12th Annual TV Week Logie Awards
Friday, 20 March 1970
Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria
The Logie Award Winners 1970 is a list of Australian television program Logie Awards winners and nominees. The awards are presented annually by the Australian television industry, currently as the TV Week Logie Awards, to recognise excellence in many areas of television, including acting, entertainment and news categories.
Hosted by Bert Newton. Special Guests were: Miss World Penny Plummer, USA stars Peter Graves (Mission: Impossible), Robert Young (Marcus Welby MD), and UK star Peter Wyngarde (Department S). The Awards were again televised on the Nine Network. 1970 marked the first year the Logies was shown during prime time on TV.
1970 National Logie Awards
| Gold Logie Most Popular Male Personality | Barry Crocker – Sound Of Music | 9 |
| Gold Logie Most Popular Female Personality | Maggie Tabberer – Maggie | 7 |
| Special Gold Logie for Providing TV’s Greatest Moment in Their Moon Telecast | Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin | |
| George Wallace Memorial Logie for Best New Talent | Jeff Phillips | |
| For Pioneering Australia’s First World Championship Boxing Telecast | Sir Reginald Ansett | |
| Outstanding Contribution To Australian Television | Hector Crawford | |
| Outstanding Work As Compere | Bert Newton – In Melbourne Tonight | 9 |
| Outstanding Documentary | Dig A Million, Make A Million | ABC |
| Best Teenage Personality | Johnny Farnham | |
| Best News Reporting | Steve Raymond – for stories on Marianne Faithful and a mass teenage funeral at Warren, NSW | 10 |
| Best Australian Documentary | Chequerboard | ABC |
| Best Australian Drama Series | Division 4 | 9 |
| Best Children’s Show | Here’s Humphrey | 9 |
| Best Australian Musical/Variety Show | Sound Of Music | 9 |
| Best Overseas Show | The Mod Squad | |
| Best Australian Commercial | Coca-Cola |
1970 Local Logie Awards
| Victoria | ||
| Best Male Personality Best Female Personality Best Local Show | Mike Preston Rosemary Margan In Melbourne Tonight | 9 9 9 |
| New South Wales | ||
| Best Male Personality Best Female Personality Best Local Show | Don Lane Rosemary Eather Tonight Show With Don Lane | 9 10 9 |
| Queensland | ||
| Best Male Personality Best Female Personality Best Local Show | Ron Cadee Joy Chambers Dick McCann Show | 9 9 10 |
| South Australia | ||
| Best Male Personality Best Female Personality Best Local Show | Ernie Sigley Anne Wills Adelaide Tonight | 9 9 9 |
| Tasmania | ||
| Best Male Personality Best Female Personality Best Local Show | Lindsay Edwards Caroline Schmit It’s Just For Us | |
| Western Australia | ||
| Best Male Personality Best Female Personality Best Local Show | Garry Meadows Trina Brown Today Tonight | 7 7 ABC |
NOTE: yes, we know many of the Special Guests are famous for more than what we list. Because this is a historical listing, we’ve tried to show the TV program the person was known for at the time. For example, Roger Moore was known for his TV show The Pretenders in 1972, long before he did the James Bond films.
Last column in the above charts is the television network / station.
