News Summary

• Retro Television by Ian Collis is an illustrated pictorial history of what we watched during the first 25 years of TV in Australia.
• Skippy, I Love Lucy, The Sullivans, The Brady Bunch, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Addams Family, to name a few iconic shows.
• Mainstream television came to Australia in September 1956, when Bruce Gyngell famously took to the screen to say: "Good evening, and welcome to television" The ABC launched its new television services in November that year.