Logie Awards of 1961 explained

Award:Logie Awards
Number:3
Date:18 March 1961
Site:Chevron-Hilton Hotel, Sydney
Host:Jimmy Edwards
Gold:Bob Dyer
Network:ABN-2 (ABC)
Last:2nd
Next:4th

The 3rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Saturday 18 March 1961 at Chevron-Hilton Hotel in Sydney. Jimmy Edwards from the BBC series Whack-O! was the Master of Ceremonies. The Awards presentation was televised in a half-hour live broadcast on ABN-2, Sydney, with delayed broadcast on ABC stations in other capital cities during the following week.

This was the first year that the awards were known as the Logie Awards, after having been coined by Star of the Year recipient Graham Kennedy the previous year, to honour the Scottish engineer and innovator who contributed to the development of television as a practical medium, John Logie Baird.[1] This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1961:

Awards

Gold Logie

Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
  • Winner:
  • Bob Dyer

    Special Gold Logie

    Best Drama
  • Winner:
  • Stormy Petrel, ABC

    Logie

    National

    Best Actor
  • Winner:
  • Brian James, Stormy Petrel
    Best Variety Show
  • Winner:
  • Revue '61, Director Peter Macfarlane, host Digby Wolfe
    Best Comedians
  • Winner:
  • Bobby Limb and Buster Fiddess
    Best Singer
  • Winner:
  • Elaine McKenna
    Best Australian Drama
  • Winner:
  • Shadow of a Pale Horse, ATN-7
    Best Sporting Coverage
  • Winner:
  • The Davis Cup, ABC

    Victoria

    Most Popular Male
  • Winner:
  • Graham Kennedy
    Most Popular Female
  • Winner:
    Panda Lisner Most Popular Program
  • Winner:
  • In Melbourne Tonight, GTV-9

    New South Wales

    Most Popular Male
  • Winner:
  • Digby Wolfe
    Most Popular Female
  • Winner:
  • Tanya Halesworth
    Most Popular Program
  • Winner:
  • Bobby Limb Show, TCN-9

    South Australia

    Most Popular Male
  • Winner:
  • Ian Fairweather
    Most Popular Female
  • Winner:
  • Maree Tomasetti
    Most Popular Program
  • Winner:
  • Adelaide Tonight, NWS-9

    Queensland

    Most Popular Male
  • Winner:
  • Brian Tait
    Most Popular Female
  • Winner:
  • Nancy Knudsen
    Most Popular Program
  • Winner:
  • The Late Show, BTQ-7

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent . ninemsn.com.au . https://web.archive.org/web/20090831090951/http://tvweek.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=82051. 31 August 2009.

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