Gordon Boyd resigned from the series only weeks before the start of the 1970 season, and was replaced as its host by Rod McLennan. The 1970 season would be the last in the series' original run.
After the Independent Television System's Adelaide station, SAS10, withdrew from broadcasting the series due to a dispute with host broadcaster ATV0, it was picked up in that city by another broadcaster, NWS9. Besides the other ITS stations, other channels that broadcast the series were TVT6 in Hobart, STW9 in Perth and CTC7 in Canberra.
After its initial axing in 1970, the series would be revived twice in the 1970's. The first, hosted by original host Gordon Boyd and sponsored by Cadbury, ran from 1973-1974 and was again produced by Crawford Productions, but this time for the Nine Network, and the second, hosted by Stuart Wagstaff, was in 1978 by the 0/10 Network, the successor to original broadcaster ITS (Independent Television System).
The 1967 series final incorporated telephone voting, which was first trialled in 1966, as a replacement to the postal voting system used in the past two seasons. In Melbourne, tens of thousands of people attempted to register their votes, resulting in some suburban telephone exchanges being jammed. The response was so great that in 1968, the producers restricted telephone voting in Melbourne to a pre-determined ballot of 250 households, though telephone voting in other states and territories went ahead without restriction.
The winner of the first season received £1,000 and an overseas trip for two, the series runner-up collected £500, the third placegetter received £250 and the other unplaced grand finalists each collected £50. When weekly prizes across the series are also taken into account, the show's overall prize pool across the 15 episodes was over £8,400, making it the richest Australian talent quest at the time. The second season premiered three months after Australia changed to decimal currency, meaning that cash prizes from that season onward were paid in dollars.