THE MIKE WALSH SHOW YEARS inc PETER O'TOOLE, BROOKE SHIELDS, GEORGE BURNS, BETTE MIDLER

Please note: there are brief glimpses of performers in blackface in the opening montage (ironically, with the song lyrics “they were the right times”!). If you watch from 01:12 you will miss it.
Hosted by Mike Walsh, with a celebrity audience, “The Mike Walsh Show Years” features highlights of the popular Australian midday variety programme that began on the Ten Network in 1973, before continuing at Nine from 1977 to 1984.
Guests, reminiscing and presenting clips include Bert Newton, Phyllis Diller, Florence Henderson, Jeannie Little, Denise Drysdale, Mark Holden, John-Michael Howson, Mike Williams, John Wood, Ita Buttrose and George Negus. Also in studio for the special, singers who appeared on Mike’s show, including Debra (Debbie) Byrne, Angela Ayers, Toni Lamond, Di Horder, Jan Adele, Barry Crocker and Jacki Love.
Just a few of the celebrities in the clips: Trevor Howard, George Jessell, Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries), Kathy Lette, Germaine Greer, Bette Midler, Geoff Harvey, Joan Collins, Debbie Reynolds, Cher, Alfred Hitchcock, Danny Kaye, Brooke Shields, George Burns, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Peter O’Toole, Diana Dors, Dudley Moore, Malcolm Fraser, Andrew Peacock, Bill Hayden, Bob Hawke, Sir Les Patterson (Barry Humphries), Slim Dusty, Jon English, Johnny O’Keefe, John (Johnny) Farnham, Marc Hunter, Edwin Duff, Kylie Minogue, Frances Faye, Peter Allen, I Still Call Australia Home, Lionel Rose, Jeff Fenech, Rod Laver, Robert Morley, Cliff Allen, The Australian Ballet, Richard Tognetti, Victor Borge, Mel Gibson, Graham Kennedy, Simon Gallagher, Frank Thring, Sterling Hayden, Cybill Shepherd, Liza Minnelli, Quentin Crisp, Dita Cobb, Richard Neville, Paul Hogan and Chris Langham.