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Speaker 1: This is jam Nation with John Zyl Amanda So Andrew Mercado,

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Speaker 1: who is a TV writer. He's a friend of ours.

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Speaker 2: He used to be on TV.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he sent me a copy of TV Time

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Speaker 1: because he remembered me saying that that was a highlight

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Speaker 1: of my week when mum would buy the TV Times.

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Speaker 1: It's the only way you knew it was on TV.

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Speaker 1: You had to get the TV Guide. The newspapers sometimes

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Speaker 1: had them, but we didn't buy a paper.

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Speaker 2: The newspaper still runs the TV Guide.

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Speaker 1: Well this though, you know, this was everything and this

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Speaker 1: is one from nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 2: Four, and this was before TV week.

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Speaker 1: That's right, cost twenty cents and the cover of it.

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Speaker 1: I've just had such a flashback. Is Joanne Samuels. She

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Speaker 1: plays Sue Taylor on Class of seventy four?

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Speaker 2: Class of seventy four?

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Speaker 1: Was it Doug Parkinson doing the song?

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Speaker 2: Did the and Lena Teal was in it?

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Speaker 1: Leonard Teal was in it. Actually, there's an article in

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Speaker 1: here where they're speaking to the students, the actors pretending

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Speaker 1: you all look about fifty eight, pretending to be the students,

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Speaker 1: about what their school days was like. And one of

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Speaker 1: the guys said, I didn't like school because I discovered

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Speaker 1: booze and birds. Then at teal said his years were

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Speaker 1: hideous at.

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Speaker 3: Schools, and the show was just about the comings and

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Speaker 3: goings of the class of seventy four. I was very

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Speaker 3: young when it was and then they went into class

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Speaker 3: of seventy five, and I think it stopped there, that

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Speaker 3: education ended in nineteen seventy five.

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Speaker 1: Well, I thought it was the best show in the

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Speaker 1: history of the universe. So to see it referenced here, it's.

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Speaker 2: Just been This didn't have a bit of a like

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Speaker 2: a like it.

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Speaker 1: It was Peter Tappano was in it.

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Speaker 2: I think there was a drama, wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: It was a drama. But you know, things happened to

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Speaker 1: those school kids. People stole their bags and stuff. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure I can't remember.

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Speaker 2: So it wasn't just someone plug melted in a bag.

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Speaker 1: Imagine if that had happened and someone mum forgot to

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Speaker 1: pack their lunch and came up to up to the

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Speaker 1: school at lunch time to hand it over or bring.

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Speaker 2: Up the spare pants to the school, or like.

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Speaker 1: Your mother did, took your role.

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Speaker 2: Blater, you roller skates.

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Speaker 1: You're still blushed when you talk about it me. But

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Speaker 1: so let's have a look at some of the TV shows. Oh,

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Speaker 1: look at this thing on the back. Remember when these

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Speaker 1: were the rage the fiber optic light, Yes, decorator lamp,

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Speaker 1: exquisite rainbow, Fountain of Light nine ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: Is that all?

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Speaker 1: That's all?

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Speaker 2: Does it say not showing actual size? They always put that.

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Speaker 1: It says lamps not half as lovely, cossed up with

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Speaker 1: ten times as much. I can't if that's a headspin?

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Speaker 2: What what's on the telly? So in nineteen seventy four?

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Speaker 2: What am I watching on the telly today? What's the

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Speaker 2: midday movie? Tuesday?

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Speaker 1: Let's have a midday movie. Channel seven had a comedy

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Speaker 1: Stop You're Killing Me from nineteen fifty three. It lists

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Speaker 1: every single person in the cast, including someone called Howard

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Speaker 1: Saint John Innocence.

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Speaker 2: What's the premise of that?

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Speaker 1: With the repeal of prohibition, a beer racketeer is persuaded

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Speaker 1: by his wife to go straight.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I want to watch There was also Farewell.

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Speaker 1: To Arms Part two was on Channel nine and Channel

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Speaker 1: ten at lunch time had the Mike Walsh show Really

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Speaker 1: There You Go? And at five o'clock you could watch

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Speaker 1: a Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone was a man, was a

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Speaker 1: big man. That might be a rude version that I

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Speaker 1: can remember. Let's have a look what's on in the evenings,

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Speaker 1: So seven o'clock you'd get your newses and your current affair.

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Speaker 1: Hogan's Heroes on Channel ten, which.

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Speaker 2: Is still running now on Channel ten.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is interesting, Chaniel ten seven to thirty especial,

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Speaker 1: nahru the richest nation on Earth now it is imprisoned

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Speaker 1: people on it?

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Speaker 2: Really?

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Speaker 1: Barnaby Jones with Leslie Nielsen, Yes that he was a detective. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Temptation was on at eight thirty, hosted by Tony Barber.

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Speaker 1: Eight thirty was number ninety six. Vera dabbles in the

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Speaker 1: occult again everyone keeps a secret from Dorry. It says

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Speaker 1: the box was on at nine o'clock. That was so rude?

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Speaker 2: Was that rude of the number ninety six? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: It was about the comings and goings and a television's show,

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Speaker 1: wasn't it? Television studio police investigate Paul Missus Hopkins, Rex

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Speaker 1: Heavy John Lee. Sir Henry delivers a horrifying ultimatum and

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Speaker 1: Paul learns a police verdict sounds fascinating. Ernie Sigley was

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Speaker 1: on at nine o'clock. That's the roughest head in the universe,

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Speaker 1: you know, please.

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Speaker 2: But also how did he get ans?

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Speaker 1: There's a whole article everything should know about color TV.

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Speaker 1: They cost up to one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: Then that's nuts.

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Speaker 1: Nawfore how many years ago is that? One hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty eight?

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Speaker 2: You can get a TV now the size of the

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Speaker 2: wall for one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's nuts, size of the Berlin wall. Do I have

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Speaker 1: a quick look at viewpoint. I've enjoyed reading people's opinions,

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Speaker 1: viewpoint this letter. If you have something to say about

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Speaker 1: television right to viewpoint. Monstrous TV needs more excitement, like

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Speaker 1: more slimy one eyed monsters, said David Trenner from Cooper

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Speaker 1: Nook in New South Wales. What about this one? This

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Speaker 1: is from cr gas On in Parkridge in Queensland. Boxes insult.

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Speaker 1: I was sorry to read Delvin Delaney was going to

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Speaker 1: work for the Box. It's a wrong sense of values

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Speaker 1: to think of it as an honor. I'd be insulted

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Speaker 1: to be offered a part in such a degenerate film.

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Speaker 1: One sees fresh, unsophisticated young girls go on TV as newsreaders,

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Speaker 1: we're the girls.

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Speaker 2: Et cetera.

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Speaker 1: Then their previously attractive, suitable dresses get lower and lower cleavage.

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Speaker 1: Miss Delaney says, now she will not appear in the

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Speaker 1: total nude, but wait until she gets used to the company.

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Speaker 1: She'll keep on the box. It will be so familiar.

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Speaker 2: Lift for that day.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you did unbelievable. Also in the days before Google,

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Speaker 1: they just had a thing ask us questions.

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Speaker 2: What's a question?

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Speaker 1: Let me find them here. Talk amongst yourself while I

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Speaker 1: find the question.

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Speaker 2: Is it a cigarette commercial?

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Speaker 1: It's the maltbro man.

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Speaker 2: He's on a horse and he's smoking, but they've.

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Speaker 1: Post produced the cigarette hanging out of it. I'm surprised

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Speaker 1: he didn't put one of the divorse's mouth as well.

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Speaker 1: Let me just quickly find a lot of confirmed bachelors

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Speaker 1: show us around their homes here it is you were asking.

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Speaker 1: This is the days before Google. Please supply some information

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Speaker 1: about Jack Thompson. That's all it says. Do you happen

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Speaker 1: to know what happened to margin Gower champion the dance

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Speaker 1: team in Showboat? Is it true that Bobby Darren is dead?

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Speaker 1: Can you supply the missing words from the lines of

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Speaker 1: the dog food commercial Lassie Dogs don't think they're dogs.

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Speaker 1: They think there's something people and the answers just they

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Speaker 1: think they're four legged people that were sent in by

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Speaker 1: Curious from Bunderberg.

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Speaker 2: Simple Times say.

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Speaker 1: Just the TV Times of nineteen seventy four.

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Speaker 2: Daniel Boone was a man, was a big man.