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The 15th 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 16 February 1973 at the 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...

. 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...

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 Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades...

and television actors Michael Cole

Michael Cole (actor)

Michael Cole is an American actor. His career includes a leading role as Pete Cochran on the television crime drama The Mod Squad, which ran from 1968 to 1973.-Career:...

, Gail Fisher

Gail Fisher

Gail Fisher was an American actress who was one of the first African American women to play substantive roles in American television...

and Loretta Swit

Loretta Swit

Loretta Swit is an American stage and television actress known for her character roles. Swit is best-known for her portrayal of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on M*A*S*H.-Early life:...

were in attendance as guest presenters. The programme is remembered for a drunken, incoherent acceptance speech from Cole which concluded with a swear word.

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 Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford was a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades...

and Loretta Swit

Loretta Swit

Loretta Swit is an American stage and television actress known for her character roles. Swit is best-known for her portrayal of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on M*A*S*H.-Early life:...

Winner:

Tony Barber

Anthony "Tony" Ferraro Barber is an Australian game show host and television personality.-Early life:...

, Great Temptation, Seven Network

National

Best Actor

Winner:

Gerard Kennedy

Gerard Michael Kennedy is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as Ontario's Minister of Education from 2003 to 2006, when he resigned to make an unsuccessful bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada...

, Division 4, Nine Network

Best Actress

Winner:

Pat McDonald, Number 96, Network Ten

Best Australian Drama

Winner:

Homicide, Seven Network

Best Teenage Personality

Winner:

Johnny Farnham

Best Australian Comedy

Winner:

The Godfathers

The Godfathers are an alternative rock band from London, England.-Career:The Godfathers were formed by Peter and Chris Coyne from the ashes of The Sid Presley Experience in 1985. After independent single releases produced by Vic Maile, and collected on their debut album, Hit By Hit, they signed to...

, Nine Network

Best Compere

Winner:

Bert Newton

, The Graham Kennedy Show, Nine Network

Best American Show

Winner:

The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...

Best British Show

Winner:

On The Buses

On the Buses was a British situation comedy created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney which was broadcast in the UK from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the Corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential...

Best Commercial

Winner:

Winfield Cigarettes

Best New Drama

Winner:

Number 96, Network Ten

Best Scriptwriter

Winner:

Frank Hardy

Francis Joseph Hardy, or Frank, was an Australian left-wing novelist and writer best known for his controversial novel Power Without Glory. He also was a political activist bringing the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book, The Unlucky...

, Boney, Seven Network

Best Single Performance By An Actress

Winner:

Anna Volska

Anna Volska is an Australian television actress. She arrived in Australia when she was young and has acted from a young age.-Television work:...

, Behind The Legend, ABC

Best Single Performance By An Actor

Winner:

James Laurenson

James Laurenson is a New Zealand actor, who has performed many classical roles on stage and television.Laurenson was born in Marton, New Zealand...

, Boney, Seven Network

Best News Coverage

Winner:

George Street bombings, Greg Grainger, Nine Network news

Best Public Affairs Program

Winner:

A Current Affair, Nine Network

Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism

Winner:

Caroline Jones

Caroline Jones AO is a distinguished Australian television journalist and social commentator.She joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Canberra in 1963 and later became the first female reporter for This Day Tonight, and then the Four Corners presenter from 1973 to 1981...

, ABC

Best Documentary

Winner:

Rod Kinnear, Jane Cooper doco

Best Documentary Series

Winner:

Shell's Australia

Shell Australia

In Australia, Royal Dutch Shell conducts a large range of activities. These include exploration for, and the production and commercialization of, oil and natural gas, the operation of two refineries, 19 terminals and 33 depots for the manufacture and distribution of oil products; and the marketing...

, Seven Network

Outstanding Creative Effort

Winner:

John Power

John Timothy Power is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Liverpool, England. Power achieved commercial success as the bass guitarist and secondary vocalist for The La's from 1986 to 1991, and later as the frontman of Cast during the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s.Following the split...

, Like A Summer Storm, ABC

Contribution To Children's TV

Winner:

Godfrey Philipp

Godfrey Pettersson Philipp was a pioneering producer/director of Australian children's television during the 1960s and 1970s.Born in England in 1937, Philipp had been a child actor before emigrating to Australia...

, Adventure Island, ABC

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 Show

Winner:

The Graham Kennedy Show

The Graham Kennedy Show was an Australian talk show that debuted on 19 September 1972, on the Nine Network.On 23 December 1969, host Graham Kennedy has quit as host of In Melbourne Tonight, exhausted, and rested for two years. In spite of his fame and fortune, he later described that period as...

, Nine Network

New South Wales

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Tony Barber

Anthony "Tony" Ferraro Barber is an Australian game show host and television personality.-Early life:...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Barbara Rogers

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Great Temptation, Seven Network

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Ron Cadee

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Dina Heslop

Most Popular Show

Winner:

I've Got A Secret

I've Got a Secret

I've Got a Secret is a panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. Created by comedy writers Allan Sherman and Howard Merrill, it was a derivative of Goodson-Todman's own panel show What's My Line?...

, 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:

Anne Wills

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Adelaide Tonight

Adelaide Tonight was a nightly variety show, running four days a week at 9.30pm on NWS-9 Adelaide. The show was broadcast live from Studio 1 between 1959 and 1973...

, Nine Network

Tasmania

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Graeme Smith

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Sue Gray

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Smith's Weekly

Smith's Weekly was an Australian tabloid newspaper published from 1919 to 1950. An independent weekly published in Sydney, but read all over Australia, Smith’s Weekly was one of Australia’s most patriotic newspaper-style magazines....

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:

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...

, Seven Network

Special Achievement Awards

George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent

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, Nine Network

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