Yes I think he did.
Larry Emdur also filled in on the shortlived 6.30pm “infotainment” program (as it’s been covered before, the 6pm news was cut back by 30 minutes to make way for this when it was relaunched from Eyewitness News to Ten Evening News) Sydney with Mike Gibson for a week back in 1990. Here’s a rather cheesy promo for that!
I suspect that Larry had some sort of regular role on that show, perhaps as a reporter?
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I would love for a breakfast show to go back to the living room style sets, Sunrise and Today are to flashy in my opinion
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Can anyone remind me what Ten Melbourne broadcast at 6.30pm when the news was cut back to half an hour with David Johnston reading solo?
11 years to the day since Nine did a major overhaul on all of its network brand. From Today, News and ACA and to the whole Network itself,
Nine dropped the iconic dots with the numeral 9 in a blue box. However that was short lived with the dots returning in January 2008 and for good
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Nine dropping the dots from their logo surely has to be up there with Australian TV’s biggest branding blunders of all time?
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Definitely, not to mention how awfully dated boxy looks 11 years on. The dots are timeless in comparison.
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He hosted the Uncle Tobys Ironman Series in the first season. I think there’s a clip or two on YouTube…
At first, because it was sudden, they just threw in reruns of the old US sitcom Too Close For Comfort.
I would need to look it up but once the new year (1991) ticked over I think it might have been Blind Date at 6.30 and Neighbours at 7. When the hour format resumed in April Blind Date must have gone to 5.30.
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If it was in 1990 as @TelevisionAU alluded to, then it would have been a Melbourne version of “Sydney Wirh Mike Gibson” I think.
there was no Melbourne version of that program. During 1990 ATV10 in Melbourne kept the the one-hour 6pm news while TEN10 supplemented its half-hour news with Sydney With Mike Gibson and TVQ10 did similar with Brisbane With Anna McMahon.
Not sure why Melbourne did not follow suit with the format of the other two cities.
But at the close of 1990 when the big purge went through, the second half-hour of Ten Evening News was chopped in Melbourne, and the 6.30 Sydney and Brisbane shows were axed at the same time… leaving all cities with a half-hour news at 6.
The situation for Adelaide and Perth during that time is less clear as those cities were under separate ownership IIRC so they may not have altered their news hours.
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31 January 1983… Waterloo Station, one of the litany of 1980s drama flops from Channel 9, debuts.
This was how TV Scene reported the show’s debut:
Not sure about other states but in Melbourne it probably never stood a chance, being scheduled up against A Country Practice on Seven and Ten’s new series Carson’s Law, featuring Lorraine Bayly in her TV comeback since leaving The Sullivans.
(and on a tangent… imagine 3 Aussie dramas up against each other today, at 7.30. Would never happen now)
I don’t really remember seeing this show at all except I think i caught a re-run episode a couple of years later when Nine used the show as filler over the non-ratings period.
I guess the show did at least “discover” some new talent, such as Gerry Sont who later went on to do high-class stuff like Melvin: Son Of Alvin, Chances and hosting Double Dare.
Danny Roberts went on to another Grundy soap, Sons And Daughters, and I think was last seen in one of the Underbelly series?
Sally Tayler, named as “Taylor” in this article, had been acting since she was a child and also went on to Sons And Daughters after this show wrapped up. She sort of vanished into obscurity after that. No idea where she ended up.
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@TelevisionAU Sally Tayler left acting in 1987 and went on to become a counsellor and psychotherapist in Sydney.Her mother is actress Lyn James best remembered for her role as Helen Gordon on The Young Doctors.
Thanks… and I didn’t realise she was related to Lyn James. I knew her family had some acting background but didn’t know who exactly.
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“Huge” anniversary today!! 30 years since the first episode of Perfect Match to feature Cameron Daddo (at least in Brisbane).
Promo for and opener to
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I think it was the same date in Melbourne as well.
This was TV Week’s interview with Cameron Daddo and Kerrie Friend published in January 1987, just after both had been confirmed for the show.
Daddo had long been rumoured to get the gig after Greg Evans had been announced to be going to Nine. Daddo was said to have just signed a three-year contract with Ten just before the children’s show he was hosting, Off The Dish, was cancelled. But reports also suggested the network bosses weren’t confident the 21-year-old was old enough to carry the show.
Kerrie Friend had joined the show as a replacement for Tiffany Lamb who’d only lasted about a year. Lamb later returned to TV in an acting role in Paradise Beach and as co-host of ABC’s TVTV.
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i found a 2 hour episode of Carry the flame / seven news from the afternoon of the sydney olympics on youtube. it’s unedited and has all the adverts from sydney still in it - including adverts for 2UE, C7 sport and McDonalds
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