The Bert Newton Show

1959 Australian TV series or program

The Bert Newton Show

Also known as| Hi-Fi Club
Genre|

* Variety
* Music television

Presented by| Bert Newton
Country of origin| Australia
Original language| English
Original release
Network| GTV-9
Release| 1959 (1959) –
1960 (1960)

The Bert Newton Show was an Australian television series which aired from 1959 to 1960. Aired at 6:30PM Saturdays on Melbourne station GTV-9, it was aimed at teenagers and featured acts lip-syncing their songs.

It competed with the popular ABC series Six O'Clock Rock and HSV-7's Swallow's Juniors.[1] It was preceded on GTV's line-up by Laurel and Hardy and followed by Pick a Box. In 1960, it moved to Thursdays and became Hi-Fi Club, running for several more months.

## Episode status

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An excerpt of Hi-Fi Club (which looks like a kinescoped film transfer of a video-tape or vice versa) appears on YouTube[2] suggesting that episode or episodes are still extant, although exactly how much footage still exists is unknown. An episode under the title The Bert Newton Show is held by the National Film and Sound Archive[3]

## References

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1. ^ "Saturday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. Melbourne. 14 January 1960. p. 7. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
2. ^ Australian Television Archive (31 October 2021). BERT NEWTON – THE HIFI CLUB (GTV9) (Television extract). Retrieved 25 February 2023 - via YouTube.
3. ^ "THE BERT NEWTON SHOW. NO. 42". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 25 February 2023.

## External links

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* The Bert Newton Show at IMDb