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DateBetween 9th April 2016 and 5th June 2016LocationTreasures Wall and Institute BuildingDescription

Begin transmission - South Australia turns on the television shines a spotlight on some of the great memories South Australians have created, contributed to and enjoyed on our screens since regular broadcast began in September 1959.

The exhibition then rewinds a little further to unravel the story of television's slow road to Australia. Early Adelaide television featured home-grown news and variety shows adrift in a sea of American and British content. Given time, the production of local television increased in quality and quantity, and an audience hungry to see itself on screen could tune in to their own stories, told in their own voices.

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'Kingsford' a house near Gawler

Shell sponsored demonstration, 1949

The news desk

John Burgess and Adriana Xenides of Wheel of Fortune

The Viscounts

Licence to watch

David Day and Libby Gleeson

Greg Clark and Di Stapleton

SA-FM's Andrew Peters with Gary Boughan, Jimmy Barnes and John Swan

Fat Cat with Dean Davis and Helen Woods

Hot Dog, Cheryl Mills and Winky Dink

Fat Cat with Veronica Overton and Percy Penguin

Patsy Biscoe and Fat Cat

Miss Nancy, Romper Room

Humphrey Bear and 'Here's Humphrey' producer Robin Roenfeldt

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Woodies teentime

Invention of television

Welcome to colour

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Danger 5

50 Favourite nursery rhymes. Volume 2

The Here's Humphrey theme

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