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Part one of three from this full length television programme.

Part two of three from this full length television programme.

Part three of three from this full length television programme.

Part one of three from this full length television programme.

Part two of three from this full length television programme.

Part three of three from this full length television programme.

Compass - First Five Years of Television

Television (Full Length) – 1966

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Nathan

31 Aug 2024 - 07.22pm

3:17 into part three, the viewing committee watching the 25 March 1961 edition of The Black & White Minstrel Show - a clip from this same edition also appears at 1:55.

ross leonard sayer

4 Oct 2022 - 03.55pm

Very Good - What ever happened to Reg Harrison as I tried to find him on the internet google search and alot of people with the same name came up.

1 Feb 2010 - 12.47pm

Wow, all these dads!
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Jeremy Harrison

30 Jan 2010 - 10.57pm

That's my Dad! Reg Harrison. How can I get this to download - it keeps stopping, despite broadband, and locking up...

25 Nov 2009 - 06.56pm

That's my Dad, Alan Morris-
what a guy!
dinah morris

Lindis Capper-Starr

30 Oct 2008 - 05.02am

I couldn't get past the accents. Wonderful. Was that Ian Fraser I heard in some of the voice-overs?

What has the world come to when women don't do their housework any more, because they're too busy watching television? Thank goodness for the score of parliamentary gentlemen who launched an investigation!

Darren Schroeder

26 Oct 2008 - 01.52pm

Fascinating stuff. Interesting to consider the time line of developments the show speculated on: Avalon eventually opened in 1975, the same year that a second channel (South Pacific Television) commenced. Applications to apply for a warrant to operate New Zealand’s third national television network opened in 1985. The Broadcasting Tribunal announced in 1987 that TV3 had won the warrant, and it began broadcasting 1989