The only surviving complete episode of Network Ten’s 1960s music show Go!! (aka The Go!! Show ) and rare colour home movies filmed on the set of the show – including a young Olivia Newton-John and Ian Turpie – will be screened by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) on 25 May 2015 at the St Kilda Film Festival.
A Spokesperson for the National Film and Sound Archive explained that The Go!! Show, known at the time as ‘Australia’s Swingin’est Teenage Show’, was Melbourne’s first teenage music program for the Beatles generation, and a success for Australia’s newest commercial network. Produced by Julian Jover and Dennis Smith for DYT Productions, The Go!! Show was screened nationally, bringing fame to many emerging Australian recording artists. Of the 222 episodes aired between August 1964 and September 1967, only one complete episode survives. Episode 117 (28 November 1966) featured UK recording star Crispian St Peters and local artists The Strangers, The Mixtures, Normie Rowe, Denise Drysdale, Tony Barber and Annette Steele.
The Spokesperson explained that the NFSA has digitally reconstructed this episode from all surviving master materials; a recently acquired 16mm black and white print, and a u-matic videotape sourced from the Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne. The Spokesperson added that The Go!! Show program also includes 1966 TV advertisements from the NFSA collection, re-inserted into the original commercial breaks; VFL footballers singing the theme of a local car dealership (Australian Rules Hall of Famers ‘Sam’ Newman and David Parkin among them), ballpoint pens that help demolish buildings, a now defunct bank with the slogan ‘no worries, and two advertisements for 1966-era iPods – the portable transistor radio.