This is an example of the opener used to sports broadcast by Nine in the early 1980s. There is also a short promo at the start for the Hottest Cricket in 100 summers for the England tour of Australia in 1982-83. I think this was recorded in early September 1982.
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“No it’s just not cricket. At least that’s what Alan Border and his team are saying…”
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Former professional wrestler Mario Milano has died, aged 81. He was one of the stars of the Nine Network’s World Championship Wrestling back in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Classic television!
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11:35 Trump and 12:20 Obama
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Despite her many journalistic and professional achievements she will probably be best remembered by many as the interviewer in the Omo commercials:
YouTube: Conniptions886
Although that ad is from the 1970s I seem to recall she was still doing Omo ads as late as the 1980s.
(EDIT: Actually on second thoughts I think I might have confused Anne Deveson with Sue Smith who was the ex-ACA reporter who used to do ads for Pears shampoo. I remember she used to stare harshly to the camera while going through supermarket aisles and mocking the rival shampoo brands… “oh and those questionable cheapies… you think they were laundry detergent!”. But I digress)
She also worked on current affairs program Seven Days in the 1960s. This was part of a story she did on lesbian relationships. Pretty groundbreaking stuff for the 1960s…
YouTube: kurvapicsa
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Just noticed it was 30 years ago this week that Prisoner finished.
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What were the ratings like towards the end of Prisoner’s run?
Yes. Final episode aired in Melbourne on 11 December 1986 and later in other states…
But SAS10 Adelaide was so far behind in episodes that they were still screening the series a year later and had to air the final episodes over consecutive nights in December to get them all aired before SAS went from Channel 10 to become Channel 7.
And in Perth where there was no Channel 10, STW9 which had the rights to the show had dropped it from the schedule well before the final episode, so Perth viewers never got to see the end of the series… probably not until the DVD came out years later.
Apparently, TVQ0 had also dropped Prisoner before its finale? But I don’t know that for certain.
The National Film and Sound Archive has put together a tribute to Prisoner to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the show’s final episode: https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/he-used-give-me-roses
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I remember watching the final episode on Ten Sydney. It was scheduled very late at night and I fell asleep part way through. Woke up just at the end when the Freak was being escorted into Wentworth. Having been a fan for so long I was very annoyed with myself. I didn’t see the last episode in full until about twenty years later when I rented the DVD from a video store.
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I was never allowed to watch Prisoner as a kid. Mum didn’t approve of shows making heroes out of criminals (then she became a fan of Underbelly… go figure). But then when 10 started late night reruns in about 1989 i got into watching it from episode 1. I dropped out of watching/taping the (4am!) reruns after a while but came back to see the finale… probably about 1994?
Hope you didn’t fall asleep again!
At least you could rewind it then
Gosh I can remember when the ‘Summer of Tennis’ started in about October!
Geez mate, spoiler alert…
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Managed to find a copy of the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire DVD game at Vinnies for $1.
Here’s the intro:
For the record the DVD was released in 2004.
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Oh wow, it was only last week, I was looking through my DVDs and saw that I had a copy, never knew i had it
The first ABC News Bulletin of the 21st Century aired from Melbourne at 7.00pm on 1.1.00
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How good is that theme song?
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Wow great theme song, heck even the on-screen graphics are better them todays!