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Pot Of Gold (TV Series)
Network 10 original programming Australian music television series 1975 Australian television series debuts 1978 Australian television series endings Music competitions in Australia Australian English-language television shows ''Pot of Gold'' was an Australian talent television series produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. The series was broadcast on Network 10 between 1975 and 1978. It was presented by Tommy Hanlon Jr., former host of the 60s quiz show ''It Could Be You''. Bernard King, a former judge from talent show ''New Faces'', was the resident judge. Guest judges * Joan Whalley * Tommy Hanlon Jr. * John Farnham * Molly Meldrum * Ian Turpie * Graeme Blundell * Briony Behets * Lois Ramsey Revival The series was revived in 1987 with a fresh title ('' Pot Luck'') and hosted by Ernie Sigley Ernest William Sigley (2 September 1938 – 15 August 2021) was an Australian Gold Logie award winning television host, comedian, variety performer, radio presenter and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Network 10 Original Programming
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It Could Be You (Australian Game Show)
''It Could Be You'' is an Australian daytime television series which aired from 1961 to 1966, with later revivals. The best known version was the first version, which was hosted by Tommy Hanlon Jr., assisted by Jack Little. Hanlon was among several Americans who had shows on 1960s Australian television, the others included Delo and Daly, Larry K. Nixon, and Don Lane. Broadcast originally on Melbourne station GTV-9, it eventually become a Nine Network show. While considered a game show, it was not a strict quiz format. The unusual format (often involving reunions with long-lost relatives) was popular with female viewers. The running time of the episodes is not known (Australian prime-time series typically ran 23–25 minutes during the 1960s, but daytime series could sometimes run shorter). The series was still popular when it ended, with Hanlon hosting a new show called '' The Tommy Hanlon Show''. It was revived in 1969 with Tim Evans as host, with an additional revival in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Ramsey
Lois June Ramsey (; 18 June 1922 – 22 January 2016) also billed as Lois Ramsay, was an Australian actress, best known for her regular roles on television series '' The Box'' and ''Prisoner''. She often played quirky, eccentric old ladies on television soap operas. Career The Box and Prisoner She was a major cast member of the 1970s soap opera ''The Box'' as tea lady Mrs. Hopkins, appearing for the entire run of the serial. Ramsey also had two prominent stints in ''Prisoner''. Her first role was as dotty social worker Agnes Forster in 1980. In 1985-1986 Ramsey played elderly prison inmate Ettie Parslow who thought the Second World War was still going on. Television and film roles She had numerous roles in TV soap opera/serials including Crawford Productions serials ''Homicide'', '' The Sullivans'', '' Cop Shop'', as well as ''Prisoner'', '' A Country Practice'', '' E Street'', ''Home and Away ''Home and Away'' (''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briony Behets
Briony Behets (born 1951) is an English-born Australian actress who found fame acting in television soap operas of the 1970s and 1980s. She is known for her early roles in '' Birds in the Bush'', '' Number 96'', '' The Box'', '' Bellbird'', and '' Class of '75''. Behets was also a weather presenter on ATV-10 Melbourne's news bulletins during the mid-1970s. She received an AFI Award nomination for her role in '' The Trespassers'' (1976), and starred in telemovie '' Skin Deep'' in 1984. Later roles include Eve Cambridge in '' Possession'', Amanda Harris in ''Neighbours'', which she reprised in 2025, Margaret Bennett in '' E Street'', Diana Stevens in British soap opera ''Families'', and Elizabeth Regnery in '' The Saddle Club''. Early and personal life Behets was born in London, United Kingdom in 1951. Her father worked as a civil engineer, which took him around the world and as a result much of Behets' childhood was spent in Germany and Sierra Leone before returning to England. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Blundell
Graeme Blundell (born 7 August 1945) is an Australian actor, director, producer, writer, playwright, lyricist and biographer. Early life Blundell was born on 7 April 1945 in Melbourne; he grew up in the suburb of Clifton Hill. He was educated at Merrilands College and Coburg High School, where he served as a Prefect. He then studied arts at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Ormond College and became involved in student theatre. He has a younger brother, Dennis, and two younger sisters, Margaret and Kathryn. Career In his early years, Blundell worked at La Mama Theatre, the Pram Factory, Hoopla, the Playbox Theatre Company, and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He directed and acted in the premiere performance of Jack Hibberd's play '' Dimboola'' at La Mama. His first television appearance was as an uncredited extra in the debut episode of ''Homicide'' (1964). He is best known as playing the title character in the 1973 sex-comedy film '' Alvin Purple'' and its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Turpie
Ian Bruce Turpie (6 November 1943 – 11 March 2012), sometimes referred to as Turps, was an Australian performer, actor (theatre, television, film), pop singer and presenter (television, radio). He was the host of the teen pop music TV show, ''The Go!! Show'' (1965–66) and various TV game shows, ''The Price Is Right (Australian game show), The Price Is Right'' (1981–1985, 1989), and ''Supermarket Sweep Australia, Supermarket Sweep'' (1992–1994). As a TV actor he portrayed Keith Warne on ''Swift and Shift Couriers'' (2008, 2011) and Wazza and Narrator in ''Housos'' (2011). He was diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, oesophageal cancer in 2011 and died the following year, aged 68. Early life Ian Bruce Turpie was born on 6 November 1943 at Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Ferntree Gully's Bush Nursing Hospital to Don Turpie (1911–1990), a shipping clerk and Joyce ( Olson, 1917–1999) and grew up with six siblings. He attended nearby Boronia, Victoria, Boronia State School, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Meldrum
Ian Alexander "Molly" Meldrum AM (born 29 January 1943) is an Australian music critic, journalist, record producer and musical entrepreneur. He was the talent coordinator, on-air interviewer, and music news presenter on the former popular music program '' Countdown'' (1974–87) and is widely recognised for his trademark Stetson hat, which he has regularly worn in public since the 1980s (it is commonly mistaken for an Akubra). Meldrum has featured on the Australian music scene since the mid-1960s, first with his writing for ''Go-Set'' (1966–74), a weekly teen newspaper, then during his tenure with ''Countdown'' and subsequent media contributions. As a record producer he worked on top ten hits for Russell Morris (" The Real Thing", "Part Three into Paper Walls", both 1969), Ronnie Burns ("Smiley", 1970), Colleen Hewett (" Day by Day", 1971), Supernaut ("I Like It Both Ways", 1976) and The Ferrets ("Don't Fall in Love", 1977). Meldrum hosted Oz for Africa in July 1985, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Farnham
John Peter Farnham (born 1 July 1949) is a British-born Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until the mid-1970s, billed as Johnny Farnham. He has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer.McFarlane (1999). Encyclopedia entry for ; retrieved 24 January 2010. His career has mostly been as a solo artist, although he replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band from 1982 to 1985. In November 1986, his solo single " You're the Voice" peaked at No. 1 on the Australian singles charts. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. The associated album, '' Whispering Jack'', held the No. 1 position for a total of 25 weeks. Both the single and the album had top-ten success internationally, including No. 6 in the United Kingdom and No. 1 in Sweden. ''Whispering Jack'' is the third-highest-selling album in Australian history, and remains the highest-selling album in Australia by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Whalley
Joan Agnes Whalley, OAM (December 1927 – 27 August 2021), was an Australian actress, teacher and artistic director of Twelfth Night Theatre in Bowen Hills, Brisbane Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a ..., from 1962 to 1976. Early years Whalley was born in December 1927 and went to school at Blackheath College in Charters Towers where she gained her Queensland Senior Certificate. Rhoda Felgate, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE, a visiting examiner in Speech and Drama and also artistic director of Twelfth Night Theatre in Brisbane, had seen considerable ability in Whalley as a young student acting in college plays. Whalley went on to study Speech and Drama through Trinity College, London and for a time was a teacher at her old school. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Faces (Australian TV Series)
''New Faces'' was an Australian talent show that preceded the British show of the same name, produced at GTV-9 Melbourne. The program began in 1963 under the name ''Kevin Dennis Auditions'', sponsored by a new car dealership, Kevin Dennis Motors, which was run by Kevin Dennis (Dennis Gowing), who was also a well-known face on Australian TV from his catchy 'Update' TV Commercials in the 1960s–70s, which were featured during the breaks of the popular show. The program ran on Saturday mornings. The program name soon changed to ''Kevin Dennis New Faces'', and later simply ''New Faces'', becoming a Sunday night primetime show. The program began as a vehicle for rags-to-riches Melbourne businessman Kevin Dennis to promote his business. Australian journalist Derryn Hinch, in remembering Kevin Dennis, said: Hosts Originally hosted by Frank Wilson from 1963 to 1976, and then by Bert Newton from 1976 to 1985, the show featured two serious judges, such as Bobby Limb, Geoff Brooke, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talent Show
A talent show or talent contest is an event in which participants perform the arts of singing, dancing, lip-syncing, acting, martial arts, playing an instrument, poetry, comedy or other activities to showcase skills. Many talent shows are performances rather than contests, but some are actual contests. In the instance of a contest, participants may be motivated to perform for a reward, trophy, or prize of some kind. For example, a high school might not have many students with any interest in performing in front of the student body for the sole purpose of performing alone and may offer different prizes as an incentive for these students to participate in the contest. Media Since the late 1940s, talent shows have become a notable genre of reality television. Ever since the original airing of ''Doorway to Fame'' in 1947, countless spin-offs have been produced. In order of oldest to newest, here they are: * ''Doorway to Fame'' (1947); * '' The Original Amateur Hour'' (1948); * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Music Television Series
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