Hardly a must watch. I think a few watched to see if Axle Whitehead could keep it in his pants for a change.
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There used to be a few Aussie episodes on YouTube, but they’ve all been taken down. A couple of episodes stood out (note the videos I have attached are snippets only, not whole episodes) -
- Singapore - the two teens duck out of the school which the strict parents’ daughter attends, and roam Orchard Street. They are later caught by the “mother”.
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Montana - the father flips Christian’s bed to get him to wake up; this comes just as they settle into Wolf Creek, where they are staying for the week. Later in the same episode, Christian is heard yelling “GET OUT OF MY FACE!”.
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Queensland - the first episode with the strict family in Australia. At one point, the teens are caught inside the same room with the door closed, and Nathan takes off in the family car and Mark Ironside is not impressed. In the footnotes shown at the end of this episode, it states that the teens would like to visit the Ironsides again.
30 years to the day since Channel Ten rebranded themselves as 10 TV Australia
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The rebrand wouldn’t be unveiled until that evening. I was front and centre with the VCR rolling as it happened. Wasn’t I disappointed when that abominable golden logo made its first appearance.
But wait… there was more. Ten topped it all off with 60 litres of pink custard the following night when Family Double Dare with Larry Emdur went to air for the first time. It would take network executives three weeks to realise what viewers were aware of after the first airing- the show was a massive dud.
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The review from Robin Oliver in the next day’s SMH guide was headlined “Ten blasts to the past” - that probably just about summed up the logo and most of the new programs?
Probably the most positive thing I can say about the entire relaunch is that at least Larry Emdur managed to bounce back and enjoy a fairly successful career in Australian TV, despite the absolute disaster that was Family Double Dare. Mind you, it’s not the only Channel Ten flop he’s fronted over the years. Celebrity Dog School, anyone? 
Just before the start of “The Comedy Company” at 7.30pm, if I’m not mistaken.
The X Ten Logo before was one of my favourite television logos. Family Double Dare was a big ratings disaster for the network.
From memory, the Sunday Telegraph TV Guide magazine had the new logo printed in it ready to go from Monday onwards. I think it may have been unveiled about a week from the launch. I can remember seeing it and thinking “My god, what a hideous logo! There was nothing wrong with the X logo!” I remember that weekend well as it was a particularly cold weekend in Sydney with temps in my part of Sydney not getting past 9 degrees all weekend and quite impressive snowfalls to the south and west of the city.
Now that I think of it, Channel 10 keeping with the tradition of launching new logos in the evening as they with the X logo, the 1991 relaunch and last year’s October relaunch. Not sure if they did the same in 1983 in Sydney.
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Wasn’t the XTEN logo dumped because people thought it made Ten look like a porn network?
A representative of the Adult Video Industry Association of Australia jokingly offered Bob Shanks $100 for the rights to the “X” logo design when the change was in the wind but Shanks wasn’t amused and refused to sell.
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Bob did something good for once.
I first saw it on a Ten news report a few weeks prior. The report covered the lavish PR function to launch the upcoming revamp. The report also made mention that while Craig McLachlan was in attendance as part of Neighbours, he had just been announced as leaving the show ( he had signed a deal to go to Seven).
Ten also had newspaper ads on the Saturday with the new logo but it did not launch on air until 7.30pm on Sunday as per my Youtube 
@NewsWeary did TEN10 have the same changeover as Melbourne?
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The You Tube video you posted is what Sydney got at 7.30pm on that Sunday night but with “Sydney” branding. We’d had the whole “there’s something going on around here” campaign in the lead up to it. I think I saw the print version of the logo in SMH reports about Ten having to go “down market” to increase revenue the week before the launch. I didn’t expect the on air version to be so shockingly garish and gaudy.
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The evolution of the 10 TV Australia logo.
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Not just the ugly logo but the dreadfully dull colour scheme it’s like the cigarette packets choosing the colour no one likes
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The logo was changed again in 1991 with the “ten” in a circle logo which was popular and lasted until October 31 last year with some variations.
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On this day in 1986 every Australian TV channel, with the exception of SBS, was showing the same thing from 8pm.
What were they broadcasting and which network’s coverage topped the ratings?
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prince andrews and princess sarahs wedding
Sarah, Duchess of York. She has never been a princess.
Just like Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. She is not a princess either.
