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The 8th 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 Monday 21 March 1966 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...

. British television actors Jimmy Edwards

Jimmy Edwards

Jimmy Edwards DFC was an English comedic script writer and comedy actor on both radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as the headmaster 'Professor' James Edwards in Whack-O!-Biography:...

, Doris Speed

Doris Speed

Doris Speed, MBE was an English actress, best known for her role as snooty Rovers Return landlady Annie Walker on Coronation Street, a role she played from 1960 to 1983.-Early life and career:...

, Arthur Leslie

Arthur Leslie

Arthur Leslie was a British actor who was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire but moved to Lancashire at an early age...

and Pat Phoenix

Pat Phoenix

Patricia "Pat" Frederica Phoenix was an English actress who became one of the first sex symbols of British television through her role of Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street.-Early life and career:Born in Ireland to Anna Maria Josephine Noonan and Tom Manfield, but moved to Manchester before...

appeared as guests. 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 1966:

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...

Winner:

Gordon Chater

Gordon Chater was a comedian and actor.Chater attended Cambridge University to study to become a doctor but did not finish his degree. While at Cambridge he took part in many student revues.He arrived in Australia following World War II...

National

Best Female Personality

Winner:

Carol Raye

Carol Raye is an Australian-based theatre and television actress and comedienne.Trained as a ballet dancer, Raye was discovered by choreographer Freddie Carpenter at age 16. She played lead roles in many musicals and television programs in the UK...

, The Mavis Bramston Show
The Mavis Bramston Show
The Mavis Bramston Show was a popular and award-winning Australian TV satirical sketch comedy series of the mid-1960s.-Introduction:The tremendous impact that The Mavis Bramston Show had in Australia in the mid-1960s was heightened because of its unique place in the history of the Australian TV...

Best Teenage Personality

Winner:

Normie Rowe

Norman John "Normie" Rowe AM was a major male solo performer of Australian pop music in the 1960s. Known for his bright and edgy tenor voice and dynamic stage presence, many of Rowe's most successful recordings were produced by Pat Aulton, house producer for the Sunshine Records, Spin Records and...

Best Live Show

Winner:

The Mavis Bramston Show

The Mavis Bramston Show was a popular and award-winning Australian TV satirical sketch comedy series of the mid-1960s.-Introduction:The tremendous impact that The Mavis Bramston Show had in Australia in the mid-1960s was heightened because of its unique place in the history of the Australian TV...

, Seven Network

Best Documentary

Winner:

Birth

Birth is the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring. The offspring is brought forth from the mother. The time of human birth is defined as the time at which the fetus comes out of the mother's womb into the world...

Best Overseas Show

Winner:

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System from October 3, 1961, until June 1, 1966. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. It was produced by Reiner with Bill Persky and Sam Denoff....

Best Drama

Winner:

Homicide, Seven Network

Best Commercial

Winner:

Coca Cola

Outstanding Contribution to Development of Talent

Winner:

Showcase 65, Network Ten

Outstanding Contribution to Children's Television

Winner:

The Magic Circle Club, ATV

Victoria

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Graham Kennedy

Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called Gra Gra and The King of Australian television.-Childhood:...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Mary Hardy

Most Popular Live 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

Most Popular Male

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....

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Diana Ward

Most Popular Live Show

Winner:

Tonight with Don Lane, 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:

Pam Western

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Gerry Gibson

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Jill McCann

Most Popular Live Show

Winner:

Theatre Royal, Seven Network

Tasmania

Most Popular Male

Winner:

John Crook

John Hurrell Crook, BSc, PhD, DSc , was a British ethologist who filled a pivotal role in British primatology....

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Caroline Schmit

Most Popular Live Show

Winner:

Anything Goes

Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London...

, Nine Network

Special Achievement Award

Winner:

Dolly Dyer

Dolly Dyer , was an Australian radio and TV personality, and wife of fellow game-show host, Bob Dyer.-Early life:She was born Thelma Phoebe McLean, and grew up in Sydney's eastern suburbs. Her father died when she was young and she was raised by her mother...

, Pick-A-Box - For her cheerful devotion to Bob and their show.

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