Thread: QUIZ: Are you a seriously long term woodie?

Think the old memory might be a bit confused about the host It was circa 1964 after all.

TV was black and white?

Normie Rowe and Ron Casey being manly men - Is this a good hint?

Originally Posted by Dengue

After looking at the latest ads for Season 2 of Steve Hay's "Woodwork Show", I started my random recollection of TV shows long gone. I wonder how many remember Joe the Gadget Man on The Nock and Kirby DIY show on early Sydney black & white television.

For you serious old woodies, what time of the week was it on, and what was was the name of the following show, and who hosted it? I will give you a hint: he was involved in a punch up with a rock'n' roll singer on live TV

I believe it was on Saturday somewhere around noon (+- 1 hour). I had no recollection of Won being the host, but there you go.

Really serious woodies don't watch TV.

Originally Posted by BobL

Really serious woodies don't watch TV.

When you were 16 yrs old and TV had just been made available to the masses you did

FF got it right. It was on every Sat morning at 11am, followed at 12noon by World Championship Wrestling. I though "Won" Casey was the compere, but it was another ring sport - boxing, that he presented on a show called something like Wide World of Sport he ran for over 20 years, on a Sunday from memory.

Ron and Normie Rowe had a dust up on a Ray Martin Compered show

Only came to Sydney in 1972 with the Navy but do remember Joe and how annoying he was on the TV.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qld7KYNVwbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1pD4_bzfAc

Even Joe didn't have a gadget for everything - smh.com.au

Originally Posted by Dengue

When you were 16 yrs old and TV had just been made available to the masses you did

We didn't get a TV until 1967 but several of our neighbours had TVs before then. I remember when the first neighbour got their TV and their living room was packed solid with the kids (the neighbours had 7 kids in their family and I had 9 siblings!). I remember all the adults smoking and the air was so blue you could barely see the TV.

I think there were two Ron Caseys. The Sydney one had the dustup with Normie Rowe and the Melbourne one used to present Wide World of Sports and commentate on boxing and wrestling

Originally Posted by RedShirtGuy

TV was black and white?

Yeah but the pictures on radio were in full color and always better.

Originally Posted by Dengue

It was circa 1964 after all.

1964, are you sure? I thought it was much later than that.

Originally Posted by cava

1964, are you sure? I thought it was much later than that.

Yes it was. Normie was done with Nasho's by then. I think it was in the late 80's

TT

cava, Joe the Gadget Man was on Sydney TV from 1956 for nearly 30 years, and I think it is the longest running show in Australia, the TV equivalent of Blue Hills. The WCW was on TV from 1964 to 1978

Originally Posted by BobL

I remember all the adults smoking and the air was so blue you could barely see the TV.

Bob
The air is still blue, but it comes from the TV itself now
Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by BobL

We didn't get a TV until 1967 but several of our neighbours had TVs before then. I remember when the first neighbour got their TV and their living room was packed solid with the kids (the neighbours had 7 kids in their family and I had 9 siblings!). I remember all the adults smoking and the air was so blue you could barely see the TV.

My dad used to smoke but the air was blue when he smashed this thumb with the hammer while working in the shed

Wasn't WCW hosted (or it may have been commentary) by a bloke called Jimmy Little ?...thin streak with glasses..........good days.....Mario Milano, Spiros Arrios, The Skull, Brute Bernard.........good days