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The Great Outdoors
Genre	Travel Magazine
Presented by	Ernie Dingo Tom Williams Jennifer Hawkins
Country of origin	Australia
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	17
No. of episodes	640 (as of August 15, 2009)
Production
Running time	60 minutes (Including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	Seven Network
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original run	February 5, 1993 – present
External links
Official website

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 competitors Getaway and So Many Worlds, 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 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 over the past few years, 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,^[1] making it one of the longest running programs on Australian television. (Repeat episodes from 2002 onwards are currently shown on Seven HD during weekday afternoons.)

The seventeenth series of The Great Outdoors is set to return on Saturday 15th August 2009 at 6.30pm on Seven with brand new episodes.^[2]

Presenters

Current presenters

The current presenters on the show are:

• Ernie Dingo (2000 - present)
• Tom Williams (2001 - present)
• Jennifer Hawkins (2005 - present)

Former presenters

Jennifer Hawkins on The Great Outdoors

Previous presenters on the show include:

• Bridget Adams (1994)
• Penny Cook (1993 - 1996)
• Tony Johnston (1996)
• Shelley Craft (2001 - 2007)
• Neil Crompton
• Laura Csortan (2000 - 2006)
• Andrew Dwyer (1994)
• Sophie Falkiner (1999 - 2005)
• Terasa Livingstone
• Di Smith (1996 - 2006)
• Andrew Daddo (1994, 2002 - 2008)

See also

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

References

External links

• The Great Outdoors at the Internet Movie Database
• The Great Outdoors at TV.com
• The Great Outdoors at Yahoo!7
• The Great Outdoors at the National Film and Sound Archive