The Don Lane Show

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| genre = Talk show

| creator = Don Lane

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| director = Peter Faiman

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| presenter = Don Lane

| narrated = Pete Smith

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| opentheme = "You Make It So Easy"

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| country = Australia

| language = English

| num_seasons = 9

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| producer = Peter Faiman

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| runtime = 90 minutes

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| network = Nine Network

| first_aired = {{start date|1975|5|8|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1983|11|10|df=y}}

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The Don Lane Show was an Australian television talk show which aired twice a week on the Nine Network from 1975 to 1983.[https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/david-bowie-don-lane-show-1983 "David Bowie on the Don Lane Show"], by Thorsten Kaeding, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.{{Cite web|last=Knox|first=David|title="There will never be another Don Lane" {{!}} TV Tonight|date=21 October 2019 |url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2019/10/there-will-never-be-another-don-lane.html/|access-date=2020-08-14|publisher=TV Tonight/}}

The show was created by Don Lane who co-hosted it with Bert Newton.[http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2009/10/vale-don-lane.html "Vale: Don Lane"], by David Knox, TV Tonight, 22 October 2009.[http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2016/12/flashback-debbie-reynolds-on-the-don-lane-show.html "Flashback: Debbie Reynolds on The Don Lane Show"], by David Knox, TV Tonight, 29 December 2016.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244339/ "The Don Lane Show (TV Series 1975–1983)"], IMDb {{unreliable source?|date=November 2019}}[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429662/ The Best of the Don Lane Show (TV Movie 1994)], IMDb {{unreliable source?|date=November 2019}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52269865 |title=DON LANE |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=45 |issue=26 |location=Australia |date=30 November 1977 |accessdate=8 February 2017 |page=31 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Channel Nine was reluctant to cast Bert Newton, who had been associated with Graham Kennedy, but Lane insisted that he wanted Newton to do the show. Lane is quoted as saying:

I used to watch him and Graham working on IMT, and look at them with great envy. So I said 'what about Bert Newton?' If I’m going to work with somebody I want to know that he's as sharp as anything and a real pro.{{cite news|title=Subscribe {{!}} theaustralian|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/bert-newton-top-second-banana-to-tvs-don-lane-and-graham-kennedy/news-story/db1409845a5e7cf9a49586b913ef89c7?nk=662e0c5a9f515696a22349c7e8d566dd-1496200241|website=The Australian|date = 31 October 2014}}

The theme music of the show in its later years was "You Make It So Easy", written by Helen Reddy and Carole Bayer Sager and first recorded for Reddy's 1976 album Music, Music.P. J. Lane on 3AW's Remember When, 4 November 2018.