I drove past the site of the old Prime studios near Wollongong a couple of weeks ago. A Bunnings warehouse is now under construction.
Those studios had become a bit of a tourist attraction for ghost hunters and evidently made a good shooting gallery for the druggies.
Speaking of places to explore:
No one was ever going to win $2,000,000 on the first DoND. In fact, if you watch the first ever episode, you’ll see the top prize was the first value to ever be knocked out! What a disastrous start to that show’s history, lol.
But in the second episode, a contestant named Nathan Cochrane took out $515,000 - at the time the largest amount of money ever won on an Australian game show.
Here it is - the first ever episode of Deal or No Deal Australia. Airdate - 13 July 2003
Only way $2 mil was ever going to be won on that show is if the last 2 cases were $1 mil and $2 mil, and then you MIGHT take a punt knowing that you’d at least win $1 mil.
And while I am at it, here are a few classic epsiodes of The Weakest Link.
The Blue Heelers special
And this is an episode from March 26, 2001 where $10,000 was banked in a single round for the first time.
The $2 million cash prize was Australia’s biggest ever offered on a game show in Australian television history.
Yeap and this changed in the 2007 version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Australia, where they offered a $5 million top cash prize.
How come Channel Ten are using ABC coverage footage in their bulletin? Or is that just a Screen Australia production?
Who is the red haired female newsreader in the “Election 90” graphic cap?
That’s Angela Pearman. Was ABC Sydney weekend newsreader until the mid-late ‘90s and is now a lawyer.
Would Ten have kept much in their archives from then?
On-line exhibit dedicated to Skippy.
Dalt’s Nine News report on this exhibit was hilarious last night. Used to watch Skip at 4pm every day after school in the 1970s. I’d forgotten how versatile he was- learning Italian, playing piano, helping out with mechanical repairs.
The Fast Forward parody was pretty bloody funny, too.
Michael Veitch’s send up of Sonny was spot on.
Very rare finds
