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The Great Outdoors
Genre	Travel
Presenter(s)	Ernie Dingo Shelley Craft Andrew Daddo Jennifer Hawkins Tom Williams
Country of origin	Australia
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	14
Production
Running time	60 minutes (Including commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel Seven
Picture format	576p (EDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original run	February 1, 1994 –
Chronology
Related shows	Getaway
Links
Official website

The Great Outdoors is also a 1988 film starring John Candy, Dan Aykroyd and Annette Bening. See The Great Outdoors (1988 film).

The Great Outdoors is also a British Walking, Climbing and Mountaineering magazine.

The Great Outdoors is an Australian travel magazine series broadcast on the Seven Network. Similar to its competitor Getaway, the program features a team of reporters who travel around Australia and the world reporting on travel destinations, tourist attractions and accommodation.

The program premiered in 1994 in a 30 minute format and was broadcast on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 p.m.. In 2002, the show was expanded to 60 minutes and moved to the Monday 7:30 p.m. 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 p.m. Saturdays from the 2007 season, where it is hoped the show can find renewed success against less competition.

The current presenters on the show are:

• Ernie Dingo
• Shelley Craft
• Andrew Daddo
• Jennifer Hawkins
• Tom Williams

The Great Outdoors presenters (clockwise from left). Laura Csortan, Di Smith, Ernie Dingo, Shelley Craft, Jennifer Hawkins, Andrew Daddo and Tom Williams

• Bridget Adams
• Penny Cook
• Neil Crompton
• Laura Csortan
• Sophie Falkiner
• Terasa Livingstone
• Di Smith

In this segment viewers can write or email a question to host Ernie Dingo. Question topics vary from travel insurance to holiday safety, from customs information to duty free and more. Each week Ernie answers one viewer's question on air. Ask Ernie was introduced in 2002.

Each week many travel deals are offered to viewers for discount prices. Some may offer a free night of accommodation or free activities. The deals are usually limited to the first 100 callers to ring in or log on to the website. The deals vary from week to week. Great Deals was introduced in 1998.

Every so often a celebrity or sports star co-presents a segment with one of the regular presenters and shows the viewers their favourite holiday destination. Some memorable guests include Ian Thorpe (New York), Harrison Ford (Japan) and Peter "Spider" Everitt (Melbourne).

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

• The Great Outdoors at the Internet Movie Database
• The Great Outdoors at Yahoo!7

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