TV Week Logie Awards | The Greatest Australian TV Shows of the Last 70 Years – On the 16th September 1956, Bruce Gyngell declared “good evening, and welcome to television” to people at home, others watching from outside shop windows and in crowded club halls.
70 years on, and Australian television remains at the heartbeat of Australian life, reflecting who we are, making us laugh and cry, and giving us characters and stories that have shaped our culture, language and collective identity.
The TV WEEK Logie Awards are calling on the nation to determine the Top 70 shows from the last seven decades to celebrate this momentous milestone.
The public can vote from groundbreaking dramas to iconic comedies, beloved soap operas to game-changing reality television. Australian screens have produced some of the world’s finest programming, and now it is the public’s chance to decide which shows deserve to stand above the rest.
TV WEEK Editor Amber Giles said,
“Our Top 70 Australian TV shows of the Last 70 years poll is a once-in-a-generation celebration of the medium that has shaped our national identity. We want to hear from as many die-hard TV fans as possible to help us settle, once and for all, exactly what shows deserve to make the cut, as judged by the ultimate critics: the viewers at home.”
The results of the greatest Australian TV shows of the last 70 years will be celebrated at TV’s night of nights, the TV WEEK Logie Awards, live and exclusive on Seven and 7plus Sunday, 16 August.
Voting is now open and closes Sunday 21 June at 5pm AEST. Fans can also add any shows not shortlisted.
The TV WEEK Logie Awards are proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW.
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TV Week Logie Awards | The Greatest Australian TV Shows of the Last 70 Years
TV WEEK Logie Awards 70 Years of TV Shortlist
- A Place To Call Home
- Acropolis Now
- Agro’s Cartoon Connection
- Alone Australia
- All Saints
- All the Rivers Run
- All Together Now
- Always Greener
- ANZAC Girls
- ANZACs
- Assembly, The
- Aunty Jack Show
- Australian Idol
- Australian Story
- Australian Survivor
- Bangkok Hilton
- Bandstand
- Bananas In Pajamas
- Better Homes and Gardens
- Beyond 2000
- Big Brother
- Big Country
- Blankety Blanks
- Blinky Bill
- Blue Heelers
- Blue Murder
- Bluey
- Block, The
- Bodyline
- Bondi Rescue
- Brides of Christ
- Burgo’s Catchphrase
- cloudstreet
- Colin from Accounts
- Comedy Company
- Cop Shop
- Countdown
- Country Practice
- Current Affair
- D-Generation
- Doctor Doctor
- Don Lane Show
- E Street
- Enough Rope
- Ernie Sigley Show
- Family Next Door, The
- Farmer Wants a Wife
- Fast Forward
- Fisk
- Flying Doctors
- Four Corners
- Frontline
- Full Frontal
- Gardening Australia
- G.P.
- Games, The
- Good Morning Australia
- Gogglebox Australia
- Graham Kennedy Show
- Gruen
- Halifax f.p.
- Hard Quiz
- Have You Been Paying Attention?
- Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year
- Heartbreak High
- Here’s Humphrey
- Henderson Kids, The
- Homicide
- Home and Away
- House Husbands
- In Melbourne Tonight
- Jack Irish
- Janet King
- Kath & Kim
- Kingswood Country
- Last King of the Cross
- Lateline
- Lego Masters
- Lift Off
- Living Room, The
- Love Child
- Love My Way
- Man from Snowy River
- Married at First Sight (MAFS)
- MasterChef
- Matlock Police
- Mavis Bramston Show
- McLeod’s Daughters
- Media Watch
- Midday
- Mike Walsh Show
- Millionaire (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire)
- Mr Inbetween
- Mr Squiggle and Friends
- Mother And Son
- Mornings with Kerri-Anne
- My Kitchen Rules
- Mystery Road
- NCIS: Sydney
- Neighbours
- Norman Gunston Show
- Number 96
- Offspring
- Packed to the Rafters
- Panel, The
- Paul Hogan Show
- Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door
- Play School
- Police Rescue
- Price Is Right
- Prisoner
- Project, The
- Puberty Blues
- Rage
- Rake
- Redfern Now
- RFDS
- Rockwiz
- Rosehaven
- Round the Twist
- Rove Live
- Romper Room
- Rush
- Russell Coights All Aussie Adventures
- Sale of the Century
- SeaChange
- Secret Life of Us
- 7.30 Report
- Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
- 60 Minutes
- Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
- Slap, The
- Sons and Daughters
- Stingers
- Sullivans, The
- Sylvania Waters
- Tangle
- Thank God You’re Here
- Today Tonight
- Total Control
- Travel Guides
- Twelve, The
- Underbelly
- Underbelly Files: Chopper
- Water Rats
- We Can Be Heroes
- Wentworth
- Wheel of Fortune
- Wiggles, The
- Wombat
- Young Doctors
- Young Talent Time
