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Hillbilly Requests

Hillbilly Requests is 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 and each episode featured the Victoria Banjo Club. The program had an unusual running time of twenty-five minutes as opposed to the usual thirty 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.

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Hillbilly Requests
GenreMusic/variety
Presented byTom Campbell
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time25 minutes
Original release
Release1957 (1957) –
1958 (1958)

Hillbilly Requests (originally Hillbilly Request Time) is 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 Campbell1 and each episode featured the Victoria Banjo Club. The program had an unusual running time of twenty-five minutes as opposed to the usual thirty 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.

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  1. "Monday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. 5 September 1957. p. 9. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
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