Club Seven (Australian TV series)
Club Seven was an Australian television variety series which aired from 1959 to 1961. It aired on Melbourne station HSV-7, broadcast live at 10:00PM on Thursdays. Hosts of the series included Terry Scanlon and Frank Wilson. The series faced tough competition from GTV-9's popular "In Melbourne Tonight". At least part of an episode is known to exist and is available for viewing on YouTube. Night-club setting. In the 20 August 1959 edition of "The Age" newspaper, a writer for the newspaper said that the series was unsuccessful in recreating the night-club atmosphere , and said the Sydney-produced ABC series "Cafe Continental" was more successful at creating such an atmosphere. In fact, the use of such a setting was a somewhat common one on early television, having also been used by the 1957-1959 HSV-7 series "The Late Show", which was the predecessor of "Club Seven". "Rendezvous at Romano's" (1957, TCN-9) may have also featured such a setting. Additionally, the setting (or a similar restaurant cabaret setting) was also used by American series "The Morey Amsterdam Show" (1948-1950), "The Ilona Massey Show" (1954-1955, DuMont), "Hold That Camera" (1950, DuMont), "Café  de Paris" (1949, DuMont), and the unrelated series "Club Seven" (1948-1951, ABC). Additionally, British series "Café Continental" (1947–1953, BBC) used such a setting, as did early Canadian series "Nightcap".