Tag: 1978

1978: February 4-10

Cover Story: Inside the Game Show business:TV Times talks to producer Reg Grundy, the radio game show host of the 1950s that went on to head a TV production empire worth around $6 million (in 1978 dollars) turnover a year. Famous for taking US game show formats and franchising them for local audiences, Grundy had …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/02/1978-february-4-10.html

1978: January 28-February 3

Cover: How Ken James keeps hopping: Actor Ken James, formerly from the soap The Box and now in the new series Glenview High, reminisces about his days as the park ranger’s son in the iconic children’s drama Skippy The Bush Kangaroo – including the times when the show’s marsupial star would cut from a scene …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/01/1978-january-28-february-3.html

1978: January 21-27

Cover Story: Marcia – The hard road to the hits: Queen of Pop Marcia Hines has taken her show on a tour around Australia, with 86 concerts performed in as many towns and cities over fourteen weeks – claiming to be the biggest tour ever undertaken in Australia. In this double-page article, Hines’ manager Peter …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/01/1978-january-21-27.html

1978: January 14-20

Cover: Cop Shop‘s Restless MumActress Rowena Wallace is feeling that she’s becoming typecast after a succession of roles which the 30-year-old has played a “homely wife” figure – a perception not helped by her naturally silver hair (“a hereditary thing”) and that one of her earlier roles in the mini-series Power Without Glory had her …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/01/1978-january-14-20.html

1978: January 7-13

Cover Story: TV’s Sportsman of the Year TV Times previews the presentation of the 1977 Sportsman Of The Year – to be screened on ABC on Saturday 7 January. Among the favourites to take out the title are Dennis Lillee (cricket), Bart Cummings (racing), Graham Marsh (golf), Evonne Cawley (tennis) and Rocky Mattioli (boxing). Countdown …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/01/1978-january-7-13.html

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you all! (well, I think there’s me and about one other person that checks this blog – so that makes at least two of us!!) So while the TV networks will be busy telling us what’s coming up or what’s coming back in 2008, we’re going to take a different slant …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/01/happy-new-year.html