Swallows Parade

Swallows Parade was an Australian television series, for which there is little information on the Internet. Hosted by Doug Elliot aired on Melbourne station HSV-7, and is described as being a talent show, and is notable as one of the first such shows produced for Australian television. It aired at 8:30PM on Saturdays during 1957. During this period, the same station broadcast another, longer-lived talent show, titled Stairway to the Stars, which ran from 1956 to 1958. Although HSV-7 was likely making at least some use of kinescope recording by 1957, it is not known if any such recordings of exist of Swallows Parade or Stairway to the Stars. A later Swallow's-sponsored talent contest, a special from 1959 that was hosted by Bert Newton, exists as a 16mm kinescope recording.