Features profiles and photographs of New Zealand television personalities from the 1970s
INTRODUCTION
It came as no surprise to most New Zealanders earlier this year when Television One's Dougal Stevenson and John Clarke walked off sharing the Feltex Television Award for best television personality.
Their contributions to the small screen have, indeed, been great. And theirs are almost certainly the first two
names to spring to mind when considering individual impact on television.Stevenson has always appeared the professional he is. Calm, personable and making a difficult task appear easy,
yet maintaining a bright interest, he stands out from his contemporaries.John Clarke's unique style of humour, developed through the character of the now nationally recognised Fred Dagg, has had most viewers laughing at one time or another. Just as many would tune in specially to see Dougal read the news so, too, would they tune in to see what Fred had to say about the news.
And while he never sacrificed a laugh, much of his humour hid a barb or two that was to stick in the side of a fuddy-duddy bureaucracy.
But, while Dougal Stevenson and John Clarke are the foremost of New Zealand's TV personalities, they are by no means the small screen's only impact-making characters.
The business of entertaining, informing and educating the public every day of the year is a team effort, it involves hundreds of people, most of whom are never seen by the viewer.
But what of those who are seen? Ever wondered how they got where they are, why it is them on the screen and
not the next person, what it is that makes a weather girl, or a newsreader?This publication takes a look at some of the better-known faces on New Zealand's television screens, faces that are seen often/ faces that are television.
Contents:
- John Clarke
- Dougal Stevenson
- Bill McCarthy
- Des Monaghan
- Brian Edwards
- Stu
- Close To Home
- Joe Cote
- Chris Bourn
- Roger Gascoigne
- Barry Holland
- Tom Bradley
- Tina Carline
- Sue Scott
- Selwyn Toogood
- Colin Gardiner
- Max Cryer
- Des Britten
- Hanifi Hayes
- Jenny Goodwin
- Islay McLeod
- lan Johnstone
- Today At One
- Phillip Leishman
- Alison Holst
- Cedric Nissen
- Graeme Thomson
- John Hayden
- A Going Concern
- Relda Familton and Bas Tubert
- Pat Evison
- lan Mune and Merv Smith
- Centrespread: Full colour portraits of Dougal Stevenson and Roger Gascoigne. (Straighten staples
carefully with knife or other sharp instrument before removing poster for display).
Thanks to the hard work and generosity of a fellow archival TV researcher this magazine is available to read as a pdf
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