In past posts on Adelaide Remember When we've remembered some of the TV shows and personalities we grew up with, here's just a few;

Remember Kingswood Country the Australian sitcom that screened from 1980 to 1984 on the Channel 7? Some of Ted Bullpit's sayings included; "The Kingswood! You're not taking the Kingswood!”, "Bloody woman! “Pickle me grandmother!", "Don't 'dad' me I'm your father!" Ted was the main character; he was a bigoted white Australian WWII veteran who loved his greyhounds, his garden statue of Neville the Aboriginal, his chair in front of the telly worshipped his Holden Kingswood and hated the 'bloody' nuns. The show centred on the conflict between the conservative sexist & racist Ted & his progressive children with his poor long suffering wife Thelma stuck in the middle. His daughter’s husband, Bruno, was the son of Italian immigrants and Ted objected to him completely; referring to him as that ‘bloody wog’. I'll bet they couldn't play it on TV these days, but it was real Aussie humor and a very funny show.

Mike Smith on ABC Drive last night had Mal Leyland as his guest, remembering the very successful TV series "Ask the Leyland Brothers". The show ran from about 1976 to 1980, and again from 1983 to 1984 and provided most Australian viewers with their first look at outback Australia. I seem to recall it was on Saturday or Sunday evening at around 5.30 and it was a great show for the family and of course educational for adults as well as kids. The format of the show was driven by people writing in to Mike and Mal and asking a question about a part of Australia which the brothers would then drive to and answer the question. They did their own filming and took their wives and children with them on most occasions. It was like watching a home movie and would probably never work on TV today but back in the 70's it was a huge hit with audiences of several million watching every weekend. Mike, sadly died a few years ago. 

Just recently someone asked for a photo of Winky Dink. This is from Adelaide's Channel 9 kid's Super Cartoon Show. It's 1975 and this is Winky Dink, a duck with attitude. The Show's hosts at the time were Helen Woods and Dean Davis

.Remember Channel 10 for years had Fat Cat saying goodnight to the children at 7.30pm. I can't remember when they stopped it exactly but it was the time when the channel drew a line and said the programmes after this may not be suitable for children. And from memory, the kids used to go to bed when Fat Cat went too