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50 Years 50 Shows


50 Years 50 Shows is a television special that marked 50 years of television in Australia. Broadcast on Sunday 25 September 2005 on the Nine Network and hosted by Eddie McGuire, the special counted down the top 50 greatest Australian television programmes.

Premise

The list of programs to be included in the top fifty was based on a poll of television writers, producers, directors, actors and critics. Once the top 50 was collated, their running order was decreed by the ratings the programs had achieved when broadcast: with the highest rating program in number one spot.

List

In Melbourne Tonight/The Graham Kennedy Show

The Paul Hogan Show

The Opening Ceremony of the Games of the XXVII Olympiad

The Mavis Bramston Show

Brides of Christ

Kath & Kim

The Don Lane Show

60 Minutes

Number 96

The Sullivans

A Town Like Alice

Homicide

Bandstand

A Country Practice

Power Without Glory

The Mike Walsh Show

Australian Story

Four Corners

The Dismissal

Blankety Blanks

Bangkok Hilton

Frontline

Enough Rope with Andrew Denton

My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?

Hey Hey It's Saturday

Parkinson in Australia

The Norman Gunston Show

Anzacs

SeaChange

Fast Forward

This Is Your Life

Young Talent Time

Mother and Son

Bobby Limb's Sound of Music

Blue Murder

Burke's Backyard

Blue Heelers

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals

Countdown

Sylvania Waters

Graham Kennedy's Coast to Coast

Media Watch

The Naked Vicar Show

The Aunty Jack Show

Neighbours

Foreign Correspondent

Sunday

Play School

The D-Generation

Rescreening

The program was re-aired on Monday 11 September 2006 hosted by Mike Munro to celebrate the official 50th anniversary of television in Australia.

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