Just the One Channel
Adventures in Archive Television
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Just the One Channel – An Archive Television Blog
Welcome to Just the One Channel. Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Gary. I’m a writer, editor, historian and actor with more hobbies and interests than are good for me. I have a deep fascination with the history of television…
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ABC TV – One Decade On
Friday 13 March 1970 Having examined what South Australia’s ABS2 TV landscape was looking like on a Friday night one year after the channel’s launch in 1960, it was clear that change was coming but only slowly and not in…
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Message to Subscribers
Hello subscribers (and other readers) of Just the One Channel! First let me thank you for your interest in this blog. I hope you have enjoyed the posts that have been put up so far. I plan to upload more…
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The Returns
For those of us who are fascinated by the television of the past these are very interesting times. For some old TV heads the idea of magically going back to live in the 1960s or 70s is a very attractive…
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ABC TV – One Year On
On a certain Friday in March 1960 ABC TV began broadcasting in South Australia for the first time. Having begun with official ceremonies, American comedy and Westerns, documentaries, locally produced music programs and one solitary English drama, how much had…
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The Fantastic ‘Film is Fabulous!’
It has happened and it’s all over the news. Two long lost pieces of archive television have been recovered, announced, and will be made available for the general public in the UK to view this coming Easter. Two episodes of…
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The Archive TV Gateway Drug
There are many routes into the bottomless pit that is Archive TV. I believe the majority are driven to early TV programming by nostalgia and a harking back to a remembered younger, seemingly simpler time. This appears to be borne…
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ABC TV’s First Day in SA
It is the evening of Friday 11 March 1960. It’s been a fine and mild day with a maximum of 74 degrees Fahrenheit in Adelaide[1] (that’s 23 degrees C to we children of the metric age) and as the evening…
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2026 to 1976 to 1966
It’s ridiculous I know, but it is now the space year 2026! Not sure how that happened. This year will see the 50th anniversary of the opening of the rural South Australian television channel, RTS 5A. The launch of that…
Gary
Founder & Author
Hi there. Growing up in an Australian country town with only a single television station, ABRS3, had a much bigger influence on my life than it probably should have. Come with me as I explore the TV of my childhood and beyond. I hope it will be fun.
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