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The 5th 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 Saturday 23 March 1963 at the Gallileo Liner in Sydney 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...

. Tony Hancock

Tony Hancock

Anthony John "Tony" Hancock was an English actor and comedian.-Early life and career:Hancock was born in Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, England, but from the age of three was brought up in Bournemouth, where his father, John Hancock, who ran the Railway Hotel in...

and Marie McDonald

Marie McDonald

Marie McDonald was an American singer and actress known as "The Body Beautiful" and later nicknamed "The Body".- Early life :...

were guest presenters. 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 1963:

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:

Michael Charlton

Michael Charlton is an Australian-born journalist and broadcaster who was long active for the BBC in the United Kingdom....

National

Best Actor

Winner:

Syd Conabere, The One Day of the Year

Best Overseas Series

Winner:

Ben Casey

Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, *, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph...

Best Drama

Winner:

The One Day of the Year, Nine Network

Best Youth Entertainment

Winner:

Johnny O'Keefe

John Michael O'Keefe, known as Johnny O'Keefe was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the 1950s. Some of his hits include "Wild One" , "Shout!" and "She's My Baby"...

Best Male Singer

Winner:

Lionel Long

Lionel Joaquin Paul Long, OAM was an Australian country, Western, folk singer and a television actor.Long became one of Australia's most successful and talented country/western/folk artists in the 1960s, recognised as one of EMI's most popular and successful artists releasing over a dozen LPs...

Best Female Singer

Winner:

Judy Stone

Judy Stone is an Australian pop singer from Sydney, who came to national prominence in the early 1960s through her regular TV appearances on the Australian pop music show Brian Henderson's Bandstand and her many hit records...

Best Commercial

Winner:

Craven A

Craven "A" is a brand of cigarette which were made in Canada, Jamaica, Vietnam, and North Korea. The cigarettes exhibit the English-style flavor of a Virginia-tobacco dominant blend, with that plant's attendant nutty sweetness. The cigarette was named after the third Earl of Craven in 1860.Craven...

Outstanding Achievement

Winner:

Joan Sutherland Spectacular

Outstanding Contribution to Children's Entertainment

Winner:

Happy Hammond

Harry "Happy" Hammond was an Australian comedian and children's show host.Happy was famous for his bright personality and wearing a tartan suit and hat, sometimes referred to as his "test pattern" outfit, that clashed awfully in real life but worked well on black and white TV...

Enterprising Programming (country stations only)

Winner:

NBN3, Newcastle

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:

Panda Lisner

Most Popular Program

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....

, GTV

New South Wales

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Chuck Faulkner

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Diana Ward

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Startime, ATN

South Australia

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Lionel Williams

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Angela Stacey

Most Popular Program

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...

, NWS

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Winner:

George Wallace Jnr.

George Wallace (Australian comedian)

George Wallace , was an Australian comedian, vaudevillian and film star. He was one of the most famous and successful Australian comedians on stage and screen in the twentieth century.-History:...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Jackie Ellison

Most Popular Program

Winner:

Theatre Royal, BTQ

Special Achievement Award

Special Achievement Award for Comedy

Winner:

Dawn Lake

Dawn Lake was an Australian television comedian, singer, entertainer and actor, whose career spanned more than four decades. Bert Newton described her as "our greatest comedienne - Australia's Lucille Ball"...

and Bobby Limb

Bobby Limb

Bobby Limb AO OBE was an Australian pioneering radio and television entertainer of the 1960s and 1970s.-Career:...

Special Achievement Award for Dancing

Winner:

Carlu Carter and Bill McGrath

Special Achievement Award for Variety

Winner:

Lorrae Desmond Show, ABC

Special Achievement Award

Winner:

Tommy Hanlon, Jr., It Could Be You

Special Achievement Award

Winner:

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...

, Jack Davey Special

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