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Hal Lashwood's Alabama Jubilee was an Australian television variety series which aired from 1958 to 1961 on ABC. It was essentially a minstrel show, with some of the performers appearing in blackface makeup. In 1960, it was retitled Hal Lashwood's Minstrels. It aired fortnightly, alternating with Cafe Continental, a variety series featuring acts of diverse ethnic backgrounds.

50 Years 50 Stars is a television special that marked 50 years of television in Australia. Hosted by Mike Munro and broadcast on Sunday 10 September 2006 on the Nine Network, the special counted down the top 50 greatest living Australian television personalities. Also in the special featured many special comments from other television personalities, including Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, John Wood, Erik Thomson, Bert Newton, Jacki Weaver, Scott Cam, James Brayshaw, Jules Lund, Livinia Nixon, Steve Vizard, Ray Martin, Tracy Grimshaw, Brian Henderson, Giaan Rooney, Kimberley Davies & Jana Wendt. ⁕Bert Newton ⁕Kath and Kim ⁕Garry McDonald ⁕Paul Hogan ⁕Don Lane ⁕Kylie Minogue ⁕Barry Humphries ⁕John Farnham ⁕John Wood ⁕Olivia Newton-John ⁕Magda Szubanski ⁕Eddie McGuire ⁕Andrew Denton ⁕Ian 'Molly' Meldrum ⁕Daryl Somers ⁕Mike Willesee ⁕Rove McManus ⁕Sigrid Thornton ⁕Eric Bana ⁕Jana Wendt ⁕Lisa McCune ⁕Charles 'Bud' Tingwell ⁕Noeline Brown ⁕John Clarke ⁕Mike Walsh ⁕Stuart Wagstaff ⁕Georgie Parker ⁕Don Burke ⁕Reg Grundy ⁕Richie Benaud ⁕Ray Martin ⁕Rebecca Gibney ⁕Nicole Kidman ⁕Brian Henderson ⁕Claudia Karvan ⁕George Negus ⁕Denise Drysdale ⁕Glenn Robbins ⁕Rob Sitch ⁕Michael Caton ⁕Jacki Weaver ⁕Lorraine Bayly

World of Sport was a sports programme broadcast on TCN9 in Sydney in the 1960s and 1970s. It was hosted by Ron Casey. The main sport covered was Rugby League. The panelists included Frank Hyde and Peter Frilingos.

QueerTV is a syndicated Australian television series produced by Panda Media, created and directed by Chris Reynolds and Pandora Box. In 2003, the show is now running into its tenth season in Australia. It appears on Television Sydney and Aurora Community Channel on the Foxtel, Austar and Optus Digital Networks and is also soild around the world. Pandora Box was a reporter for DV8TV on Channel 31 producing eight segments that ran for 5 minutes an episode. With the end of DV8 Chris and Pandora created QueerTV. The QueerTV crew have filmed and reported on the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras for the past 4 years. The line up of presenters and reporters include Pandora Box, Jo Smith, Sexy Galexy, Goldie MacShift, Aaron Harkness, Ricki Renee, BovaGirl, Glen Upton and Matt Taylor.

Sylvania Waters was an Australian reality television series that followed the lives of an Australian family – one of the first such programs in Australia. It premiered on Australian television in 1992 and was co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation. The show documented the lives of Noeline Baker and Laurie Donaher of 48 Macintyre Crescent in the Sydney waterside suburb of Sylvania Waters over a six-month period, emphasising the couple's newfound wealth and luxurious lifestyle as well as interpersonal conflicts.

You May Be Right was an Australian television game show, jointly produced by dSPBeyond & the Seven Network, and was hosted by Dancing With The Stars judge Todd McKenney. The show was aired on Sunday nights at 7:30pm and premiered on 13 August 2006. The format pitted two teams of Australian celebrities against each other, testing their knowledge on movies, music and television. Among the games involved are: Check It Out, Crate Expectations, Face Race, Looney Tunes, Slay That Song and What Happened Next. The show's in-house band is the Scared Weird Little Guys. The original working title for the pilot was Famous, but was later changed to its current title. The show was based on the Swedish concept Doobidoo.

Midnight Zoo was an Australian late-night interactive game show broadcast in parts of Australia on the Seven Network. Midnight Zoo debuted on 31 July 2006 and was broadcast from Sydney. It was shown live throughout Victoria and in the capital cities of Sydney and Brisbane, and ran from 12:30 am to 2:00 am Weekday mornings. The final airing of the show was on 21 October 2006. The show was hosted by Steven O'Donnell, Angie Richards and Charlotte Connell.

Triple Zero Heroes is an Australian observational documentary series that airs on the Seven Network. It is an original production by FremantleMedia Australia.

This three part documentary series follows six first-time teachers over the course of 12 months as they set foot in some of the country's most challenging classrooms & confront Australia's education gap head on.

Melody Time was an early Australian music television series which aired in 1957 on Melbourne station ABV-2. The live show was hosted by singer Ormonde Douglas, who also made guest appearances on other Australian television series of the era. In 1959 the series aired again for an additional series of six episodes. The first of the 1959 episodes also featured soprano Maureen Boyce and pianist Wendy Pomroy It is not known how many episodes still exist, given station practices of the era. A 16mm kinescope recording of the episode aired 26 August 1957 is held by National Archives of Australia.

Wake Up is an upcoming Australian breakfast television program on Network Ten The program is expected to premiere in November 2013 and will air weekday mornings from 6am until 9am and it will be presented by Natarsha Belling, Natasha Exelby and James Mathison. The program will broadcast weekdays from Queenscliff Surf Club at Manly Beach in Sydney, with Nuala Hafner presenting news updates from a glass studio at Federation Square in Melbourne.

Pig in a Poke is a 1977 Australian series about a Melbourne doctor who moves to Redfern.

The Mansion is an Australian television comedy based upon news and current affairs. Hosted by Michael Chamberlin and Charlie Pickering and featuring Kate McLennan and Justin Kennedy, It premiered on The Comedy Channel on Thursday 3 April 2008 at 8:30 pm. The Mansion first aired on 26 January 2007 with a six-part Australia Day special. The fictional backstory of The Mansion is that its previous host of The Mansion was one of the word's richest and most sexually potent news magnates, Jebediah McNews. The series finale of the Mansion aired on June 19, 2008 with a 'best of' episode airing on June 26.

Inspired by Bluey's "Fancy Restaurant" kids transform their homes into themed restaurants to give their parents a romantic night, complete with creative menus, decorations, and sweet surprises.

Touch the Sun was a television series commissioned by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in 1988 as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. It may have been intended that seven feature-length episodes were produced, one for each State, plus the Northern Territory, but only six were completed. Executive producer was Patricia Edgar in association with the ABC and production company Revcom.

Behind the Legend is 1972 anthology series based on the lives of various Australians hosted by Manning Clark.

All the Way was an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network in 1988. The series was set in the 1960s; first episode took place on the date of the John F. Kennedy assassination. The series examined the life of an Australian family during the decade of LBJ, the Vietnam War, civil rights activism, and The Beatles, linked by three sisters. A young Dannii Minogue was featured in the cast. All the Way started out as a six-part mini-series before being extended to an ongoing series. It failed to catch on with audiences and was cancelled after 32 episodes.

The Nest is an Australian series that explores the phenomenon of adult children living with their parents. The program offers insight into what a family means in this day and age. Throughout series one, a financial expert and a relationship expert provided the families with guidance and support. A second series began airing on SBS One in September 2009. The second series focuses on work/life family balance with 3 families who are workaholics and don't spend enough time with their kids. The series also examines long working hours. Performance expert Andrew May provides the families with revised family schedules.

Holidays for Sale was an Australian holiday and travel television series that debuted on 17 May 2008, on the Nine Network. It was hosted by Australia's Funniest Home Videos host Shelley Craft, and presented by a team of diverse Nine Network personalities. It is now a website dedicated to offering the cheapest Australian Holidays and is featured each week in the Nine Network's Getaway program.