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The Tarax Show was an early Australian children's TV program on GTV-9 in Melbourne running from 1957 to 1969.
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The Tarax Show regulars travel to Make Believe Land with miserly Uncle Silas (Jack Little), who learns some important lessons about love and kindness. A more ambitious production that was pre-recorded on videotape.
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60/120 minute episodes. This early Australian children’s TV series from GTV-9 in Melbourne was originally titled The Happy Show and hosted by a character called Happy Hammond (Harry Hammond, who had moved across to television from radio). Broadcast each weekday afternoon, the series debuted on 21 January 1957 – only two days after the ...
The children’s programme, sponsored by the Tarax Drinks Company, quickly caught on with the kids, thanks to the likeable and irrepressible personality of Happy Hammond, and the brilliance of Ron Blaskett, who very quickly established Gerry Gee as one of the major stars of the show.
The Tarax Show was an early Australian children's TV program on GTV-9 in Melbourne running from 1957 to 1969. Denzil Howson, who was Assistant Programme Manager at GTV9, was asked by Normal Spencer to develop a daily children's programme. A pilot of the show was kinescope recorded onto film.
Growing Up With the Tarax Show. Paul Howson. As a child, Paul Howson watched the Happy/Tarax Show on TV and visited GTV9 with his father, Denzil Howson. He went on location for filming of “The Adventures of Gerry Gee” and witnessed the recording of the Christmas Pantomimes.
