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 Penny Plumber, 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 presented by Robert Young
Most Popular Male Personality on Australian TelevisionWinner:Barry Crocker,
Sound Of Music, Nine Network
Most Popular Female Personality on Australian TelevisionWinner:Maggie Tabberer,
Maggie, Seven Network
Special Gold Logie For Providing TV's Greatest Moment In Their Moon TelecastWinner:Neil Armstrong and
Buzz AldrinBest Australian Drama SeriesWinner:Division 4, Nine Network
Best Teenage PersonalityWinner:Johnny Farnham
Best Australian Musical/Variety ShowWinner:Sound Of Music, Nine Network
Best Australian DocumentaryWinner:Chequerboard, ABC
Best Overseas ShowWinner:The Mod SquadBest Australian CommercialWinner:Coca-ColaFor Pioneering Australia's First World Championship Boxing TelecastWinner:Sir Reginald Ansett
Outstanding Contribution To Australian TelevisionWinner:Hector CrawfordBest Children's ShowWinner:Here's Humphrey, Nine Network
Outstanding Work As CompereWinner:Bert Newton,
In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
Outstanding DocumentaryWinner:Dig A Million, Make A Million, ABC
Best News ReportingWinner:Steve Raymond, for stories on
Marianne Faithfull and a mass teenage funeral at Warren in NSW, Network Ten
Best Male PersonalityWinner:Mike Preston
Best Female PersonalityWinner:Rosemary Margan
Best Local ShowWinner:In
Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
Best Male PersonalityWinner:Don LaneBest Female PersonalityWinner:Rosemary Eather
Best Local ShowWinner:Tonight Show With Don Lane, Nine Network
Best Male PersonalityWinner:Ernie SigleyBest Female PersonalityWinner:Anne WillsBest Local ShowWinner:Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Queensland
Best Male PersonalityWinner:Ron Cadee
Best Female PersonalityWinner:Joy ChambersBest Local ShowWinner:Dick McCann Show, Network Ten
Best Male PersonalityWinner:Lindsay Edwards
Best Female PersonalityWinner:Caroline Schmit
Best Local ShowWinner:It's Just For Us
Best Male PersonalityWinner:Garry Meadows
Best Female PersonalityWinner:Trina Brown
Best Local ShowWinner:Today Tonight, ABC
George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New TalentWinner:Jeff Phillips