Flashback (1983 TV series)

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Flashback
Presented byKeith Smith
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes9
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
Network ABC TV
Release11 February (1983-02-11) [1]  –
8 April 1983 (1983-04-08)

Flashback is a 1983 Australian television panel game show broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Hosted by Keith Smith it featured a panel of three trying to guess the guest newsmakers, followed by the guests joining the panel for a chat. Panel members over the series were Richard Walsh, Buzz Kennedy, Jacki Weaver, Noeline Brown and Kate Fitzpatrick. [2]

In the Sun-Herald Jacqueline Lee Lewes announced the show and wrote "The least said about this program the better. It's 1960s television — except that it's in colour." [3] Mike Carlton in the Sydney Morning Herald wrote "With all this commercial codswallop going around you would think the ABC would have the wit to lay orf, but no, someone in Light Ent has devised a particular brand of frightfulness in the form of a panel game called Flashback, which his employers are inexplicably showing on Friday evenings." [4] Also in the Sydney Morning Herald Marion MacDonald said "The very concept of the show ensures that it will be a dismal night's entertainment." [5] The Age's Garrie Hutchinson noted "It's a further piece of evidence on the decline of Friday night television, which is now even worse than Saturday nights ever were." [6] In the same masthead Michael Shmith gives a short summary and says "The whole show is twee and deeply embarrassing." [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Flashback (2) at 8.45 pm", The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 February 1983
  2. ↑ "Walsh back tomorrow after signing big contract", The Canberra Times, 6 February 1983
  3. ↑ Lee Lewes, Jacqueline (6 February 1983), "Aunty trots out old faces and a few new shows", The Sun-Herald
  4. ↑ Carlton, Mike (16 February 1983), "Flashback shows ABC is out of its depth in Light Ent", The Sydney Morning Herald
  5. ↑ MacDonald, Marion (2 April 1983), "A deaf ear pays off among the merry romping", The Sydney Morning Herald
  6. ↑ Hutchinson, Garrie (24 March 1983), "A bizarre blast from the past", The Age
  7. ↑ Shmith, Michael (10 March 1983), "Preview TV", The Age
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