Four of the Tarax Show Christmas Pantomimes were musicals and featured original songs with words by Denzil Howson and music by Margot Sheridan. This post lists these original songs with lyrics and recordings from original soundtracks. Read more…
The NFSA has recently acquired a 16mm reel containing two episodes of The Adventures of Gerry Gee — both from the story “Gerry at Gigantic”. Read more…
A new contact at the NFSA confirms the receipt from GTV9 of film reels containing episodes of The Adventures of Gerry Gee. Read more…
After pursuing some dead ends, an August 2020 tipoff from a former GTV9 employee lead to discovery of a paper trail indicating that many of those reels did in fact get sent to the National Film and Sound Archive. Read more…
In February 2019 I received an email from a lady named Evelyn who had read the blog post on this website about the missing episodes of The Adventures of Gerry Gee. It was another episode of “Gerry’s Big Show”. Here are some stills from the 16mm film scan. Read more…
Four episodes of “The Adventures of Gerry Gee” which were in Denzil Howson’s 16mm film collection have been scanned with very satisfactory results. Here are some screenshots from those reels. Read more…
Restoration of the Tarax Show Christmas Pantomimes has been moving ahead in fits and starts. My initial focus has been on the final, most technically ambitious of these productions, “Marianne” from 1963. Read more…
Created for The Tarax Show around 1960, The Adventures of Gerry Gee were last shown on television in Perth circa 1967. They were innovative and imaginative and would be regarded as historical treasures today. But whatever happened to them? Read more…
The NFSA has recently acquired a 16mm reel containing two episodes of The Adventures of Gerry Gee — both from the story “Gerry at Gigantic”. Read more…
Friends, colleagues and fans of Ron Blaskett came together on 4th May 2018 to pay tribute to the enduring career of Ron Blaskett, who passed away in April 2018 one day after his 96th birthday. Read more…
