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Sports Parade

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This is a 1957 Australian TV series where the host Tony Charlton visited a different football club each week to show their members. It was broadcast live from a radio show and ran for about three months.

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What happens

Sports Parade is an Australian television series which aired in 1957. Broadcast on Melbourne station GTV-9, it ran weekly from 7 June 1957 to 23 August 1957. It was a simulcast of a 3KZ radio series. Hosted by Tony Charlton, each episode featured members of a different football club. It aired in a half-hour time-slot. It is not known if the series ever kinescoped. Other early Australian television series to be based on radio shows included Raising a Husband, Leave it to the Girls, Oxford Show, Swallows Parade and The Pressure Pak Show. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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