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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Category:Nine Network original programming
Category:1957 Australian television series debuts
Category:1958 Australian television series endings
Category:Australian music television series
Category:Australian English-language television shows
Category:Black-and-white Australian television shows
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