25 January 2009

A blast from the Capital 7 past.

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YouTube throws up strange things. Few as strange as this gem from 1982 posted by “keepemhonest08”.

It comes with the following note:

    Capital 7 Canberra, a montage with many employees caught doing what they do best – not much!

For younger readers and newer Canberrans, back in the day there was only one commercial channel in Canberra. It called itself “Capital 7” but cherry picked the best content from all the networks. It worked surprisingly well for the viewers with a steady stream of content instead of all the good stuff running at the same time.

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OK folks.. now’s a good time to get back on topic.

Quote: “Graeme Garden was gay in real life and played a straight man on The Goodies, wheras Tim Brooke Taylor was straight in real life and played a gay role in the show. Bill Oddie is of course straight in both real life and on the show.”

Ummm…Greame Garden is married with two children…..

There’s a new thread for this.

Thanks Ozhair. What the hell was going on with the rally car going sideways and taking out the coppers logs near the Carillon?

Okay, That didn’t work, so just go here instead:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=haHgLHMIZCU

Okay, let’s see if this works…
The 1996 WIN Canberra Goof Tape 🙂

A Noisy Noise Annoys An Oyster2:04 pm 26 Jan 09

sepi said :

the all night Elvis movies were a bit of fun too.

Movies in general have disappeared from TV.

Sun day arvo used to be old movies – now we get Cricket on two channels, bike riding on the other two and soccer on the last one.

Not to mention Grandstand – seven hours of AFL from 11AM – 6PM Saturday (the live game fr Melb and also replays of local games). Then there was Rock Till Dawn, music videos from late Friday night to Saturday morning (1985 & ’86 if I remember correctly).

A Noisy Noise Annoys An Oyster1:05 pm 26 Jan 09

BerraBoy68 said :

Ahhh, the Goodies. That was on late on Friday nights on the ABC if I remember correctly.

Oh, and I lurve the Goodies.. “Goodie, Goodie yum, yum” but was a bit disturbed when Graeme Garden (the one with the specs) did one of the first documentaries on AIDS in the early 80’s. It was pretty graphic but I still couldn’t take it seriously with him leading it.

Graeme Garden was gay in real life and played a straight man on The Goodies, wheras Tim Brooke Taylor was straight in real life and played a gay role in the show. Bill Oddie is of course straight in both real life and on the show.

the all night Elvis movies were a bit of fun too.

Movies in general have disappeared from TV.

Sun day arvo used to be old movies – now we get Cricket on two channels, bike riding on the other two and soccer on the last one.

Ozhair said :

Hmmm, just managed to dig up my copy of the ’96 WIN TV Goof Tape. Anyone interested if I Youtube it? 😉

Yep, yep and yep!

Hmmm, just managed to dig up my copy of the ’96 WIN TV Goof Tape. Anyone interested if I Youtube it? 😉

You know something CTC 7 used to do that doesn’t happen anymore is the all night horror movie marathons. They used to be really good back in the early 80s.

heinous said :

Anyone remember Karen Barlen? 🙂

Who could forget Karen. If you want to see her again check this out: http://video.aol.com/category/ctc7

When I was a kid, I entered a drawing competition she was running. It was to see who could draw Alexander Bunyip (Micheal Salmon’s mythical creation), I won and I will never forget then she read my name out and showed my drawing on TV.

Michael Salmon! Last I heard of Michael, he was communicating with a 15-year-old Youth Theatre member who lived in the suburb of Griffith. Her parents – once they found out – sent her to boarding school as a precaution … they should have billed him!

Thumper, where did you get the complete Goodies collection??? I was under the impression that we were only ever going to get the paultry few episodes that were released a couple of years back.

Did anyone else catch the Goodies Live show at the Canberra Theatre a few years ago?

And as for the quality of the vid that kicked off this post, it was obviously part of an end-of-year goof tape, cobbled together on weekends and spare time. I contributed to a lot of ’em in my Prime and WIN days. Quality was not the aim. Something your fellow employess could laugh at after a skinful at the Christmas Party was 😉

I just found the full Banana Splits episodes on DVD. Didn’t know it was availabe. I remember Shazam too on CTC 7 but can’t remember which show it was part of. I used to love staying at my grandparents place in Melbourne as they had really great cartoons on Saturday mornings.

Add Goodies to the list of shows that are nowhere near as good as we remember them being.

Ahhh, the Goodies. That was on late on Friday nights on the ABC if I remember correctly.

And speaking of the video, which I wasn’t, wtf is that big green cookie monster thing?

Hate to say this (it’s so un-PC, I’m sorry) but I was more disturbed by the growth in the singer’s chin. The quote from John Candy to the Headmistress in ‘Uncle Buck’ kept coming to mind – “Here’s a nickle, go get a giant rat to gnaw that thing off your face”

Oh, and I lurve the Goodies.. “Goodie, Goodie yum, yum” but was a bit disturbed when Graeme Garden (the one with the specs) did one of the first documentaries on AIDS in the early 80’s. It was pretty graphic but I still couldn’t take it seriously with him leading it.

No no Thumper, the Goodies was on each weeknight at 5 followed by Dr Who at 5:30. I used to watch them religiously. We had a couple of ex CTC 7 people at school. Leonie Powrie who was a weather girl came to teach and we had the bloke who used to play the clown at ‘bedtime’ gave us a few drama lessons.

Anyone remember a show called ‘The lost islands’ from the mid 70’s? I think it was filmed at Old Sydney town and was about a group of kids shipwrecked on an island populated by people from the 18th century. The woman who played Morag in Home and Away was one of the stars.

Oh, c’mon! It’s got that kind of freaky 70s Kenny Everett sort of feel …. Leave it alone!

: )

Banana Splits are my all-time legends and heroes! Loved everything on their show. You are all forgetting Lambsy, Faithful Bristle Hound and Mildew Wolf. “It’s the wol-f! It’s the wol-f!”

*chuckle*

And what about Grasshopper Island? Or was that on the other channel. So many good shows that were on the ABC too, (sigh)!

All my little schoolfriends used to play ‘Number 96’ games … and I wasn’t even allowed to watch it! Oh, the pain, the pain!

They all thought Abigail was a complete tart, but, even if they did like the show! How they would sneer when she came on advertising Tarax black label fizzy orange drink or whatever it was – probably quite undeserved looking back on it!

; )

Holden Caulfield1:01 am 26 Jan 09

37 posts and nobody has commented on how shit that video is!

bokko said :

Arabian Knights “Rozan Kohbal, size of an elephant!” funny

I remember that cartoon, but can’t think what it was! A bloke would clap his hands and declare: “size, of a X”.

I went to Camp Sturt, and we all got evacuated as the river was rising, back in the days when we got rain.

Arabian Knights “Rozan Kohbal, size of an elephant!” funny

I remember watching Canberra tv one news time in the 70’s and they went to air while the presenter guy was just finishing off a cigarette – he looked just like a deer in the headlights. I saw him again a little while later at Camp Sturt as he was picking up his kid from a YMCA camp I was at.

ant said :

You’d only get to see groovy shows like Hey Hey It’s Saturday when you went to the coast, and could watch WIN, beamed from Wollongong.

So you never got to see the precursor to Hey Hey, the All Electric, Non Stop, Cartoon Carnival? That pushed the weekday morning kiddy timeslot to its limits, I bet most of the humour went over my head, just like with the Goodies initially. The Amazing Three was shown in that timeslot, along with the cartoon about miniaturising people and their craft to solve the problem of the episode.

Oh and CHiPs!!

When it was just ctc7 in Canberra I can remember not being able to watch the one day cricket here for the first few years. At least the test matches were shown on the ABC.

And Friday night 7.30 was always the action show time slot. Knight Rider, The A-Team. Watching those on Foxtel now makes you realise how bad they were. They were great as a kid though.

Yes! It would be kind of funny to watch some of these shows as an adult. Lost in Space is hugely disappointing now that technology has come so far.

M I C, K E Y, something abotu Mickey Mouse. It was a bizarre show. I just remember kids in black hats with round ears.

Oh, yes. Anita somebody. Funicello? Annette Funicello!

I was kind of jealous ’cause one of my little friends had mouse ears! Can you believe it? *chuckle*

Yep Granny, your memory chimes with mine. we had Young Talent Time in the black and white days, for sure. Mind you, I remember something with the Mousketeers too, kids wearing hats with ears.

Nope – I definitely watched it in Canberra as a kid! I still sing “Close Your Eyes and I’ll Kiss You” all the time. Me and L were singing it at trivia just the other night!

*chuckle*

Debbie Boone, Vicky Someone, Jane Scali, Jamie and Derek ….

But I liked Zorro and Rin Tin Tin!!

ant, Canberra didn’t get Young Talent Time until the early 90’s.

Still had to go to Sydney to watch that one.

BB, don’t forget Berrimah on the old Hume Hwy 🙂

Anyone remember Karen Barlen? 🙂

Who could forget Karen. If you want to see her again check this out: http://video.aol.com/category/ctc7

When I was a kid, I entered a drawing competition she was running. It was to see who could draw Alexander Bunyip (Micheal Salmon’s mythical creation), I won and I will never forget then she read my name out and showed my drawing on TV.

Yes, we where talking about her today. She was the best.;-]

Anyone remember Karen Barlen? 🙂

Damn you BerraBoy! That was the song. All my lovvvvin’ argh! As for driving to Sydney, we did it in a XC ute every month to attend the nursery field day in Dural. The good old razorback. We used to have dinner at that tarted up pub in Berrima where you cooked your own steaks.

I loved going to Sydney in the mid 70s because we could watch Hey hey it’s Saturday.

Brilliant!

Too right Thumper but the 4.5 hour drive back then was a real pain, and how many small towns did we have to pass through? Collector, Picton, Mittagong etc. Actually, I liked Mittagong as that would always be our half way pit stop at the old servo/truck stop cafe. We had an old Holden station-wagon and as the youngest I’d go to sleep in the back of the car among the luggage. Apparently, there were no worries about seat belts back then!

@Ant – I work with a women who went to the Johnny Young Talent School and was occassionally on the show. Once Christmas special she sing ‘it’s a small world after all’ as a duet with Johnny.

“Close your eye’s and I’ll miss you, tomorrow I’ll Kiss you….” Arrrgh, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit…

I’m pretty sure we got Young Talent Time. I remember Johnny Young singing the same damn song at the end of every show, and I remember it was in black and white. We had a black and white TV for much of the 70s.

Yep, the Banana Splits drove Argos, you can see them up at the snow, horrible things with no suspension! And htey had all those regular shows within the show, like Danger Island, I think there was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids? And the Catanooga Cats.

You think Capital 7 was a wasteland? You should have been in Wagga, serviced by RVN2 (now Prime Television Wagga) in the early 70’s. Transmission didn’t even start until 3pm and ended at midnight.

Oh, and it was “Danger Island” on the Banana Splits 🙂 Plus “The Three Musketeers”, “Legends of the Arabian Knights” and… damn the one with Auto-Cat…
Loved that show 🙂 A lot to be said for early-seventies acid-induced children’s television (remember HR Puffinstuff?)

grunge_hippy3:53 pm 25 Jan 09

same here granny… every holidays with the grandparents in melbourne…i used to love going and watching young talent time, cos we didnt get it up here.

i still remember the absolute pandamonium when bob and cookie from a country practice came to the newly opened erindale centre (when it was surrounded by paddocks) and “robbo” from the news with his porno mo trying to calm the maddening crowd. mayhem!

Other shows we never saw in Canberra thanks to Crapital 7:

The Naked Vicar Show
The Dukes of Hazzard
Skyways
Chico and the Man
Fantasy Island
The Don Lane Show (for most of its run)
The Celebrity Game
Sons and Daughters
Class of 74/75
The Norman Gunston Show (when he moved to Seven)

need I go on?

I remember Sons and Daughters. My mother would have it taped for her in Sydney and mailed to Canberra.

BB, I remember Treasure Island!!!! The Banana Splits are on the Boomerang channel on Foxtel – so I still get to watch it 🙂

It has had a lot of names over the years hasn’t it. Can anyone add to this:

CTC-7
Super 7
Captial Television
Colour 7
Capital 7
Ten Capital
Network TEN
Southern Cross Ten

“Network O-28. Bringing the world back home.”

Ooh, that was exciting.

sepi said :

Years ago I did an interview with Amanda Muggleton about a play she was in in Canberra.
I asked her about her time acting on E-Street and there was this silence, and then she said she had been on Sons and Daughters for years.

I was so embarassed I didn’t admit we didn’t get either of those shows.

LOL. Wasn’t she also on Prisoner?

Years ago I did an interview with Amanda Muggleton about a play she was in in Canberra.
I asked her about her time acting on E-Street and there was this silence, and then she said she had been on Sons and Daughters for years.

I was so embarassed I didn’t admit we didn’t get either of those shows.

ant said :

I’m pretty sure we didn’t have Hey Hey in 1973? Bananasplits, yes, that was on, I loved that. Tra-la-la, Tra-la la-la! But we didn’t get Hey Hey until WIN came to town after aggregation.

You’re right ANT, sorry. My memories are jumbled. I do recall getting up early and watching ‘Hey, Hey..’ with the sound turned way down on trips to visit relatives in Sydney. Thank god for the Banana Splits!

RoadRage – yep, that’s what I recall them driving. Wasn’t there a show that was part of the overall BananSplits called Treasure Island or something similar? One of the Chgaracters used to call out “oh-oh Jungooooooo”” like Tarzan.

That and cartoons like Speed Racer, AstroBoy, Kimba etc. were required watching. Actually, one of the original local newsreaders ‘Karen Barlin’ is still around – you see her from time to time in the social pages of the CT.

I loved the Banana Splits 🙂

SBS was called O-28 in the 80’s im sure and Capital 7 had that daggy stylised waving australia flag with a & on it as its logo

Did the Bananasplits get around on one of them Argo thingy’s with the 8 wheels or do I put that memory down to yet another spurious acid flashback?

I’m pretty sure we didn’t have Hey Hey in 1973? Bananasplits, yes, that was on, I loved that. Tra-la-la, Tra-la la-la! But we didn’t get Hey Hey until WIN came to town after aggregation.

Try coming from London’s East End to Canberra in 1973! I’d gone from a veritable treasure trove of kids TV shows to an almost barren landscape. Thank God we had Hey, Hey and The Bananaspilts to save my emotional wellbeing.

I moved to Canberra from Sydney in the mid 80’s when Capital 7 was on, let me tell you it was a sad day!

I still remember the jingle “Join us on Capital 7 TV”.

We were always jealous of the four channels they had in Melbourne, and always enjoyed watching ‘Hey Hey It’s Saturday’ when we went to stay with our grandparents.

It’s kind of weird to have totally missed out on shows that other Aussie kids from our generation grew up with, such as ‘Prince Planet’.

They’re like, ‘Oh yeah! Prince Planet!’ and we’re like, ‘Who?’

And from memory, Capital 7 then became the 10 network? I remember when it was CTC 7. Just 2 channels, CTC 7 and ABC 3, and then great excitement, we got a third channel, SBS. You’d only get to see groovy shows like Hey Hey It’s Saturday when you went to the coast, and could watch WIN, beamed from Wollongong.

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