TEN turns 50: vote for your all-time favourite show
TEN wants viewers to vote for their all-time favourite local show, ahead of its 50th birthday in August.
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TEN certainly needs some reasons to throw itself a party and in August it turns 50.
A TV special 50 Years Young, has been in the pipeline for over a year, with plenty of birthday messages in the can from its most famous faces.
Now it is asking viewers to vote for their favourite homegrown TEN shows of all time.
What is your favourite TEN show? Is it Number 96, The Box, Prisoner, Carson’s Law, Puberty Blues, Neighbours, The Secret Life Of Us, Matlock Police or Offspring?
Maybe you are a fan of Bangkok Hilton, Vietnam, The Restless Years, E Street, Bodyline, The Dismissal or Return To Eden?
Does MasterChef Australia, Australian Idol, Big Brother or Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation get your vote?
And who isn’t a fan of The Project, Blankety Blanks, Perfect Match, Rove Live, The Comedy Company, Simon Townsend’s Wonder World, Bondi Rescue, The Panel, Pot of Gold, Beauty and The Beast, Thank God You’re Here and Totally Wild?
50 Years Young will include a galaxy of television stars, including Rove McManus, Bert Newton, Dr Chris Brown, Carrie Bickmore, Peter Helliar, Sandra Sully, Johnny Young, Chrissie Swann, Denise Drysdale, Claudia Karvan, Ryan “Fitzy” Fitzgerald, Samuel Johnson, Osher Gunsberg, Jennifer Hansen, Jo Stanley, Steve Vizard, Dave Hughes, Bruce Mansfield, Terence Donovan, Ian “Dicko” Dickson, Toni Pearen, Ed Phillips, the cast of Neighbours and many more.
The results of the public vote will be revealed during this special television event.
You can vote at www.tenplay.com.au/50
But let’s not end the fun there. Let’s hear your best and your worst! Cue the pink custard.
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The lack of Cheez TV hurts. Nothing defined my childhood more then waking up every morning with Jade and Ryan.
Oh..and use to like Ready, Steady Cook…the earlier version….
I have just found they are showing RSC at 6AM on Friday mornings…repeats…wayyy too early for me.
OMG….I cannot make a list….I loved most of the shows mentioned…Prisoner….No.96….Carsons Law…the original Big Brother…before it was messed around with…
And I agree with stevie g……all the overseas offerings…loved Twin Peaks…and The Nanny….so many memories.
Why are we not including overseas shows that had their original primetime run on ten? In the 90s ten was the go-to channel for all the coolest US shows – The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Seinfeld, The Nanny, The X Files. As a kid in the 70s there was The Brady Bunch, Gilligans Island and The Land of the Lost to name a few. Having said that my all time Favorite ten show is Neighbours. 🙂
Big Brother Naughty Bits
The Shire
Lara Bingle show
The Bolt Report
The Renovators
Breakfast with a kiwi
AFL
EPL
The only show that I’m surprised isn’t on that list is Fat Cat and Friends. I mean that’s almost like not including Humphrey as one of Nine’s major kids shows as they both ran for ages and were huge. I’m sure Fat Cat was on Channel 10 but I remember it being on Channel 7 as well.
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I remember Holiday Island. It was a rare flop by Crawfords.
It also featured what I think was the last acting appearance by Gaynor Martin before she married Glenn Wheatley.
The resort set is now Lassiter’s in Neighbours.
Being originally from the MIA (until recently), and only approaching my 20s, I haven’t had the luxury of Network 10 until 2010, when MDN launched! However, the first Network 10 show I did discover (I think by accident) was Rush. Only having known 10 for about 4 years now, I don’t know what I have done without it! There are excellent shows on it, but no one pays enough attention to find out!
Where’s Rush on that list? I think that’s up there as a favourite Ten show for me!
Big brother
Bangkok hilton
Carsons law
Estreet
Master chef
Neighbours
Puberty blues
Prisoner
The biggest loser
The day of the roses
Favourites include Rove Live, Thank God You’re Here, Talkin’ About Your Generation, Australian Idol, Big Brother (and associated shows), & SYTYCD. Worst might be It’s A Knockout remake, Everybody Dance Now or George Neugus 6pm.
What about???
The Henderson Kids
Rush
The Earlybird Show
Young Talent Time
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
Richmond Hill
The Batchelor Australia
So You Think You Can Dance
Good Morning Australia
The Circle
Anyway I vote for : Prisoner.
Ch 10 wasn’t broadcast here in Perth till the mid 1980s , so some of the older shows were on other channels or not shown at all.
Matt F you forgot David Tench Tonight and Bingles
@Matt F – you beat me to it! Let’s all go and vote for Uplate With Hotdogs right now. I still think that must have been a weird dream I once had.
Sorry to double post but who remembers Holiday Island? In a previous anniversary show, TEN themselves poked fun at it. It was a Home and Away-type series set on a tropical holiday resort, but to save money it was shot in Melbourne during winter. You could actually see the foggy breath when the actors spoke, it was so cold.
I liked Big Brother uncut. It was shameful to see the barrage of wowser propaganda started by the Daily Telegraph which resulted in TEN taking it off. Of course the political blackmail by PM John Howard and the conservatives was even more shameful. Howard called on TEN to take it off and when they wouldn’t, the conservative independents in the Senate (who held the balance of power) used Big Brother Uncut as a bargaining chip when TEN management wanted new industry regulations passed.
Definitely agree with JJ about Prisoner.
Used to love this show – watched it religiously.
So many well known Australian actresses, young and old, debutted/ “cut their teeth” on this wonderful show and went on to bigger,( but not always), better things.
Have also included:
Puberty Blues ( Brilliant – one of my all time favourite telly shows ever)
The Comedy Company
Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Gen
Heartbreak High
E Street
The Restless Years
Early Big Brother
on the list
Some of these are for purely nostalgic reasons as they were by no means great shows…
What about “The Magic Circle Club” with Nancy Cato and Fred Bear which aired in 1964 on ATV Channel 0 Melbourne.
Prisoner would easily have to be the best show Channel 10 has ever made. It showed it didn’t have to take a high budget to make something so spectacular. It had feeling and a certain magic that was unbeatable.The question is, why oh why can’t they make something as good as that now?
I would have voted for Cheez TV. Ten really wants to underestimate the impact Jade and Ryan made…
I chose:
Prisoner
The Comedy Company
The Secret Life of Us
It’s A Knockout
Neighbours
Wonder World
Offspring
Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation
Rove Live
Let The Blood Run Free
Yasmin’s Getting Married, Uplate With Hotdogs, House From Hell, Alan Jones Live, The Spearman Experiment, The Hothouse, The Resort, The Shire, Echo Point, Breakers.
Would have voted for Before The Game only it’s not included in Tens list.
PS David your link doesn’t work. I had to find it on the Tenplay website.
David, please note that there is a space at the end of your hyperlink, so it doesn’t go through to the correct page.