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Young Talent Time was an Australian television variety program screened on Network Ten. It ran from 1971 until 1988 - for a total of almost 18 years. The series featured a core group of young performers - vaguely in the vein of The Mickey Mouse Club, and a weekly junior talent quest. The Young Talent Team regularly performed popular classics along with the top hit songs of the day. The program was the creation of host Johnny Young, and over the years it ran it gave many young performers their first taste of fame. Network Ten is one of Australias three commercial television networks. ...
Annette Funicello on The Mickey Mouse Club The Mickey Mouse Club was a very long-running variety television series in the 1950s, produced and televised by the Walt Disney Studios, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of teenage performers, of which the most popular was Annette Funicello. ...
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Some Young Talent Timers disappeared into oblivion (many through choice) after their stint on the show was up, but many went on to have successful adult careers in show business as either actors or performers. Members of the Young Talent Team who found continued success after leaving the series include Tina Arena, Jamie Redfern, Dannii Minogue, and Debra Byrne. Tina Arena (born Filippina Lydia Arena on November 1, 1967, in Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Australia) is a pop singer. ...
Jamie Redfern was an early member of Young Talent Time, who later had success as a pop singer. ...
Danielle Jane Minogue (born October 20, 1971), known as Dannii Minogue or simply Dannii, is an Australian singer/songwriter, actress and an occasional model and fashion designer. ...
Debra Byrne, born in Melbourne, Australia on 30 March, 1957, is an Australian entertainer. ...
Because the series ran for such a long time and featured young performers, Young Talent Time made an indelible mark on the psyche of several generations of Australian children, leading them to believe that if they tried hard enough, they too could be a 'star' like the kids they saw on television.
One memorable aspect of the show was the regular closing number, where Johnny Young would sing the Beatles' song All My Lovin' (with which he had an Australian hit in the 1960s), accompanied by the entire cast, in an almost lullaby style, individually wishing all of the cast good night.
Late in the show's run, Young Talent Time launched an American based show, "New Generation", produced in Australia starring certain members of the Young Talent Team with a new American host named Michael Young. It was screened twice weekly in the US. Europe and Canada.
In its final years Young Talent Time struggled for ratings, and the final nail in the coffin was the decision by the rival Nine Network to run the enormously popular variety show Hey Hey It's Saturday in the same Saturday night timeslot. Young Talent Time could not even hope to compete with it, and the show was abruptly cancelled in January, 1989. The Nine Network is an Australian television network, available in major markets across Australia. ...
Hey Hey Its Saturday was a long running variety television program on Australian television. ...
The cancellation of the show was a blow to many, including die hard fans and the cast themselves. The biggest blow, however, was dealt to host Johnny Young who had been suffering setback after setback in the late 1980s. Young had invested a large amount of money in building a studio complex in the hope of producing the show himself and selling it back to Network Ten. The cancellation dashed these hopes, and he was forced to sell his family home to settle debts. Young then lost his stepfather, then his mother, and finally his marriage to wife Cathy fell apart. In 1993 his friend Terry Higgins, a former Young Talent Time director, was diagnosed as being HIV positive. Young accompanied Higgins to a Filipino clinic which offered the so called 'Ozone Therapy'. The clinic turned out to be an illegal operation, and Young was arrested by police, forced to undergo a HIV test and threatened with deportation. The story was picked up by the Australian media and splashed all over the country. Terry Higgins was among the first people known to die of an AIDS related illness in England. ...
The tragic death of former cast member Juanita Coco in 1993 cast a further shadow on the memory of the ill-fated show. Juanita was only 17 when she died in an alcohol related car accident. Juanita Suzanne Coco (10 December 1975 – 2 May 1993) was an Australian singer and actress best known for her role on the popular talent/variety show Young Talent Time in the late 1980s. ...
Young Talent Time was filmed mainly at the studios of ATV-10 in Nunawading, Melbourne although the occasional show was filmed at TEN-10 in Sydney. Sadly, many of the episodes from the early-mid 1970s no longer exist as the tapes were wiped for re-use, being the official Network Ten policy at the time. Later episodes from the series were repeated by pay TV broadcaster Foxtel in the late 1990s. ATV-10 is the Melbourne Australian Ten Network. ...
Nunawading is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. ...
Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 3. ...
TEN-10 is the callsign of Network Tens flagship Sydney station. ...
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic landmarks in the world, and since its opening it has become an international symbol of Sydney Sydney (pronounced ) is the state capital of New South Wales, located on the east coast of Australia. ...
Wiping or junking is an economic move by radio and television companies in which old audiotapes, videotapes and telerecordings are wiped (deleted) and reused or destroyed. ...
Network Ten is one of Australias three commercial television networks. ...
Pay television, or pay-TV, usually refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analogue and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly by digital terrestrial methods. ...
Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. ...
A Young Talent Time reunion was held in 2001, in which many of the cast including Young were reunited in a television special.
In 2003, three performers associated with Young Talent Time were simultaneously in the United States Billboard Magazine Dance Top 10 – series regulars, Arena with "Never (Past Tense)" and Dannii Minogue with "I Begin to Wonder", along with Kylie Minogue, who had made her television singing debut on Young Talent Time with "Slow". Danielle Jane Minogue (born October 20, 1971), known as Dannii Minogue or simply Dannii, is an Australian singer/songwriter, actress and an occasional model and fashion designer. ...
Kylie Ann Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is an Australian singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ...
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Tina Arena (born Filippina Lydia Arena on November 1, 1967, in Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Australia) is a pop singer. ...
Sally Boyden, during one of her guest appearances starring in The Waltons. ...
Debra Byrne, born in Melbourne, Australia on 30 March, 1957, is an Australian entertainer. ...
Juanita Suzanne Coco (10 December 1975 – 2 May 1993) was an Australian singer and actress best known for her role on the popular talent/variety show Young Talent Time in the late 1980s. ...
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Danielle Jane Minogue (born October 20, 1971), known as Dannii Minogue or simply Dannii, is an Australian singer/songwriter, actress and an occasional model and fashion designer. ...
Jamie Redfern was an early member of Young Talent Time, who later had success as a pop singer. ...
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