''This I Believe'' is an early Australian television program. Broadcast 5 nights a week on Sydney 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 ...

, it debuted 3 December 1956 (on ATN's second day of programming). It was a 15-minute program in which

Eric Baume Eric Ehrenfried Baume Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE (29 May 190024 April 1967) was a New Zealand-born Australian based journalist, novelist, radio presenter, actor and television talk show host. Early life Eric Baume was born ...

would provide a commentary on current world events. At the end of each TV program he would say "This I believe". The program ended around July 1958. According to television listings in the '' Sydney Morning Herald'', the last few episodes of the program aired in an 11-minute time-slot. ''This I Believe'' was also a radio program with Baume, which debuted before the television series. An episode of this program is held by the

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and has been digitised.

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* 1956 Australian television series debuts 1958 Australian television series endings Australian television news shows Black-and-white Australian television shows English-language television shows Seven Network original programming Television series based on radio series {{Australia-tv-prog-stub

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