The 12th Annual ''

TV Week ''TV Week'' is a weekly Australian magazine that provides television program listings information and highlights, as well as television-related news. Content ranges from previews for upcoming storylines of popular television programs, particu ...

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s were presented on Friday 20 March 1970 at

Southern Cross Hotel The Southern Cross Hotel was a hotel in Melbourne, Australia. It was opened by the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, on 24 August 1962 as Australia's first modern 'International' hotel, heralding the arrival of American-style glamour, the jet-set ...

Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...

and broadcast on the

Nine Network Nine Network (stylised 9Network, and commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of the five main free-to-air television ...

Bert Newton Albert Watson Newton (23 July 1938 – 30 October 2021) was an Australian media personality. He was a Logie Hall of Fame inductee, quadruple Gold Logie–winning entertainer, and radio, theatre and television personality and compère. Ne ...

from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies.

Miss World 1968 Miss World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since his death in 2000, Morley's widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant. Along with Miss Universe, Miss Int ...

winner Penelope Plummer, British television actor

Peter Wyngarde Peter Paul Wyngarde (born Cyril Goldbert, 23 August 1927 – 15 January 2018) was a British actor. He was best known for portraying the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two television series: '' Department S'' (19 ...

and American actors

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and Robert Young appeared as guests.

Peggy Lipton Margaret Ann Lipton (August 30, 1946 – May 11, 2019) was an American model, actress, and singer. She made appearances in many of the most popular television shows of the 1960s before she landed her defining role as flower child Julie Barnes i ...

, star of the US series ''

The Mod Squad ''The Mod Squad'' is an American crime drama series, originally broadcast for five seasons on ABC from September 24, 1968, to March 1, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Peter "Pete" Cochran, Clarence Williams III as Lincoln "Linc" Hayes, Pegg ...

'', 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

s (

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) for 1970:

Awards

Gold Logie

Awards presented by Robert Young ; Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television :''Winner:''

Barry Crocker Barry Hugh Crocker (born 4 November 1935
Official Barry Crocker website) is an Australian

Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television :''Winner:''

Maggie Tabberer Margaret May Tabberer (; 11December 19366December 2024) was an Australian fashion, publishing and television personality. She was a dual recipient of the Gold Logie award for her television work. Tabberer founded her own fashion label and PR c ...

, ''Maggie'', Seven Network

Special Gold Logie

;Special Gold Logie For Providing TV's Greatest Moment In Their Moon Telecast :''Winner:''

Neil Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the Apollo 11#Lunar surface operations, first person to walk on the Moon. He was al ...

and

Buzz Aldrin Buzz Aldrin ( ; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three extravehicular activity, spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eag ...

Logie

National

;Best Australian Drama Series: :''Winner:''

Division 4 ''Division 4'' is an Australian television police drama series broadcast by the Nine Network and created by Crawford Productions airing between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes. Synopsis The series was one of the first to follow up on the enor ...

, Nine Network ;Best Teenage Personality :''Winner:''

Johnny 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). Enc ...

;Best Australian Musical/Variety Show :''Winner:'' ''

Sound Of Music ''The Sound of Music'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, ''The Story of the Trapp Family Singers''. Set ...

'', Nine Network ;Best Australian Documentary :''Winner:'' ''

Chequerboard A checkerboard (American English) or chequerboard (British English) is a game board of checkered pattern on which checkers (also known as English draughts) is played. Most commonly, it consists of 64 squares (8×8) of alternating dark and light co ...

'', ABC ;Best Overseas Show :''Winner:'' ''

'' ;Best Australian Commercial :''Winner:''

Coca-Cola Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a cola soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, with consumers drinking more than 1.8 billion company beverage servings ...

;For Pioneering Australia's First World Championship Boxing Telecast :''Winner:''

Sir Reginald Ansett Sir Reginald Myles Ansett KBE (13 February 1909 – 23 December 1981) was an Australian businessman and aviator. He was best known for founding Ansett Transport Industries, which owned one of Australia's two leading domestic airlines between 1 ...

;Outstanding Contribution To Australian Television :''Winner:''

Hector Crawford Hector William Crawford CBE AO (14 August 191311 March 1991) was an Australian entrepreneur, conductor and media mogul, best known for his radio and television production firms. He and his sister Dorothy Crawford founded Crawford Productions ...

;Best Children's Show :''Winner:'' ''

Here's Humphrey ''Here's Humphrey'' was an Australian children's television series produced by Banksia Productions for the Nine Network, which first aired on 24 May 1965 and last went to air in 2008. It features an anthropomorphic brown bear character (a pe ...

'', Nine Network ;Outstanding Work As Compere :''Winner:''

, ''In Melbourne Tonight'', Nine Network ;Outstanding Documentary :''Winner:'' '' Dig a Million, Make a Million'', ABC ;Best News Reporting :''Winner:'' Steve Raymond, for stories on

Marianne Faithfull Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (29 December 1946 – 30 January 2025) was an English singer and actress who achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her UK top 10 single " As Tears Go By". She became one of the leading female art ...

and a mass teenage funeral at Warren in NSW, Network Ten

Victoria

;Best Male Personality :''Winner:''

Mike Preston Michael Preston (born Jack Davies; 14 May 1938) is an English international film and television actor, and singer, sometimes credited as Mike Preston. Life and career Preston was born in Hackney, London, England. He was a boxer and then bec ...

;Best Female Personality :''Winner:''

Rosemary Margan Rosemary Margan (12 May 1937 – 5 December 2017) was an Australian television and radio personality. She won Logie Awards for best Victorian Female Personality in 1969 and 1970. Biography Margan became well known for working with both Graham ...

;Best Local Show :''Winner:'' ''

In Melbourne Tonight ''In Melbourne Tonight'', also known as ''IMT'', was a highly popular nightly Logie award-winning Australian variety show, variety television show produced at GTV-9 Melbourne from 6 May 1957 to 1970. Overview Graham Kennedy was the show's mai ...

'', Nine Network

New South Wales

;Best Male Personality :''Winner:''

Don Lane Morton Donald Isaacson (born November 13, 1933 – October 22, 2009), known professionally as Don Lane, was an American talk show host and singer active mostly in Australia, best known for his television career in Australia, especially for host ...

;Best Female Personality :''Winner:'' Rosemary Eather ;Best Local Show :''Winner:'' '' Tonight Show With Don Lane'', Nine Network

South Australia

;Best Male Personality :''Winner:''

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 singer. Known as a pioneer of radio and television in Australian, he was o ...

;Best Female Personality :''Winner:''

Anne Wills Anne Shirley Wills (born 3 October 1944) is an Australian television and radio personality based in Adelaide. Wills holds the record for the most number of Logies won by a person in the history of the awards, winning 19 Most Popular State Perso ...

;Best Local Show :''Winner:'' ''

Adelaide Tonight ''Adelaide Tonight'' was a nightly variety show, running four days a week at 9.30 pm on Nine Network, NWS-9 Adelaide Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as wel ...

'', Nine Network

Queensland

;Best Male Personality :''Winner:'' Ron Cadee ;Best Female Personality :''Winner:''

Joy Chambers Carolyn Joy Chambers-Grundy ( Chambers; 1947 – 17 September 2023) was an Australian actress, author, poet and businesswoman. As the wife of multimillionaire television tycoon Reg Grundy, she wrote for, worked as a production assistant on and ...

;Best Local Show :''Winner:'' '' Dick McCann Show'', Network Ten

Tasmania

;Best Male Personality :''Winner:'' Lindsay Edwards ;Best Female Personality :''Winner:'' Caroline Schmit ;Best Local Show :''Winner:'' '': It's Just For Us''

Western Australia

;Best Male Personality :''Winner:''

Garry Meadows Garrett Seaton "Garry" Meadows (15 April 1939 – 22 July 1982) was an Australian television presenter, radio announcer, and actor. Career Stage Meadows began acting in Perth during his youth in the 1950s when he appeared in a number of local ...

;Best Female Personality :''Winner:'' Trina Brown ;Best Local Show :''Winner:'' ''

Today Tonight ''Today Tonight'' was an Australian current affairs television program produced by the Seven Network. It aired from January 1995 to November 2019 in Adelaide and Perth. Editions in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne were previously produced be ...

'', ABC

Special Achievement Award

;George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent :''Winner:'' Jeff Phillips

External links

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