Australia's Amateur Hour (1957)

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Australia

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How it feels

This is a talent competition series where amateur performers try out in front of a live audience. It started on radio and later had a short-lived TV version. Contestants audition for a chance to perform and be judged.

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What happens

Australia's Amateur Hour is a talent quest, broadcast on Australian AM radio from 1940 to 1958, and a television spinoff, which ran for less than a year, 1957–1958. The radio program began on Sydney's 2UW, compered by Harry Dearth, followed by Dick Fair, who developed it into Australia's most popular Sunday program, each week selecting ten contestants from around 100 hopefuls. From 24 August 1950 the show was broadcast on 2GB, produced and compered by Terry Dear. It was a popular, long-running, program on which many performers appeared. The television version was also compered by Terry Dear, running from August 1957 to February 1958 on Sydney's TCN-9 and Melbourne's HSV-7. The success of the radio version didn't translate to its television cousin, which closed after only seven months, the radio version following shortly after. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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