''Accent on Strings'' was an Australian television series which aired in 1956 on
Sydney station
TCN-9
TCN is the flagship television station of the Nine Network in Australia. The station is currently located at 1 Denison Street, North Sydney. The licence, issued to a company named Television Corporation Ltd headed by Sir Frank Packer, was one ...
. A music series, the first episode aired October 27, 1956. It was among several early locally produced series which debuted during the first official week of programming by the station, along with ''
The Johnny O'Connor Show
''The Johnny O'Connor Show'' is an early Australian television series which aired on Sydney station TCN-9. The first episode aired 28 October 1956. The quarter-hour variety series proved to be short-lived, running just a couple months. Perform ...
'', game show ''
What's My Line
''What's My Line?'' is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, originally in black and white and later in color, with subsequent U.S. revivals. The game uses celebrity panel ...
'', religious series ''
Give Us This Day'', children's series ''
Fun Farm'', and music series ''
Campfire Favourites'', with these series having varying degrees of success.
''Accent on Strings'' proved to be among the less successful of early TCN-9 offerings, running a couple months, and ending at the same time as ''Campfire Favourites'' and ''The Johnny O'Connor Show''.
Three of the episodes exist as
kinescope recordings at 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 ...
.
There is very little information about this series available online.
See also
*
List of Australian music television shows
This is a list of Australian produced music television shows.
Early days of music television pre-dated video clips, and included variety style series, miming series, and pop series, and with the advent of music videos, shows gave way to slickly ...
References
External links
* {{IMDb title
Nine Network original programming
1956 Australian television series debuts
1956 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
Australian live television series
Australian music television series