Wonder World Episode Guide
A growing, searchable guide to the episodes of Simon Townsend's Wonder World.
People write to the family all the time asking the same question: do you have that episode, the one with the killer whale, or the stamps, or the day Simon announced Woodrow had died. This guide is how to find it. Search by episode number, reporter, guest, place or topic, and where the episode is on the show's YouTube channel it can be watched straight away.
Right now the guide covers the 35 episodes shared on YouTube so far. 11 of them have a full segment by segment guide, and more are added over time, so check back. If you spot something wrong, or you are after an episode that is not here yet, please get in touch.
Searches the episode number, reporters, guests, stories, locations and keywords. Try a name like Brett Clements, a topic like music video, or just a number like 351.
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Episode 364 Part 4
Uploaded October 2026
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Episode 393 Part 2
Uploaded September 2026
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Episode 331
Uploaded August 2026
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Episode 136
Uploaded June 2026
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Episode 133
Uploaded August 2021
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Episode 145
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All episodes
Episode 28
Episode 29
Reporters: Brett Clements, Edith Bliss
Episode 29 Part 2
Featuring Studio moments: Dear Danny and a young inventor, Monsters, Yowies and a cryptozoologist, Preparing a Test cricket pitch, Music clip: Jimmy Barnes, Promise Me You'll Call.
Reporters: Brett Clements, Edith Bliss, Malinda Rutter, Phillip Tanner
Episode 31
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Episode 37
Episode 42
Episode 110
Episode 119
Reporters: Alita Fahey, Jonathan Coleman, Sheridan Jobbins
Episode 131
Episode 133
Episode 136
Featuring Maurice Parker Meets the Octopus, Jonathan Coleman's Comedy Interview with Ray Davies of The Kinks, The Mounted Police with Sheridan Jobbins, Jonathan Coleman on the Set of Midnite Spares.
Reporters: Alita Fahey, Jonathan Coleman, Maurice Parker, Sheridan Jobbins
Episode 140
Episode 145
Episode 200
Episode 222
Reporters: Edith Bliss, Sheridan Jobbins
Episode 329
Featuring Lord Howe Island Reef and Albert the Fish, Music Clip: Elton John, Nikita, How They Make Ready-Made Antique Chairs, How Fish Is Smoked.
Reporters: Malinda Rutter, Phillip Tanner
Episode 331
Featuring An Irish Comedian for St Patrick's Day, Music Clip: Jean-Luc Ponty, Open Mind, Turning a Volkswagen Into a Convertible, The Party Girls: Sydney's All-Girl Band.
Reporters: Brett Clements, Edith Bliss, Hugh Munro, Wednesday Kennedy
Episode 331 Part 5
Featuring How sausages are really made, RAH Band, Clouds Across the Moon, The artist who put Sydney Harbour on a T-shirt, Australia's first cherry seed spitting championship.
Reporters: Brett Clements, Edith Bliss, Hugh Munro, Wednesday Kennedy
Episode 334
Featuring Simon Announces Woodrow's Death, Kamal and the Emulator, Arty Thongs, Woodrow the Bloodhound Memorial Tribute.
Reporters: Alita Fahey, Angela Catterns, Brett Clements, Edith Bliss, Jonathan Coleman, Phillip Tanner
Episode 338
Episode 347
Reporters: Brett Clements, Carolyn Mee, Hugh Munro, Wednesday Kennedy
Episode 351
Featuring Ronald McDonald House, Music Clip: Honeymoon Suite, Feel It Again, Preserving Australia's Heritage Buildings, Life of a TV Extra.
Reporters: Brett Clements, Carolyn Mee, Hugh Munro, Wednesday Kennedy
Episode 355
Episode 364 Part 4
Featuring Studio moments: Record Breaker, Newshound and Ronnie the emu, The Phones: five singers, no instruments, Raising a happy, healthy puppy, Twins, triplets and quads.
Reporters: Brett Clements, Carolyn Mee, Hugh Munro, Wednesday Kennedy
Episode 366
Episode 368
Episode 370
Featuring Your Family Coat of Arms, Sapphire Mining at Inverell, Music Clip: Wang Chung, Croatian Folk Arts and Crafts.
Reporters: Brett Clements, Carolyn Mee, Hugh Munro, Moira McLean
Episode 375
Episode 380
Episode 390
Featuring Wheelchair Sports, Mystery Picture, Today's Wacko, Elizabeth Hool, Neon Neon, Plastic Fluorescent Material.
Reporters: Carolyn Mee
Episode 393 Part 2
Featuring Simon's opening and farewell from the last Wonder World, The very first Wonder World story: mouse masterpieces, How did Wonder World start? Simon tells the story, Eight years of Wonder World bloopers and highlights.
Reporters: Angela Catterns
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Reporters: Edith Bliss, Malinda Rutter
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How this guide is put together
Each entry is built from the show's restoration notes: the episode number, the year it went to air, the reporters who appeared, and the stories in it. The episodes with a full guide have been watched and catalogued segment by segment, so you can see every story, every reporter and every place featured before you press play.
A year shown plainly, like 1986, is one the tape's own slate confirms or one that two separate records agree on. A year shown as c. 1986 is the year the episode was given when it was published to YouTube, and it is the best available guide rather than a confirmed date. Where the records genuinely disagree, no year is shown at all, because a blank is more honest than a confident guess. Reporters are named only where the name has been confirmed, so some segments are deliberately left unattributed.
Wonder World ran for 1,961 episodes between 1979 and 1987. Most have not yet been digitised. This guide will keep growing for years, and every episode added is one more piece of the show preserved for the people who grew up with it.