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The Critics (TV series)

1959 Australian TV series or program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Critics is an Australian television series which aired on ABC. Two versions were produced, one for Sydney and another for Melbourne. Debuting 1959, the Melbourne version ran to 1960, while the Sydney version ran to circa 1962.

Editorial summary

“The Critics (TV series)” enters the record as 1959 Australian TV series or program. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Critics, series and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 1960, 1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Critics, series and Australian.
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“The Critics (TV series)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Critics, series and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1959, 1960 and 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Critics (TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.