# Logie Awards of 1970

The 12th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 20 March 1970 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. Miss World 1968 winner Penelope Plummer, British television actor Peter Wyngarde and American actors Peter Graves and Robert Young appeared as guests. Peggy Lipton, star of the US series The Mod Squad, was also originally scheduled to appear but cancelled at the last minute due to a severe middle-ear infection. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1970:

## Awards
### Gold Logie

Awards presented by Robert Young

#### Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television

    Winner: Barry Crocker, Sound Of Music, Nine Network

#### Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television

    Winner: Maggie Tabberer, Maggie, Seven Network

### Special Gold Logie
#### Special Gold Logie For Providing TV's Greatest Moment In Their Moon Telecast

    Winner: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

### Logie
#### National
##### Best Australian Drama Series

    Winner: Division 4, Nine Network

##### Best Teenage Personality

    Winner: Johnny Farnham

##### Best Australian Musical/Variety Show

    Winner: Sound Of Music, Nine Network

##### Best Australian Documentary

    Winner: Chequerboard, ABC

##### Best Overseas Show

    Winner: The Mod Squad

##### Best Australian Commercial

    Winner: Coca-Cola

##### For Pioneering Australia's First World Championship Boxing Telecast

    Winner: Sir Reginald Ansett

##### Outstanding Contribution To Australian Television

    Winner: Hector Crawford

##### Best Children's Show

    Winner: Here's Humphrey, Nine Network

##### Outstanding Work As Compere

    Winner: Bert Newton, In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network

##### Outstanding Documentary

    Winner: Dig a Million, Make a Million, ABC

##### Best News Reporting

    Winner: Steve Raymond, for stories on Marianne Faithfull and a mass teenage funeral at Warren in NSW, Network Ten

#### Victoria
##### Best Male Personality

    Winner: Mike Preston

##### Best Female Personality

    Winner: Rosemary Margan

##### Best Local Show

    Winner: In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network

#### New South Wales
##### Best Male Personality

    Winner: Don Lane

##### Best Female Personality

    Winner: Rosemary Eather

##### Best Local Show

    Winner: Tonight Show With Don Lane, Nine Network

#### South Australia
##### Best Male Personality

    Winner: Ernie Sigley

##### Best Female Personality

    Winner: Anne Wills

##### Best Local Show

    Winner: Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network

#### Queensland
##### Best Male Personality

    Winner: Ron Cadee

##### Best Female Personality

    Winner: Joy Chambers

##### Best Local Show

    Winner: Dick McCann Show, Network Ten

#### Tasmania
##### Best Male Personality

    Winner: Lindsay Edwards

##### Best Female Personality

    Winner: Caroline Schmit

##### Best Local Show

    Winner: :It's Just For Us

#### Western Australia
##### Best Male Personality

    Winner: Garry Meadows

##### Best Female Personality

    Winner: Trina Brown

##### Best Local Show

    Winner: Today Tonight, ABC

### Special Achievement Award
#### George Wallace Memorial Logie For Best New Talent

    Winner: Jeff Phillips