The Great Outdoors (Australian TV series)
| The Great Outdoors | |
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| Genre | Travel Magazine |
| Presented by |
Rachael Finch (2012) Adam Brand (2012) Peter Wells (2012) Tom Williams (2001–2009, 2012) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 18 |
| No. of episodes | 640 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (Including commercials) (initially 30 minutes until 2002) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Seven Network |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 5 February 1993 - 15 August 2009 6 October 2012 – 24 November 2012 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Great Outdoors was an Australian travel magazine series broadcast on the Seven Network. It began in 1993 and was broadcast regularly until 2009, with a short-lived revival in 2012.
Similar to its competitors Getaway and So Many Worlds, the program featured a team of reporters who travelled 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 8:00 pm. In 2002, the show was expanded to 60 minutes and moved to the Monday 7:30 pm timeslot, where it had stayed until 2006.
After suffering a gradual decline in ratings, the show moved to a new timeslot of 6:30 pm Saturdays from the 2007 season. On 28 April 2007, the show celebrated 600 episodes, making it one of the longest-running programs on Australian television. However, after further decline in ratings, The Great Outdoors was cancelled in August 2009. The show did briefly return in October 2012 for a revamped series with 8 episodes airing on a Saturday evening at 5pm, with the possibility of a new season in 2013 which did not eventuate.
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