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Revision as of 20:36, 21 February 2008
| The Great Outdoors | |
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| Genre | Travel |
| Presented by | Ernie Dingo Shelley Craft Andrew Daddo Jennifer Hawkins Tom Williams |
| Country of origin |  Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 15 |
| No. of episodes | 622 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (Including commercials) |
| Original release | |
| Network | Seven Network |
| Release | 5 February 1993 – 29 September 2007 |
| Related | |
| Getaway | |
- The Great Outdoors is also a 1988 film starring John Candy, Dan Aykroyd and Annette Bening. See The Great Outdoors (1988 film).
- The Great Outdoors is also a British Walking, Climbing and Mountaineering magazine.
The Great Outdoors was an Australian travel magazine series broadcast on the Seven Network. Similar to its competitor Getaway, the program featured a team of reporters who travelled around Australia and the world reporting on travel destinations, tourist attractions and accommodation.
The program premiered on 5 February 1993 in a 30 minute format and was broadcast on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 pm. In 2002, the show was expanded to 60 minutes and moved to the Monday 7:30 pm timeslot, where it had stayed until 2006.
After suffering a gradual decline in ratings over the past few years, the show moved to a new timeslot of 6:30 pm Saturdays from the 2007 season. On 28 April 2007, the show celebrated 600 episodes,[1] making it one of the longest running programs on Australian television.
Unfortunately, after an additional 22 episodes, after its 600th, the show finally came to an end and was wrapped up on Saturday 29 September 2007. Repeats from 2002 onwards are now being shown on 7 HD, (in the one-hour format) weekdays from 3pm to 4pm.
Ironically, two of the presenters on the show went on to be Wheel of Fortune hostesses. Sophie Falkiner had been on the show for 5 years, followed by Laura Csortan who went on to host the show in 2006 after Sophie left for a short six month stint.
Presenters
Last remaining presenters
The last remaining presenters on the show were:
Former
- Bridget Adams
- Penny Cook
- Neil Crompton
- Laura Csortan
- Sophie Falkiner
- Terasa Livingstone
- Di Smith
See also
References
- ^ Idato, Michael (2007-04-27). "The Great Outdoors". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2007-12-09.