TAGGED: 1970s
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Dubbed 'the mother of rock', Lillian Roxon was the most influential rock journalist in the world from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.

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On 27 February 1979, one of Australia’s most addictive soap operas debuted on Network Ten.

It finally came to an end after nearly eight years and 692 episodes, on 11 December 1986.

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Morant (Edward Woodward) and Handcock (Bryan Brown) march to their executions.

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Filmmaker Ken G Hall appears on The Mike Walsh Show with the two different Oscars he received for the newsreel Kokoda Front Line (1942).

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This long-running television ad campaign by George Patterson Advertising for Lassie dog food features Sam – a golden Labrador retriever, regularly portrayed as the ideal family pet. 

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In a lonely, windswept hill camp, far out in the veldt, Captain Hunt (Terence Donovan) instructs Captain Taylor (John Waters) to execute Boer prisoners brought in by Morant (Edward Woodward).

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Morant (Edward Woodward), Handcock (Bryan Brown) and Witton (Lewis Fitz-Gerald) meet their lawyer, Major J.F. Thomas (Jack Thompson), a country solicitor.

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For anyone who was around in the 1980s, when ‘Up There Cazaly’ was used to promote Channel S

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Host Roger Climpson honours Frank Sedgman on an episode of This Is Your Life in 1979.

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This Is Your Life honours Australian tennis champion, John Newcombe.