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Football Survey

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This is a 1950s Australian TV series where football experts talked about the weekend's games. It aired for only 10 minutes each Monday night on a Melbourne station.

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What happens

Football Survey is an Australian television series which aired in 1957. Broadcast at 7:50PM on Mondays on Melbourne station GTV-9, it was a series in which Australian rules football personalities discussed the weekend matches, and aired in a 10-minute time-slot. It was sponsored by Brylcreem, and was originally hosted by Ian Johnson, later by Sam Loxton. The series aired against U.S. series Disneyland on HSV-7 and US series Sherlock Holmes on ABV-2. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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