Abstract
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In July 1970 TV Times columnist F C Kennedy
described a television landscape in which locally
produced programming was in the doldrums. He
reminded readers that Australian television
production was no longer in its infancy and
deserved none of the excuses which had propped
it up since its inception. Kennedy argued that the
same talentless lot that got in at the beginning
were still turning up like a pile of bad pennies:‘In
the early days of TV anybody remotely connected
with show business got his chance to become a
TV star. Unfortunately, some of those who
entered TV under these easy conditions are still
in’.