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The 11th Annual TV Week
TV Week
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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 21 March 1969 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne

Melbourne

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and broadcast on the Nine Network

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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 Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies

Master of Ceremonies

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. American television actors Dennis Cole

Dennis Cole

Dennis Cole was an American film and television actor.Before breaking into acting, Cole was a model for men's physique magazines. His first big acting break came when he landed a starring role in the ABC police drama Felony Squad, which ran from 1966 to 1969...

, Barbara Anderson

Barbara Anderson (actress)

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, William Shatner

William Shatner

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, Ty Hardin

Ty Hardin

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, British actor Barry Morse

Barry Morse

Herbert "Barry" Morse was an Anglo-Canadian actor of stage, screen, and radio best known for his roles in the ABC television series The Fugitive and the British sci-fi drama Space: 1999...

and Skippy

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series for children created by John McCallum, produced from 1966–1968, telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, in the Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.Ninety-one 30-minute...

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

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n television

Television

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) for 1969:

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:

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:...

Special Gold Logie

Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong is an American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon....

, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins

Michael Collins (astronaut)

Michael Collins is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins...

for their historic moon telecast

National

Best Drama Show

Winner:

Homicide, Seven Network

Best Comedy Show

Winner:

I've Married a Bachelor, ABC

Best Teenage Personality

Winner:

Johnny Farnham

Best Overseas Show

Winner:

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC...

Best Commercial

Winner:

Cambridge Cigarettes

Best Documentary

Winner:

Talgai Skull, ABC

Best Variety Show

Winner:

Sound of Music, Nine Network

Best Children's Show

Winner:

Adventure Island

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, ABC

Best Export Production

Winner:

Skippy The Bush Kangaroo

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

, Nine Network

Victoria

Best Male Personality

Winner:

Michael Preston

Michael Preston is an international film and television actor, sometimes credited as Mike Preston.-Career:...

Best Female Personality

Winner:

Rosemary Margan

Best 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

Best Male Personality

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....

Best Female Personality

Winner:

Penny Spence

Best Show

Winner:

Tonight with Don Lane, Nine Network

South Australia

Queensland

Best Male Personality

Dick McCann

Dick McCann was an Australian comedian and TV personality, based on Brisbane's Channel 7 in the late 60s and early 70s. As well as performing on Theatre Royal, he presented the Children's Hour in the afternoon....

Best Female Personality

Winner:

Joy Chambers

Joy Chambers is an Australian actress and author. She is best known for such television soap opera roles as Rita Merrick in The Restless Years, Dr Robyn Porter in The Young Doctors, and Rosemary Daniels in Neighbours. Chambers has played Rosemary since 1986. Rosemary is the only character who has...

Best Show

Winner:

I've Got a Secret

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, Nine Network

Tasmania

Best Male Personality

Winner:

Lindsay Edwards

Best Female Personality

Winner:

Caroline Schmit

Best Show

Winner:

Line-Up, ABC

Special Achievement Award

George Wallace Memorial Logie for Best New Talent

Winner:

Gerard Kennedy, Hunter

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