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- ↑ "Breakfast Television Session". TV Guide. The Sydney Morning Herald (Advertisement). 20 October 1958. p. 1. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
- ↑ Musgrove, Nan (5 November 1958). "Television Parade". The Australian Women's Weekly . Vol. 26, no. 22. p. 66. Retrieved 12 June 2013– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "ENZO TOPPANO AND PEGGY MORTIMER PERFORM SONG AND COMEDY SKETCH". National Film and Sound Archive . Retrieved 17 February 2023.
