and Pat Phoenix appeared as guests. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards for 1966:
The 9th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Monday 10 April 1967 at the Zodiac Room aboard the cruise liner Fairstar in Melbourne. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American television actor Vic Morrow was a guest presenter. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards for 1967:
The 11th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 21 March 1969 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American television actors Dennis Cole, Barbara Anderson, William Shatner, Ty Hardin, British actor Barry Morse and Skippy appeared as guests.
Make Ours Music was an Australian music television series which aired from 1958 to circa 1961 on ABC. Produced in Sydney, it also aired in Melbourne. Originally a half-hour series, it later expanded to an hour. Make Ours Music featured a mix of live songs and dance numbers.