As the national broadcaster celebrates the anniversary, Guardian staff recall programs and moments that shaped us
The national broadcaster, the ABC, is marking its 90th birthday this year, with a special live event going to air on Thursday.
Here are some of our favourite ABC moments. Share yours in the comment section below, and we will reproduce some of them in another article.Countdown on Sunday nights was must-see TV, gathering at whichever household would tolerate overexcited tweens/teens in their living room, talking over each other during the show, then dissecting the acts afterwards before revisiting yet again at school on Monday. What a window it was into a glitzy world far from our coastal suburban lives.
National as it is now, at 621. There we’d get half-hour reruns of The Goon Show. The comic mayhem was made for radio . The Goon Show had been broadcast through the 1950s by the BBC. The irreverent humour, which took on the British establishment of that era, somehow resonated with Australian audiences a couple of decades later .
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