Behold VHS Revue 16 – All the Rivers Run 2 (1990).
Featuring unusual commercials for: Toyota Spirit & Tarago, Taft hairspray, Vision Express, plus another special guest appearance by TV’s Stephen Hall.
That’s all the new episodes for now. Big thanks to Stephen Hall for donating the tapes and some of his time for these 4 recent episodes and as always to Alexis Kotlowy for the camera, graphics, music and video tape editing. And thank YOU for watching.
In other news, I’ve just finished the first draft of a new screenplay and next month I’m back writing on series 9 of “Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell” on ABC TV. Can’t wait.
Hey, it’s VHS Revue 15 – Coast to Coast (1989). See why Graham Kennedy really was Australia’s “King of Television”, as well as some weird ads for: Sandhurst Foods, Fab washing powder, the Suzuki Super Carry, Capt’n Snooze, plus a bizarre promo for “Sale of the Century” and some news snippets.
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VHS Revue Ep 14 is out and it’s fast food-themed for some reason, featuring commercials for: Food Plus, Mars, Ruffles and Smiths chips. Plus some of the big news stories from 1989 and a special guest appearance by TV’s Stephen Hall.
Watch it and then go to these places and press all the buttons: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.
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 a wrap on another season of Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell. What more can I say? I love the show. I love the team. I love the man.
By the way, that’s the ACTUAL Godzilla toy (centre) as featured in that sketch from “The Micallef Pogram”. You know the one I mean.
All 10 episodes from series/season 5 are up on ABC iView. You’ve got until April 29 until they take them down. I had quite a bit of food-related material in this season. Look out for a bit about a pretzel and an edible coffee cup 😉
Also, see if you can spot me in the final episode. Here’s a hint:
Something else unexpected I’ve enjoyed since moving to Melbourne is randomly seeing something I saw on TV years earlier. Sometimes it’s the most obscure thing. Here’s one of them. This is the corner of Selwyn Street and Sinclair Street in Elsternwick, just outside the ABC production offices, looking east:
I thought there was something familiar about that corner. Now take a look at the opening titles to “The Micallef Pogram” (correct spelling), that aired on ABC TV in early 2001… about 91 seconds in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGWcnlneS-U
Aha!
How about that? As you can see, those water restrictions had some impact.
