“The first lady of Western Australian television” deserves that honour on so many levels. Not only is Coralie the grande dame of WA theatre, being a playwright, composer, actor, producer and director of not only stage productions, but also kick started local television production in WA.
Coralie Condon
“The first lady of Western Australian television”
Coralie was also [...]
Bill McKenzie filled many key executive rolls at TVW and later become the first Managing Director of NEW-10 in Perth.
1959-1963 Joined TVW June 1959 and worked in Traffic, Programs & Publicity.
1963 Sydney Sales Manager TVW7
1964-1968 Film Manager TVW7
1968-1974 Assistant Station Manager TVW7
1974-1977 General Manager SAS 10 Adelaide
1978-1982 [...]
To explain: Brian gathered our best on and off-camera talent together (David Farr I recall, was the male lead) he then designed a set larger than anything that had ever been devised before—complete with a running stream, weeping willows, wild flowers, a boat (avec oars) and a leading lady (whose name escapes me) and appropriate English garden-type music, to complete this idyllic scene of David rowing his paramour to goodness-knows-where..
… Uncle Albert’s few friends congratulated him on the commercial—but he got no new business, and the best salesmanship involved was after the event when I had to convince BST that even though we were in breach of Broadcasting standards by running an almost four minute commercial, the vision was such as to justify it being considered as Australian progam content if we were asked to explain…
Since 2008, our small team of enthusiastic television veterans, supported by stories, photos and videos from many of the pioneers, is providing the basis for the content on this web site.
There is now an ever increasing list of oral history contributors…
Sir James Cruthers
Carolyn Noble (Tannock)
Sir James and Gary Carvolth
Coralie Condon
Darcy Farrell
Kevin Campbell and Max Bostock
Trina [...]
Coralie Condon recently turned 96 years of age on May 16th, but that has not slowed her down, still attending theatrical performances and regularly entertaining friends and family, even though her eye sight is fading. On Monday 23rd of May, Coralie played hostess to a gathering of colleagues when two former senior executives Max Bostock [...]
“The first lady of Western Australian television” deserves that honour on so many levels. Not only is Coralie the grande dame of WA theatre, being a playwright, composer, actor, producer and director of not only stage productions, but also kick started local television production in WA.
Coralie Condon
“The first lady [...]
Bert Shaw
15/5/1930 – 24/8/2010
Mr. Bert Shaw (1930-2010) was a talented dancer, choreographer and teacher, who spent many years performing on the stage and on television.
He passed away in Melbourne on Tuesday 24th August, 2010.
Bert was the principle dancer in the 1958 Playhouse stage version of Coralie Condon’s The Good Oil, where he met his wife [...]
The West Australian newspaper’s TVW 50th Anniversary supplement published on Friday October 16, 2009….
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If you have difficulty viewing the following PDF files then you may need to click and hold (Mac) or right click on the link (PC), then choose “Download to Disk,” “Save Target As…,” [...]
Continuing the West Australian newspaper’s TVW 50th Anniversary supplement…
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If you have difficulty viewing the following PDF files then you may need to click and hold (Mac) or right click on the link (PC), then choose “Download to Disk,” “Save Target As…,” or the equivalent.
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Continuing the West Australian newspaper’s TVW 50th Anniversary supplement…
Courtesy of WA Newspapers
If you have difficulty viewing the following PDF files then you may need to click and hold (Mac) or right click on the link (PC), then choose “Download to Disk,” “Save Target As…,” or the equivalent.
If you do [...]
