C'mon - Series One, Final Episode

Hi swingers. Come on in, the music’s fine, on this, the final C'Mon show for 1967. If you've switched on, switch in, because we've got the go-go girls, go-go music, go-go motion, and this is the last time they're gonna hit your screens.

– Host Peter Sinclair opens the show

..big sounds, fun sounds, wild sounds.

– Host Peter Sinclair talks about what's on offer

Those five principals were on every week. And you get 26 shows with the same people on every week, people don't forget them ... Kevan [Moore] was building them up so that when the C'Mon show went on tour, he had a guaranteed audience.

– C'Mon drummer Bruce King on the star-making power of C'Mon, and producer Kevan Moore, in episode two of music history show Give it a Whirl

You know we've been amazed by the effect that this one show has had on the New Zealand scene — in its advertising, in its patterns of speech, and of course on its younger people too.

– Host Peter Sinclair, early in this episode

...a mixture of op art and art nouveau.

– Designer Anthony Stones describes the sets for C'Mon, The Listener, 1 May 1967

Several unusual techniques are used, including the projection of op art designs on to the blank back wall of studio one. These designs are drawn on paper, and are then transferred photographically to glass plates, which are inserted into a slide projector. By using this and associated techniques, it would be possible to make as many as 50 or 60 set changes during a half-hour show.

– A Listener article on the look of C'Mon, 1 May 1967

..the most talked about, most favoured and most criticised teenage show yet. Neither in its presentation — nor in its reception by viewers — did it brook half measures. You either liked it or loathed it. All of its many facets brought forth either sponatenous words of praise — or trenchant criticism.

– An unknown writer, during the final weeks of C'Mon's first season, New Zealand TV Weekly, 30 July 1967