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'The story of Australia's first and greatest home grown super star, whose show In Melbourne Tonight was made in Channel Nine's GTV studios in the 1950s and '60s.'

Source: Australian Film Commission website, http://afc.gov.au/default.aspx
Sighted: 21/05/2007

Notes

Telemovie.
'Crackerjack Productions acquired a non-exclusive licence from Graeme Blundell to use his biography of Graham Kennedy [King : The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy], but he did not participate in the scripting or production of this film, apart from several conversations with its writers.'

Source: The Weekend Australian, 19-20 May 2007 (Review), p.25.

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Crackerjack Yasmin Vought , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: World Film Locations : Melbourne 2012; (p. 102-103)

The King and I Graeme Blundell , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19-20 May 2007; (p. 24-25)
— Review of The King : The Graham Kennedy Story Jaime Browne , Kris Mrksa , 2007 single work film/TV