The Great Outdoors

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The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors Logo.PNG
Genre Travel Magazine
Presented by Ernie Dingo
Tom Williams
Jennifer Hawkins
Country of origin  Australia
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 17
No. of episodes 640 (as of August 15, 2009)
Production
Running time 60 minutes (Including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel Seven Network
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Audio format Stereo
Original run February 5, 1993 – present
External links
Official website
For the 1988 film, see The Great Outdoors (1988 film). "The Great Outdoors" is also a British hillwalking magazine.

The Great Outdoors is an Australian travel magazine series broadcast on the Seven Network.

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[edit] History

Similar to its competitors Getaway and So Many Worlds, the program features a team of reporters who travel around Australia and overseas, reporting on travel destinations, tourist attractions and accommodation.

The program premiered on 5 February 1993 in a 30 minute format and was broadcast on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 pm. In 2002, the show was expanded to 60 minutes and moved to the Monday 7:30 pm timeslot, where it had stayed until 2006.

After suffering a gradual decline in ratings over the past few years, the show moved to a new timeslot of 6:30 pm Saturdays from the 2007 season. On 28 April 2007, the show celebrated 600 episodes,[1] making it one of the longest running programs on Australian television. (Repeat episodes from 2002 onwards are currently shown on Seven HD during weekday afternoons.)

The seventeenth series of The Great Outdoors is set to return on Saturday 15th August 2009 at 6.30pm on Seven with brand new episodes.[2]

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[edit] Current presenters

The current presenters on the show are:

[edit] Former presenters

Jennifer Hawkins on The Great Outdoors

Previous presenters on the show include:

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