The 21st 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 March 1979 at Hilton 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 boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist...

, film stars Henry Silva and Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson is an American actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for her Oscar-nominated role in the film Sounder and the television movies The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots....

, television actors Robin Williams

Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...

, Susan Seaforth, Bill Hayes and Lauren Tewes

Lauren Tewes

Cynthia Lauren Tewes ,known simply as Lauren Tewes,is an American actress best known for playing Cruise Director Julie McCoy on the sitcom The Love Boat beating out over 100 other actresses for the role...

, British actor David Hemmings

David Hemmings

David Edward Leslie Hemmings was an English film, theatre and television actor as well as a film and television director and producer....

 and television actors Yootha Joyce

Yootha Joyce

Yootha Joyce was an English actress, best known for playing Mildred Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred.-Early life:...

 and Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy (actor)

Brian Murphy is a British actor.Murphy was born in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Although a prolific actor in many films and theatre productions for almost half a century, Murphy's most famous role was as the henpecked husband George Roper in the sitcom Man About the House and spin-off George and...

 appeared as guests.

Gold Logie

Most Popular Personality on Australian Television

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 Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist...

Winner:

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...

, The Don Lane Show, Nine Network

Silver Logies

Most Popular Lead Actor on Australian Television

Winner:

Paul Cronin

Paul Cronin

Paul Cronin is an Australian actor who has played iconic roles in the Australian television series Matlock Police and The Sullivans.-Personal Life:...

, The Sullivans, Nine Network

Most Popular Lead Actress on Australian Television

Winner:

Lorraine Bayly

Lorraine Bayly

Lorraine Daphne Bayly AM is an Australian actress.She is best known to television audiences for her portrayal of Grace Sullivan, the dignified, warm-hearted mother figure in the drama series The Sullivans 1976-1979, dealing with life for an ordinary Australian family during the Second World...

, The Sullivans, Nine Network

National

Most Popular Drama Series

Winner:

The Sullivans

The Sullivans

The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-classMelbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives...

, Nine Network

Best New Talent In Australia

Winner:

Jon English

Jon English

Jonathan James "Jon" English is an Australian rock singer, musician, actor and writer. English emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1961...

, Against The Wind, Seven Network

Nominated

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Most Popular Australian TV Teenage Personality

Winner:

John Paul Young

John Paul Young

John Paul Young is an Australian pop singer who had a 1978 worldwide hit with "Love Is in the Air"...

Most Popular Australian Variety Or Panel Show

Winner:

The Don Lane Show, Nine Network

Most Popular Comedy Show

Winner:

The Paul Hogan Show

The Paul Hogan Show

The Paul Hogan Show was a popular Australian comedy show which aired on Australian television from 1973 until 1984. It made a star of Paul Hogan who later appeared in Crocodile Dundee. Hogan's friend also appeared in the show, playing Hogan's dim flatmate Strop...

, Nine Network

Best Performormance By An Actor In A Major Role

Winner:

John Meillon

John Meillon

John Meillon was an Australian actor, most widely known outside Australia for his role as Walter Reilly in the films "Crocodile" Dundee and "Crocodile" Dundee II. He also voiced Victoria Bitter beer commercials until his death.-Biography:Meillon was born in Mosman, Sydney...

, Bit Part, ABC

Best Performance By An Actress In A Major Role

Winner:

Kerry McGuire, Against The Wind, Seven Network

Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role

Winner:

Peter Adams

Peter Adams (actor)

Peter John Adams was a New Zealand-born actor, best remembered for his performances in Australian television.-Early life:Born in Karanarunui, New Zealand, Adams later emigrated to Australia...

, Cop Shop

Cop Shop

Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station....

, Seven Network

Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role

Winner:

Chantal Contouri

Chantal Contouri

Chantal Contouri is an Australian actress.Contouri has had starring roles in Australian films and played guest and recurring roles in various television series. Television roles including nurse Tracey Wilson in the soap opera Number 96 in 1974–1975...

, The Sullivans, Nine Network

Best New Drama

Winner:

Against The Wind

Against the Wind (TV series)

Against the Wind was a 1978 Australian television mini-series.It is a historical drama portraying both the British rule of Ireland, and the development of New South Wales and Australia...

, Seven Network

Best Television Script

Winner:

Michael Aitkens

Michael Aitkens

Michael Aitkens is a British writer of drama scripts for movies, television, and the traditional stage. He is well known in the UK for the BAFTA nominated BBC situation comedy Waiting for God, first shown in 1990. He has written for many of the UK's favourite drama and comedy series.Michael...

, Neutral Ground

Best Miniseries/Telemovie

Winner:

Bit Part

Bit part

A bit part is a supporting acting role with at least one line of dialogue . In British television, bit parts are referred to as under sixes...

, ABC

Best News Report

Winner:

Bank siege and chase, Nine Network News

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...

TV Reporter Of The Year

Winner:

Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett

William Richards Bennett, PC, OBC , commonly known as Bill Bennett, was the 27th Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia 1975–1986. He is a son of the former Premier, W. A. C. Bennett. He was a 3rd cousin, twice removed, of R.B...

, Willesee at Seven, Seven Network

Best Documentary Series

Winner:

A Big Country, ABC

Best Single Documentary

Winner:

The Last Tasmanian, Network Ten

Outstanding Coverage Of A Sports Event

Winner:

Bathurst Hardie Ferodo motor race

1978 Hardie-Ferodo 1000

The 1978 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 was the 19th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. It was held on October 1, 1978 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst...

, Seven Network

Best Sports Report/Documentary

Winner:

Surfabout

Surfabout

Surfabout was a surfing competition held annually in Sydney, Australia between 1974 and 1991. It was sponsored by Coca Cola and radio station 2SM and hence called the Coke Surfabout or the Coke/2SM Surfabout...

, Nine Network

Best Performance By A Juvenile

Winner:

Warwick Poulsen, Because He's My Friend, ABC

Outstanding Contribution To Children's TV

Winner:

Rainbow

Rainbow (TV series)

Rainbow is a British children's television series, created by Pamela Lonsdale, which ran twice weekly at 12:10 on Tuesdays and Fridays on the ITV network, from 16 October 1972 to 6 March 1992...

Outstanding Contribution To Community Service

Winner:

"Have A Go" campaign, Network Ten

Outstanding Contribution By A Regional Station

Winner:

Goin' Down The Road

Goin' Down the Road

Goin' Down the Road is a 1970 Canadian film directed by Donald Shebib and released in 1970. It chronicles the lives of two men from the Maritimes who move to Toronto in order to find a better life. It starred Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin...

, CBN8 Orange

Victoria

Most Popular Male

Winner:

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...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Mary Hardy

Most Popular Show

Winner:

The Don Lane Show, Nine Network

New South Wales

Most Popular Male

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....

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Noeline Brown

Noeline Brown

Noeline Brown is an Australian actor and comedian. She has appeared in many films, television shows, plays and radio programs....

Most Popular Show

Winner:

The Mike Walsh Show

The Mike Walsh Show

The Mike Walsh Show is an Australian daytime television series. Hosted by Mike Walsh, the show ran from 1973 to 1984 for 90 minutes each weekday afternoon. The program was launched on the 0-10 Network and moved to the Nine Network in 1977...

, Nine Network

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Paul Griffin

Paul Griffin

Paul Griffin may refer to:* Paul Griffin * Paul Griffin * Paul Griffin * Paul Griffin...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Jacki MacDonald

Jacki MacDonald

Jacki MacDonald is a former Australian television personality.-Career:...

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Country Homestead, Nine Network

South Australia

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Ernie Sigley

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 Tamblyn

Most Popular Show

Winner:

The Ernie Sigley Show, Nine Network

Tasmania

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Jim Cox

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Kerry Smith

Kerry Smith

Kerry Lois Smith was a New Zealand actor and broadcaster. She was a presenter on the radio station The Breeze from 2006 to 2011. She was also a presenter for Radio Pacific and Radio Live. On television she was known for her role as "Magda" in the 1980s drama series Gloss...

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Saturday Night Show, TNT-9

Western Australia

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Terry Willesee

Terry Willesee

Terry Willesee is an Australian journalist and television presenter.-Biography:Willesee is the son of Don Willesee, a long-time member of the Australian Senate and Whitlam Government minister. He is the brother of Mike Willesee, also a journalist and television presenter.-Media career:Willesee...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Stephanie Quinlan

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Channel Nine News, STW9

External links

• Australian Television: 1978-1981 Logie Awards
• TV Week Logie Awards: 1979