Logie Awards of 1976 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 11th 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 12 March 1976 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...

from the Nine Network 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 Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin was an American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6' 2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou , he landed more...

, television actors Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler

Henry Franklin Winkler, OBE is an American actor, director, producer, and author.Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days...

, Martin Milner

Martin Milner

Martin Sam Milner is an American actor best known for his performances in two popular television series, Adam-12 and Route 66....

and Arte Johnson

Arte Johnson

Arthur Stanton Eric "Arte" Johnson is an American comic actor. Johnson was a regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. His best-remembered "character" was that of a German soldier with the catchphrase: "Verrrry interesting, but...['stupid', 'not very funny', and other variations]".-Early life:Johnson...

, and British actors Gordon Jackson

Gordon Jackson

Gordon Jackson is the name of:*Gordon Jackson , Scottish actor*Gordon Jackson , Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Govan, 1999–2007*Gordon Jackson , Australian businessman...

and Susannah York

Susannah York

Susannah York was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival...

appeared as guests.

Gold Logie

Awards presented by Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin

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:

Norman Gunston

Norman Gunston was a satirical TV character performed by Australian actor and comedian Garry McDonald. Norman Gunston was primarily well known in his native Australia, and to a lesser extent, the United States during the mid to late 1970s.- Early years :...

(Garry McDonald), The Norman Gunston Show, Seven Network ¹

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:

Denise Drysdale

Denise Anne Christina Drysdale, is an Australian television personality and comedian. She is often affectionately called Ding-Dong.-Childhood:...

, The Ernie Sigley Show, Nine Network

National

Best Australian Actor

Winner:

Paul Karo

Paul Karo is an Australian actor, best known for his role as Lee Whiteman in the 1970s television soap opera The Box.Other TV credits include: Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, Prisoner, The Sullivans, Special Squad, Phoenix and SeaChange.-External links:...

, The Box, Network Ten

Best Australian Actress

Winner:

Pat McDonald, Number 96, Network Ten

Best Australian Drama

Winner:

Number 96, Network Ten

Best Australian Teenage Personality

Winner:

John Paul Young

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

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 Commercial

Winner:

Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam is a common national personification of the American government originally used during the War of 1812. He is depicted as a stern elderly man with white hair and a goatee beard...

Best Individual Performance By An Actor

Winner:

Chris Haywood

Chris Haywood is an English-born, Australian-based film and television actor/producer.-Early life:Haywood was born in Billericay, Essex, England. He spent his early childhood in Chelmsford before moving to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire where he attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from...

, Essington
Essington
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, ABC

Best Individual Performance By An Actress

Winner:

Maggie Millar

Maggie Millar is an Australian actress, best known for her TV appearances as Marie Winter in Prisoner, Elizabeth Bradley in The Sullivans and Rosie Hoyland in Neighbours.-External links:*...

, Homicide
Homicide
Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...

, Seven Network

Best New Drama

Winner:

Cash and Company

Cash and Company was an Australian television period adventure series, set during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s. The original series consisted of 13 one hour episodes, filmed in colour and on location in rural Victoria....

, Seven Network

Best Script

Winner:

Thomas Keneally

Thomas Michael Keneally, AO is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor...

, Essington, ABC

Best Single Episode In A Series

Winner:

"Little Raver", Division 4
Division 4
Division 4 was an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 300 episodes....

, Nine Network

Best News Report

Winner:

Timor report

Indonesian occupation of East Timor

Indonesia occupied East Timor from December 1975 to October 1999. After centuries of Portuguese colonial rule in East Timor, a 1974 coup in Portugal led to decolonization among its former colonies, creating instability in East Timor and leaving its future uncertain...

, Gerald Stone

Gerald Stone

Gerald Louis Stone is an American-born Australian television and radio journalist, television executive and author.-Early years:Raised in Columbus, Ohio, Stone graduated in political science from Cornell University and in 1957 started work as a copy boy for the New York Times.In 1962 he emigrated...

, Nine Network

Best Public Affairs Program

Winner:

A Current Affair, Nine Network

Best TV Interviewer

Winner:

Michael Schildberger

Michael Julius Schildberger was an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter, and author. He is best known for hosting A Current Affair in the 1970s.-Career:...

, A Current Affair, Nine Network

Best News Documentary

Winner:

Of Course I Love Jim Cairns, Nine Network

Best Single Documentary

Winner:

You Just Don't Realise, Network Ten

Best Documentary Series

Winner:

A Big Country, ABC

For Faith And Continuing Investment In Australian Drama

Winner:

Hector Crawford

Best Teenage Television

Winner:

Countdown, ABC

Outstanding Performance By A Juvenile

Winner:

Jacqui Lochhead, Matlock Police
Matlock Police
Matlock Police was an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network between 1971 and 1975....

Outstanding Contribution By A Regional Station

Winner:

The World Of Jesus Christ Superstar, NBN3 Newcastle

Victoria

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:

Denise Drysdale

Denise Anne Christina Drysdale, is an Australian television personality and comedian. She is often affectionately called Ding-Dong.-Childhood:...

Most Popular Show

Winner:

The Ernie Sigley 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:

Jeanne Little

Jeanne Little is an Australian entertainer and TV personality.-Biography:Little was born in Sydney, New South Wales. Little made her television debut on Network Ten's Mike Walsh Show in September 1974...

Most Popular Show

Winner:

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...

, Network Ten

South Australia

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Sandy Roberts

Sandy Roberts is the weeknight sports presenter of Seven News Melbourne.Roberts grew up on a sheep farm in Lucindale, South Australia. After completing school he moved to Adelaide where he worked as a sports writer for the Adelaide Advertiser...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Winnie Pelz

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Sound Unlimited

Sound Unlimited, formerly known as Sound Unlimited Posse and Westside Posse, was an Australian hip hop group from Sydney, New South Wales and the first Australian hip hop act signed to a major label during the 1990s...

, Seven Network

Queensland

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Paul Sharratt

Paul William Sharratt was an English born entertainer and TV personality, who spent the majority of his life in Australia.-Early years:...

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Jacki MacDonald

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

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Studio 9, Nine Network

Tasmania

Most Popular Male

Winner:

Tom Payne

Tom Payne (newsreader)

Tom Payne was a newsreader in Tasmania.He presented the TVT-6 evening news bulletins from 1971 until 2000....

Most Popular Female

Winner:

Margaret Anne Ford

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:

Marie Van Maaren

Most Popular Show

Winner:

Stars Of The Future, Seven Network

Special Achievement Award

George Wallace Memorial Award For Best New Talent

Winner:

Norman Gunston

(Garry McDonald), The Norman Gunston Show, Seven Network

Footnotes

¹This is the first and only time to date a fictional character

Fictional character

A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

has won a Logie.

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