Highlights from a 1992 VHS tape of “Good Morning Australia”. Presented by David M. Green.
Featuring:
– Senator Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen promotes her cook book “Classic Country Cooking” and discusses the Queensland corruption inquiry with GMA host Mike Hammond
– News report about how Australia’s treatment of Indigenous people may affect Sydney’s bid to host the 2000 Olympics, featuring Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins. Warning: Offensive content.
– Hollywood Plaza TVC
– Ulta Bond TVC
Footage recorded from Channel Ten Adelaide 1992 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.
Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy and John Hnatowych.
The first of this year’s many new VHS Revues is now online!
Highlights from a 1992 VHS tape of the motion picture comedy “Taking Care of Business”.
Featuring:
– NEC Powermate
– Plumbing World with John Burgess
– The Vern Schuppan Award for Best Celebrity Endorsement
– Nathan Buckley promo for Seven News
– Sports Illustrated
– Dunlop tyres
– Promos for “Hey Dad!” and “Acropolis Now”
– What The Hell Was That?
– Ella Baché
– JM (Swahili) Insurance
– Coca-Cola Futureball
– Twisties
– Tribute to Luke C. Green
Footage recorded from Channel Seven Adelaide 1992 and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes.
Special thanks to Alexis Kotlowy (camera, music, audio, autocue, basically everything behind the scenes) and John Hnatowych (how about that new intro sequence?).
Ahoy hoy, I thought I’d do a bit of real journalism for a change and copy and paste straight from an unsolicited press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ is coming to Channel 44 Adelaide and Channel 31 Melbourne & Geelong, Monday 5 March at 9PM.
[Tuesday, 27 February 2018 – ] ‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ was a South Australian television institution. The one-hour chat show aired live across SA and into the silver city of Broken Hill weekdays at 2PM from 1989 to 1992 during an era when Adelaide truly was the place to be (before Victoria stole the slogan for their number plates, along with the Formula One Grand Prix).
Hosted by journalist Jeremy Dome and business identity Norman Vine, the show featured news, celebrity interviews, live music, talkback callers, lifestyle segments, paid advertorials and a who’s who of Adelaide royalty.
Like a lot of local Adelaide telly, the show became a victim of increased networkisation from the eastern states and GAA was cancelled in 1992. As a final insult, the station’s master tapes were later sold and used for episodes of “Wheel of Fortune”. Hence very few recordings of the show still exist today.
However, when Hallett Cove amateur video archivist Ben Felixstove passed away last year, several Betamax tapes were uncovered by his family, featuring home video footage of Ben introducing some of his favourite ‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ clips recorded off TV.
Ben’s tapes have been eagerly snapped up by C44 Adelaide and C31 Melbourne and six half-hour ‘best-of ‘episodes of ‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ will be broadcast for the first time in more than a quarter of a century beginning Monday 5 March at 9PM.
It’s mid September so figured it was about time I did my first post for the year. It’s been a busy one, with lots of legitimate writing work and a little schlepping keeping me from writing anything on here.
Any who, came across this funny old show on YouTube called “Good Afternoon Adelaide”. Take a gander:
Apparently an Adelaide-based TV chat show circa early 90s. To quote this article I found on the subject:
“…the one-hour chat show aired live across SA and into the silver city of Broken Hill weekdays at 2PM, during an era when Adelaide truly was the place to be (before Victoria stole the slogan for their number plates, along with the Formula One Grand Prix).
Good Morning Adelaide featured news, celebrity interviews, live music, talkback callers, lifestyle segments, paid advertorials and a who’s who of Adelaide royalty – with ratings success.
Eventually, the show became victim of increased networkisation from the eastern states and was cancelled in 1992. As a final insult, the station’s master tapes were later sold and used for episodes of Wheel of Fortune.”
It’s another Nicholas Godfrey tape. This one a 1994 recording of the original Star Wars. Highlights include some casual racial homophobia from Hungry Jack’s, a highly inaccurate space-themed ad for Coca-Cola, a business update from a guy who thinks he’s reading a children’s book and watch all the way to the end for the BIG TWIST. Also, Han shoots first.
This’ll be the last one for a while. Cheers for the views.
