Surely the original lines about ratings falling through the floor and SBS knocking on the door could be used here too 
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Memories of TCN9’s the Super Flying Fun Show, and TEN10’s Commander Strongarm. I remember both shows.
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Great article there!
The Super Flying Fun Show was also shown in Melbourne but I don’t recall ever watching it. I do remember though making the big step from watching Sesame Street in the mornings to the far more “grown up” The Early Bird Show on ATV0.
After The Early Bird Show wound up it was around the time HSV7 started doing morning cartoons and sitcoms like Bewitched and The Munsters from 7am so I moved across to those. By the time Cartoon Connection came around in 1987 – one of the signs of the new Fairfax regime at Seven which saw a sudden influx of shows piped down from Sydney – I had sort of grown out of breakfast TV, not to watch again until Sunrise with Melissa Doyle and Chris Reason (pre-Mel and Kochie) in the 2000s.
But speaking of The Super Flying Fun Show, here’s a TV Week snapshot of Marilyn Mayo from 1976.
I do remember her appearing in Holiday Island in 1981. She sort of vanished into oblivion after that.
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I do remember many mornings before school watching Mister Ed and Leave It To Beaver on 7! My childhood right there. You wouldn’t see B&W TV on morning kids TV now.
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An early NBL promo with Andrew Gaze and Shane Heal, with commentator Bruce McAvaney about 43 sec in.
From: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1346712198713999&id=121283631256868
Back to the times when Victoria had 5 of the 13 teams in the NBL, yet despite their success they battled for media attention in the Channel 7 era. From what I can gather/recall the Channel 7 era covered Brisbane and Adelaide from 1987-1991 having previously had coverage on the 0/10 network for the couple of seasons prior, then went national for the Capital cities (Illawarra, Newcastle and Canberra had local stations cover their home games with a few Falcons home games on YouTube, Hobart home games were covered by the ABC until after 1991) in 1988 when the Kings were formed.
The players in the video…
TIGERS: Andrew GAZE (now coach of the Sydney Kings, still can’t dance), David SIMMONS (dark SIO uniform, better known now as the father of Ben who went as the #1 pick in the NBA Draft in 2016)
GEELONG: Shane HEAL (#23, Fox Commentator having had coaching stints), John DORGE (#33, 2 time Olympian)
GIANTS: David GRAHAM (#7, did some games for the ABC in 1998, the last winter season of the league), Ray BORNER (#15)
SPECTRES: Darren LUCAS (#4 who often guarded Gaze, particularly when the Spectres merged with the Saints to form the Magic), Dean UTHOFF (the big bloke with the mo, went to Sydney when not wanted by the Magic)
SAINTS: Andrew PARKINSON (Best friends with former Tiger Ray Gordon…well maybe not, last did a short stint overnights on SEN when they first started in 2004), Bennie LEWIS (I Think…)
None of these teams are in the current NBL, with the Tigers and Supercats playing in the 2nd tier SEABL competition.
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So Tigers aren’t Melb United? I thought they were the same team.
Yes, that’s correct - they are the same team
Unfortunately the best cast members didn’t move over to Ten with TFF. It showed, and only lasted two seasons there.
Comedy Inc: The Late Shift was actually really good IMO. The later time slot really gave them a bit more freedom.
The original Full Frontal was my favourite - I still pull out the DVDs from time to time. Fast Foward was a little before my time.
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Fast Forward was my favourite and I did enjoy The Comedy Company too. I never really followed the original D Generation on ABC for some reason but did like them when they went over to Seven.
And go back a few more years to Australia You’re Standing In It on ABC which I used to sneak a view whenever I could because mum wouldn’t let me watch it. The show couldn’t have been that explicit though because a year or so later it was being re-run at 6.00 in the evenings. Maybe it had to be edited severely to suit that timeslot?
But as much as I did like Fast Forward it is a show that hasn’t really dated that well. I have all the DVDs and watched some of the recent re-runs on One, and there are some sketches that still work now but some of it was very much of its time and probably a bit tame by today’s standards. I think it could be admired though because it had some great production values in its various parodies, and I imagine done on a tiny budget.
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Full Frontal regularly parodied the TV commercials of the day too, often running half a dozen different pisstakes of the one ad in a given episode. Unless you were familiar with the original ad, I can see why those are often quite dated now.
The original sketches and those based on television shows or movies have held up much better.
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I was too young to remember them on TV But my parents have heaps of recordings of FF and TCC and yeah they are both brilliant 
Get dem tapes. Those would be a goldmine of old idenfs and promos!
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Sensei, teach me how to record the tapes onto my PC 
My parents used to record a tonne of stuff honestly. I have tapes upon tapes of Hey Hey it’s Saturday and other stuff as well (but I think some have commercial breaks taken out)
@TV.Cynic may be able to help you there.
The basic ingredients are a still operating VCR machine with appropriate tape cleaner and a computer with a video capture card as often used by gamers to record their play. The card may even include a video editing program. PM if need any specific advice.
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I have a box full of VHS tapes with recordings of various specials from the late '80s/early '90 and episodes of The Comedy Company, The Big Gig, The Late Show and all but the first few eps of Fast Forward. Unfortunately I did what Nicholas’s parents did and cut out most of the commercials and idents because I usually recorded the shows as they aired and wanted to fit as much as possible on one tape. VHS tapes were quite expensive back then.
I’ve dragged those bloody tapes around with me each time I’ve moved over the past 25 years and I’m not even sure why. I went through them several years ago and uploaded some snippets to You Tube but I’m not even sure I have a VCR that will play them now or if the tapes will play at all because they’re so old.
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Thanks guys. We still have a working VCR in our TV room so I might be in luck! I’ll just need to purchase a video capture card if I decide to go ahead with this.
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Anything you share will be really appreciated. Also as has been illuded to suff like the old bumpers/station idents would be great too. As I’ve come to the realisation of is we’re relying on people’s private collections for this kind of gold to end up on You Tube. I’ve heard rumours and inuendo that stations haven’t exactly achived that kind of stuff
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That’s true.
I know we’ve already seen evidence of TV networks resorting to using YouTube to get clips of shows that they once aired 30 odd years ago.