Dave de Hugard - long time member of The Larrikins

My most important role was for ABC TV when Dave de Hugard and myself were dressed up as old swaggies and had to have a discussion, around a fake campfire, with Mr Squiggle. In the early eighties I scored a job as Talent Producer for a new TV series that went out at 6pm every Saturday night. It was called That's Australia and hosted by John Derum. It was a drama since the program was really supposed to be a television version of Australia All Over, the popular radio program, and it was also supposed to be hosted by Ian McNamara. Despite the ABC politics the show was hugely successful and ran for two seasons before the ABC decided to axe it. Maybe it was too successful?

RIGHT: The crew of the ABC TV program 'That's Australia'. The picture includes some well-known faces including (standing) Robin Connaughton, Warren Fahey in braces, host John Derum in checked shirt, Cathie O'Sullivan in sunglasses, Bob and Margaret Fagen and Bob McInnes on the end. (Seated) Liora Claff in second from left and Margaret Walters in second from right. Most of the others were the production team and, unfortunately, there names have been lost in time.