You’ll need to click on the image above to see the full sized version and to read the program listings. This is an actual scan of a TV Guide issue dated May 8, 1976. TV Guide was an Adelaide-only magazine that competed with the national magazines – TV Week and TV Times. It was smaller, [...]
March 7, 2010
Categories: Me, me, me...moi! moi!, Media Mania, The Past? Let me tell you about the past... . Tags: TV, The 70s, My Jaded Past, Adelaide . Author: judgeg . Comments: 4 Comments
A B-Grade actor. A C-Grade Frank Sinatra impersonator. Yes, it’s America’s Cultural Advisor to Australia, Harry ‘Mammy’ Connick Junior. Harry, here’s a tip: the day Australia needs race relations advice from you, it will be a cold day in hell. Now do us Aussies a favour and catch the next plane back to America.
October 9, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: Don't like him/her/it/them, The Judge's Soapbox, TV . Author: judgeg . Comments: 1 Comment
Goodness gracious. Is this really the fabulous multi-talented Hugh Sheridan from Packed To The Rafters when he was a bit younger? Or am I on bad drugs? Check out the video below: The hair is different but flippin’ heck…the facial features look like him! I’ve tried to find out from the internet if it is [...]
August 31, 2009
Categories: Media Mania . Tags: Hot Hot Hot, TV . Author: judgeg . Comments: 3 Comments
Sometimes there just aren’t words to describe the things you find on the internet.
June 18, 2009
Categories: The Past? Let me tell you about the past... . Tags: TV, Youtube Campness . Author: judgeg . Comments: 1 Comment
Yoda and I had an afternoon of watching classic TV commercials from our childhoods yesterday. It was sad that we actually still knew all the words to these adverts over thirty years later. But we looked at the screen and sang along and laughed our googlies off. Do any of these ads mean anything special [...]
June 15, 2009
Categories: The Past? Let me tell you about the past... . Tags: The 70s, TV, Youtube Campness . Author: judgeg . Comments: 2 Comments
When you’re a Channel 7 star you can do anything.
June 6, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: Don't like him/her/it/them, TV . Author: judgeg . Comments: Leave a Comment
On Wednesday night I laughed so much I induced a little asthma attack. The furor surrounding the Chaser’s War on Everything and their ‘Make A Realistic Wish Foundation’ is just pathetic. The show is meant to shock and provoke and push buttons. It did all that with this sketch. Yes it was in poor taste [...]
June 5, 2009
Categories: Judgements . Tags: TV . Author: judgeg . Comments: Leave a Comment
Some raw footage from a TV camera crew interviewing people after a shooting incident in Sydney’s notorious Kings Cross area. Famed for drugs, prostitution, sex clubs, strip joints…and that’s just the nice side of the street. Let’s see what average Aussies have to say about the shooting…
May 21, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: TV . Author: judgeg . Comments: 1 Comment
How uber-camp is this song! I actually have it on a record somewhere. Vinyl of course! And how can you argue with something that was filmed in ‘SUPERMARIONATION’. Oh my god, I loved that word when I was a kid. I had a crush on Virgil Tracy although some people thought his acting was rather [...]
May 9, 2009
Categories: The Past? Let me tell you about the past... . Tags: TV, Youtube Campness . Author: judgeg . Comments: Leave a Comment
It’s all a bit sad. Here I was copying this video to DVD so I could then transfer it to my computer and import it into Windows Movie Maker to edit it. And I started crying. Again. Goddamn it! more about "Balfours TV advert on Flickr – Photo …", posted with vodpod This bloody TV [...]
April 25, 2009
Categories: Me, me, me...moi! moi!, The Past? Let me tell you about the past... . Tags: Adelaide, My Jaded Past, TV . Author: judgeg . Comments: 7 Comments