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In Melbourne Tonight
In Melbourne Tonight, also known as IMT, is a nightly Logie award-winning Australian variety television show produced at GTV-9 Melbourne from 6 May 1957 to 1970.
Graham Kennedy was the show's main host and star attraction, but other presenters were often called on to present the show on certain nights. In Melbourne Tonight had as many as 50 different presenters over its 13 years on air. The format of the show was inspired by the American The Tonight Show on NBC, but Kennedy's exuberant charisma was the key to the success of IMT.
The show originally had its own self-titled theme song, written by IMT's first band leader, Lee Gallagher, but for most of its run, it adopted an uptempo version of the swing tune of Gee, But You're Swell, written by Abel Baer and Charles Tobias in 1936.
Geoff Corke was Kennedy's offsider until 1959, when Bert Newton joined GTV-9 from HSV-7 to become Kennedy's straight man. This began a professional partnership that continued for many years and a friendship that continued until Kennedy's death in 2005.
Other In Melbourne Tonight regulars included Joff Ellen, Val Ruff, Panda Lisner, Anne Marie Fabry, Evie Hayes, Mary Hardy, Rosie Sturgess, Patti McGrath (later Patti Newton), Toni Lamond, Philip Brady, Johnny Ladd, Buster Fiddess, Frank Rich, Jack Little, Noel Ferrier, Elaine McKenna, Bill McCormick, Honnie Van Den Bosch ("barrel girl"), Ted Hamilton, Lesley Baker, The Tune Twisters, and the GTV or Channel 9 Ballet.
The ballet troupe was known as the Royal Dancers. Performers included Denise Drysdale and Roma Egan, directed by Valmai Ennor, a former dancer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet.
From 1960, a Friday-night, syndicated, "national" edition of the program aired under the title The Graham Kennedy Show (later The Graham Kennedy Channel Nine Show), with highlights packages being shown as The Best of IMT and The Best of Kennedy.
On 7 July 1965, IMT featured a then-innovative interstate live split-screen link with The Tonight Show on TCN-9 Sydney, via the recently completed co-axial cable linking Melbourne and Sydney.
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In Melbourne Tonight
In Melbourne Tonight, also known as IMT, is a nightly Logie award-winning Australian variety television show produced at GTV-9 Melbourne from 6 May 1957 to 1970.
Graham Kennedy was the show's main host and star attraction, but other presenters were often called on to present the show on certain nights. In Melbourne Tonight had as many as 50 different presenters over its 13 years on air. The format of the show was inspired by the American The Tonight Show on NBC, but Kennedy's exuberant charisma was the key to the success of IMT.
The show originally had its own self-titled theme song, written by IMT's first band leader, Lee Gallagher, but for most of its run, it adopted an uptempo version of the swing tune of Gee, But You're Swell, written by Abel Baer and Charles Tobias in 1936.
Geoff Corke was Kennedy's offsider until 1959, when Bert Newton joined GTV-9 from HSV-7 to become Kennedy's straight man. This began a professional partnership that continued for many years and a friendship that continued until Kennedy's death in 2005.
Other In Melbourne Tonight regulars included Joff Ellen, Val Ruff, Panda Lisner, Anne Marie Fabry, Evie Hayes, Mary Hardy, Rosie Sturgess, Patti McGrath (later Patti Newton), Toni Lamond, Philip Brady, Johnny Ladd, Buster Fiddess, Frank Rich, Jack Little, Noel Ferrier, Elaine McKenna, Bill McCormick, Honnie Van Den Bosch ("barrel girl"), Ted Hamilton, Lesley Baker, The Tune Twisters, and the GTV or Channel 9 Ballet.
The ballet troupe was known as the Royal Dancers. Performers included Denise Drysdale and Roma Egan, directed by Valmai Ennor, a former dancer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet.
From 1960, a Friday-night, syndicated, "national" edition of the program aired under the title The Graham Kennedy Show (later The Graham Kennedy Channel Nine Show), with highlights packages being shown as The Best of IMT and The Best of Kennedy.
On 7 July 1965, IMT featured a then-innovative interstate live split-screen link with The Tonight Show on TCN-9 Sydney, via the recently completed co-axial cable linking Melbourne and Sydney.