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Image showing the filming of the Channel 10 children's television show 'Fat Cat and Friends'.
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Fat Cat
NFSA ID
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Summary

For two decades this beloved children's character appeared on our television screens in the Channel 10 programme Fat Cat and Friends (1972-1992).

Fat Cat and Friends
Channel 10
children's television

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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.

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