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40th Anniversary of Number 96

The Playlist remembers Number 96, which premiered on our screens 40 years ago.

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It was the show that changed the face of Australian television.

With its racy storylines, taboo themes and voyeuristic plots, a nation lost its virginity with this show…

Next week marks 40 years since Number 96 premiered on our screens.

To mark the occasion Pay TV interstitial The Playlist will interview Elaine Lee and Vince Martin tonight.

Host Andrew Mercado tells TV Tonight, “Vince Martin back in Australia after 16 years living in America, now a jazz musician, in the bomb episode he’s supposed to go down and get the cheese for dinner but Miles (Scott Lambert) offers to go down for him to the deli and BOOM he is blown out of the series. Vince reveals that he was one of the only cast members to know that he was surviving because he’d JUST been signed as the show’s new sex symbol while everybody else was on a razor’s edge wondering if they were going to go.”

There’s also a Q&A taking place in Sydney on Tuesday night with writer David Sale, Elaine Lee and Vivienne Garrett. Two episodes will be screened:  a groundbreaking black and white episode along with a colour episode that revealed who the mad bomber was.

The Playlist 7:25pm Friday on Showcase.

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  1. @johnjet: A DVD has just been released to coincide with the 40th anniversary – containing most of the only remaining Black and White episodes in the archive (out of 500+ episodes made in black and white, only about 20 remain intact, But all the colour episodes are in the national archive), plus the 1975 episodes surrounding the bomb-blast cliffhanger. My DVD arrived in the mail yesterday, can’t wait to see it 🙂

    There have also been a number of other DVD releases of Number 96 in recent years including the 1973 movie version and the ongoing storyline of the ‘pantyhose murderer’.

  2. How about getting the rights so that those of us too young to have seen it can get a chance to see what the fuss was all about.

    Also while at it get shows such as Skippy, Chopper Squad, Flying Doctors, Homicide etc.

    The lack of classic Aussie TV on Foxtel is a disgrace.

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