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The 17th 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 7 March 1975 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...

. It was the first time the Awards were telecast in Colour. 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....

. American film star John Wayne

John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...

and television actors Lee Majors

Lee Majors

Lee Majors is an American television, film and voice actor, best known for his starring role as Colonel Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man and as Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy ....

and William Conrad

William Conrad

William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television....

, British actor Edward Woodward

Edward Woodward

Edward Albert Arthur Woodward, OBE was an English stage and screen actor and singer. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , Woodward began his career on stage, and throughout his career he appeared in productions in both the West End in London and on Broadway in New York...

and his wife Michele Dotrice

Michele Dotrice

Michele Dotrice is an English actress best known for her portrayal of Betty, the long-suffering wife of Frank Spencer, played by Michael Crawford, in the BBC sitcom Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, which ran from 1973 to 1978....

, and Australian-born British television stars Keith Michell

Keith Michell

Keith Michell is an Australian actor, particularly noted for his television and film performances as King Henry VIII of England.- Early life :He was born in Adelaide and brought up in Warnertown, near Port Pirie...

and Diane Cilento

Diane Cilento

Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author.-Biography:Cilento's parents, Sir Raphael Cilento and Lady Phyllis Cilento, were both distinguished medical practitioners....

appeared as guests. Each of the guest presenters were given special souvenir Logies .

Gold Logie

Awards presented by John Wayne

John Wayne

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:

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:...

, The Ernie Sigley Show, 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:

Denise Drysdale

Denise Anne Christina Drysdale, is an Australian television personality and comedian. She is often affectionately called Ding-Dong.-Childhood:...

, The Ernie Sigley Show, Nine Network

National

Best Australian Actor

Winner:

George Mallaby, The Box, Network Ten

Best Australian Actress

Winner:

Bunney Brooke

Bunney Brooke was an Australian actress best known for her television acting roles including the long-running role of Flo Patterson in soap opera Number 96 in the 1970s, and Vi Patchett in E Street in 1990.Brooke was adopted at an early age and had an unhappy early life...

, Number 96, Network Ten

Best Australian Drama

Winner:

Number 96, Network Ten

Best Australian Teenage Personality

Winner:

Debbie Byrne, Young Talent Time, Network Ten

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 Australian Commercial

Winner:

Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam is a common national personification of the American government originally used during the War of 1812. He is depicted as a stern elderly man with white hair and a goatee beard...

Best Individual Performance By An Actor

Winner:

John Meillon

John Meillon was an Australian actor, most widely known outside Australia for his role as Walter Reilly in the films "Crocodile" Dundee and "Crocodile" Dundee II. He also voiced Victoria Bitter beer commercials until his death.-Biography:Meillon was born in Mosman, Sydney...

, The Fourth Wish, ABC

Best Individual Performance By An Actress

Winner:

Pat Evison

Dame Helen June Patricia Evison, DBE , known as Pat Evison, was a New Zealand actress.-Early life and education:...

, Pig In A Poke, ABC

Best TV Comedian

Winner:

Paul Hogan

Paul Hogan, AM is an Australian actor best known for his role as Michael "Crocodile" Dundee from the Crocodile Dundee film series, for which he won a Golden Globe award.-Early life and career:...

, The Paul Hogan Show, Seven Network

Best New Drama

Winner:

Rush, ABC

Best Script

Winner:

Fred Cullen, Homicide, Seven Network

Best News Coverage

Winner:

Frank Sinatra in Australia, David Hill

David Hill

-Politicians:* David B. Hill , Governor of the U.S. state of New York, 1885–1891, U.S. Senator from New York, 1892–1897* David Jayne Hill , politician from New York, United States Assistant Secretary of State, 1898–1903...

, Seven Network News

Best Public Affairs Program

Winner:

A Current Affair, Nine Network

Reporter Of The Year

Winner:

Richard Carleton

Richard George Carleton was a multi-Logie Award winning Australian television journalist.-Education:Carleton was born in Bowral, New South Wales...

, This Day Tonight, ABC

Contribution To TV Journalism

Winner:

Federal File, Nine Network

Best Single Documentary

Winner:

Casley's Kingdom, David Johnston

David Johnston

David Lloyd Johnston is a Canadian academic, author and statesman who is the current Governor General of Canada, the 28th since Canadian Confederation....

, Seven Network

Best Dramatised Documentary

Winner:

Billy And Percy, ABC

Outstanding Contribution To TV

Winner:

Bill Peach, for eight years’ service to This Day Tonight
This Day Tonight
This Day Tonight was an Australian Broadcasting Corporation current affairs program of the late 1960s and early 1970s.- Overview :...

, ABC

Outstanding Creative Effort

Winner:

Ted Dunn, Fredd Bear’s Breakfast A-Go-Go, Network Ten

Outstanding Contribution To Daytime TV

Winner:

No Man's Land, Nine Network

Victoria

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Ernie Sigley

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Denise Drysdale

Denise Anne Christina Drysdale, is an Australian television personality and comedian. She is often affectionately called Ding-Dong.-Childhood:...

Most Popular Show

Winner:

The Ernie Sigley Show, Nine Network

New South Wales

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Mike Walsh

Mike Walsh (TV host)

Mike Walsh OBE was host of The Mike Walsh Show from 1973 until 1985. Walsh is the only entertainer to be awarded the Sammy Award and Gold Logie award in the same year....

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Barbara Rogers

Most Popular Show

Winner:

The Mike Walsh Show

The Mike Walsh Show is an Australian daytime television series. Hosted by Mike Walsh, the show ran from 1973 to 1984 for 90 minutes each weekday afternoon. The program was launched on the 0-10 Network and moved to the Nine Network in 1977...

, Network Ten

South Australia

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Bob Francis

Bob Francis (radio)

Bob Francis is a talk back radio presenter on South Australian radio station 5AA. His program airs between 8pm and 12 midnight weekdays and is rated as Adelaide's most popular talk back program.-Career:...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Anne Wills

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Penthouse Club, Seven Network

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Paul Sharratt

Paul William Sharratt was an English born entertainer and TV personality, who spent the majority of his life in Australia.-Early years:...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Rhonda Sharratt

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Studio 9, Nine Network

Tasmania

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Tom Payne

Tom Payne (newsreader)

Tom Payne was a newsreader in Tasmania.He presented the TVT-6 evening news bulletins from 1971 until 2000....

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Margaret Anne Ford

Most Popular Show

Winner:

This Week

This Week is the name of a number of television and radio programmes:* This Week , a Sunday morning political talk show broadcast on ABC in the United States...

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:

Sandy Palmer

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Stars Of The Future, Seven Network

Special Achievement Award

George Wallace Memorial Award For Best New Talent

Winner:

John Waters

John Waters (actor)

John Russell Waters is a film, theatre and television actor and musician best known in Australia, to where he moved in 1968...

, Rush, ABC

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