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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda. If you're over a

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Speaker 1: certain age, I don't want to speculate what that age is. Well,

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Speaker 1: obviously over fifty, right, you'll know this theme. That is

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Speaker 1: the music for number ninety six. Number ninety six. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: March thirteen mark fifty years Chips since Number ninety six

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Speaker 1: was first broadcast on Australian television. This show was incredibly groundbreaking.

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Speaker 1: It was advertised as tonight Television Loses its virginity and

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Speaker 1: it was on at eight thirty at night and there

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Speaker 1: were really lots of adult themes. There was full of nudity,

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Speaker 1: just norcs out. Did we see PP did we say

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Speaker 1: mail downstairs? Did we see that?

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Speaker 2: I think we saw for frontal nudity.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we saw.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember if there was.

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Speaker 1: PP by that. I mean, you know, yeah, I know

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Speaker 1: exactly what PPE is. But the show was incredibly groundbreaking.

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Speaker 1: There were some ridiculous bits in it as well. Remember

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Speaker 1: they had that giant bomb that went off at the

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Speaker 1: end of a season.

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Speaker 2: It blew up the whole place too, but.

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Speaker 1: They actually relied on letters from viewers to tell them

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Speaker 1: because everyone went bang bang bang bang bang in a

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Speaker 1: split screen moment. The viewers had to write it and

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Speaker 1: say which characters they wanted saved.

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Speaker 2: I wish you could do that on this show.

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Speaker 1: One of the characters, or Les Whittaker, who was the

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Speaker 1: crazy inventor. They killed him off. Then they realized that

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Speaker 1: was a mistake, so they brought him back from the

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Speaker 1: dead is his own long lost brother who then had

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Speaker 1: a romance with his original characters and widow.

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Speaker 2: That's great young form.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I must say if Mum and Dad went out,

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Speaker 1: maybe I watched it, but we were never allowed to

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Speaker 1: watch this and meant they had the Box on after

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Speaker 1: as well. The Box is pretty That was about a

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Speaker 1: television network. There's also full on I do.

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Speaker 2: It lives on in YouTube and I do go down

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Speaker 2: the YouTube wormhole a fair bit watching stuff for PEP

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Speaker 2: for PP. But what about remember that the homosexual.

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Speaker 1: This was extraordinary. They had number ninety six in nineteen

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Speaker 1: Well what you was it? Fifty years ago had the

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Speaker 1: first ongoing sympathetic gay character, like a character who was

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Speaker 1: part of a show that wasn't evil. He wasn't an

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Speaker 1: evil character. First time we'd seen that anywhere in the world.

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Speaker 1: So the first times Australians had seen a character who

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Speaker 1: was homosexual on television, And.

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Speaker 2: There was a scene where the girl she's interested in him,

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Speaker 2: and he has to say that he's he's not into girls.

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Speaker 2: He's a homosexual.

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Speaker 1: Touch me.

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Speaker 2: I know you feel the way I do. You must.

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Speaker 2: I don't know you felt this way. Asked you.

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Speaker 1: I'd never I thought you knew homosexual. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: I thought this thing between this was just a deep friendship.

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Speaker 1: I thought you knew about Bruce and methylthy Chancy little queer.

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Speaker 2: Wow, they were a different time. Wow, that's groundbreaking stuff. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: you know it was also remember the time with the

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Speaker 2: Nickers Snipper there was a guy that went around snipping

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Speaker 2: girls Nickers. Hello, little friend, he was in my room.

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Speaker 1: He's in my room now he's playing guitar.

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Speaker 2: You get out of my way.

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Speaker 1: I should get out of my way. But they also

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Speaker 1: had a trance character as well. There was so groundbreaking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they had Carl. You must know how I

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Speaker 2: feel about you, honey. Now listen to me first. There's

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Speaker 2: something about me you have to know. I don't say it.

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Speaker 1: There's no need to.

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Speaker 2: I already know.

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Speaker 1: And you don't mind. How could I possibly mind?

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Speaker 2: There isn't a particle of you that I don't love

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Speaker 2: or want or remember, and.

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Speaker 1: You really don't mind me not being a girl.

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Speaker 2: Hi, beg your pardon.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a girl. But you said you'd guessed. I

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Speaker 1: had guessed nothing of the sort, Miss Ross, Mister Ross,

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Speaker 1: fifty years ago. And yes, I wasn't really allowed to

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Speaker 1: watch it. Jonesy and Amanda's Nation