50 Years 50 Shows
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50 Years 50 Shows is a television special that marked 50 years of television in Australia
. Broadcast on Sunday 25 September 2005 on the Nine Network
and hosted by Eddie McGuire
, the special counted down the top 50 greatest Australian television programmes.
The program was re-aired on Monday 11 September 2006 hosted by Mike Munro
to celebrate the official 50th anniversary of television in Australia
.
The list of programs to be included in the top fifty was based on a poll of television writers, producers, directors, actors and critics. Once the top 50 was collated, their running order was decreed by the ratings the programs had achieved when broadcast: with the highest rating program in number one spot.
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...
. Broadcast on Sunday 25 September 2005 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...
and hosted by Eddie McGuire
Eddie McGuire
Edward Joseph "Eddie" McGuire AM is an Australian television presenter and businessman known for his long association with Australian rules football and the Channel 9 television network....
, the special counted down the top 50 greatest Australian television programmes.
The program was re-aired on Monday 11 September 2006 hosted by Mike Munro
Mike Munro
Michael Munro is an Australian television presenter.- Early life :Munro cites a tough childhood with an abusive and alcoholic mother, as one of the main reasons behind his motivation to succeed. Munro attended Sacred Heart Primary School in Mosman, New South Wales and Marist College North Shore in...
to celebrate the official 50th anniversary of television in 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...
.
The list of programs to be included in the top fifty was based on a poll of television writers, producers, directors, actors and critics. Once the top 50 was collated, their running order was decreed by the ratings the programs had achieved when broadcast: with the highest rating program in number one spot.
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- Brides of Christ
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- The Don Lane Show
- 60 Minutes
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- Four Corners
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- The Norman Gunston ShowNorman GunstonNorman Gunston was a satirical TV character performed by Australian actor and comedian Garry McDonald. Norman Gunston was primarily well known in his native Australia, and to a lesser extent, the United States during the mid to late 1970s.- Early years :...
- AnzacsAnzacsAnzacs was a 1985 5-part Australian mini series set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the 8th Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force in 1914, fighting first at Gallipoli in 1915, and then on the Western Front for the remainder...
- SeaChangeSeaChangeSeaChange was a popular Australian television show that ran for 39 episodes from 1998 to 2001 on the ABC. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William McInnes, John Howard, Tom Long and Kerry Armstrong...
- Fast Forward
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- Bobby Limb's Sound of Music
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- Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals
- Countdown
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- Graham Kennedy's Coast to Coast
- Media Watch
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- Sunday
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External links
- Nine Network press release as published on the Australian TV GuideAustralian TV GuideThe Australian TV Guide was the first online television schedule guide ever published in Australia, and one of the first online television schedule guides in the world....
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