Swallows Parade

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GenreTalent show
Presented byDoug Elliot
Template:Pluralize from text of originAustralia
Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from textEnglish
Original release
NetworkHSV-7
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Swallows Parade was an Australian radio and television series. The radio version was broadcast by Melbourne station 3DB in the 1950s, and was also heard on other Major Broadcasting Network stations on a Thursday evening, with auditions being held on Tuesdays. It was presented in front of a live audience from various towns and cities with Major Network outlets.[1]

Television series

The television version was hosted by Doug Elliot and telecast on Melbourne station HSV-7 (early Australian series often aired on a single station as opposed to being networked), and is described as being a talent show, and is notable as one of the first such shows produced for Australian television.

It aired at 8:30PM on Saturdays during 1957.[2] During this period, the same station broadcast another, longer-lived talent show, titled Stairway to the Stars,[3] which ran from 1956[4] to 1958.

Although HSV-7 was likely making at least some use of kinescope recording by 1957 (it being the method used to record live television prior to the introduction of video-tape to Australia), it is not known if any such recordings of exist of Swallows Parade or Stairway to the Stars. A later Swallow's-sponsored talent contest, a special from 1959 that was hosted by Bert Newton, exists as a 16mm kinescope recording.[5]

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Margot Sheridan". Trove. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Saturday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. Melbourne. 7 March 1957. p. 7. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Friday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. Melbourne. 7 March 1957. p. 6. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Friday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. Melbourne. 20 December 1956. p. 6. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."SWALLOWS PARADE SPECTACULAR. 1959.11.07". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 3 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)


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