AustLit
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 -
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. -
Year: 1981
winner form y Water Under the Bridge Network Ten (publisher), ( dir. Igor Auzins ) Australia : Network Ten , 1980 Z869028 1980 series - publisher film/TVThe 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.