The 21st Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 16 March 1979 at Hilton Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton was the Master of Ceremonies. American boxer Muhammad Ali, film stars Henry Silva and Cicely Tyson, television actors Robin Williams, Susan Seaforth, Bill Hayes and Lauren Tewes, British actor David Hemmings and television actors Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy appeared as guests.

Awards

Winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1979:

Gold Logie

Presented by Muhammad Ali

Silver Logies

National

Victoria

New South Wales

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Western Australia

Controversies during Logies Night

Before he won the Gold Logie, Bert Newton said to Muhammad Ali, 'I Like The Boy'.