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chrisnic Active Member
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:43 am Post subject: Re: Other TV shows |
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richardhallford wrote: | Also a program about a railway engineer, I think it was Ben Casey or something like that.
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Casey Jones. Ben Casey was a hospital drama, competing with Dr Kildare.
Old times indeed. |
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chrisnic Active Member
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:56 am Post subject: |
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Ann Ainsworth wrote: | I can remember getting quite a few American programmes like Hollywood Au Go Go and Shindig. But we had our own Aussie shows as well like The Go Show where I first saw Normie Rowe - anyone remember Normie?
As I was 12-13 at the time I was more interested in pop music than children's programmes. |
Hi Ann
Yes, I remember Normie. I think he was called up to go to Vietnam (I was in the ballot but fortunately my birth date didn't get drawn). Many years later he starred in the Sydney production of Les Miserables.
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richardhallford Active Member
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:06 am Post subject: East Hills Hostel visit |
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Tks for the reply and the correct information. Ive just been up to the site of East Hills Hostel and posted a bunch of photos for Len to sort out. I also have a number of short vids that Ive not posted on the site if anyone wants them. I visited the site on 16.04.2009. Regards, Richard Hallford |
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phil Active Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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hi richard , would like to see those short vids.... _________________ phil |
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Len Senior Member
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:51 am Post subject: Re: East Hills Hostel visit |
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richardhallford wrote: | I also have a number of short vids that Ive not posted on the site if anyone wants them. I visited the site on 16.04.2009. Regards, Richard Hallford |
Hi Richard, Have to tried putting the videos on youtube? Because if you did that, you could post the video links here.
If you do decide to put them on youtube, give them a searchable title and description, that way, anyone and everyone will find them.
I dont know if you've ever done any video editing but you could stick all the related videos together and just great the one.
http://www.youtube.com/?gl=GB&hl=en-GB
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GeoffT Active Member
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Before Phantom Agents there was The Samurai whose name was Shintaro and he had Ninja helpers called Iga Ninjas. I remember a lot of the younger kids were running around the hostel playing samurai and ninjas my little brother was right into Phantom Agents.
regards Geoff _________________ Heathcote Rd Hostel 8/5/65 - 1966. Residing in Victoria since 1973. |
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richardhallford Active Member
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Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: |
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Tks for the advice people. I have this little problem though. The old site is barred off by chain fence and there are signs up that say no entry. If the gates were somehow not actually locked and someone wondered on by accident and happened to trip up and press the shutter release, that would be one thing. But wondering on to a site that says for some strange reason "keep out" COULD possibly be construed as tresspassing. Anyuone admitting that they had been on Commonwealth property may in fact incur the rath of the authorities...........Those peope who have an interest in maintaining law and order might want to send me a pvt email. If you get what I mean. :) Richard. _________________ East Hills Hostel Aug 1966 to 1968. Nissen Huts 81 and 83d |
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aussietrekker Senior Member
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:11 am Post subject: |
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THE TARAX SHOW (Channel 9)
We didn't have a TV ourselves but the neighbours did. They always seemed to be watching The Three Stooges. I remember The Tarax Show specifically, as the hostel social club organised an outing for the kids to be part of the studio audience. Participation was by ballot, and I was one of the chosen few to go on the bus to the studio in Richmond. It was really exciting, and so many kids missed out. We were all given a showbag full of goodies to bring home...unfortunately it included a cold Four and Twenty pie and I was devastated, as there were no facilities to heat it up!. |
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stormfour Senior Member
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Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:25 am Post subject: |
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definately the Tarax Show I remember too the hostel put a bus on for a lot of kids to go to a tarax show taping it was Great and I remember Zig and Zag.
I also remember Lost In Space and In Melbourne Tonight with Graham Kennedy, Gidget, My Favourite Martian oh and lots more too many to name,mind you most of the time we were outside playing.
I remember too every friday night arranged by the Hostel social committee a bus would take those who wished to go,l to St Moritz in St Kilda were we would all try and ice skate it was fantastic,and then we would go over to Luna Park!!! |
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aussietrekker Senior Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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I don't remember Friday night excursions, they may have started after we left. I still watch Lost in Space, I got the DVD boxed set. A couple of years ago I met Bob May, the guy who was inside the Robot. He died in January. |
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stormfour Senior Member
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:47 am Post subject: |
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Actually it was Margaret McKeeman who used to organise these trips,I have a photo somewhere of us all ice skating!us kids used to get dragged there whether we wanted to go or not,but I did enjoy it,especially when we went over to Luna park. |
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aussietrekker Senior Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:05 am Post subject: |
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Yeah we have a lot to thank the volunteers in the social committee for.
I used to love watching HOMICIDE. I'd left my beloved Z-Cars behind (it took 2-3 years till our UK shows were taken on by the local channels) so Homicide was the next best thing. I have a tape of old episodes and it's a laugh to watch them now, and to recognise old roads and landmarks around Melbourne that have changed.
We didn't have a TV in the hostel, but my Mum was addicted to certain radio shows, mostly depressing talkback shows by folk like Norman Banks and Ormsby Wilkins, and a lady named Lois Lathlean. When we got a TV the following year, she used to get a ticket to a live audience now and then - can't remember the show, but the presenter was a lady with the odd name of Binni Lum. She would go up to Melbourne on the Red Rattler (change at Newport). Years later she had graduated to the suicidal patrons of Reverend Alex Kenworthy and Father Gerard Dowling, and many a morning we'd be greeted by "ah there was a terrible sad case on Reverend Alex last night!"
Believe it or not, 3AW and 3UZ were the leaders in catering to teenagers' music back then. I used to love listening to a DJ on 3AW named John Bright. and later on Ken Sparkes on 3UZ. 3UZ used to put out Top 40 lists, way before 3XY did. I used to collect them from the record shop in Altona every Saturday.
It would have been awesome to be a teenager in the hostels when the bands were forming. But I left at age 10 in November 1964, and missed out by a whisker. Seems like the fun really started after we'd gone! |
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stormfour Senior Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:16 am Post subject: |
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I used to love Ken Sparks,he used to play all the good stuff and then Grantley Dee came along , he was blind but I suppose that doesnt matter on the radio,he could sing a bit too,remember Let The Little Girl Dance??good rock and roll song if ever there was one,
My Mum knitted a jumper for my sister with the words THE BEATLES knitted across the front of it,and of course then all the girls on the hostel wanted one,and they were great big sloppy joes then,she was knitting forever.
I think Grandstand started about then with Brian Henderson and Johnny O'Keefe used to be on all the time and Little Pattie singing about her Real Gone Surfer Boy...Oh it is all coming back to me now. |
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aussietrekker Senior Member
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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I remember watching Bandstand on McKeeman's TV next door. The filmclips were mimed, it was really obvious.
I would have killed for a Beatles jumper like that.
Grantley Dee was around for years, mostly at 3AK. He had another song around 1968 called "Love is a Happy Thing", I think he sang it with Little Pattie.
Ken Sparkes left 3UZ in 1967 and said he was going to the US for four years. I was devastated, and couldn't imagine how I'd get by without him till I was 17! But by that time, I'd moved on. I never had my $2 "tranny" away from my ear. |
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stormfour Senior Member
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:53 am Post subject: |
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I just remembered "Rawhide" I loved that show,and especially Rowdy Yates,I still love Clint Eastwood now,I have been humming that tune in my head all day too
Rollin Rollin Rollin |
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