An NZBC time capsule
Pictured: “Bunny Rigold, the NZBC Home Handy Man, demonstrates a point in front of the keen-sighted cameras.”In 1972, New Zealand only had one television channel and it broadcast everything in black and white (a second channel and colour transmissions weren’t expected until October 1973). Jason King, Please Sir and Dr Finlay’s Casebook were the big shows of the day, and a bush kangaroo called Skippy was insured for $1 million to make the trip over from Sydney. From the same cache of old newsprint that brought you the Slackliner comes the 1972 New Zealand Television Annual (thanks to the Bowman Family). A bargain at 75 cents, with fascinating features such as “Television Stars Who Visited N.Z. this year” — Derek Nimmo! Marty Feldman! — and the fact that Morecambe and Wise were making “about $200,000 a year each”, the magazine is a monochrome trip back into a century that never invented blogging, podcasts or bro’Town. It was a year in which “Television Programmes Produced in England” exceeded those from the United States by almost two to one, but Australia had only a couple (Contrabandits, along with the aforementioned ’roo) and the N.Z.B.C. just eight programmes with which to woo its captive audience. More…
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