BTQ7 50th Special - Wombat

Wombat was an award-winning Australian children's TV show produced at BTQ Channel 7 in Brisbane from 1979 to 1989. It was aired on weekday afternoons, and later Saturday and Sunday mornings, across Australia.

The show had a number of hosts who were accompanied by Agro, a puppet played by Jamie Dunn. The show consisted of small educational editorials presented in a variety of segments. The segments featured a number of regular reporters including Eric Summons, Fiona MacDonald, Bob La Castra, identical twins Gayle & Gillian Blakeney, Rob Elliott, Tony Gordon and Gary Hardgrave. Some of these reporters performed double duty as host of the show, notably Bob La Castra and Gayle & Gillian Blakeney. Other regular guests included: Laurel Edwards, Michael Futcher, Stacey Thompson ("Ranger Stacey"), Ashley Wilkie, Kristine Davis, Jill Ray & Glenn Hansen.

The show received four consecutive Logie Awards for "Most Popular Children's Program" from 1987 to 1990. In addition, Agro won a Penguin Award from the Television Society of Australia.

Some of the cast went on to appear in Totally Wild. Agro also went on to host Agro's Cartoon Connection and The Super Sunday Show.
*From Wikipedia
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Category:

Education

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• Wombat
• tv series
• BTQ7
• childrens television
• Australia
• yt:crop=16:9
• 2009

[VK4LA]

a trip down memory lane ......

[its4it]

Thanks so much for this upload. I live in Victoria so never got Boris's Breakfast Club but I have cousins who lived on the Gold Coast and so I saw BBC whenever I went up to stay with them.

We did get Wombat in Western Victoria though. We got it from 1986 onwards.

[digitaldanmartin]

Wombat actually started in the late 70's and went national in 1984, adding Agro to the equation that same year.