Sydney Tonight
Sydney Tonight was an Australian television variety series which aired from December 1956 to early 1959 on Sydney station ATN-7. Originally compered by Keith Walshe, it was later hosted by Roy Hampson and re-titled Tonight. The series featured a format including guests, interviews, audience participation, and music.[1] Like In Melbourne Tonight, which came later, it was patterned on groundbreaking U.S. series Tonight Starring Steve Allen.
In October 1958, station ATN-7 experimented by using video-tape recordings of Sydney Tonight segments as part of their morning line-up. Reviewing the morning line-up, Nan Musgrove of Australian Women's Weekly criticised the use of the Sydney Tonight segments, saying that "I may be perculiar, but ladies in full warpaint and baretopped evening dresses at 7:30 a.m. wiggling their way through seductive songs are not my favorite breakfast entertainment",[2] though the reviewer had more positive feelings towards the other morning offerings, soap opera Autumn Affair and music series The Toppanos.
A kinescope of a 1958 episode of the series is held by the National Film and Sound Archive.[3]
References
- ^ http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/47507872
- ^ http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/47212543
- ^ http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=no;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=46;parentid=;query=Sydney%20Tonight%20Media%3A%22TELEVISION%22;querytype=;rec=7;resCount=10