This is an excerpt of a 1980 oral history interview by Graham Shirley with Margaret (Maggie) Cardin – one of the ABC’s first film editors. 

The TCN9 opening night running sheet used by Molly Brownless in central control.

Supplied by Molly Brownless.

On the night of 16 September 1956, Molly Brownless was working in TCN9’s central control room and was responsible for ensuring the ‘first’ broadcast was transmitted without a hitch.

Dawn Kenyon (then Dawn Dingwall) was the first presenter of Romper Room, which began as a 15-minute segment within Captain Fortune and was later expanded to a stand

This photograph shows (left to right) Molly Brownless, producer Mike Ramsden and master controller Max Maxwell in the TCN9 control room on 16 September 1956. 

Thursday at One was an early daytime television show filmed in Melbourne's GTV9 studios in the early 1960s hosted by women and targeted towards a female audience. 

Excerpt from an oral history interview with Mary Rossi by Christine Hogan in 2005. In this clip Rossi recalls her time hosting Woman's World.

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.

Host of NBN3 Newcastle's version of Romper Room, Anne Campbell, showing some chickens to a group of young children. 

A black-and-white advertisement for silent film A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916).