The Great Outdoors

Infobox Television
show_name = The Great Outdoors


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genre = Travel Magazine
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1080i (HDTV)
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runtime = 60 minutes "(Including commercials)"
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presenter = Ernie Dingo
Andrew Daddo
Tom Williams
Jennifer Hawkins
Shae Brewster
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country = AUS
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language = English
network = Seven Network
first_aired = February 5 1993
last_aired = present
num_seasons = 16
num_episodes = 639 (as of July 26 2008)
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website = http://au.travel.yahoo.com/great-outdoors/
imdb_id = 0320021
tv_com_id = 12809:"For the 1988 film, see The Great Outdoors (1988 film). "The Great Outdoors" is also a British hillwalking magazine.""The Great Outdoors" is an Australian travel magazine series broadcast on the Seven Network.

History

Similar to its competitor "Getaway", the program features a team of reporters who travel around Australia and overseas, reporting on travel destinations, tourist attractions and accommodation.

The program premiered on 5 February 1993 in a 30 minute format and was broadcast on Tuesday evenings at nowrap|8:00 pm. In 2002, the show was expanded to 60 minutes and moved to the Monday nowrap|7:30 pm timeslot, where it had stayed until 2006.

After suffering a gradual decline in ratings over the past few years, the show moved to a new timeslot of nowrap|6:30 pm Saturdays from the 2007 season. On 28 April 2007, the show celebrated 600 episodes, [cite news|first=Michael|last=Idato|authorlink=Michael Idato|title=The Great Outdoors|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/the-great-outdoors/2007/04/27/1177459955592.html|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=2007-04-27|accessdate=2007-12-09] making it one of the longest running programs on Australian television.

The sixteenth season of the show premiered on April 5 2008. Repeat episodes from 2002 onwards are also shown on Seven HD during weekday afternoons.

Presenters

Current presenters

The current presenters on the show are:
* Ernie Dingo (1993 - "present")
* Andrew Daddo (1994, 2002 - "present")
* Tom Williams (2001 - "present")
* Jennifer Hawkins (2005 - "present")
* Shae Brewster (2008 - "present")

Former presenters

Previous presenters on the show include:
* Bridget Adams (1994)
* Penny Cook (1993 - 1996)
* Shelley Craft (2001 - 2007)
* Neil Crompton
* Laura Csortan (2000 - 2006)
* Andrew Dwyer (1994)
* Sophie Falkiner (? - 2005)
* Terasa Livingstone
* Di Smith (? - 2006)

See also

* List of Australian television series
* List of Seven Network programs

References

External links

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* [http://au.travel.yahoo.com/great-outdoors/index.html The Great Outdoors at Yahoo!7]
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number%3A371574%20|%20Number%3A504746%20|%20Number%3A504747%20|%20Number%3A504748%20|%20Number%3A504749%20|%20Number%3A504750%20|%20Number%3A504751%20|%20Number%3A504752%20|%20Number%3A504753%20|%20Number%3A585655%20|%20Number%3A733572%20|%20Number%3A733573%20|%20Number%3A733574;querytype=;resCount=10 The Great Outdoors at the National Film and Sound Archive]