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The 22nd 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 14 March 1980 at Hilton Hotel in Sydney, 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 ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

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....

. British film star Michael York

Michael York (actor)

Michael York, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May , a musician; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores...

, comedian

Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

Cilla Black

Cilla Black OBE is an English singer, actress, entertainer and media personality, who has been consistently popular as a light entertainment figure since 1963. She is most famous for her singles Anyone Who Had A Heart, You're My World, and Alfie...

and television actors Nicola Pagett

Nicola Pagett

Nicola Pagett is an English actress. She is best-known for her role as Elizabeth Bellamy in the 1970s TV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs.-Early life:She was educated at St...

and John Inman

John Inman

Frederick John Inman was an English actor best known for his role as Mr. Humphries in Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom in the 1970s and 1980s. Inman was also well known in the United Kingdom as a pantomime dame....

appeared as guest presenters. American television stars Paul Michael Glaser

Paul Michael Glaser

Paul Michael Glaser is an American actor and director, perhaps best known for his role as Detective David Starsky on the 1970s television series Starsky and Hutch; he also appeared as Captain Jack Steeper on the 1999 to 2005 NBC series Third Watch.-Early life:Glaser, the youngest of three...

, Greg Evigan

Greg Evigan

Gregory Ralph "Greg" Evigan is an American actor best known for the TV series B.J. and the Bear, My Two Dads, P.S. I Luv U and TekWar.-Personal life:...

, Lee Meriwether

Lee Meriwether

Lee Ann Meriwether is an American actress, former model, and the winner of the 1955 Miss America pageant. She is perhaps best known for her role as Betty Jones, the crime-solving partner in the long-running 1970s crime drama, Barnaby Jones. The role earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations in...

, Linda Gray

Linda Gray

Linda Ann Gray is an American actress, best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the television prime-time soap opera Dallas.-Career:Prior to acting, Gray began working as a model in the 1960s...

and Sesame Street

Sesame Street

Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...

's Big Bird

Big Bird

Big Bird is a protagonist of the children's television show Sesame Street. Big Bird, like many of the other Sesame Street characters, is a Muppet character. He is sometimes referred to simply as "Bird" by his friends....

and Oscar the Grouch

Oscar the Grouch

Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character on the television program Sesame Street. He has a green body , has no nose , and lives in a trash can. His favorite thing in life is trash; evidence for this is the song "I Love Trash". A running theme is his compulsive hoarding of seemingly useless items...

were also in attendance.

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 John Inman

John Inman

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....

, The Mike Walsh Show
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...

, Nine Network

Nine Network

Silver Logie

National Awards

Panel Judged

Best Single Drama

Winner:

Burn The Butterflies (ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

)

Best Performance by a Juvenile

Winner:

Miles Buchanan (A Good Thing Going - Nine Network

Nine Network

)

Best New Drama Series

Winner:

Prisoner
Prisoner (TV series)
Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...

0/10

Best TV Script

Winner:

Michael Cove (Ep. of A Place in The World - ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

)

Best Lead Actor in a Single Drama

Winner:

John Hargreaves

John Hargreaves (Australian actor)

John Hargreaves was an Australian actor. He won three Australian Film Institute Awards and was nominated six times.-Background:...

(A Good Thing Going - Nine Network

Nine Network

)

Best Lead Actress in a Single Drama

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...

(The Rock Pool - ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

)

Best Support Actor in a Single Drama

Winner:

Chris Haywood

Chris Haywood is an English-born, Australian-based film and television actor/producer.-Early life:Haywood was born in Billericay, Essex, England. He spent his early childhood in Chelmsford before moving to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire where he attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from...

(A Good Thing Going - Nine Network

Nine Network

)

Best Support Actress in a Single Drama

Winner:

Veronica Lang (A Good Thing Going - Nine Network

Nine Network

)

Best Lead Actor in a Series

Winner:

Peter Adams

Peter Adams (actor)

Peter John Adams was a New Zealand-born actor, best remembered for his performances in Australian television.-Early life:Born in Karanarunui, New Zealand, Adams later emigrated to Australia...

(Cop Shop
Cop Shop
Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station....

- Seven Network

Seven Network

)

Best Lead Actress in a Series

Winner:

Carol Burns

.Carol Burns is an Australian actor. She has worked in film, television and theatre in Australia and the United Kingdom.-Career highlights:...

(Prisoner

Prisoner (TV series)

Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...

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Best Support Actor in a Series

Winner:

Terry Norris

Terry Wayne Norris is a retired American boxer and a three-time world champion in the light middleweight division. Originally from Lubbock, Texas, he fought out of San Diego.-Early boxing career:...

Seven Network

)

Best Support Actress in a Series

Winner:

Noni Hazelhurst

Leonie Elva "Noni" Hazlehurst is an Australian actress. She won the Best Support Actress in a Single Series in the Logie Awards of 1985. After attending St Leonard's College in Brighton East, Victoria, Hazlehurst completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1973 at Flinders University in Adelaide...

(Ride On Stranger - ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

)

Best News Report

Winner:

Star Hotel Riot (NBN-3, Newcastle

Newcastle, New South Wales

The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

)

TV Reporter of The Year

Winner:

George Negus

George Edward Negus is an Australian author, journalist, and television presenter. He previously presented 6:30 with George Negus on Network Ten, until it was axed by the Network on 19 October 2011.-Education:...

(60 Minutes - Nine Network

Nine Network

)

Outstanding Public Affairs Report

Winner:

Four Corners (Child Prostitution - Maryanne Smith)

Best Documentary Series

Winner:

This Fabulous Century (Seven Network

Seven Network

)

Best Single Documentary

Winner:

Mutiny On The Western Front (Seven Network

Seven Network

)

Outstanding Coverage of a Sports Report

Winner:

Test Cricket
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

(Nine Network

Nine Network

)

Best Sports Report or Documentary

Winner:

Iron Men Of The Sea 10)

Outstanding Contribution by a Regional Station

Winner:

Beating Around The Bush (NBN-3, Newcastle

Newcastle, New South Wales

The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

)

Outstanding Contribution to Children's Television

Winner:

Simon Townsend's Wonder World
Simon Townsend's Wonder World
Simon Townsend's Wonder World! was a multi-award–winning Australian children's television show that aired on the Ten Network from 1979 until 1986...

(Nine Network

Nine Network

)

Best TV Comedy Performer

Winner:

Garry McDonald

Garry George McDonald, AO is an Australian stage and screen actor.-Early life and career:McDonald was born in Sydney and was educated at Cranbrook School and National Institute of Dramatic Art....

Victoria

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Bert Newton

(GTV-9

GTV-9

GTV is a commercial television station in Melbourne, Australia owned by the Nine Network. The station is currently based at a new high-tech, purpose-built studios at 717 Bourke Street, Docklands.-History:...

)

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Annette Allison (ATV-10

ATV-10

ATV is a television station in Melbourne, Australia, part of Network Ten - one of the three major Australian commercial television networks.-History:...

)

Most Popular Show

Winner:

The Don Lane Show (GTV-9

GTV-9

)

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....

(TCN-9

TCN-9

TCN is the Sydney flagship television station of the Nine Network in Australia and is located at Willoughby. The licence, issued to a company named Television Corporation Ltd headed by Frank Packer, was one of the first four licences to be issued for commercial television stations in...

)

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Katrina Lee (TEN-10

TEN-10

TEN is the callsign of Network Ten's flagship Sydney television station. It was originally owned and operated by United Telecasters Sydney Limited , and began transmission on 5 April 1965 with the highlight of the opening night being the variety special TV Spells Magic.-History:TEN often lagged in...

)

Most Popular Show

Winner:

The Mike Walsh Show (TCN-9

TCN-9

)

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....

(TVT-6

TVT-6

TVT is the first provincial television station in Australia and Hobart's, and Tasmania's, first television station, delivering its first official broadcast on 23 May 1960. The callsign stood for "TeleVision Tasmania"....

)

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Sue Barnett (TVT-6

TVT-6

)

Most Popular Show

Winner:

People, Places, Politics (TVT-6

TVT-6

)

South Australia

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Tony Murphy

Francis J. "Tony" Murphy , was an American Association catcher who played for the 1884 New York Metropolitans. He appeared in one game on October 15, 1884 and recorded one hit and one run in three at-bats. He remained in the minor leagues through 1889, playing primarily in the Connecticut State...

(NWS-9

NWS-9

NWS is an Australian television station owned by the WIN Corporation which is based in Adelaide, Australia. The station's name, NWS is an acronym of The NeWs South Australia.-Origins:...

)

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Pam Tamblyn (ADS-7

ADS-10

ADS Adelaide is an Australian television station, owned by, and affiliated with the Ten Network.-History:ADS-10 began as ADS-7 on 24 October 1959, before being owned by those affiliated with the Ten Network. On 27 December 1987, ADS-7 and SAS-10 switched affiliations, ADS moving to channel 10, SAS...

)

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Music Express (ADS-7

ADS-10

)

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Glenn Taylor

Glenn Taylor is a politician from Alberta, Canada. He is the leader of the Alberta Party and mayor of Hinton.-Political career:Taylor was a candidate for the Alberta New Democratic Party in 1997 in the riding of West Yellowhead, and in 2001 was elected to Hinton town council. In 2004 he was elected...

(QTQ-9

QTQ-9

QTQ is an Australian television station, licensed to, and serving Brisbane, Queensland. It is owned by the Nine Entertainment Co., and is part of the Nine Network. It broadcasts on VHF channel 9 and VHF channel 8 . QTQ began broadcasting on 16 August 1959, the first of the Brisbane stations to...

)

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Jacki MacDonald

Jacki MacDonald is a former Australian television personality.-Career:...

(TVQ-0

TVQ-10

TVQ is the Brisbane television station of Network Ten in Australia.The channel was allocated channel 0 on the VHF band and was launched on 1 July 1965 as TVQ-0...

)

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Today Tonight (QTQ-9

QTQ-9

)

Western Australia

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Terry Willesee

Terry Willesee is an Australian journalist and television presenter.-Biography:Willesee is the son of Don Willesee, a long-time member of the Australian Senate and Whitlam Government minister. He is the brother of Mike Willesee, also a journalist and television presenter.-Media career:Willesee...

(STW-9

STW-9

STW is an Australian television station owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Perth, Australia.Based in Dianella, Western Australia, STW broadcasts with a transmitter mast located in Walliston...

)

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Judy Thompson (TVW-7

TVW-7

TVW is a television station broadcasting in Perth, Western Australia, wholly owned by the Seven Network. It was the first television station in Western Australia, commencing service on 16 October 1959. It broadcasts analogue on VHF 7 and digital on VHF 6 from Bickley located in the Perth Hills...

)

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Terry Willesee's Perth (STW-9

STW-9

)

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