Accent on Strings

{{Use Australian English|date=April 2022}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox television

| genre = Music television

| country = Australia

| language = English

| num_seasons = 1

| location = TCN-9 Willoughby, New South Wales

| network = Nine Network

| first_aired = {{Start date|1956|10|27|df=yes}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1957|1}}

}}

Accent on Strings was an Australian television series which aired in 1956 on Sydney station TCN-9. A music series, the first episode aired October 27, 1956. It was among several early locally produced series which debuted during the first official week of programming by the station, along with The Johnny O'Connor Show, game show What's My Line, religious series Give Us This Day, children's series Fun Farm, and music series Campfire Favourites,{{Cite news |date=1956-10-31 |title=Big plans for official opening TCN Channel 9 |volume=24 |page=27 |work=The Australian Women's Weekly |issue=22 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52268794 |via=National Library of Australia |access-date=2022-04-07}} with these series having varying degrees of success.

Accent on Strings proved to be among the less successful of early TCN-9 offerings, running a couple months, and ending at the same time as Campfire Favourites and The Johnny O'Connor Show.{{Cite news |date=1957-01-09 |title=TELEVISION PARADE |volume=24 |page=28 |work=The Australian Women's Weekly |issue=32 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51200250 |access-date=2022-04-07 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Three of the episodes exist as kinescope recordings at the National Film and Sound Archive.{{Cite web |title=Search: "Accent on Strings" |url=http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p;adv=no;page=0;query=%22accent%20on%20strings%22;resCount=10 |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=National Film and Sound Archive}} There is very little information about this series available online.