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Tag: satire
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‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ Season 2
Oooh look at this…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ Season 2 comes to Channel 44 Adelaide and Channel 31 Melbourne & Geelong, Monday 24 August 8.30PM
With the COVID-19 global pandemic causing TV production around the world to come to a screeching halt, a team of South Australian television enthusiasts have been hard at work combing dusty shelves and suburban garages, searching for more long lost episodes of ‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ to fill the entertainment gap.
We are proud to announce that six “new” half hour episodes have been uncovered and transferred from a variety of recording media originally compiled in the mid-1990s by the late GAA super fan Ben Felixstove.
‘G-Double-A’ 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 was the entertainment capital of the state.
Hosted by journalist Jeremy Dome and businessman Norman Vine, the show featured news, celebrity interviews, live music, talkback callers, lifestyle segments, paid advertorials, a who is who of Adelaide royalty and even made global headlines after their ambitious attempt to jump a bus over Port Adelaide’s iconic Birkenhead Bridge ended in disaster.
Take a trip back to a simpler time before social distancing and no smoking indoors, when Tic Toc was a biscuit and sensible daytime variety was king.
The enjoyment starts Monday August 24 with the first of six weekly instalments of ‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ broadcasting on C31 Melbourne and C44 Adelaide at 8.30PM (local time). These nostalgic gems are almost as fresh today as when they first aired on the telly nearly 30 years ago.
Absolutely sensational.
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‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ returns to TV
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.
RIP Good Afternoon Adelaide. Also Ben.
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Good Afternoon Adelaide
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.”
There’s a Facebook page too.
Sure takes me back 😉
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VHS Revue 8 – Wiseguy (1993)
It’s the 8th installment of VHS Revue! Wow 8 episodes. I reckon that’s enough to call it a proper webseries now.
This week I took a look through a circa 1993 tape of an episode of the late 80s/early 90s police drama “Wiseguy” – a show I’ve never heard of.
Highlights include ads for Brunnings lawn seed, Sizzler, Link Introductions, TyreMag (which I think might now be banned?), Bob Moran used cars (who is DEFINITELY now banned), Solver Paints, and another thing. Footage recorded from Channel Nine Adelaide and used here for review, parody and satirical purposes (obviously).
This is the last episode I’ve got in the can. But they’ve been fun to make and I’ve got a few more tapes with good stuff on them. So keep your lips peeled for number 9.
Thanks for watching/liking/tweeting/subscribing/etc. It’s always a thrill.
Big thanks especially to Alexis Kotlowy for the fabulous theme music and opening title sequences. And Nicholas Godfrey for his VHS camera. Though I did spot it in Cash Converters for him, so really, it’s mostly me.
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