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Airdate: Good Afternoon Adelaide

A comedy chat show that parodies '80s television is coming to Community TV.

Community TV will screen a comedy chat show that parodies ’80s television, Good Afternoon Adelaide hosted by “Jeremy Dome and business identity Norman Vine.”

According to a cheeky press release, Good Afternoon Adelaide was a South Australian chat show that aired live across SA and into the silver city of Broken Hill from 1989 to 1992 in an era when Adelaide truly was the place to be (before Victoria stole the slogan for their number plates, along with the Formula One Grand Prix).

Hosted by journalist Jeremy Dome and business identity Norman Vine, the show featured news, celebrity interviews, live music, talkback callers, lifestyle segments, paid advertorials and a who’s who of Adelaide royalty.

Like a lot of local Adelaide telly, the show became a victim of increased networkisation from the eastern states and GAA was cancelled in 1992. As a final insult, the station’s master tapes were later sold and used for episodes of “Wheel of Fortune”. Hence very few recordings of the show still exist today.

However, when Hallett Cove amateur video archivist Ben Felixstove passed away last year, several Betamax tapes were uncovered by his family, featuring home video footage of Ben introducing some of his favourite ‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ clips recorded off TV.

Ben’s tapes have been eagerly snapped up by C44 Adelaide and C31 Melbourne and six half- hour ‘best-of ‘episodes of ‘Good Afternoon Adelaide’ will be broadcast for the first time in more than a quarter of a century beginning Monday 5 March at 9PM.

RIP Good Afternoon Adelaide. Also Ben.

9pm Monday March 5 on Channel 44 Adelaide and C31 Melbourne & Geelong.

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