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- ↑ "Local Talent in New TV Venture". TV & Radio Guide. The Age . 20 September 1962. p. 1. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
- ↑ "Search results for startime". National Film and Sound Archive . Retrieved 27 December 2023.
