Given Fast Forward did do a lot of old Aussie TV sketches, i though it would’ve been a clip show. Full Frontal would’ve been going by now, if it was a new show, surely it would’ve been braded as Full Frontal.
I am reading too much in to this am I? 
If Wikipedia is any guide, there were a series of Fast Forward specials even after Full Frontal started.
https://youtu.be/PL-hvLXFdgY?si=qyUU1mWQ0WqJEwrh
It looks like it’s a clip show of previously aired sketches.
15 February 1972: The Federal Government announces that all Australian TV stations are to convert to colour transmission on 1 March 1975. The transition is expected to cost the ABC around $46 million and the commercial sector $70 million — although some stations had already installed colour-compatible equipment.
15 February 1981: Bert Newton hosts Channel Nine Celebrates 25 Years Of Television, with guests including Graham Kennedy, Don Lane, Mike Walsh, Tommy Hanlon Jnr, Paul Hogan, Brian Henderson and Brian Naylor. The program includes rare footage from the early days of Australian television.
15 February 1982: Network Ten launches two daytime game shows. $100,000 Moneymakers with Jimmy Hannan, and It Could Be You with Barry Crocker. The latter is a remake of the 1960s program of the same name.
15 February 2000: Gabrielle Richens hosts Ten‘s new dating show, the weekly series Love Rules.
15 February 2004: 60 Minutes presents a special episode to commemorate its 25th anniversary.
15 February 2007: Kim Watkins hosts Ten‘s new factual series Saving Babies.
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Speaking of on this day. Wonder if there will be anything special for 1st March with it being 50 years of colour TV. Or will it be something that just goes by without any fanfare
i doubt any of the networks will bother. The Logies did a special segment for the 20th anniversary of colour at the 1995 awards. Not sure they would even bother for the 50th.
And even if they do, it will just be the usual screening of Aunty Jack’s introduction to colour, which we’ve all seen countless times, lol.
My recommendation would be to watch this
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IIRC the Logies tribute in 1995 didn’t mention the Aunty Jack skit at all, just featured a montage/samples of TV show themes and IDs at the time and a bit of a Tony Bartuccio dance routine
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Does anyone know if 60 Minutes have republished this story anywhere? Can’t seem to find it on 9Now. Or if anyone has a copy of the video that would be amazing to see
This was the second incarnation of Family Feud on Australian TV and the first to be on the Nine Network, replacing The Price is Right
The original Australian version of Family Feud (1977-84), while started at TVW7 in Perth and also showing on Seven in Brisbane and Adelaide, moved production to GTV9 in Melbourne (the same studio where Bert’s Family Feud was to be recorded at years later) when Nine bought the show for airing in Sydney and Melbourne. Despite this, it still maintained the legacy arrangements, continuing to air on Seven in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
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Is that the one with Daryl Somers and produced by Grundy? Odd that TCN and GTV aired it but aired on TVW, BTQ and ADS? Surely Kezza wouldve told old Reg to air it on his network only?
In Brisbane, Shirl’s Neighbourhood, a Seven show, aired on Nine. I think QTQ was owned at one point by Fairfax who also owned ATN.
Network and station ownership back in the day was weird.
Packer only owned TCN9 and GTV9 then – the maximum number of stations allowed to be owned at the time. He probably couldn’t be seen to exert too much control over what happened outside of them and not be able to meddle in contractual matters on stations he didn’t own.
it was also shown on SAS10 in Adelaide.
16 February 1959: The debut episode of hospital drama Emergency airs on GTV9, Melbourne, starring Brian James, Syd Conabere and Judith Godden. The series, one of the first made by Australian television, debuted in Sydney on ATN7 a week later.
16 February 1987: Musician James Valentine hosts ABC‘s new late afternoon children’s programming block, The Afternoon Show. Former A Country Practice stars Shane Withington and Grant Dodwell lead Nine‘s new drama series Willing And Abel, debuting in Melbourne before airing in Sydney two days later.
16 February 1988: Network Ten debuts sketch comedy series The Comedy Company, starring Mark Mitchell, Ian McFadyen, Maryanne Fahey, Kym Gyngell, Siobhan Tuke, Tim Smith and Glenn Robbins.
16 February 1991: Network Ten launches new talent quest series Star Search, hosted by Jeff Phillips.
16 February 1993: Joh’s Jury, the dramatisation of the 1991 trial of former Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen (played by Gerry Connolly), screens on ABC.
16 February 1996: Bridget Adams and Rob Elliott host the debut of new interactive variety-game show Talking Telephone Numbers on Seven.
16 February 1997: The premiere of four-part series Simone de Beauvoir’s Babies on ABC. Starring Sally Cooper, Leverne McDonnell, Sonia Todd and Anne Looby, the series focuses on four women, all childless, reunited at a 20-year school reunion and collectively make a pact to change their lives.
16 February 1999: The Seven Network launches two new weekly comedy shows — The Big News, a sketch comedy series featuring former Fast Forward stars Marg Downey, Michael Veitch and Peter Moon with Matt Tilley; and The Late Report, a current affairs spoof with Richard Stubbs, John Safran, Emma Tom and Sandy George.
16 February 2000: After six years, Blue Heelers star Lisa McCune makes her exit from the series, with her character Senior Constable Maggie Doyle gunned down by an unknown assailant.
16 February 2001: Ten debuts sitcom Sit Down, Shut Up, based around the staff and students at a fictional high school, Carpen Heights Secondary College. The series starred Marg Downey, Stephen Curry, Jacqueline Brennan and Christopher Brown.
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I have no memory of either of these shows.
The original Australian version of Family Feud (1977-84), while started at TVW7 in Perth and also showing on Seven in Brisbane and Adelaide, moved production to GTV9 in Melbourne (the same studio where Bert’s Family Feud was to be recorded at years later) when Nine bought the show for airing in Sydney and Melbourne. Despite this, it still maintained the legacy arrangements, continuing to air on Seven in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
Odd that Family Feud was produced at TVW7 but aired in Adelaide on ADS7 instead of SAS10 (which was then owned by TVW Enterprises). Maybe SAS knocked it back. Although a later TVW quiz show “$50,000 Letterbox” aired in Adelaide on SAS, and on Seven in Sydney and Melbourne.
individual stations, even sister stations with a common owner, had a lot more autonomy in those days. SAS10 may have knocked it back. Hard to say. Networks were not the rigid beasts that they are now.
In the late 70s, Grundy also had another Perth-based game show, The Better Sex, hosted by Mike Preston and Ann Sidney. It was taped at STW9 but AFAIK the only other station that picked it up was TVQ0, Brisbane.
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