The 17th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 7 March 1975 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. It was the first time the Awards were telecast in Colour. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American film star John Wayne and television actors Lee Majors and William Conrad, British actor Edward Woodward and his wife Michele Dotrice, and Australian-born British television stars Keith Michell and Diane Cilento appeared as guests. Each of the guest presenters were given special souvenir Logies.
Winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1975:
Awards presented by John Wayne
Most Popular Male Personality on Australian TelevisionWinner: Ernie Sigley,
The Ernie Sigley Show, Nine Network
Most Popular Female Personality on Australian TelevisionWinner: Denise Drysdale,
The Ernie Sigley Show, Nine Network
Best Australian ActorWinner: George Mallaby,
The Box, 0-10 Network
Best Australian ActressWinner: Bunney Brooke,
Number 96, 0-10 Network
Best Australian DramaWinner: Number 96, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Teenage PersonalityWinner: Debbie Byrne,
Young Talent Time, 0-10 Network
Best Australian Music/Variety ShowWinner: Young Talent Time, 0-10 Network
Best Australian CommercialWinner: Uncle SamBest Individual Performance By An ActorWinner: John Meillon,
The Fourth Wish, ABC
Best Individual Performance By An ActressWinner: Pat Evison,
Pig In A Poke, ABC
Best TV ComedianWinner: Paul Hogan,
The Paul Hogan Show,
Seven NetworkBest New DramaWinner: Rush, ABC
Best ScriptWinner: Fred Cullen,
Homicide,
Seven NetworkBest News CoverageWinner: Frank Sinatra in Australia, David Hill, Seven Network News
Best Public Affairs ProgramWinner: A Current Affair, Nine Network
Reporter Of The YearWinner: Richard Carleton,
This Day Tonight, ABC
Contribution To TV JournalismWinner: Federal File, Nine Network
Best Single DocumentaryWinner: Casley's Kingdom,
David Johnston, Seven Network
Best Dramatised DocumentaryWinner: Billy and Percy, ABC
Outstanding Contribution To TVWinner: Bill Peach, for eight years' service to
This Day Tonight, ABC
Outstanding Creative EffortWinner: Tedd Dunn,
Fredd Bear's Breakfast A-Go-Go, ATV-0
Outstanding Contribution To Daytime TVWinner: No Man's Land, Nine Network
Most Popular MaleWinner: Ernie Sigley
Most Popular FemaleWinner: Denise DrysdaleMost Popular ShowWinner: The Ernie Sigley Show, GTV-9
Most Popular MaleWinner: Mike WalshMost Popular FemaleWinner: Barbara Rogers
Most Popular ShowWinner: The Mike Walsh Show,
TEN-10Most Popular MaleWinner: Bob Francis
Most Popular FemaleWinner: Anne WillsMost Popular ShowWinner: Penthouse Club, ADS-7
Queensland
Most Popular MaleWinner: Paul SharrattMost Popular FemaleWinner: Rhonda Sharratt
Most Popular ShowWinner: Studio 9, QTQ-9
Most Popular MaleWinner: Tom PayneMost Popular FemaleWinner: Margaret Anne Ford
Most Popular ShowWinner: This WeekMost Popular MaleWinner: Jeff NewmanMost Popular FemaleWinner: Sandy Palmer
Most Popular ShowWinner: Stars Of The Future, TVW-7
George Wallace Memorial Award For Best New TalentWinner: John Waters,
Rush, ABC
