2 minutes ago, Tarax Club said:

 blue cellophane covered the screen in an attempt to reduce fuzziness. 

Is that serious Mr Tarax? I have never heard of that before. I guess these days it would be called a hack!!

34 minutes ago, Tarax Club said:

You are only as old as you think you are OD! Lived in Shep well before local TV was even thought about. We were one the first households to have television (only because my dad was an adept welder and built a steel ‘tower’ for the antenna). Transmissions were received from Melbourne,  blue cellophane covered the screen in an attempt to reduce fuzziness. 

We sound similar aged TC, I have a brother and 2 sisters none of them remember a time before TV. 

Dedicated red ‘n blue baby boomers OD!

3 hours ago, Tarax Club said:

Dedicated red ‘n blue baby boomers OD!

I'm in that club, too. We lived in Malvern. We had B&W TV for the '56 Olympics as a result of some fancy footwork by my father with his mate who ran an 'electricians shop' somewhere in Caulfield. TV replays of the footy were horrendous; however, the Tarax Show was highly entertaining, when it arrived. Gosh, programming was corny in those days - content-wise and reception-wise. We were forever buying 'upgraded' aerials to get a better reception. We still received better 'entertainment' from the radiogram, both with old LPs and the radio shows. 

Good old Happy Hammond.

 

10 hours ago, dworship said:

Looking at photo #8, that is a serious leap Farris White has.

His height might be listed a bit unders as well from what I am told

4 hours ago, MT64 said:

Good old Happy Hammond.

 

Not to forget Uncle Norman

13 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

Not to forget Uncle Norman

And other kids show favourites, funny face Gordon, Cousin Roy, King Corky, lovely Anne and my cousin, Princess Panda.

5 minutes ago, Redleg said:

And other kids show favourites, funny face Gordon, Cousin Roy, King Corky, lovely Anne and my cousin, Princess Panda.

We can only whisper Zig and Zag and Joffa boy.

44 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

Not to forget Uncle Norman

and bring back pilita on imt

Ronald Dale made appearances too heralded as ‘Mr Football’ 

Ronald Dale with those bulging biceps giving tips to the kids.!!

and don't forget the titanic battles betwern george black and barry jones

16 hours ago, Tarax Club said:

As we await Picket’s report from distant Casey Fields. The limited transmissions received so far seem to flicker intermittently between reality and  mystery. (re: Steven May’s presence or absence?)

 Like trying to receive television broadcasts back in the early 60’s of my early childhood days from the Goulburn Valley. Black and white fuzzy images that would seemingly coalesce and than elusively disappear into the ether.

Of those early formative days of TV broadcasts one of the most memorable shows began with Rod Sterling’s narration “There is a fifth dimension beyond which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the an area which we call the Twilight Zone.”

 Knowing Picket Fence has great affection for the suburban culture of his youth and his previous reports have heavily referenced cult favourites such as the original Star Trek, Space Family Robinson, and he has lovingly homaged Columbo’s Peter Falk…

The question arises where is PF?

 

Sorry TC, I think you will have to adjust your set as the last time I saw the Twilight Zone it was in the New Board Member thread.

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

and don't forget the titanic battles betwern george black and barry jones

Barry Jones lived 2 doors from me.

But back to the training thread. Have the houses started tumbling yet?

Big years for Laurie, Chandler, Deakyn Smith and J. Smith.

Edited December 9, 20223 yr by Redleg

2 hours ago, chook fowler said:

Not to forget Uncle Norman

I have a vague memory of him breaking his leg live on TV as he descended the tiered seating after talking to the kiddies. He slipped and disappeared and the show went to a forced interlude.

1 hour ago, chook fowler said:

We can only whisper Zig and Zag and Joffa boy.

I saw Zig & Zag doing drug humour at a Stoned Again show at the (was it?) Astor Theatre in Prahran in the late 70’s. 

12 hours ago, old dee said:

We sound similar aged TC, I have a brother and 2 sisters none of them remember a time before TV. 

I remember us getting our first TV in 1956 (we lived in Heatherdale at the time). I was completely freaked out by Noddy (probably the creepy organ music), but loved Torchy the Battery Boy, Tom Terrific and Sooty.  

I thought this was a topic about MFC training not a walk down memory lane.

6 hours ago, MT64 said:

Good old Happy Hammond.

 

Clickety-click!

Since there are so many certified oldsters, in this particular thread, I wonder if anyone else would like to comment on my long-held belief that Clayton Oliver is very similar to Ron Barassi. I see it in his relentlessness, his determination, and also in things like his kicking style. Some of you are obviously older than me. I remember Barassi, but I was very young. Those who remember him well: do you agree? 

18 hours ago, daisycutter said:

so we should await an entertaining report from picket fence and the vipers?

Hopefully either Monday at Gosh's and or Friday at Casey! Got some good stuff coming Demonlanders way this Pre Season I hope!

Cheers, 

P.F

3 hours ago, daisycutter said:

and don't forget the titanic battles betwern george black and barry jones

What was that show called?

2 hours ago, hardtack said:

I saw Zig & Zag doing drug humour at a Stoned Again show at the (was it?) Astor Theatre in Prahran in the late 70’s. 

Ron and Gerry Gee appeared at the ‘Reefer Cabaret’  in the old blind institute Ormond Hall in Prahran mid-70’s. A very risqué R rated performance. Blew the socks right off of the earlier strictly PG rated Tarax Show material. The audience were reportedly ‘rollin’ in the aisles’.

Edited December 10, 20223 yr by Tarax Club
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