Episode 329 of Simon Townsend's Wonder World first went to air on 24 March 1986, on Network Ten. It was recorded on 4 March 1986 and has been restored from the original 1 inch broadcast tape. Watch the complete episode below, then explore every story in order with the reporters who made them.
The complete episode on the official Wonder World YouTube channel. Open on YouTube
First broadcast
24 March 1986
Recorded
4 March 1986
Network
Network Ten
Broadcast cities
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide
Host
Simon Townsend
Source
1 inch broadcast tape
Production number
XC9576
Newly restored clips are added to this page as they are published to YouTube. If a clip shows as unavailable, it is scheduled and will appear here once it is live.
The stories, in order
Story
Lord Howe Island Reef and Albert the Fish
Reporter: Malinda Rutter
Reporter Malinda Rutter takes a glass-bottom boat around Ned's Beach to explore the Lord Howe Island reef and meet Albert, a fish hand-fed at the same spot every lunchtime for 10 years.
Reporter Phillip Tanner visits a factory mass-producing brand new chairs in a 1905 style, from pine and lathe to the press and glue-only assembly, up to 150 chairs a day.
Reporter Malinda Rutter visits a smokehouse for the full method, hot smoking versus cold smoking, with 30-year smoker Dominic who jokes it costs him all his friends.
Reporter Phillip Tanner goes inside an animation studio: up to a million hand-drawn pictures, 24 drawings per second, the light box, peg bars, cels and a single-frame camera.
Simon's studio links from Episode 329: the willpower joke, record breaker Tracy Mangan, newshound Mark Tilbrook, the Hog Heaven mug and Simon's closing.