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The 7th Annual TV Week
TV Week
TV Week is a weekly television magazine in Australia, first published as a Melbourne-only publication in December 1957 , and bearing a strong affiliation to television station GTV.The publication is still publishing weekly...

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 Friday 26 March 1965 at Palais De Dance, St Kilda in Melbourne

Melbourne

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and broadcast on the Nine Network

Nine Network

The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

. Gerald Lyons from the ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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was the Master of Ceremonies

Master of Ceremonies

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. American television actress Donna Douglas

Donna Douglas

Donna Douglas is an American actress best known for her role as Elly May Clampett, in the long-running television series The Beverly Hillbillies.-Early life:...

was a guest presenter. 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

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n television

Television

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

) for 1965:

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:

Jimmy Hannan

Jimmy Hannan is a retired Australian variety show host, singer and entertainer. Hannan won the 1965 Gold Logie award.One of his daughters is Melissa Hannan who won the Miss Australia title in 1981 and was also in the Miss World competition held in London.-Filmography:*The Sentimental Bloke *Jimmy...

National

Best Female Personality

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"...

, Sound of Music

Best Teenage Performer

Winner:

Billy Thorpe

William Richard "Billy" Thorpe, AM was a renowned English-born Australian pop / rock singer-songwriter and musician...

Best Live Show

Winner:

Sound of Music, Nine Network

Best Documentary Series

Winner:

Project 64

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, Nine Network

Best New Show:

Winner:

Mavis Bramston Show, Seven Network

Best Australian Drama Series

Winner:

Homicide, Seven Network

Best Single Documentary:

Winner:

New Heart For Graham

Most Outstanding National Show:

Winner:

BP Super Show, Nine Network

Best Overseas Show

Winner:

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr....

Outstanding Services to News Reading

Winner:

Sir Eric Pearce

Sir Eric Pearce, OBE Kt was a broadcaster and television pioneer in Australia.Pearce started his career in England and worked for the BBC before moving to Australia. This led to him working at numerous radio stations in the pre-television era, in particular 3DB and 3XY in Melbourne...

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:

Tonight

Tonight may refer to:* Tonight , a United Kingdom television news-magazine on ITV hosted by Julie Etchingham* Tonight , a United Kingdom topical television programme hosted by Cliff Michelmore...

, Nine Network

New South Wales

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Bobby Limb

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

Most Popular Female

Judy Stone

Judy Stone is an Australian pop singer from Sydney, who came to national prominence in the early 1960s through her regular TV appearances on the Australian pop music show Brian Henderson's Bandstand and her many hit records...

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Tonight

Tonight may refer to:* Tonight , a United Kingdom television news-magazine on ITV hosted by Julie Etchingham* Tonight , a United Kingdom topical television programme hosted by Cliff Michelmore...

, Nine Network

South Australia

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Ernie Sigley

Ernest William "Ernie" Sigley is an enduring Australian entertainment personality known for his square-rimmed spectacles, the gap between his front teeth and his slapstick approach to comedy.-Radio career:...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Glenys O'Brien

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Country and Western Hour, Nine Network

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Dick McCann

Dick McCann was an Australian comedian and TV personality, based on Brisbane's Channel 7 in the late 60s and early 70s. As well as performing on Theatre Royal, he presented the Children's Hour in the afternoon....

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Jackie Ellison

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Theatre Royal, Seven Network

Special Award for News Reading

Winner:

Melody Welsh

Tasmania

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Graeme Smith

Graeme Craig Smith is a South African cricketer and captain of the South African cricket team Test Match side, having succeeded Shaun Pollock after the 2003 Cricket World Cup...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Robyn Nevin

Robyn Anne Nevin AM , is an Australian stage and screen actress, and is considered by some as a doyenne of Australian theatre.- Early life :...

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