[2][3] Lisner is arguably best known for her time as a "barrel girl" on the prize wheel audience-participation segment of the live variety show, In Melbourne Tonight.
[4] On 31 August 1966 she joined only a handful of women who filled in as replacement comperes for Graham Kennedy in the first 10 years of that program.
[1] In 1961, Panda Lisner married American entertainer and band leader Jimmy Allan, and they eventually relocated to the United States of America in the late 1960s to work in Las Vegas[7] after obtaining residency permits.
Australian actress Kate Doherty portrayed Lisner in the 2007 biographical film about Graham Kennedy, The King.
[8] Explaining her decision to drop out and disillusion with contemporary television in 2001, she told journalist Bob Hart, who had rediscovered her: TV used to look for the best in everything, and everybody.