Hillbilly Requests

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

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

{{Infobox television

| genre = Music/variety

| presenter = Tom Campbell

| country = Australia

| language = English

| runtime = 25 minutes

| first_aired = {{Start date|1957}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1958}}

}}

Hillbilly Requests (originally Hillbilly Request Time) was an Australian television series, which ran from 1957 to 1958 on Melbourne station GTV-9. Representing an early effort at music/variety programming by the station, it was hosted by Tom Campbell{{Cite news |date=1957-09-05 |title=Monday Television |page=9 |work=The Age |department=Radio/TV Supplement |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_lERAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UZUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4048,547566&dq=hillbilly+channel-9&hl=en |access-date=2013-05-20}} and each episode featured the Victoria Banjo Club. The program had an unusual running time of 25 minutes as opposed to the usual 30 minutes. Originally aired at 6:30PM, it spent most of its run at 6:15PM, running to 6:40PM, preceded by the Happy Show and followed by the evening newscast with Eric Pearce. The archival status of the series is not known.

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