''Hillbilly Requests'' (originally ''Hillbilly Request Time'') was an Australian television series, which ran from 1957 to 1958 on Melbourne 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 ...

. Representing an early effort at music/variety programming by the station, it was hosted by Tom Campbell and each episode featured the Victoria Banjo Club. The program had an unusual running time of 25 minutes as opposed to the usual 30 minutes. Originally aired at 6:30PM, it spent most of its run at 6:15PM, running to 6:40PM, preceded by the ''Happy Show'' and followed by the evening newscast with Eric Pearce. The archival status of the series is not known.

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* Nine Network original programming 1957 Australian television series debuts 1958 Australian television series endings Australian music television series Australian English-language television shows Black-and-white Australian television shows {{Australia-tv-prog-stub