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The 14th 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 18 February 1972 at the 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...

. The awards were broadcast live 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...

in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide and broadcast later elsewhere. 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....

. The awards featured appearances by Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson

Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., later Roy Harold Fitzgerald , known professionally as Rock Hudson, was an American film and television actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in several romantic comedies with Doris Day.Hudson was voted "Star of the Year",...

and Roger Moore

Roger Moore

Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...

. Juliet Mills, Kenneth Connor

Kenneth Connor

Kenneth Connor MBE was an English comedy stage, radio, film and TV actor, best known for his appearances in the Carry On films.-Career:...

and Robert Reed

Robert Reed

Robert Reed was a prolific American character actor of stage, film and television. In his first big break, he played Kenneth Preston on the popular 1960s TV legal drama, The Defenders, alongside E. G. Marshall. But he was best remembered for portraying the father, Mike Brady, on the popular...

were also in attendance.

The Gold Logie was won by Gerard Kennedy

Gerard Kennedy (actor)

Gerard Kennedy is an Australian actor and two-time Gold Logie winner. He played six different characters in guest appearances in Homicide, all in 1966...

for his lead role on Division 4
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....

and he also won best actor with Pat Smith winning the best actress award for her role in the same series. Division 4 also won best Australian drama. 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 1971:

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...

Presented by Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson

Winner:

Gerard Kennedy

Gerard Kennedy (actor)

Gerard Kennedy is an Australian actor and two-time Gold Logie winner. He played six different characters in guest appearances in Homicide, all in 1966...

National

Best Actor

Winner:

Gerard Kennedy, Division 4, Nine Network

Best Actress

Winner:

Pat Smith

Pat Smith is a former collegiate wrestler at Oklahoma State University and a former assistant coach at OSU. During his collegiate wrestling career, he became the first four-time NCAA wrestling champion in the sports history, a feat only equalled one other time by Cael Sanderson. Smith resigned...

, Division 4, Nine Network

Best Australian Drama

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 Comedy

Winner:

The Group

The Group (TV series)

The Group was a popular Australian situation comedy series produced by Cash Harmon Television for ATN7 in 1971.The situation involved five young flatmates - three men and two women - living together for financial and pragmatic reasons and regularly attempting to outwit their landlord who was...

, Seven Network

Best Australian Music/Variety Show

Winner:

Young Talent Time

Young Talent Time is an Australian television variety program screened on Network Ten, running from 1971 until 1988. The series features a core group of young performers in the vein of The Mickey Mouse Club, and a weekly junior talent quest. The "Young Talent Team" regularly performed popular...

, Network Ten

Best Compere

Winner:

Bert Newton

, In Melbourne Tonight
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

Best Overseas Drama USA

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 Overseas Drama UK

Winner:

The Persuaders

The Persuaders!

The Persuaders! is a 1971 action/adventure series, produced by ITC Entertainment for initial broadcast on ITV and ABC. It has been called "the last major entry in the cycle of adventure series that had begun eleven years earlier with Danger Man in 1960", as well as "the most ambitious and most...

Best Commercial

Winner:

Fanta

Fanta is a global brand of fruit-flavored carbonated soft drinks from the Coca-Cola Company. There are over 90 flavors worldwide. The drink debuted in Germany in 1941 and originally sold only in Europe.-History:...

Best New Drama Series

Winner:

Matlock Police

Matlock Police was an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network between 1971 and 1975....

, Network Ten

Best Scriptwriter

Winner:

Tony Morphett

Tony Morphett , is a writer.Tony Morphett has written or co-written seven feature films, ten telemovies, twelve miniseries, and some hundreds of episodes of TV series drama as well as devising or co-devising seven TV series...

, Dynasty

Dynasty (TV series)

Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989. It was created by Richard & Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, and revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado...

, ABC

Best Individual Acting Performance

Winner:

Jack Fegan, Division 4, Nine Network

Best News Coverage

Winner:

Victoria-Springbok rugby match

Outstanding Creative Effort

Winner:

Dead Men Running, ABC

Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism

Winner:

Dateline ‘71, Network Ten

Victoria

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson (Australian actor)

Frank Edward Wilson was an Australian film, stage and television actor; musical comedy singer and director; and television game show and variety host.-Early life:...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Mary Hardy

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Penthouse Club, Seven Network

New South Wales

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Bob Rogers

Bob Rogers (disc jockey)

Bob Rogers OAM is an Australian disc jockey and radio broadcaster. He currently presents the Bob Rogers Show, Monday to Friday between 9am-12 noon and the 6-hour Saturday evening Reminiscing program on Sydney radio station 2CH....

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Penny Spence

Most Popular Program

Winner:

The Bob Rogers Show, Seven Network

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Ron Cadee

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Dina Heslop

Most Popular Program

Winner:

I've Got A Secret

I've Got a Secret

I've Got a Secret is a panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. Created by comedy writers Allan Sherman and Howard Merrill, it was a derivative of Goodson-Todman's own panel show What's My Line?...

, 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:

Anne Wills

Most Popular Program

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

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:

Sue Gray

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Smith's Weekly

Smith's Weekly was an Australian tabloid newspaper published from 1919 to 1950. An independent weekly published in Sydney, but read all over Australia, Smith’s Weekly was one of Australia’s most patriotic newspaper-style magazines....

Western Australia

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Jeff Newman

Jeff Newman (TV personality)

Jeff Newman OAM was the Seven Network's weather presenter in Perth from 1991 to 2009.He has won five Logie Awards for the state's most popular male television personality....

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Jenny Clemesha

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Stars Of The Future, Seven Network

Special Achievement Awards

George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent

Winner:

Jamie Redfern

Jamie Redfern born 9 April 1957, is an Australian television presenter and pop singer. Redfern was a founding member of the Australian show Young Talent Time and currently presents Jamie Redfern's Rascals, which can be viewed on Aurora TV. He is also the director of the Australian Showbusiness...

, Young Talent Time, Network Ten

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