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Hillbilly Requests
GenreMusic/variety
Presented byTom Campbell
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time25 minutes
Original release
Release1957 (1957) 
1958 (1958)

Hillbilly Requests (originally Hillbilly Request Time) is an Australian television series, which ran from 1957 to 1958 on Melbourne station GTV-9. Representing an early effort at music/variety programming by the station, it was hosted by Tom Campbell[1] and each episode featured the Victoria Banjo Club. The program had an unusual running time of twenty-five minutes as opposed to the usual thirty minutes. Originally aired at 6:30PM, it spent most of its run at 6:15PM, running to 6:40PM, preceded by the Happy Show and followed by the evening newscast with Eric Pearce. The archival status of the series is not known.

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  1. "Monday Television". Radio/TV Supplement. The Age. 5 September 1957. p. 9. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
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