First episode date 2 March 1957 | ||
Swallows Parade was an Australian television series, for which there is little information on the Internet. Hosted by Doug Elliot aired on Melbourne station HSV-7 (early Australian series often aired on a single station as opposed to being networked), and is described as being a talent show, and is notable as one of the first such shows produced for Australian television. It was based on a radio series.
Broadcasting
It aired at 8:30PM on Saturdays during 1957. During this period, the same station broadcast another, longer-lived talent show, titled Stairway to the Stars, which ran from 1956 to 1958.
Although HSV-7 was likely making at least some use of kinescope recording by 1957 (it being the method used to record live television prior to the introduction of video-tape to Australia), it is not known if any such recordings of exist of Swallows Parade or Stairway to the Stars. A later Swallow's-sponsored talent contest, a special from 1959 that was hosted by Bert Newton, exists as a 16mm kinescope recording.