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30th July 2014, 09:33 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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QUIZ: Are you a seriously long term woodie?
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 TVregards,
Dengy
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30th July 2014, 09:48 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Think the old memory might be a bit confused about the host It was circa 1964 after all.
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Dengy
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30th July 2014, 10:43 PM #3
TV was black and white?
Normie Rowe and Ron Casey being manly men - Is this a good hint?Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.
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31st July 2014, 01:06 AM #5.
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Really serious woodies don't watch TV.
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31st July 2014, 09:39 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
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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 showregards,
Dengy
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31st July 2014, 10:01 AM #7
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
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31st July 2014, 10:45 AM #8.
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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.
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31st July 2014, 11:19 AM #9GOLD MEMBER
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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
Tom
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1st August 2014, 12:19 AM #13GOLD MEMBER
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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
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Dengy
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10th August 2014, 10:01 AM #15
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
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