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1978: TV's 'The Don Lane Show' is televised from the hangar decks of HMAS MELBOURNE [II] - RAN .
1880. We're not quite able to say whether the Skyhawk-hangar scene behind comedian Ugly Dave Grey - hamming it up to the right - is a mock-up or real, but we guess it's real. The show's host, Don Lane is behind the applause sign to the left, and the stage is formed by raising the aircraft lift a few feet and covering it with a large tablecloth [joke - the Kookaburra would be better than Ugly Dave Grey, anyway : spent years in front of the mirror like this, but just never got his chance].
Requiring the most expensive equipment to operate, it seems to us that the Navy has always been the most publicity-conscious of the three services.
Photo: RAN, credited via Ross Gillett, it appears in Stewart Wilson's book 'Phantom, Hornet and Skyhawk in Australian Service' [Aerospace Publications, Canberra 1993] p172, and in other sources.
A COMPENDIUM of links to some 350 images of HMAS MELBOURNE [II] on this Photostream begins at Pic 5444 and extends over seven entries. It starts here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6707592179/in/photostream
1978: TV's 'The Don Lane Show' is televised from the hangar decks of HMAS MELBOURNE [II] - RAN .
1880. We're not quite able to say whether the Skyhawk-hangar scene behind comedian Ugly Dave Grey - hamming it up to the right - is a mock-up or real, but we guess it's real. The show's host, Don Lane is behind the applause sign to the left, and the stage is formed by raising the aircraft lift a few feet and covering it with a large tablecloth [joke - the Kookaburra would be better than Ugly Dave Grey, anyway : spent years in front of the mirror like this, but just never got his chance].
Requiring the most expensive equipment to operate, it seems to us that the Navy has always been the most publicity-conscious of the three services.
Photo: RAN, credited via Ross Gillett, it appears in Stewart Wilson's book 'Phantom, Hornet and Skyhawk in Australian Service' [Aerospace Publications, Canberra 1993] p172, and in other sources.
A COMPENDIUM of links to some 350 images of HMAS MELBOURNE [II] on this Photostream begins at Pic 5444 and extends over seven entries. It starts here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6707592179/in/photostream