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The 12th 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 20 March 1970 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

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...

. Bert Newton

Bert Newton

Albert Watson "Bert" Newton, AM, MBE is an Australian television personality, known for hosting television series such as In Melbourne Tonight, Good Morning Australia and 20 to 1. Newton has also hosted the Logie Awards on numerous occasions through his career.-Early life:Newton was born in...

from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies

Master of Ceremonies

A Master of Ceremonies , or compere, is the host of a staged event or similar performance.An MC usually presents performers, speaks to the audience, and generally keeps the event moving....

. Miss World 1968

Miss World 1968

Miss World 1968, the 18th Miss World pageant was held at Lyceum Theatre, London, United Kingdom on November 14, 1968. 53 contestants competed for the crown...

winner Penny Plumber, British television actor Peter Wyngarde

Peter Wyngarde

Peter Paul Wyngarde is an Anglo-French actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two British television series in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Department S and Jason King .-Biography:He was born Cyril Goldbert in Marseilles, France, the...

and American actors Peter Graves

Peter Graves (actor)

Peter Aurness , known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973...

and Robert Young

Robert Young (actor)

Robert George Young was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best and as physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. .-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Young was the son of an Irish immigrant father...

appeared as guests. Peggy Lipton

Peggy Lipton

Peggy Lipton is an American television actress. She played "Julie Barnes" in The Mod Squad, and Norma Jennings in Twin Peaks.- Personal life and background :...

, star of the US series The Mod Squad
The Mod Squad
The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...

, 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 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 1970:

Gold Logie

Awards presented by Robert Young

Robert Young

Robert, Rob or Bob Young may refer to:In sports:* Robert Young , American track athlete* Robert Young , British cyclist* Robert Young , American football player...

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:

Barry Crocker

Barry Hugh Crocker OAM is a popular Australian singer, with a crooning vocal style.-Biography:...

, Sound Of Music, Nine Network

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:

Maggie Tabberer

Maggie Tabberer, AM, also known as Maggie T, is an Australian fashion, publishing and television personality.-Early life:She was born Margaret May Trigar on 11 December 1936 in Parkside, Adelaide, South Australia....

, 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 is an American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon....

and Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history...

National

Best Australian Drama Series:

Winner:

Division 4

Division 4 was an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 300 episodes....

, Nine Network

Best Teenage Personality

Winner:

Johnny Farnham

Best Australian Musical/Variety Show

Winner:

Sound Of Music, Nine Network

Best Australian Documentary

Winner:

Chequerboard, ABC

Best Overseas Show

Winner:

The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...

Best Australian Commercial

Winner:

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...

For Pioneering Australia's First World Championship Boxing Telecast

Winner:

Sir Reginald Ansett

Outstanding Contribution To Australian Television

Winner:

Hector Crawford

Best Children's Show

Winner:

Here's Humphrey

Here's Humphrey is an Australian children's television series first aired on Monday 24 May 1965. It featured a character known as Humphrey B. Bear. In the early days Humphrey was known as Bear Bear and was named Humphrey B. Bear as the result of an on-air competition...

, Nine Network

Outstanding Work As Compere

Winner:

Bert Newton

, 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 Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....

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

Victoria

Best Male Personality

Winner:

Mike Preston

Best Female Personality

Winner:

Rosemary Margan

Best Local Show

Winner:

In Melbourne Tonight

In Melbourne Tonight, also known as "IMT", was a highly popular nightly variety television show produced at GTV-9 Melbourne from 6 May 1957 to 1970....

, Nine Network

New South Wales

Best Male Personality

Winner:

Don Lane

Don Lane , born Morton Donald Isaacson, was an American-born talk show host and singer. Don Lane is best known for hosting The Don Lane Show, which was aired on The Nine Network in Australia from 1975 to 1983....

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 "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:...

Best Female Personality

Winner:

Anne Wills

Best Local Show

Winner:

Adelaide Tonight

Adelaide Tonight was a nightly variety show, running four days a week at 9.30pm on NWS-9 Adelaide. The show was broadcast live from Studio 1 between 1959 and 1973...

, Nine Network

Queensland

Best Male Personality

Winner:

Ron Cadee

Best Female Personality

Winner:

Joy Chambers

Joy Chambers is an Australian actress and author. She is best known for such television soap opera roles as Rita Merrick in The Restless Years, Dr Robyn Porter in The Young Doctors, and Rosemary Daniels in Neighbours. Chambers has played Rosemary since 1986. Rosemary is the only character who has...

Best Local Show

Winner:

Dick McCann Show

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....

, 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

Best Female Personality

Winner:

Trina Brown

Best Local Show

Winner:

Today Tonight

Today Tonight is a controversial Australian News and Current Affairs program, produced by the Seven Network and shown weeknightly at in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair....

, ABC

Special Achievement Award

George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent

Winner:

Jeff Phillips

Jeff Phillips is an Australian TV show host/personality and pop singer of the 1960s to the early 1990s.Originally from Perth, Western Australia, he first came to public attention when he took over as compere of Perth TV show, Club 17 in 1966...

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