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Tagged: Simon Townsend's Wonder World!
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Celebrating 40 years of Simon Townsend's Wonder World! The show that changed the face of children's television in Australia.
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Various press clippings from the scrapbooks donated to the NFSA by Simon Townsend.
Many of these clippings are about Woodrow the Bloodhound who was a popular member of the Wonder World! team.
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This is just a tiny sample of viewer submissions, fan letters and fan art sent to Simon Townsend over the years.
The show received hundreds of letters a week from kids and adults all over the country...
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One of five scrapbooks donated to the NFSA by Simon Townsend.
This particular scrapbook was compiled to mark the 1000th episode of the show in 1983.
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Jonathan Coleman talks about Simon Townsend as a visionary and someone who was prepared to let his reporters take risks and push boundaries.
Debbie Kruger interviewed Jonathan Coleman for the NFSA...
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In this excerpt from Jonathan Coleman's oral history interview with the NFSA he talks about the part he played in securing deals with record labels to use popular music in the story segments of Simon...
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In this excerpt from an exclusive NFSA oral history interview with Jonathan Coleman, he explains how his gig as a Wonder World! reporter came about.
Debbie Kruger interviewed Jonathan Coleman for the...
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In this episode of Simon Townsend's Wonder World!, reporter Adam Bowen talks about pinball machines and video games with kids at an amusement parlour and the arcade's owner.
Video games really took...
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Simon Townsend's Wonder World! was well known for presenting new music on the show via the latest video clips or through interviews with local and visiting performers.
This clip begins with Simon...
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After two pilots and six years of trying to get a current affairs-style program produced specifically for kids onto the airwaves, Simon Townsend finally hosts the first episode of Simon Townsend's...