Sports Parade (TV series)

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Sports Parade
GenreSports
Presented byTony Charlton
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkGTV-9
Release7 June (1957-06-07) –
23 August 1957 (1957-08-23)

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.[1] 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.

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  1. ^ "Simulcast of Sports Parade". The Age. 7 June 1957. p. 7. Retrieved 11 June 2014.

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