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Australian variety television program

In Melbourne Tonight, also known as IMT, was a highly popular nightly Logie award-winning Australian variety television show produced at GTV-9Melbourne from 6 May 1957 to 1970.

Overview

Graham Kennedy was the show's main host and star attraction, but other presenters were often called on to present the show on certain nights.

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In Melbourne Tonight had as many as 50 different presenters over its 13 years on air. The format of the show was inspired by the American Tonight Show on NBC, but Kennedy's exuberant charisma was the key to the success of IMT.

The show originally had its own self-titled theme song, written by IMT's first band leader, Lee Gallagher, but for most of its run, it adopted an uptempo version of the swing tune of Gee, But You're Swell, written by Abel Baer and Charles Tobias in 1936.

Geoff Corke was Kennedy's offsider until 1959, when Bert Newton joined GTV-9 from HSV-7 to become Kennedy's straight man. This began a professional partnership that continued for many yea

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