Small Screens, Big Memories: Classic Aussie TV from the 60s, 70s, and 80s

Step back in time with The Big 6-Oh! as we explore the golden era of Australian television from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
From the adventures of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo to the unforgettable cop shows that defined a generation. 
Discover behind-the-scenes tidbits, celebrate iconic characters, and revisit the cultural impact of these classics. 
Join us for a nostalgic journey through the small screens that brought big memories into our lives.

Transcript

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If you're old enough to remember when phones had cords and the only thing that went viral was a cold, then you're in the right place. Welcome to the Big Six-O with Kaylee Harris and Guy Rowlison. Because who better to discuss life's second act than two people who still think mature is a type of cheese?

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G'day and welcome to the Big Six 8. Today we're diving into the glory days of Aussie TV, back when a kangaroo could solve crime problems and we only had five channels and one of them was a test pattern. And of course I'm joined as always by the very wonderful Kayleigh Harris. Back when channel 10 used to be channel O, do you remember that? Oh gosh. Before, yeah, it was channel O. It was, you're right, yeah.

01:03
Now today's episode was your idea. How did the idea come about? You know, um, dober, dober. We were going to a function and a really good friend of ours was talking about the influence of American TV shows in Australia. And we had robust discussion. Um, and her family of course had immigrated to Australia.

01:31
And she thought that, you know, the whole influx of, you know, Americanized terminology and all that sort of things was a bit of a blight on their upbringing because they wanted to absorb as much Australian programming and shows and vernacular as they could. And so that sort of got me thinking, you know, just how much, you know, from the days of Bruce Gingell launching TV back in 56 to now.

01:59
was Australian content and how much of it, you know, in reality was important. Yeah, there was an awful lot of it. And I think if you go back to the sixties when the name Hector Crawford, I mean, he was royalty in this country with Crawford Productions and a lot of those shows that came out in the sixties, particularly, and later the seventies were Crawford Productions. Yeah. And there was a lot of cop shows, right? Yeah, well, it was Homicide and all those sort of things. And it was always a precursor.

02:28
Crawford production yeah and and that's how we remember it right exactly and I mean homicide you talk about homicide Leonard teal George Malaby and there was an amazing thing you think about this right how many shows can claim this 510 episodes of homicide between 64 and 77 you're getting me a lot of episodes for a show it was obviously doing really well for them that's amazing I had no idea it was anything like that and and for the longevity of that that that

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just validates the whole thing, doesn't it? And that led into Division Four. Yeah, with Jared Kennedy or Gerard Kennedy? Gerard Kennedy freaked me out because he had that weird eye. And I was a bit conflicted because he was such a good cop, but he had this weird roaming eye, but he was, Frank Banner played him, he was fantastic. And I didn't know this, but I did a bit of research before today's podcast. And Division Four was set in the fictitious town of Yarra Central.

03:26
Victoria which was loosely based on St Kilda. Oh really? Yeah. Loved it. Loved it. Well then then you had like shows like Matlock Police and Cop Shop a bit later. Yeah. Um yeah. All those sort of things. Blue Healers was a little bit later again but Homicide was the one that really kicked it off wasn't it? Yeah and I think um Matlock Police really launched um Mick Cronin's career didn't it? That was on between seventy and seventy-six.

03:55
And interestingly, that was based on the Victorian town of Shepperton. So a lot of these Crawford productions, Hector Crawford must've lived in Melbourne because I think he did, because a lot of these things were sort of Melbourne based around these police show, but there was definitely that genre of police dramas in the sixties and seventies, weren't there? Yeah, a hundred percent. And you mentioned Mick Cronin, whose brother Paul is a guy you were thinking about. Paul Cronin was a guy that was...

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install a one and that was the spin off from that's from Matlock police. Maybe I'm getting my Cronin's mix. Well, you know, I'm sure it's a very close family. Very, very Sullivan's Paul or Mick Paul. Paul. Oh, they go and get mixed up. Yeah. Yeah. Paul was the NRL player. Mick was the NRL player played for Paramount. But like I said, very close family and blind man on a galloping horse in the wrong light, you'd probably never be able to tell the difference. Yeah. Yeah.

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But there were others and there were some famous TV shows that were cop shows in this country that sort of sunk without trace. And that's a bit of a pun on the fact that there was a show called Patrol Boat. Oh, Patrol Boat. Now, I feel as though when a TV show does really well, they pump out that genre a lot, which is why we then had Homicide Division 4 and Matlock.

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of on our screens all at once because everyone said it seemed to gravitate towards cop shows. Yeah, yeah. And then later it was it was um game shows right? Yeah and funny you should say that because I was only thinking the other day because Great Temptation was probably one of those big shows in the 70s with Tony Barber and and uh Barbie Rogers who you know was you know but she was a glamour. Yeah wasn't she oh back in the day certainly but

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Before then, we sort of imported everything because the first game show I remember as a kid, and I must have been about four, was something called Cole's $6,000 question. Oh, that $64,000 question? It was only $6,000, Jesus, back in the day, yeah. Oh, wow. Gosh, yeah, wow. Happy budget, yeah. I wanna be on that show.

06:08
And then there was BP Pick A Box. I don't know if you remember that show. Pick A Box was Bob and Dolly Dyer. Now they were a husband and wife team. And they were again, they were royalty in this country when Pick A Box came out. Yeah, cause Bob, he was Canadian, wasn't he? Bob was a Canadian or an American or? I can't remember. Yeah, we seemed to sort of adopt a lot of that, whether it was the accent, I don't know. But then after that we...

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obviously went in Great Temptation and then Sail of the Century which was an incarnation of that. Yeah. So those game shows and then there was you know it just went crazy after that. Wheel of Fortune, there was It's Academic and of course then we get into the Graham Kennedy era of Blankety Blanks, those almost naughty kind of shows. He was I mean again.

06:56
TV royalty, Graham Kennedy, wasn't it? And didn't he push the envelope with a lot of that stuff with Dave Gray, ugly Dave Gray. Ugly Dave Gray, imagine calling someone that now. That's right, and Stuart Wagstaff, Nalene Brown, they were all on the panel and they'd always have a guest. They'd always have a guest that was sort of sitting there. But they certainly pushed the envelope as far as what they could probably get away with. But then that sort of almost crossed the line between a game show and entertainment.

07:25
where we had shows like the Don Lane show and the Mike Walsh show, which were sort of that entertainment sort of genre too, weren't they? Yeah, well, you mentioned before about the American voices coming on with Bob Dyer and of course Don Lane came in and later, I know she was music, but Marsha Hines came onto the scene as well, the American voices that it was almost felt as though we had grown up as a nation that we were attracting.

07:51
um, you know, a talent from the U S to come over and, and do shows over here. When you talk about Don Lane and, um, you know, it brings back all those memories of cause Mike Walsh show and Don Lane show were almost as, they were the same genre. They were variety shows and they were, except one was at nine o'clock at night and one was in the middle of the day. And I've got a story about the Mike Walsh show. Uh, I have, my uncle was managing a wildlife property up at

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a park up in Queensland and he was a regular on the Mike Walsh show and he would bring down, he'd fly down once a month or something and bring an animal down and he'd have to keep it in his hotel room in North Sydney before the show. I don't think you'd be allowed to do that these days. And one of the famous ones, he actually got some press coverage because he brought down a baby crocodile about a metre long and he kept it in the bath and the hotel overnight. What? And the telly came in and

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I've got a photo of an old clipping from the telly of him. Yeah, and we thought he was, you know, so my uncle is so famous because he's on the Mike Walsh show. You're kidding me. A croc in the hotel room. A croc in the bath in the hotel room the night before until he got onto the program. And years later, you remember Sheryl from the Mike Walsh show, Mike Williams. Yes. He was, I think, the floor manager. I went on to produce him at 2GB years later. Lovely man. Very funny man.

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and has some great stories to tell about what life was like on the Mike Walsh show with Jeannie Little and Dr. James Wright. Dr. James Wright, you know? And like, you weren't allowed to use your real name. And I know, talking at a school, my mum used to go and see that doctor, cause he had a surgery there just near Eastwood Dentiston way in Sydney. Yeah, and his surname wasn't Wright, was it? It was something else. It was Dr. Knight.

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Dr. Knight, that's right. But there were all those sort of like, and that was another thing that we had the game shows. I mean, these days, of course, it's all about reality TV, which is probably as far from reality as anything else that's produced for television audiences. Yeah, I'm not a fan of the reality TV shows, I've got to say. No, no. But of course, the comedy shows too. I mean, it kicked off with way back. And this is before probably.

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your day, my day, we had like the Mavis Bramson show. Yeah. But it was the forerunner to things like the Norman Gunston show and, and, and Kingswood country, which was so politically incorrect, it wouldn't get an airing today. And the Kath and Kim's and, and even Hey Hey, it's Saturday. I mean, how long did that run for? Yeah. Well, didn't that start off, I think, on a, on a Saturday morning as the Darrell and Ozzie show before it went to, it went to Saturday nights. And I, and I remember, I think it was on six till 8pm.

10:44
on a Saturday night and we wouldn't go out on a Saturday night until it had finished and it was again you say you know There were some politically incorrect jokes in there With some of the guests I'm thinking Kamal, you know, they're a bit mean to him But some of those characters on the show

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Uh, with Dickie knee, you know, it was fantastic. It was, that was fantastic TV. It was. And you're right. It went from that Saturday morning thing to Saturday night. And you just, it was, it was a CTV, wasn't it? Thousand percent must see TV because it went from being that whole kids thing to, you know, it's catering for that sort of late teen adults and whatever. And I'm not sure how long it ran for, but it was forever. Like they had a thousand shows or something like that. Didn't they?

11:27
Yeah. And if you find yourself with a spare, you know, half an hour to kill, go back on YouTube and look up some of the episodes of red faces. It is so funny. Some of those people that appeared on red faces were so clever. I used to always insist on having boy jelly babies. Did you get just that little bit more jelly babies? And that sort of opened the door for, you know.

11:51
Probably not quite the same sort of thing, but then later on there was things like The Naked Vicar Show and and yeah, I said, Kath and Kim with another Australian classic which you know, it just, you know, it just poked fun at us, didn't it, as a culture? Exactly, exactly. Now can I take you back, I want to take you back a bit, you opened, you talked about in the opening of the show about Skippy, and because I want to sort of steer us into kids TV shows of the 60s and 70s and that was probably the biggest in the 60s.

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Skippy was capable of near human thought and reasoning. Listen to this, he could understand everyone, open doors, carry things in her pouch, he or him, what is it, cross streams on narrow logs, foil the villains, rescue hapless bushwalkers, untie ropes, collect the mail, and even operate the radio.

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Yeah, I've actually watched an episode where Skip was playing the drums. Well, I was going to say that. And in another episode, she places a bet on a horse who ran with you. I watched that show. I watched that show and won. And won. Yeah. And they were the fake kangaroo paws that they, someone used to hold out the front when Skip's paws were in shot. And they would use the fake kangaroo. I always wonder where they got those from. Some poor hapless kangaroo.

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What are you saying? What, it wasn't her? No, all nine of her. There was apparently at least nine kangaroos that played skip. You're kidding me. They weren't real. Sorry, Guy. Oh, look. And one weekend, I remember my parents took my sister and I to Warratah Park. Oh, that was on the Northern beaches. Where was that? Upper Bellrose. That's right. And we couldn't believe it was the first time we'd set foot on a movie set or a TV set, sorry. And...

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You could walk around and see the Rangers hut and everything. It was fantastic. And all the boys loved Clancy. Oh, the girl. And she just a gem. Yeah. Clancy and of course, Jerry and the other one and the other one. There's always the other one. Whoever you are, we've forgotten. Yeah. Look, it was, it was just that iconic show and it's still getting the reruns now. And I mean, we're talking 50 years or more and it's still getting reruns.

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So, but you're right, there were so many kids shows and the ABC kicked things off with the really little ones with Adventure Island. I don't know whether Adventure Island means anything. Yeah, that I watched it too much. I think there was a character in there called Fifi Bear. And I think that's where John Michael Housen got his start. He was the person inside the Fifi Bear outfit or whatever. But it was great. And then that obviously got followed out by Play School and there was Romper Room, but there was a, there were...

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afternoon shows like there was Cartoon Corner with Skeeter the Paperboy. That's right. And Skeeter, Skeeter actually went on to be the guy that was doing all the cartoon work for Ginger Megs. Oh really? Another great awesome character. Yeah, there you go. So there was that. And then in the mornings, there was the Superflowing Fun Show with Miss Marilyn. I love the Superflowing Fun Show and Marty and Emu.

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were on that. Marty and Emu. And Mum would have to drag me away from the telly to go to school, because I loved watching the Super Flying Fun Show. And I think Marty only passed away recently in the last year or so. He was a great Ozzy character as well. And he predated, I think, Ozzy Ostrich, didn't he, with his Emu. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'd almost think that the character of Ozzy was almost based on the whole Marty and Emu thing. Yeah, and of course Mr. Squiggle, the puppet with the pencil in his nose.

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Um, I always found that a bit creepy. Um, yeah. And play school and they'd look through the big window and she'd look through something and she'd call, I can see Guy and I can see Mary and I can see, she never saw Kayleigh. No, there was no Kayleigh ever. No, I didn't know any Kayleigh's. I never got my name called out. Still suffering you and I PTSD from not being called out by the magic mirror. That's right. The magic mirror. That's it. Mirror. I have to say, uh, with romper room, I did actually get.

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to have an appearance on romper room. Uh, but it was as a professional, like as a grownup, because I was actually working for channel seven and they needed someone to be Mr. Doobie and, and so I just, I just got to finish a shift and I got to be Mr. Doobie. That is incredible. I love that. Yeah. That's so fucking just see you as Mr. Doobie. Yeah. Well, if you mean a hand puppet that's coming out of a

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box. That's okay. That's there you go. But there were lots of other kids shows too. Um, you know, because the bear with no pants, he's Humphrey. I mean, he's Humphrey. What was with bears at the time? There were so many bears on TV at the time. And we talked about, um, Yogi. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There just seemed to be a lot of bears around here. Yeah. And he had no pants on and, and some poor person, hapless person walking around the channel line, TV studios, come on, we need someone to be Humphrey B bear and someone would have to jump into the suit.

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But there were other shows too, like there were Seven Little Australians and the Rovers and the Lost Islands. And then there was the, probably just before we made it into high school, there were shows like with Andrew Harwood, like It's Academic and Jeopardy. And I was always wanting our school to be on there, but it was always like, all the private school kids that got to go on those shows. It wasn't, you run the Mill Garden variety schools, but they were iconic shows too back in the day.

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They were. And at that time, we sort of seemed to be steering kids towards educational shows. Like I'm thinking Simon Townsend's Wonderworld.

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very educational and I and that launched the careers of quite a few famous Australians as well like Jonathan Coleman and I went for a job as one I want to be a reporter and I went with 10 000 other people to get a job as a reporter on you know back in the 80s and didn't get it unfortunately but yeah those kinds of shows where they were teaching kids something. Yeah was it Angela Coternza Woodrow that sort of got that last place? I think it was Woodrow because that's actually how I got into

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I got past the initial audition stage. I sent by courier cost me a bomb at the time. I sent half a dozen tins of pal dog food to Simon. I said no to Woodrow. And I said, Woodrow, please talk to dad and tell him I should get on the show. And I got a call up to go and do it on camera. Yeah. But I didn't get it. Unfortunately, everyone wanted to be on that show. Wow. You, you, you're a thinking woman. Wow. That's fantastic. But the box. Hey.

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But half a dozen cans would I would have been very pleased. Oh, you would have been. Yeah, you probably enjoyed that, I would say. I'd say so. Yeah. Now, what about, let's go to the shows I was never allowed to watch. Number 96 and The Box. Yes, I was going to talk about that. Yeah, number 96. This was in the 70s and I think there was a lot of risque television in the 70s. And, you know, of course, launched the career of Abigail. And I was like, yeah, your parents would watch it, but we weren't allowed.

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watch it it was something a bit naughty and you might sort of sneak out your bedroom and look around the corner and see if there was any bear boobs or something going on. I could listen I could listen to the other end of the house and then you heard Arnold Feather or whoever the characters were and I just so quiet just to if I could in my mind imagine what was actually going on and yes crawl up look around the corner and hope you know but yeah yeah that was.

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Never allowed to watch it. All of a sudden my bedtime went to nine o'clock from when it was probably whatever it was, because that's when number 96 came on. Yeah, that's right. So you broke new ground, didn't it? You talked before about, um, Norman Gunston show would be remiss of us to not to talk about the Paul Hogan show. Um, iconic again, TV you couldn't miss. Yeah, it was just unmissable. And, um, you know, with Strop and I remember on one episode of the show, and again, you can find this on YouTube.

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He made this drink on the show and it was, it was live studio audience as well. And it was a raw egg. Um, and he put in a couple of other horrible things and he drank it live on TV. Uh, and he said, Oh, it's really good for a hangover. Mate, you know, the side mouth, um, you can find on you and it's just, I had it. He done. I remember at the time watching the episode, how did he drink that? But you know, Delvin Delaney, um, it was, it was so much, it was such a fun show. Wasn't it? He was so iconic. And again.

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taking the Mickey out of us as Aussies. There's so many aerosol spray products on the market now and in the average home that it's, can become very confusing and sometimes painful and uncomfortable. As anyone would know, that's ever sort of squirted under their armpits with Alberto VO5. For hard to hold hair. Yeah, of course. Hasn't aged well when you do look at it, but you think, you know what, it does. It's taking the Mickey out of us.

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And I think that's what we appreciated. We thought, yeah, we can laugh at ourselves. Absolutely. We'd grown up enough to think, well, you know, we're not all, you know, we're not part of the British Empire as far as some of the humor is concerned. Yeah, we can take the proverbial. Yeah, we can laugh at ourselves. And it was one of those shows full of sketches, a lot like Fast Forward and Comedy Company that were based on sketches, which is pretty expensive to produce when you think about setting up all those different sketches. But...

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Kylie Moll, remember Kylie Moll? Kylie Moll, yeah. And Chanel, Chanel's house to butay. And once again, just careers that sort of blossomed. And characters who were actually bigger than the people themselves, because everyone knew Kylie Moll. Yes. So yeah, like that was, in the scheme of things, I guess a relatively short lived series, it was probably, you know, but.

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Those characters endure, don't they? They just live on. Oh, they certainly do. And I'm sure they come back to haunt those actors and actresses these days, they get asked about them. But it was part of, you know, our life back then. It was part of growing up and you fondly remember those characters and remember them making you laugh at that time. You talk about having crocodiles in the bath and Mike Walsh show and those sort of things. There were a couple of shows very...

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I remember watching world championship wrestling as a kid with my grandfather. And that was, you know, and that was very Australian, even though, you know, I think Mike Cleary, who went on to become a sports minister in, in, in subsequent governments, um, all that wrestling sort of thing was Spiros Orion and the golden Greek and, uh, you know, you know, all the, you know, and they had the mighty midgets, which I don't think he'd allowed to do that on TV anymore. Um, but.

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that whole world championship wrestling, which was, you know, the forerunner to all the wrestling shows that are on now. But that was just, you know, that was one of those shows that you sat down and watched, but where I was going, Mario Milano, you know, he was embraced by the Greek community as being their hero on that show. Yes. Uh, yeah. Whether it was Mario Milano or, you know, like say Spiro Sereno or the K-Stacks Calhoun, um, Brute Bernard, Killer Kyle Cox, you know, and of course.

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You had to have the Aussies, Larry O'Day and Ron Miller, who had little kangaroos on their boots as well, just to reinforce the fact that they're Aussies. And how many of us didn't try the sleeper hold on their siblings because... All brothers, yeah, that's right. Yeah, put the sleeper hold on your brother because that'll work, you know, and the brain buster, just tip your little sister upside down and say, no, that's not going to happen.

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But there was a show on before then called Nature Walkabout, which I had to sit through because it was all about walking through the Australian bush. I was just, it was like, it was like, you'd go and they'd be walking through the bush or whatever and looking at whatever you look at in the bush. And I wasn't that interested as a six year old because I was waiting for Spiro Seren or Mario Molano to come on. But it reminded me that there were two shows in particular. There was In the Wild with Harry Butler.

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on the ABC. Oh, Harry Bartley, yes. And the Leyland brothers. I was going to say the Leyland brothers. How amazing Mike and Mal Leyland, Mal, travelling all over the countryside, you know, in their four wheel drive and with their partners and kids and stuff and introducing us to all these amazing parts of our own country. It was an awakening, wasn't it? Travel all over the countryside, ask the Leylanders, ask the Leylanders. Travel all over the countryside, ask the Leyland brothers.

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I've actually got a real story, real life story about that. We were going camping. We must have been in our early twenties. I was there with probably half a dozen or so mates and we were up Mile Lakes, which is on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. And we were camping there. We were roughing, we sort of not in the camping area was outside and we had tents and we were sitting down. Just built a fire and we were probably having a few, you know, elixirs or whatever it was.

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And Mel Laylen walked through the bush. Did he have a film crew? What was going on there? And then he walked back and he brought something out. Hey Mel, he said, no, I'm Mike. Mike then walked through the bush and the family, the wives and we thought, well, we'll do the right thing here. We thought, my gosh, there was no one else. It was us and the Laylens would have been about 30 or 40 meters camped away from us. No one else within Cooey. We thought, oh, it's getting late. We'll do the right thing. We'll go and offer them.

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like some of the wood that we'd collected so as they could start a fire. Oh no, they had a generator. They had all the mod cons. And a film crew behind them in a truck. Not quite, but I thought, oh, brush with fame. But yeah. Yeah. And didn't that then spurn onto things like Albie Mangles? Yeah, probably did. And, and though, do you remember Albie? He was on a boat and he always, it was always in Speedos and had a chicken, a bikini alongside him. He always had glammers with him.

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Was living the dream wasn't it? Yeah there was one particular model that he had with him I think he was a model on Sailor of the Century who went along on one of those boat trips with him and yeah it was always that it always brought out the movie around about Christmas time too Albie Mengel's such and such adventures so. That's right going back to reality shows the other one that was a really big one in the 70s was It's a Knockout. Oh yes. That was that was a I guess a kind of yeah real um pitting people against each other and

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reality show at the time it was huge and the other one I would be remiss of me not to bring up is perfect match in the in the in the 80s to remember perfect match.

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And people actually went on, you know, away for the weekend. A girlfriend of mine was lucky enough to work for 10 at the time, and she was an escort on those on those dates. And quite often they would send them up to Great Keppel Island and places like exotic places like that for the weekend with a film crew. And my girlfriend would go along with them.

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And when it all ended in tears after the first date on the Saturday, she would end up comforting the girl. Oh really? While the guy's off drinking with a bunch of blokes and stuff and then they'd have to come back and put all the film stuff together again. And Greg Evans went on to be a celebrant. He's actually a wedding celebrant and you can get him to do your wedding.

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Isn't that great? I mean, if you're our vintage, wouldn't that be a fun thing to do? So that's crazy. Can you have Dexter as best man? Well, what's, I think you, oh, there's a story about Dexter. Dexter was found in the, in the studios at channel 10, popped in a corner somewhere and somebody rescued him. But, um, yeah, no way. I would see if we can track down Greg Evans and get some of those great stories. Oh, look, a friend, a really good friend of ours. He was on the show. Um, he won from memory. Um, but until recently, he still had.

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Rado watch. Oh a Rado watch? Yeah because I think the the winning contestants or whatever won a Rado watch. And remember they and you're always waiting for the screen to slide back for them to see each other for the first time and see whether they were disappointed. Some of the looks on their faces you think oh wow you know and I'm thinking the Rado was probably a top of the list of things that I want to achieve on this program and then yeah they'd look at the guy the girl and think

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And the audience would be going, pick number three, pick number three. And she'd pick number one. And the screen is laid back and you go, Oh, yeah. What a great time. And you, and you know what? We haven't even touched on some of the soaps and we probably should do that very quickly and whether it's the home in a ways or your sons and daughters or your country practice, country practice, iconic TV show set in modern Valley, of course, launched the careers of a lot of people and relaunch careers of people like Loray Desmond and one of our, one of our kids.

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when the country practice sort of theme song came on, she knew it was bedtime and it was just, oh, she'd toddle to bed. So she's grown up with that, having a recollection, having never really remembered the show, just, oh, I know that song, you know, and it's because, but there were, you know, whether it's Neighbors, which obviously is, how long has that been going? And then Young Doctors and the Restless Years. Oh.

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You look at all of these shows and when you start to sort of make a mental note of all the shows that we've talked about today and we could go on and on and on, it's indicative of just how much we've actually achieved in this country as far as television is concerned from, I say, the days of Bruce Gingell launching TV back in 56. And from what I remember or have a recall, the Melbourne Olympics, it was all in time for the Melbourne Olympics.

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And there was only like two handheld cameras for those Olympics to cover it because, you know, we just didn't have, you know, the infrastructure in place. But with all those shows, all those programs from the humor and the soaps, we've done so much and we probably undersell ourselves. Yeah, and just backtracking for a second country practice, I think the whole country stopped when Molly died. Oh. Do you remember? That was probably one of the most...

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watched episodes of any program in the country at the time when Molly died. It was just, yeah, stopped everybody in their tracks. But goodness me, so many wonderful shows that we grew up with. Yeah. Between that Molly and of course Molly and Countdown, which is probably a whole other episode anyway. Yeah. It's probably time we've amused and- Yeah, but we haven't even, we'll do another episode of American-

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television that we used to watch as well. Just quick teaser, things like Gilligan's Island and Batman and stuff. So we'll cover that in another episode because there's just so much material. Or if there's something you'd like us to talk about or you remember, just reach out to us at contact at the big six dash O H exclamation mark, is it? Something like that. Yeah. com You'll be able to find us because we're on Facebook as well. So they'll certainly be able to.

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You'll find us. Yeah, send us a message. We're out there. So, hey, I'm going off. I think I'm gonna watch, is it channel O? Channel O. Channel O, Channel 7, 9, 10 or? If you say Channel 2, people don't know what you're talking about these days, is the ABC. No idea, no idea. I'm going. See you next week. I'll see you later.

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Ah, and before we go, let's give credit where credit is due. Kaylee Harris and I came up with all the genius content for this week's episode. Our producer, Nick Abood, well he keeps the lights on and makes sure we don't accidentally upload a cat video instead of a podcast. So thanks for keeping us on track Nick. Nick?