TAGGED: 1970s
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In the fourth of a 5-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker reveals some of the women who shaped and redefined television content for women and children.

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Johnny Milner takes a look at the low-budget Australian genre filmmaking of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Dennis Hopper on location shooting Mad Dog Morgan (Philippe Mora, Australia, 1976).

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Norman Gunston (Garry McDonald) interviews Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones in the US.

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Blues, jazz and soul singer Wendy Saddington was a major musical drawcard at the 1970 Ourimbah Pilgrimage For Pop festival and one of just a handful of women who performed at these early music fest

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In this clip, film critic and presenter Bill Collins reports from the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for a Channel 7 TV special called Australia in Cannes.

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Composer Bruce Smeaton talks candidly about his musical contribution to Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975).

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Published in 1972 in the UK and printed in Italy, this hardcover book is full of colour illustrations, stories and puzzles aimed at children who were fans of the Skippy television series.

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Shani Wood interviews Skippy co-creator, John McCallum, on Meeting in the Middle.

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Doc Tydon (played by Donald Pleasence, left) and John Grant (Gary Bond) seated at a table in Doc's hut. An Australian lobby card to promote the release of Wake in Fright in 1971.