Super Flying Fun Show (1970)

Country

Australia

How it feels

This is a live weekday morning children's show from Australia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It mixed cartoons with live entertainment and quickly became a hit with young viewers.

livelyupbeatwhimsicalplayfulnostalgiclightheartedfamily-friendlybouncy

What happens

The Super Flying Fun Show was a live weekday morning television programme aimed at children. It was broadcast daily from TCN 9 in Sydney and on relay in Melbourne on GTV 9. The show was produced by Jim Badger. Super Flying Fun Show replaced the original Today show with Mike Walsh launched from GTV 9 in 1968. When Today was linked with TCN 9 and the compere changed to Tony Charlton, recently recruited Victorian regional stations began to drop the show. By October 1969 Today had been cancelled, and a mixture of live children's entertainment and cartoons on air between 7AM and 8:30AM was announced, to begin on 13 October 1969. This announcement proved to be premature, however the show was running in early December, 1969. It was an instant success: reputedly it received '26,000 letters from kids' in the first month of broadcast. The timeslot was extended to 9:00AM in early March 1970. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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