Picture Page (Australian TV series) explained

Genre:News magazine
Presenter:Valerie Cooney
Country:Australia
Language:English
Runtime:30 minutes
Network:ABC Television

Picture Page was an early Australian television series which aired from 1956 to 1957 on ABC. It was hosted by Valerie Cooney.

The half-hour prime-time series was of a magazine format. In the 19 April 1957 episode, the program presented Donald McMichael, curator of shells in the Australian Museum, who showed shell specimens.[1] The 9 August 1957 edition featured Pat Spencer, a vocalist, along with "leading Sydney models".[2]

R. C. Packer in the magazine The Australian Women's Weekly gave the show a positive review, saying "it has an off-beat attractiveness".[3]

Aired live in Sydney, by some point in 1957 the series was aired in Melbourne via telerecordings,[4] also known as kinescope recordings. It is not known if any of these 16mm film recordings still exist.

Notes and References

  1. News: 1957-04-18 . Friday Television . 6 . . Radio/TV Supplement . 2013-05-13.
  2. News: 1957-08-08 . Friday Television . 6 . . Radio/TV Supplement . 2013-05-13.
  3. News: 1957-01-02 . Television Parade . 24 . 20 . . 31 . Australia . 2013-06-26 . National Library of Australia.
  4. News: 1957-08-01 . Friday Television . 6 . . Radio/TV Supplement . 2013-05-13.