season 3 if i recall was hosted by Catriona Rowntree (just looked it up and yes it was).
the show has a decent cast though the years:
Tony Johnston (later went on to the great outdoors and the weather on channel 7 news)
Nick Penn (who if recall was the “zany” one who did the wacky stuff)
and the most successful one - Sonia Kruger
Series 1 was filmed at my school (Williamstown Primary in Melbourne) and we got to be extras in it. They used my older brothers classroom for all the interior classroom shots.
Was a great time to go to school as you never knew what was going to happen that day - be it the actors who played the twist kids coming to school seemingly naked on the back of a ute or saying back after class (with parental permission) to be artfully draped in spaghetti for a scene. It was great and they had one of the first mobile phones i ever saw - a massive 2 part job with a bag that was slung over the shoulder with a 6 foot tall antenna on it.
I remember they had a ceremony to hand over the final script and they showed us a rough edit of Skeleton on the Dunny which was the first ep filmed due to the SFX they needed for the ghosts - which they had not added when they showed us the episode, meaning we had to imagne the ghost
It’s not a show that had changed networks but actually shared between two at the same time.
Going Strong was a weekly magazine show aimed at the over-55 age group. Hosted by Roger Climpson with reporters including one-time TV Week Gold Logie winner Hazel Phillips, it was made sometime around 1987.
It was (IIRC) an SBS production for screening in prime time, but was repeated later in the week in a daytime slot on the Seven Network and was also sold to various regional stations (pre-aggregation and for many areas that did not have SBS).
EDIT: It was 1987, this is a schedule of the show on SBS at 7.30pm (which would have been at 8.00pm in EST), and if you scroll down there is also a screening (probably of the previous week’s episode) on SES8 Mt Gambier in the afternoon.
Mythbusters currently airs, on and off, on both 7 (on mate) and SBS (on Viceland). I think 7 have the earlier seasons and SBS the later seasons but not 100% sure.
Yes, Seven did treat it poorly. It took 2 years for them to air Season 3 & after all that, it was shafted to a 10:30pm timeslot, and was often pre-empted by other programs. FOX8 aired it a year earlier, which indicated that Seven on-sold the first run rights to Foxtel.
When Ten picked up the rights, they treated it much better, with eps that originally aired in a late night slot on Seven being given a prime time slot.
Not if you grew up in the ‘80s. It was a fixture on Ten at 7pm throughout the 1980s. I always thought it odd that both Seven and Nine had locally produced shows leading in to prime time but Ten stuck with the import. I love American sitcoms and I realise MASH is highly acclaimed but it was one sitcom I never really enjoyed.
