History
The Penguin Awards, were offered by the Television Society of Australia for quality Australian television programs. The awards categories included: a Gold Penguin, Individual Penguins and Certificates of Commendation of Special Recognition.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1985
winner y
Scales of Justice
Sydney
:
Currency Press
,
1984
Z120203
1984
single work
drama
crime
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Year: 1983
form y
1915
Soldiers of the King
ABC Television
(publisher),
1981
(Manuscript version)x402113
Z1684190
1981
series - publisher
film/TV
Two country boys enlist in the army and ship out to fight in World War I.
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Year: 1981
winner form y
Water Under the Bridge
Network Ten
(publisher),
( dir. Igor Auzins
)
Australia
:
Network Ten
,
1980
Z869028
1980
series - publisher
film/TV
The story of a group of people whose lives are entwined through time and circumstances in several ways, from love to murder.
For detailed, episode-by-episode synopses, see Film Details.
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Year: 1979
winner form y
Neutral Ground
Sydney
:
Australian Broadcasting Commission
,
1978
7202765
1978
single work
film/TV
'In Neutral ground Peter Sumner stars as Bruce Jefferson, an energetic advertising dynamo, and Cornelia Frances plays his estranged wife Joan, an equally dynamic magazine editor. They arrange to meet in a hotel suite, on Neutral Ground, to discuss the terms of their divorce.' ([Television guide], Canberra Times, 15 September 1978, p.34)
In 1980, a seven-episode series, Trial by Marriage was spun off from this television play: the series took place in the early days of the marriage.
For best comedy program.
