Hillbilly Requests

1957 Australian TV series or program

Hillbilly Requests

Genre| Music/variety
Presented by| Tom Campbell
Country of origin| Australia
Original language| English
Production
Running time| 25 minutes
Original release
Release| 1957 (1957) –
1958 (1958)

Hillbilly Requests (originally Hillbilly Request Time) was an Australian television series, which ran from 1957 to 1958 on Melbourne station GTV-9. Representing an early effort at music/variety programming by the station, it was hosted by Tom Campbell[1] and each episode featured the Victoria Banjo Club. The program had an unusual running time of 25 minutes as opposed to the usual 30 minutes. Originally aired at 6:30PM, it spent most of its run at 6:15PM, running to 6:40PM, preceded by the Happy Show and followed by the evening newscast with Eric Pearce. The archival status of the series is not known.

## References

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1. ^ "Monday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. 5 September 1957. p. 9. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

## External links

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* Hillbilly Requests at IMDb

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