It’s interesting that the above comment was made today, considering that today marks exactly 2 years since the “Great Affiliation Swap” between SCA & WIN for Nine & Ten programming had occurred.
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Ray Martin looks at the History of SBS
“Hello I’m Ray Martin and channel Nine won’t return my phone calls…”
“in 1975 saw the introduction of colour TV, it was the first time Australians finally got to see white people in colour, but some started to wonder what if we could see people of colour in colour?”
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“…, with only an Eastern (a composite of ABC’s Sydney and Brisbane stations) and Western service (from Perth).”
why ABC didn’t take programming source from ABV to Intelsat, MYFRIENDS???
Who cares?!
Don’t know my friend
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The current Gold Coast news anchors 30 years ago in 1988. “Where were they then?”
Bruce Paige
Rod Young
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Here’s an interesting - Professor Julius Sumner Miller’s series “Demonstrations in Physics” (called Science Demonstrations in the US). Someone has uploaded every episode (there’s 30+ of them) to YouTube from the original master tapes on a YouTube channel with the professor’s name.
From what I understand, this was produced in 1969 for ABC TV Australia and was later aired on PBS in the United States…so I guess this must have been one of the earliest colour productions in Australian TV history? It almost certainly would have been produced in colour for syndication overseas, I’d imagine.
I don’t think that program was made in Australia? I don’t know. The credits don’t give any indication that it was made by ABC. I’d be surprised if ABC even had colour equipment installed in 1969 although I guess it’s possible they could have been loaned some from the US, as ATV0 had done to cover the Billy Graham crusades.
In any case, colour programs were made before then in Australia. For instance, Skippy was produced in colour from 1968 although it was made on film.
I don’t think that program was made in Australia? I don’t know.
wikipedia (and a number of websites) do say it was produced by the ABC
whilst on the topic of julius - he’s also known for his cadbury adverts… heres one form youtube:
Wikipedia is always questionable. As for other sites they could be right or maybe they’ve just copy and pasted from wiki 
I just had a quick flick through the book 50 years of ABC and it has a section on their conversion to colour but doesn’t mention this show.
As with Skippy, it could have been Filmed in colour for an international audience instead of being video taped.
Notice how he puts ‘vapour’ (with emphasis on the U) instead of ‘vapor’ on the blackboard.
1988 Friday Night Football (rugby league) intro and closing credits
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Interesting
Looking back through the ABC 50 years book it remarks that in November 1970 special colour equipment was installed at ABC’s Gore Hill studios to allow them to transmit colour coverage of Pope Paul VI’s visit over to RAI in Italy. Presumably ABC didn’t have colour capability before then?
ABC News had started shooting some news stories on film in colour from 1966 to accommodate demands from US television for news stories from Australia in colour. But these were on film.
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Great rendition of ‘Friday on my Mind’ there.
In the last ABC Regional News QLD (Mar '85), Wayne Shearman said that it’s the final edition of ABC Regional News for “Central and Western Queensland”
Sound very “unlogic” to me:
West QLD ABCTV tranmitters are all the translator of ABIQ6 Mt Isa, in which a “satellite stations” of ABTQ3 Townsville - i’m sure that the different is just the testcard on Sat. morning.
This mean that ABTQ, ABNQ and ABIQ (and its translator) are all receive the SAME edition of 6.55 bulletin. ABRQ3 Rockhampton receives different edition and broadcast it to ABMQ4 Mackay. The same thing that these editions are presented from Brisbane.
But, the problem is:
Townsville is North QLD, Rockhampton is Central QLD, Mt Isa is West QLD, and (as I said above), West QLD ABCTV are translators of Mt Isa ABC.
Then, why that final edition was said as “for Central and Western QLD” ???
CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT, #myfriend ???
Yeah! Work your way out of that one, @TelevisionAU!
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Join us tonight as @televisionau attempts to answer these questions on “Unsolved Mysteries”
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Gosh, the pressure 
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Media Watch (http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4398397.htm):
WAYNE SHEARMAN: Good evening, I’m Wayne Shearman. On the subject of final episodes this is the last ABC regional television news broadcast for Central Queensland and the west.
— ABC Central Queensland, 1 March, 1985
Hey @TelevisionAU
sorry if you had pressure to solve that mystery, but, when I check on Media Watch, that’s what Wayne Shearman said, #myfriend