Episode 331 of Simon Townsend's Wonder World first went to air on 7 April 1986, on Network Ten. It was recorded on 18 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
7 April 1986
Recorded
18 March 1986
Network
Network Ten
Broadcast cities
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide
Host
Simon Townsend
Source
1 inch broadcast tape
Production number
XC9625
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
An Irish Comedian for St Patrick's Day
Reporter: Hugh Munro
Reporter Hugh Munro spends St Patrick's Day with Paul, a three-time Mo Award winner voted Australia's best Irish-Australian comedian, for leprechaun jokes, shillelaghs and very bad golf.
Reporter Edith Bliss watches former boxer Charlie Gergen turn a plain Volkswagen sedan into an open-top convertible, from cutting the roof off to strengthening the chassis and the final paint job.
Reporter Brett Clements meets The Party Girls, a seven-piece all-female Sydney band on their first TV appearance, with a debut album on pink vinyl that sold its first thousand copies in three days.
Reporter Wednesday Kennedy goes behind the scenes of taxidermy, from tanning skins and foam moulds to glass eyes and mounted birds, and asks whether anyone ever stuffs a human head.
Simon's studio links from Episode 331: the St Patrick's Day open, record breaker Nardine Ismay, newshound Stefan Lendnall, the moon-meat factoid and Simon's closing tiny-shoe curio.
Wonder World went to air five days a week, so the parts of Episode 331 are separate programmes from one production week rather than sections of a single show. Each one is complete, with its own stories and its own reporters.