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[edit]

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.

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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[edit]

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

External links[edit]

Nine Network press release^{[permanent dead link]} as published on the Australian TV Guide.
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