Bryan Dunne in 1981

Steve Worner has sadly advised the passing of Bryan Dunne.
Bryan was a much liked TVW News cameraman from 1969 to 1988, a period that experienced the transition from film cameras to electronic news gathering (ENG).

“Bryan – known as ‘BD’ around his colleagues – had served in both the [...]

Peter Dean

    The local broadcasting legend Peter Dean passed away in the early hours of 13th of March 2013 at St John of God Hospital Murdoch, aged almost 76, following a short and courageous battle with Motor Neuron Disease.

7News : Peter Dean dies

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One of the great stars of West [...]

Photo Flashback: TVW Secretaries and Peter Dean (in drag) help celebrate the retirement of Sir James Cruthers in 1981 with their take on the Mickey Mouse Club song

    A group of former TVW secretaries and production ladies enjoyed reminiscing together on Sunday November 4th 2012. It was planned as a picnic [...]

As retirees and broadcasting history enthusiasts our intrepid researchers Richard Ashton and Gordon McColl have one rule which determines every task: “If it ain’t fun, we ain’t doing it !”
There’s so many people to catch up with, who have a shared history, and so many interesting and exciting things to do, that anything otherwise tends [...]

Mr Anthony Howes, an award winning director and theatre educationist, has kindly shared his sentiments with us regarding the passing of Edgar Melcalfe, which gives one the opportunity to dwell further on the theatre scene in Perth, from when the Repertory Club evolved into a professional company with the building of the Playhouse Theatre, and [...]

Prominent Perth theatre actor, director and author, Edgar Metcalfe AM has died after a short fight with liver cancer, five days short of his 79th birthday.


Edgar Metcalfe 


Edgar had been directing, producing and treading the boards of various Perth theatres for many years. He came [...]

Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin visited Carnarvon, Western Australia from June 22nd to 23rd, 2012 for a two-day program called “To the Moon and Back Festival” where he officially opened the Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum.
Dr Buzz Aldrin was handed the key to the town by Carnarvon shire president Karl Brandenburg [...]

Dirty Dick’s Elizabethan Bawdy Banquets

An opportunity exists to relive the days of Dirty Dick’s bawdy Elizabethan restaurants, established in Perth by Frank Baden-Powell and Coralie Condon in Cambridge Street, Wembley, back in May 1970.

Dirty Dick’s Theatre Restaurant

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It was bawdy, raucous, medieval mayhem and it took Perth by [...]

An accolade for Kevin Campbell

Mark Nicoski interviews Eagles fans on Today Tonight

West Coast Eagles forward Mark Nicoski was a guest reporter for Today Tonight on the eve of the Eagles 600th game on Thursday 14th June, 2012. Mark interviewed a number of the Eagles most passionate supporters, of which one was [...]

Michael Goodall of the Goodall Film Industry Dynasty

Michael Goodall

Michael Goodall was a cameraman in the newsroom at TVW from 1971 to 2003, continuing the Goodall family tradition, where father Leith Goodall (1903-1978) was a founding member of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS). Leith was posthumously inducted into the [...]