The 12th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 20 March 1970 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. Miss World 1968 winner Penelope Plummer, British television actor Peter Wyngarde and American actors Peter Graves and Robert Young appeared as guests. Peggy Lipton, star of the US series The Mod Squad, was also originally scheduled to appear but cancelled at the last minute due to a severe middle-ear infection. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1970:
Awards
Gold Logie Awards presented by Robert Young Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television Winner: Barry Crocker, Sound of Music, Nine Network
Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television Winner: Maggie Tabberer, Maggie, Seven Network
Special Gold Logie Special Gold Logie For Providing TV's Greatest Moment in Their Moon Telecast Winner: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Logie
National Best Australian Drama Series Winner: Division 4, Nine Network
Best Teenage Personality Winner: Johnny Farnham
Best Australian Musical/Variety Show Winner: Sound of Music, Nine Network
Best Australian Documentary Winner: Chequerboard, ABC
Best Overseas Show Winner: The Mod Squad
Best Australian Commercial Winner: Coca-Cola
For Pioneering Australia's First World Championship Boxing Telecast Winner: Reg Ansett
Outstanding Contribution To Australian Television Winner: Hector Crawford
Best Children's Show Winner: Here's Humphrey, Nine Network
Outstanding Work As Compere Winner: Bert Newton, In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
Outstanding Documentary Winner: Dig a Million, Make a Million, ABC
Best News Reporting Winner: Steve Raymond, for stories on Marianne Faithfull and a mass teenage funeral at Warren in NSW, Network Ten
Victoria Best Male Personality Winner: Mike Preston
Best Female Personality Winner: Rosemary Margan
Best Local Show Winner: In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
New South Wales Best Male Personality Winner: Don Lane
Best Female Personality Winner: Rosemary Eather
Best Local Show Winner: Tonight Show With Don Lane, Nine Network
South Australia Best Male Personality Winner: Ernie Sigley
Best Female Personality Winner: Anne Wills
Best Local Show Winner: Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Queensland Best Male Personality Winner: Ron Cadee
Best Female Personality Winner: Joy Chambers
Best Local Show Winner: Dick McCann Show, Network Ten
Tasmania Best Male Personality Winner: Lindsay Edwards
Best Female Personality Winner: Caroline Schmit
Best Local Show Winner: :It's Just For Us
Western Australia Best Male Personality Winner: Garry Meadows
Best Female Personality Winner: Trina Brown
Best Local Show Winner: Today Tonight, ABC
Special Achievement Award George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent Winner: Jeff Phillips
External links
Australian Television: 1970-1973 Logie Awards TV Week Logie Awards: 1970