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The Bert Newton Show

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Australia
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How it feels

This Australian TV series ran on Saturday evenings from 1959 to 1960. It targeted teenagers and showed performers lip-syncing to their songs.

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What happens

The Bert Newton Show is an Australian television series which aired from 1959 to 1960. Aired at 6:30PM Saturdays on Melbourne station GTV-9, it was aimed at teenagers and featured acts lip-syncing their songs. It competed with the ABC series Six O'Clock Rock and HSV-7's Swallow's Juniors. It was preceded on GTV's line-up by Laurel and Hardy and followed by Pick a Box. In 1960, it moved to Thursdays and became Hi-Fi Club, running for several more months. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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