Bandwagon (Australian TV series)

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{{Infobox television

| genre = Variety

| presenter = Joy Youlden

| country = Australia

| language = English

| channel = HSV-7

| first_aired = {{Start date|1959}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1960}}

}}

Bandwagon was an Australian television variety series, which aired on Melbourne station HSV-7 from 1959 to 1960.

Produced by Joy Youlden,{{Cite news |date=1960-04-28 |title=Tuesday Television |page=10 |work=The Age|location=Melbourne |department=Radio/TV Supplement |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Bp5VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tqkDAAAAIBAJ&dq=channel-7+bandwagon&pg=4465,4555291 |access-date=2022-05-29}} the series aired live on Tuesdays at 9:30PM.

Performers on the series included Michael Cole, Graeme Bent, Heather Horwood, Joy Grisold, Diana Bell, Judy Banks and Judd Laine.

The 3 September 1959 edition of The Age compared the series unfavourably to its main competition, the popular In Melbourne Tonight on GTV-9. The writer for the newspaper felt that although the cast of Bandwagon were "quite adaptable to the TV medium", they were let down by the scripts and music choices.{{Cite news |date=1959-09-03 |title=Bandwagon, Club 7 Spur to TV Shows |page=3 |work=The Age|location=Melbourne |department=Radio/TV Supplement |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u-00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=UbsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7019,482632 |access-date=2022-05-29}}