Whatever Became Of.......
John Leister
The following shows and or personalities?.......
Whatever became of?
The people that made the TV show "The Curiosity Show" which
used to screen on channel 9 well over 20 years ago? I think
it was hosted by Rob Morrison and Ian Fairweather (think that
is the correct spelling)
Sue Elbourne. Used to do the news and weather on channel 10.
Ernie Sigley. He did the rounds of various TV networks from
channel 9 and he even made an appearance on channel 10 at
one point in time I think.
Luke Hooft
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> The people that made the TV show "The Curiosity Show" which
> used to screen on channel 9 well over 20 years ago? I think
> it was hosted by Rob Morrison and Ian Fairweather (think that
> is the correct spelling)
Rob Morrison is currently on an ad about the Adelaide Zoo and Monarto. I
have never heard of Ian Fairweather, so if he was ever part of The
Curiousity Show it was before my time. The only other host of TCS that I
remember is Dean Hutton, who also used to make appearances on Hey, Hey, It's
Saturday, but I haven't seen him since then.
I used to love The Curiousity Show. Science is cool, man.
LH
Cousin Barry
>
> The following shows and or personalities?.......
>
> Whatever became of?
>
>
> The people that made the TV show "The Curiosity Show" which
> used to screen on channel 9 well over 20 years ago? I think
> it was hosted by Rob Morrison and Ian Fairweather (think that
> is the correct spelling)
>
The guy with the moustache (sorry, I don't know his name) was on After
Midnight over summer - a religious chat show. He mentioned he had a web site
and had released a couple of CD Roms based around science and religion.
> Ernie Sigley. He did the rounds of various TV networks from
> channel 9 and he even made an appearance on channel 10 at
> one point in time I think.
Is now doing quite well on 3AW in Melbourne. He does afternoons and his
ratings are pretty good. Usual sort of light entertainment with regular
lifestyle segments you would get on your commercial talk stations around
lunch time.
Have a read of Gerald Stone's book 'Compulsive Viewing' for a bit of behind
the scenes goss on why Ernie's night time show got axed all those years ago.
Makes interesting reading.
CB
Larry Ng
And what about the Channel Niners?
Darren Smith
Robin Roenfeldt at my factory on temp work a couple of months back.
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David Bromage
> Whatever became of?
>
> The people that made the TV show "The Curiosity Show" which
> used to screen on channel 9 well over 20 years ago? I think
> it was hosted by Rob Morrison and Ian Fairweather (think that
> is the correct spelling)
The two who were on it for the entire 18 years were Deane Hutton and Rob
Morrison. In the early years (1972-80) when it was more than a science
show there was also Ian Fairweather (who was also the producer), Alister
Smart and somebody else whose name I forget.
It's a shame the show ended, but by 1990 you just couldn't have a show
like that hosted by two middle aged men - not PC enough. It's still
shown on cable TV in about a dozen countries.
Dr Deane Hutton now runs his own touring science show for schools and
Associate Professor Rob Morrison is at the School of Education at
Flinders University. I had the pleasure of meeting them both at the
Australian Science Festival in 2001.
Cheers
David
John
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Curiousity! Wondering which, how and why!
Darkfalz
> used to screen on channel 9 well over 20 years ago? I think
> it was hosted by Rob Morrison and Ian Fairweather (think that
> is the correct spelling)
I loved that show.
The guy with the moustache appeared regularly on Hey Hey with science
experiements. I am not completely sure, but I think that the other guy went
to the ABC.
--
"When, in the names of freedom and feminism, young women listen less to the
hard-earned wisdom of older women about how to pick Mr. Right, they listen
even more to their hormones. This allows cruder measures of a man's worth --
like the size of his muscles -- to return to prominence. The result is not a
feminist utopia, but a society in which genetically gifted guys can more
easily get away with acting like Mr. Wrong."
- Steve Sailer, president of the Human Biodiversity Institute.
David Bromage
> I am not completely sure, but I think that the other guy went
> to the ABC.
He was the science/environment reporter for Ten in Adelaide for a while.
One thing that is important to remember is that Deane and Rob only ever
did the show as a sideline. They had full time academic careers as well.
Cheers
David
mat
Humphrey B Bear
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0284719
David Bromage
> check out this page for the curiosty show, apparently it was tied to
> Humphrey B Bear
It started as a 5 minute segment in Here's Humphrey for the first few
months before was spun off into a show of its own. "The F Show" was an
actual working title and came from a word Ian Fairweather said when he
was told he was going to produce a science show for children. :)
Cheers
David
Luke Hooft
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> Speaking of the original Hey Hey it's Saturday - with Winky Dink - I saw
> Robin Roenfeldt at my factory on temp work a couple of months back.
He had a gig on telly only recently, some morning show.
I too remember the Adelaide Hey Hey, later renamed Saturday Fun-Day when we
the other Hey Hey came to SA. Winky Dink... haven't though about him in
years. And remember C'mon Kids?
LH
John Leister
That's the one. It was Dean Hutton and not Ian Fairweather
John Leister
Do not remember that one. How far back?
I do remember the Wobbleboard game. Was
that on the same show?
peebs
Darren Smith
I can still remember the cartoon line-up
Hong Kong Phooey
Hair Bear Bunch
Jabberjaws...
ah those were the days.....
m泥c泱
Yeah! I used to watch that. :)
Robin Roenfeldt was the cute dark haired guy, wasn't he?
Now temping at factories? That is so sad...
StormingHOME
hated the Tune but loved the show!!!
C'mon Kids??? I used to like that hidious Creature (a flouresent McDonald
little Hamburger things) on that show
I met the Marty the monster BMX host about a year ago
(My Mum's best friend Cousin???))
He doing some voice over work but is a producer in Sydney for Radio(Can't
remember what station)!!!
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Edy Syquer
> I too remember the Adelaide Hey Hey, later renamed Saturday Fun-Day when we
> the other Hey Hey came to SA. Winky Dink... haven't though about him in
> years. And remember C'mon Kids?
OK, Edy's going to respond to several messages in this thread all at
once...
Actually, the Adelaide Hey Hey was re-named BEFORE we got Daryl's Hey
Hey. You may remember that the presenters on Hey Hey it's Saturday
were also the presenters on The Channel Niners during the week. When
The Channel Niners went national in 1986, it changed its name to C'mon
Kids. This was in the days of regional TV stations that were not
affiliated with the major networks (i.e. before the days of Prime and
WIN), so there would have been regions in which the show was *not*
airing on something called "channel nine", hence the loss of the name
"The Channel Niners" (assumedly, they were also giving it some
freshness; new era, new name, so to a degree the new viewers, outside
SA, were seeing it from the beginning). Hey Hey it's Saturday changed
its name to Saturday Fun Day about a year before this and, given the
timing of it, one assumes that this show went national too and
therefore the reason that the program changed its name was because
areas which already received the other Hey Hey would be airing it too,
and could not have two shows with that title. It wasn't until 1987,
when the name changes had well and truly taken place already, that
Adelaide started to show the Daryl Somers version of Hey Hey it's
Saturday.
As for The Curiosity Show, Humphrey did indeed appear on it. In these
days, the NWS 9 studios in Adelaide had an extremely co-operative
on-air relationship, and presenters of The Channel Niners, The
Curiosity Show and Humphrey were often appearing on each other's
shows. Humphrey in fact started on The Channel Niners, when his name
was Bear Bear, and when he was spun-off into his own separate show,
there was a competition in Adelaide to give Bear Bear a new name, and
the winning name was Humphrey Bear Bear... which has been forever
shortened to Humphrey B. Bear. Of course, it is possible that his name
was spelt "Bare Bear", in reference to his lack of pants, but Edy
doesn't think so.
Why The Curiosity Show ended? There was a panel set up to monitor the
content of children's programming in the late 80's, and to ensure that
programs lived up to certain guidelines - especially with the new 'P'
classification that was
introduced.
The panel was dismissing shows left, right and centre, and barred
continuation of The Curiosity Show and Romper Room in 1988. This
took place only a few years after The Curiosity Show won an
international award for excellence in children's programming. The
panel's main justification for stripping it of its status was that it
didn't have a female presenter. Fat Cat was the next to go (replaced
in 1992 with The Book Place), and then, in
1992, it denied several episodes of the new version of Skippy a
children's classification.
The bar on Skippy caused such a fuss, and was the 'final straw'. The
panel was then disbanded shortly afterwards. Here's Humphrey almost
became a victim of theirs as well, but some last-minute format changes
saw its survival.
Ian Fairweather was a participant in these Adelaide children's
programs, and was in fact one of Humphrey's original "friends" on
Here's Humphrey. In the late 80s/early 90s he started to produce
children's programs on 10, and circa 1992/3 became the 10 Network's
head of children's television. There was a time when, on weekend
mornings, you'd see a string of shows (i.e. aired consecutively) of
which Ian was the executive producer (Mind Twist - that kids' game
show with Maynard, Double Dare, It Goes, the original Totally Wild...
and a few others that Edy has forgotten)
Andrew Bayley
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> Actually, the Adelaide Hey Hey was re-named BEFORE we got Daryl's Hey
> Hey. You may remember that the presenters on Hey Hey it's Saturday
> were also the presenters on The Channel Niners during the week. When
> The Channel Niners went national in 1986, it changed its name to C'mon
> Kids. This was in the days of regional TV stations that were not
> affiliated with the major networks (i.e. before the days of Prime and
> WIN), so there would have been regions in which the show was *not*
> airing on something called "channel nine", hence the loss of the name
> "The Channel Niners" (assumedly, they were also giving it some
> freshness; new era, new name, so to a degree the new viewers, outside
> SA, were seeing it from the beginning). Hey Hey it's Saturday changed
> its name to Saturday Fun Day about a year before this and, given the
> timing of it, one assumes that this show went national too and
> therefore the reason that the program changed its name was because
> areas which already received the other Hey Hey would be airing it too,
> and could not have two shows with that title.
"Saturday Fun Day" never appeared in Melbourne, possibly it did appear
elsewhere though. During those days in the 80's, GTV9 had "Cartoon Company"
on Saturday mornings with Craig Campbell (now Rove Live's producer) and
Kathy Hooper (i think that was her surname, she also hosted The Bugs Bunny
Show during the week before the days of Sophie Lee etc). This was up
against the 80's version of ATV10's "Early Bird Show" with Darryl Cotton and
Marie Van Maaren which went from 7am to midday although I think this only
aired in Melbourne until Mr Bob Shanks took over running the network,
renamed the show "Club Ten", shortened it to 2 hrs (using "Video Hits" to
fill the other 3 hrs) and relayed it to Sydney and I think Brisbane. Like
most of Shanks' efforts at the time, this was short lived.
> It wasn't until 1987,
> when the name changes had well and truly taken place already, that
> Adelaide started to show the Daryl Somers version of Hey Hey it's
> Saturday.
This is when the Hey Hey It's Saturday team visited Adelaide in July 1987
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~andjb/tvrextra.jpg (76 Kb)
John Leister
You gotta be kidding. They were that petty minded about
"The Curiosity Show" that they barred it on that basis alone.
I recall Fat Cat getting the chop because of on set antics
like throwing food in the air and stuff too.
Luke Hooft
> Actually, the Adelaide Hey Hey was re-named BEFORE we got Daryl's Hey
> Hey. You may remember that the presenters on Hey Hey it's Saturday
> were also the presenters on The Channel Niners during the week. When
> The Channel Niners went national in 1986, it changed its name to C'mon
> Kids.
Interesting. I lived in SA all my life (born in 1980) and while I remember
C'Mon kids, I always thought it was a completely new show. I knew there was
a show called the Channel Niners, but I had thought it was before my time...
my Dad used to watch it. I do not ever remember actually seeing The Channel
Niners or any similar show on weekdays on 9 before C'Mon Kid's, though I
remember Hey Hey clearly.
I guess I just never watched 9 on weekdays before the age of 6.... I
probably watched ABC instead.
The good thing about those days is that there were cartoons on Saturday from
about 6 to midday. Nowdays, there's lucky to be 90 minutes of cartoons, per
channel, then a bunch of crappy live-action shows or traight to sport.
I'd still watch cartoons if there were more of them and a greater variety,
and they were still on by the time I've gotten up. I guess what I really
need is Pay TV, then you get all the really cool cartoons.
LH
Darren Smith
Um...no. Cartonn Network shows crap all day. Tom and Jerry and Popeye -
they can't afford anything decent.
Luke Hooft
> Um...no. Cartonn Network shows crap all day. Tom and Jerry and Popeye -
> they can't afford anything decent.
Really? Then I wish I could get *American* PayTV, plus their national FTA
chnnels as well.
LH
Darren Smith
my kids liked it when they had powerpuff girls, Johnny Bravo and Pokemon -
but they've dropped them and aboutthe only thing any good , according to my
kids is Ed, Edd and Eddy. There's Macross though and Zoids and quite a few
jap-animes.
Luke Hooft
> my kids liked it when they had powerpuff girls, Johnny Bravo and Pokemon -
> but they've dropped them and aboutthe only thing any good , according to
my
> kids is Ed, Edd and Eddy. There's Macross though and Zoids and quite a
few
> jap-animes.
I'm not really into the kiddie anime shows (anything ending in "mon", Zoids,
Beybladez... anything heavily connected to a toy or game they're trying to
sell). Macross sounds interesting... I know that part of that series makes
up part of the Americanised "Robotech", I'm assuming you're referring to a
more recent incartation of the series?
I'm really more interested in seeing some of the comedy and adult-oriented
US cartoons I always read about, like Samurai Jack and Invader Zim, and
something called "Adult Swim". That, and any of Warner Brothers' animated
Superhero shows (Batman, Superman, etc).
LH
Darren Smith
Smaurai jack and Invader Zim are both on - don't watch either - jack is OK -
seen it afew times.
Adult Swim is the Bomb - but doesn't seem to be on anymore. My fave was
Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Gail Pamphilon
>I'd still watch cartoons if there were more of them and a greater variety,
>and they were still on by the time I've gotten up. I guess what I really
>need is Pay TV, then you get all the really cool cartoons.
You could always tape Cheez TV on weekday mornings, and fast forward
through the 'presenters' (shudder) bilge in between. I think they are
still showing that inferior ripoff Digimon at the moment, but they
rotate cartoon shows every so often. It depends on your taste in
cartoons of course.
Gail
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> "Luke Hooft" <luke[underscore]h...@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
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> > US cartoons I always read about, like Samurai Jack and Invader Zim, and
> > something called "Adult Swim". That, and any of Warner Brothers' animated
> > Superhero shows (Batman, Superman, etc).
>
> Smaurai jack and Invader Zim are both on - don't watch either - jack is OK -
> seen it afew times.
>
> Adult Swim is the Bomb - but doesn't seem to be on anymore. My fave was
> Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Re: Cartoon Network
Batman, Superman and Justice League really Rock. Paul Dini and Bruce
Timm know their stuff well.
Invader Zim is on Nickelodeon - I think it's on most nights of the
week - they keep moving it
Samurai Jack - Australia seems to be waaaaaay behind the US. They've
had whole seasons, but we seem to get the same episodes (from season
1) repeated over and over
Adult Swim - Wednesday Nights is Anime, and they're about to change
the line up. Saturday Night used to be very cool, with SG C2C, Brak,
Harvey Birdman, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021. Now it's
really lame - does "the tweety and sylvester mysteries" really count
as Adult programming ? Everything except SGC2C has been cut, and
SGc2c is only on for half an hour
Cartoon Network needs to pick it's act up, bigtime.
-Chris
Edy Syquer
> my kids liked it when they had powerpuff girls, Johnny Bravo and Pokemon -
> but they've dropped them and aboutthe only thing any good , according to my
> kids is Ed, Edd and Eddy.
Well it can't be THAT good if there's no "Edy" amongst them
Darren Smith
not to mentin Eddie - although I think he's on enough TV as it is
Edy Syquer
> >
> > Well it can't be THAT good if there's no "Edy" amongst them
>
> not to mentin Eddie - although I think he's on enough TV as it is
Sigh... come back Tim Shaw from Demtel, all is forgiven!
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Jeßus
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>Adelaide
described as 'grossly exaggerated sex toys', whatever that means.
keithr0
Taupe
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have the sex change & become a 'bride of Christ'.
She is now know as sister Deb Morrison at Cabra Dominican Convent in
Adelaide
Jeßus
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He's incredibly talented in this art
He started Humphry
He stared the curiosity show
He one one of the very first ever Logi
For best male performer
Basically,a gold logi
And a very nice, intelligent gentleman.