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Showtime (Australian TV series)

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Showtime
GenreVariety
StarringTed Preston
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Original release
NetworkABC Television
Release1959 (1959) –
1960 (1960)

Showtime is an Australian television series which aired on ABC Television from 1959 to 1960. It was a short-lived variety series which featured pianist Ted Preston and other performers. It aired live in Melbourne. It is shown in a 1959 television schedule as airing at 9:00PM, aired against Whitehall Playhouse on HSV-7 (consisting of selections from various American anthology series) and U.S. series The Loretta Young Show on GTV-9 (also an anthology series).[1] It is not known if any of the episodes survive as kinescopes.

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  1. ^ "Monday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. 3 December 1959. p. 9. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
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