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Tagged: Australian television

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Excerpt from Murder Call – Black Friday
Constable Dee Suzeraine (Jennifer Kent) shows Detective Tessa Vance (Lucy Bell) a digital enlargement of the gorilla mask that murder victim Trevor Parkin was wearing. Meanwhile Detective Steve...
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Roger Climpson promotes colour television
Local manufacturer, Philips, engaged the services of television presenter Roger Climpson to promote their colour sets in the 1970s.
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Bruce Gyngell on how the Vietnam War influenced colour television
In the 1960s, Australia was involved in the Vietnam War which, by the early 1970s, had placed a heavy burden on the Australian economy. According to Bruce Gyngell, then head of the Seven Network,...
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Bruce Gyngell on Australian's embracing colour
Bruce Gyngell, then head of the Seven Network, discusses the uptake of colour television in Australia and around the world. This clip is an excerpt from Brendan Horgan's interview with Bruce Gyngell...
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Rescue Me - Denise Drysdale on Go !! Show, 1966
Denise Drysdale appears in episode 117 of Go!! in 1966 singing 'Rescue Me'. 
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Dancing in the Street - Denise Drysdale on Go !! Show, 1966
Denise Drysdale appears in episode 117 of Go!! in 1966 singing 'Dancing in the Street.' 
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Excerpt of Jimmy Hannan interviewing Cloris Leachman on The Mike Walsh Show, Episode 198, 13 November 1980
An excerpt of Jimmy Hannan interviewing Cloris Leachman on The Mike Walsh Show, Episode 198, 13 November, 1980.
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The Young Doctors, 1983
In the final episode the show’s longest serving actors, Gwen Plum and Tim Page, gave a touching farewell to the closure of the Albert Memorial Hospital and the end of the series.
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Channel 7’s colour television demonstration
Stations used the colour broadcast tests to tantalise viewers with some of the programming they would be able to watch once colour television commenced, as can be seen in this clip from Channel 7.
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STW9 Perth: Colour test pattern
To give broadcasters and viewers time to adjust to the new medium, the Australian Broadcasting Control Board (ABCB) advised that stations could transmit colour test patterns from 7 October 1974....
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