Hillbilly Requests (originally Hillbilly Request Time) was an Australian television series, which ran from 1957 to 1958 on Melbourne station GTV-9. Representing an early effort at music/variety programming by the station, it was hosted by Tom Campbell[1] and each episode featured the Victoria Banjo Club. The program had an unusual running time of 25 minutes as opposed to the usual 30 minutes. Originally aired at 6:30PM, it spent most of its run at 6:15PM, running to 6:40PM, preceded by the Happy Show and followed by the evening newscast with Eric Pearce. The archival status of the series is not known.
| Hillbilly Requests | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Music/variety |
| Presented by | Tom Campbell |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1957 – 1958 |
References
edit- ^ "Monday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. 5 September 1957. p. 9. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
External links
edit
 | This article about a television show originating in Australia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |