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The 14th 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 8 March 1974 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...

. 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....

. Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptress. She was one of the most popular European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was also an iconic sex symbol of the 1950s. Today, she remains an active supporter of Italian and Italian American causes, particularly the...

and American television actors Tige Andrews

Tige Andrews

Tige Andrews was an American character actor. His work includes the role of Captain Adam Greer on the late 1960s-to-early 1970s television series The Mod Squad and Detective Lt...

, David Cassidy

David Cassidy

David Bruce Cassidy is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his role as the character of Keith Partridge in the 1970s musical/sitcom The Partridge Family. He was one of pop culture's most celebrated teen idols, enjoying a successful pop career in the 1970s, and...

and Macdonald Carey

Macdonald Carey

Edward Macdonald Carey was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives...

appeared as guests.

Gold Logie

Awards presented by Gina Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida

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:...

, The Graham Kennedy Show, Nine Network

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:

Pat McDonald, Number 96, Network Ten

Special Gold Logie In Recognition Of Their Contribution To Australian TV

Winner:

Bob

Bob Dyer

Robert "Bob" Dies OBE , who took the stage name of Bob Dyer, was an American-born vaudeville entertainer, radio personality, and radio and television quiz show host who made his name in Australia. Dyer is best known for the long-running radio and then television quiz show, Pick a Box...

and Dolly Dyer

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, Seven Network

National

Best Australian Actor

Winner:

Leonard Teale

Leonard Teale AO , born Leonard George Thiele in Brisbane, was a well-known Australian actor of radio, television and films....

, Homicide, Seven Network

Best Australian Actress

Winner:

Pat McDonald, Number 96, Network Ten

Best Australian Drama

Winner:

Number 96, Network Ten

Best Teenage Personality

Winner:

Debbie Byrne, Young Talent Time, Network Ten

Best Australian Comedy

Winner:

The Aunty Jack Show

The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie Award–winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. Produced by and broadcast on ABC-TV, the series attained an instant cult status that persists to the present day....

, ABC

Best Australian Music/Variety Show

Winner:

Young Talent Time

Young Talent Time is an Australian television variety program screened on Network Ten, running from 1971 until 1988. The series features a core group of young performers in the vein of The Mickey Mouse Club, and a weekly junior talent quest. The "Young Talent Team" regularly performed popular...

, Network Ten

Best Australian 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:

The Benny Hill Show

The Benny Hill Show is a British comedy television show starring Benny Hill.There were various incarnations of the show between 1951 and 1991, and it aired in over 140 countries. The show is generally sketch-based with heavy use of slapstick, mime, parody and double-entendre...

Best Australian Commercial

Winner:

Kingford Cigarettes

Best New Drama

Winner:

Seven Little Australians

Seven Little Australians is a classic Australian children's novel by Ethel Turner. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father Captain Woolcot and flighty stepmother Esther.In 1994 the novel was the only book by an...

, ABC

Best Script

Winner:

Fred Cullen, Homicide, Seven Network

Best News Coverage

Winner:

Balsa rafts Chile/Australia trip
Las Balsas
The 1973 Las Balsas expedition was the first multiple-raft crossing of the Pacific Ocean in recent history. It is the longest-known raft voyage in history....

(Ian Leslie

Ian Leslie

Ian Leslie OAM is an Australian television journalist and corporate communicator. He is best known for his 12 years as a member of the original team on 60 Minutes.-Biography:...

, Network Ten News)

Best Public Affairs Program

Winner:

A Current Affair, Nine Network

Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism

Winner:

Steve Raymond, A Current Affair, Nine Network

Outstanding Single Acting Performance

Winner:

Fred Cullen, Homicide, Seven Network

Outstanding Contribution To TV Comedy Writing

Winner:

Fred Parsons

Best Single Documentary

Winner:

Escape To Singapore, John Power, ABC

Best Documentary Series

Winner:

Wild Australia, ABC

Outstanding Creative Effort

Winner:

Gordon French, Tommy, Seven Network

Outstanding Contribution To Daytime TV

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, Network Ten

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:

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:

Marilyn Mayo

Most Popular Show

Winner:

The Don Lane Show, 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

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Ron Cadee

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Dina Heslop

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Studio 9, Nine Network

Tasmania

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Trevor Sutton

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Jill Morrell

Jill Morrell was the girlfriend of John McCarthy, and was a tireless and effective campaigner for his release from kidnappers who held him in Lebanon for more than 5 years...

Most Popular Show

Winner:

This Week

This Week is the name of a number of television and radio programmes:* This Week , a Sunday morning political talk show broadcast on ABC in the United States...

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:

Stars Of The Future, Seven Network

Special Achievement Award

George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent

Winner:

Elizabeth Alexander, Seven Little Australians, ABC

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