1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nason. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 2: You Channel ten sixty years, You're not you were sixty 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: years Channel ten sixty years. 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 3: Yes. Channel ten turns sixty on the first of August. 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 3: They started out in Melbourne as Channel oh. 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 2: Yes. 7 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 3: Then they built North Ryde. You remember the old Channel 8 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 3: ten studios at North Ryde on Delhi Road. They opened 9 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty five. A year later they did this 10 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 3: huge concert called TV Spells Magic cost twenty five thousand pounds. 11 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 3: The budget for the station for the whole year was 12 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 3: fifty thousand pounds or per day. But they really celebrate. 13 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 3: So I'm putting together a big news story for next 14 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 3: week to sort of celebrate. And I've been going through 15 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 3: the archives in o some old episodes of Number ninety six. 16 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 3: Let me tell you their eye openers. Do you remember 17 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 3: the night television lost its virginity and all of that, 18 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 3: and Abigail and Joe Hasham and all of those. 19 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 2: That's when we heard homosexual homosexual. 20 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 3: He said, I thought you knew homosexual, so we said, 21 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 3: that's right. And then I've found something you're not even 22 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 3: going to believe happened Prisoner, the concert where the cast 23 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 3: of Prisoner, everyone from Lizzie Birdsworth to B. Smith did 24 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 3: a live singing and dancing concert at Pentridge Prison. They 25 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 3: did a village people number, They did Steam Heat with 26 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 3: the laundry Press. I am talking. I've found some God, 27 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 3: which you know my favorite thing I found. Do you 28 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 3: remember Blankety Blanks, Graham Kennedy and Ugly Dave Gray and 29 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 3: Noline Brown. 30 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: When I was a kid, I would pretend to be 31 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 2: Graham Kennedy and have like I'd host Blankety Blanks And 32 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,839 Speaker 2: I just have like a a fake studio. 33 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 3: And a fake question holder. And you know, I've got 34 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 3: his question holder. I found his question holder. I've got 35 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 3: it at the office. I'm doing a bit, but I'll 36 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 3: be filming with it tonight today. 37 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: How what's that? 38 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 3: And he loved that question holder. That's where he'd pull 39 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 3: out the question for the one thousand dollars and he'd 40 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 3: tell Peter the phantom puller, to pull it reveal the 41 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 3: answer to the audience question. 42 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 2: A lot of people say, oh, Blankety Blanks, what would 43 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 2: be the comparative show? Now? Would you say? Have you 44 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 2: been paying attention here? 45 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 3: That same kind of loose spears. It's that feel of 46 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 3: pushing it to, you know, pushing it to the limit 47 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 3: and seriously improvised funniness. 48 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 2: But it was just innuendo city. 49 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 3: Oh my lord, Ugly Dave Gray, Ugly Dave Gray. So 50 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 3: you remember, at the end of the show, Graham Kennedy 51 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 3: would go and kneel next to ugly Dave Gray, chop 52 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 3: right and Ugly David tell a joke, and they're often 53 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 3: about his friend Richard, or, as he called him, Dick. 54 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: What's the news. Dick's got a new job as Dick, 55 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 1: Dick good old Dick, good Dick. He's digging holes for 56 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: a living. Dick is is a hole digger, Dick, Dick 57 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: is Dick the digger. Oh he's clever, that Dick. Clever. 58 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: He's got it up in the head. 59 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 2: You know, they were simple times. 60 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 3: Ugly Dave would do club gigs, you know, he when 61 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 3: he wasn't filming blankety blanks, and he audience would yell 62 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 3: out to him to do jokes about Richard. 63 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: Is he still with us? 64 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 3: He is? He's ninety nine ninety nine nine, Graham's no 65 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 3: longer with us, No Fairy is no longer with us. 66 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 3: Still wag starts no longer with But it's just one 67 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 3: of the funniest shows that I've ever screened on television. 68 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 3: It's my favorite show of all time. 69 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 2: So when when can we see this? 70 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 3: So that'll be on ten years midday next Monday, next Thursday, 71 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 3: the first of all day. 72 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 2: I'm going to diarize that because. 73 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 3: It'll there'll be some memories. I think everyone's got their 74 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 3: favorite memories from Channel ten shows, and I've got all years. 75 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, excellent. What's your favorite innuendo? That could be a thing. 76 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 3: What's your favorite? 77 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: What's your favorite 78 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 3: We've had a lot of them.