Logie Awards of 1970 explained

Award:	Logie Awards
Number:	12
Date:	20 March 1970
Site:	Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria
Host:	Bert Newton
Gold:	Barry Crocker
Network:	Nine Network
Last:	11th
Next:	13th

The 12th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 20 March 1970 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. Miss World 1968 winner Penelope Plummer, British television actor Peter Wyngarde and American actors Peter Graves and Robert Young appeared as guests. Peggy Lipton, star of the US series The Mod Squad, was also originally scheduled to appear but cancelled at the last minute due to a severe middle-ear infection. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1970:

Awards

Gold Logie

Awards presented by Robert Young

Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television

Winner: Barry Crocker, Sound Of Music, Nine Network

Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television

Winner: Maggie Tabberer, Maggie, Seven Network

Special Gold Logie

Special Gold Logie For Providing TV's Greatest Moment In Their Moon Telecast

Winner: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

Logie

National

Best Australian Drama Series:

Winner: Division 4, Nine Network

Best Teenage Personality

Winner: Johnny Farnham

Best Australian Musical/Variety Show

Winner: Sound Of Music, Nine Network

Best Australian Documentary

Winner: Chequerboard, ABC

Best Overseas Show

Winner: The Mod Squad

Best Australian Commercial

Winner: Coca-Cola

For Pioneering Australia's First World Championship Boxing Telecast

Winner: Sir Reginald Ansett

Outstanding Contribution To Australian Television

Winner: Hector Crawford

Best Children's Show

Winner: Here's Humphrey, Nine Network

Outstanding Work As Compere

Winner: Bert Newton, In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network

Outstanding Documentary

Winner: Dig a Million, Make a Million, ABC

Best News Reporting

Winner: Steve Raymond, for stories on Marianne Faithfull and a mass teenage funeral at Warren in NSW, Network Ten

Victoria

Best Male Personality

Winner: Mike Preston

Best Female Personality

Winner: Rosemary Margan

Best Local Show

Winner: In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network

New South Wales

Best Male Personality

Winner: Don Lane

Best Female Personality

Winner: Rosemary Eather

Best Local Show

Winner: Tonight Show With Don Lane, Nine Network

South Australia

Best Male Personality

Winner: Ernie Sigley

Best Female Personality

Winner: Anne Wills

Best Local Show

Winner: Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network

Queensland

Best Male Personality

Winner: Ron Cadee

Best Female Personality

Winner: Joy Chambers

Best Local Show

Winner: Dick McCann Show, Network Ten

Tasmania

Best Male Personality

Winner: Lindsay Edwards

Best Female Personality

Winner: Caroline Schmit

Best Local Show

Winner: :It's Just For Us

Western Australia

Best Male Personality

Winner: Garry Meadows

Best Female Personality

Winner: Trina Brown

Best Local Show

Winner: Today Tonight, ABC

Special Achievement Award

George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent

Winner: Jeff Phillips