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The 4th Annual TV Week
TV Week
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Logie Award
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...

s were presented on Saturday 31 March 1962 at the Chevron Hotel in Sydney and broadcast on the ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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. Gerald Lyons from the ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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was the Master of Ceremonies

Master of Ceremonies

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. Bob Dyer

Bob Dyer

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was on hand to present awards. This article lists the winners of Logie Award

Logie Award

The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...

s (Australia

Australia

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n television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

) for 1962:

Gold Logie

Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television

The Gold Logie Award has been awarded annually to the Most Popular Personality on Australian Television at the TV Week Logie Awards since 1960...

Winner:

Lorrae Desmond

Lorrae Desmond, MBE is a Australian singer, entertainer, and character actress, with a career spanning over 50 years...

and Tommy Hanlon, Jr.

National

Best Variety Show

Winner:

Revue '61, Nine Network

Best Drama Series

Winner:

Consider Your Verdict

Consider Your Verdict is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network originally screening from February 1961 through to June 1964. It was based on a radio series with the same name broadcast on 3DB in Melbourne from 1958 to 1960.The television series was...

, Seven Network

Best Youth Entertainment

Winner:

Bandstand

A bandstand is a circular or semicircular structure set in a park, garden, pier, or indoor space, designed to accommodate musical bands performing concerts...

, Nine Network

Best Female Singer

Winner:

Patsy Ann Noble

Trisha Noble

Patricia Ann Ruth "Trisha" Noble is an Australian singer and actress.-Biography:Noble was born in Sydney, Australia. Her father was comedian and singer Buster Noble and her mother was the entertainer Helen De Paul....

Best Male Singer

Winner:

Col Joye

Colin Frederick Jacobsen AM , better known by his stage name Col Joye, is an Australian popular entertainer and entrepreneur...

Best Comedian

Winner:

Bobby Limb

Bobby Limb AO OBE was an Australian pioneering radio and television entertainer of the 1960s and 1970s.-Career:...

Best Documentary Series

Winner:

Anzac, Nine Network

Best News Feature Program

Winner:

Four Corners, ABC

Best Commercial of the Year

Winner:

Vacuum Oil Company's Mobil Oil commercial with Bobby Limb

Victoria

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Graham Kennedy

Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called Gra Gra and The King of Australian television.-Childhood:...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Toni Lamond

Toni Lamond AM is an Australian cabaret singer, stage actor, dancer and comedienne...

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Sunnyside Up

Sunnyside Up was a weekly variety program produced at HSV-7 Melbourne, during the late 1950s and early 1960s.The program was hosted by Bill Collins, with comedy by Syd Heylen , Honest John Gilbert, Syd Hollister, Maurie Fields and Val Jellay...

, Seven Network

New South Wales

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Digby Wolfe

Digby Wolfe is an actor, screenwriter and university lecturer in dramatic writing.Wolfe was born in London, England, and began writing and performing in comedy series in England in the 1950s. Together with Jimmy Wilson he wrote a revue, with music by John Pritchett and Norman Dannatt, for the...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Dawn Lake

Dawn Lake was an Australian television comedian, singer, entertainer and actor, whose career spanned more than four decades. Bert Newton described her as "our greatest comedienne - Australia's Lucille Ball"...

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Johnny O'Keefe Show, Nine Network

South Australia

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Kevin Crease

Kevin John Crease was a South Australian television presenter and news presenter. He was most noted for presenting South Australian edition of the Nine Network's National Nine News with Rob Kelvin between 1987 and 2007....

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Joan Disher

Most Popular Program

Winner:

On the Sunnyside, Seven Network

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Brian Tait

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Jill McCann

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Theatre Royal

Theatre Royal is the name of many theatres, especially in the United Kingdom. The name was once an indication that the theatre was a patent theatre, with a Royal Patent without which performances of serious drama would be illegal.United Kingdom:...

, Seven Network

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