Comments on: What were you watching on TV in 1976?

By: Elizabeth Orr-Gardner

Elizabeth Orr-Gardner — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:51:14 +0000

Thats easy, Mary Tyler Moore…

By: judgeg

judgeg — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:01:44 +0000

Oh thank you for this news…lovely to hear she’s still on TV and living life to the full!

By: Stuart Mcphee

Stuart Mcphee — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:17:32 +0000

Interesting to read about Jaye Walton. She is still going strong; she still has her own television program, titled Thai Oz talk, produced in Bangkok, Thailand. She is also the Honoury Consular – General of Thailand for SA & NT. I’ll leave you to guess how many score years she maybe now. It is impolite to ask a lady her age.

By: judgeg

judgeg — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:31:12 +0000

96 was a major favourite of mine as well as being a really good influence.

If Skippy is on at 2-3am, it must be the original Skippy – he’s out of favour with the children’s TV classification people because “a kangaroo wouldn’t do that in real life.” The newer Skippy which did get the C rating approval is as boring as watching paint dry. Skippy doesn’t get to do anything.

By: judgeg

judgeg — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:27:45 +0000

Mark,

This was a time before the full networking of Australian TV channels. The states did a lot of their own decisions as far as timeslots were concerned. And there were a lot more differences between what was shown between states. Thesedays everything is basically the same across the whole country – at least in the cities.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:49:37 +0000

Hey Graeme I can’t believe you had “The Box” before “Number 96″. In Sydney it was the
other way round…

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:07:14 +0000

Well I was past the kids shows but interesting that most of the kids shows programmed then I did watch as a kid!
Amazingly quite a few shows were repeats…….and are still repeated to this day!
e.g…..Skippy is on nowadays at a round 2-3 am!………are the kids of today really watchng TV at that hour…….or is Skippy a bad influence & unfit for prime time TV?

Number 96 was of course my favourite.