Swallows Parade

Swallows Parade was an Australian television series, for which there is little information on the Internet. Hosted by Doug Elliot aired on Melbourne station HSV-7 (early Australian series often aired on a single station as opposed to being networked), and is described as being a talent show, and is notable as one of the first such shows produced for Australian television. It was based on a radio series.

Broadcasting

It aired at 8:30PM on Saturdays during 1957. During this period, the same station broadcast another, longer-lived talent show, titled Stairway to the Stars,[1] which ran from 1956[2] to 1958.

Although HSV-7 was likely making at least some use of kinescope recording by 1957 (it being the method used to record live television prior to the introduction of video-tape to Australia), it is not known if any such recordings of exist of Swallows Parade or Stairway to the Stars. A later Swallow's-sponsored talent contest, a special from 1959 that was hosted by Bert Newton, exists as a 16mm kinescope recording.[3]

References

  1. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g0kRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KZUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3840,1012960&dq=channel-7+surprise-packet&hl=en
  2. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mlBVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1914,2934379&dq=channel-7+stairway-to-the-stars&hl=en
  3. ↑ http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=no;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Swallow's%20Parade%20Media%3A%22TELEVISION%22;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10

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