Hillbilly Requests

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.

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  1. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_lERAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UZUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4048,547566&dq=hillbilly+channel-9&hl=en

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