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Classic TV Flashback: The Ice Dream With Roy & H.G…

This classic TV flashback comes two years later after making their mark on the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Rampaging Roy Slaven and H.G. Nelson make their return to the Olympic Games for The Ice Dream in Salt Lake City. This time Fatso was no where to be seen, however the boys lead the campaign to [...]

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Classic TV Flashback: Peter Hitchener & His 80’s F Bomb…

YouTube offers many gems not only when looking at Australian television history but just in general, this gem featuring respected Melbourne National Nine News presenter Peter Hitchener has recently popped up and is well worth a watch.
When viewing this video (probably 100 times already) I cannot help cracking up in hysterics every time, Hitchener is [...]

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Classic TV Flashback: Are You Being Served?…

Are you free? If so come over here for another classic TV flashback this time taking a look at the classic British sitcom Are You Being Served? Set in the ever unreliable and upper class serving Grace Brothers department store, the men’s and women’s departments were located on level 2 where we got to follow [...]

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Classic TV Flashback: Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures…

Time to hit the road! This is his backyard, the Aussie outback and who better to show it off to the world than Russell Coight in his television series Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures. Russell prides himself on his knowledge and skill with dealing with situations in outback Australia, but in reality he is accident [...]

Popularity: 7% [?]

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Classic TV Flashback: Billy Connolly’s World Tour Of Australia…

Another Classic TV Flashback and something a little different this time with Billy Connolly’s World Tour of Australia which was made back in the autumn of 1995. The show was made for BBC1 in the UK and aired here in Australia on the Seven Network, and was pretty popular back when it aired.
It is always [...]

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Classic TV Flashback - The Dream With Roy & H.G…

With the Olympic Games fast approaching it is time for another classic TV flashback and when thinking of a classic TV flashback no other show surly compares to this institution of a show, all other shows before this one and beyond would be classed as “a toilet” if you asked Rampaging Roy Slaven.
I am of [...]

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Classic TV Flashback: Stingers…

When this show was on air it was very popular back in its day, this was back in the time before Underbelly graced our screens and is now regarded as truly one of the smash hit Australian cop dramas. The program in question is of course Melbourne based cop drama Stingers which ran on the [...]

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Classic TV Flashback: Big Bite…

A not so classic TV flashback but a flashback none the less, it is the short running Seven Network comedy series Big Bite which revealed the origins of the now famous Mr. G from Chris Lilley’s Summer Height’s High. The show also features Andrew O’Keefe back when he was only starting out in his role [...]

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Classic TV Flashback - Get Smart…

This has to be one of my favourite shows not only for me but for my family who would know the words to every episode off by heart. I’m talking about that classic 60’s comedy series Get Smart created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and staring Don Adams as Maxwell Smart secret agent 86 [...]

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Classic TV Flashback: Monkey Magic…

This will the first in a series of classic television show flashbacks, the first one to be looked at will be that strangely hilarious show Monkey or more commonly referred to as Monkey Magic. This Japanese show first graced television screens back in 1978 in Japan and was dubbed for an English audience by the [...]

Popularity: 20% [?]