Simon, Woodrow and the Wonder World Viewers

Simon Townsend's Wonder World · from archive tape 143

This is not an episode. It is Simon and Woodrow in the studio, cut from several different afternoon programmes that ended up on one Betamax tape, archive tape 143. Viewers sent in photographs, collections, music and drawings, Simon put them on national television, and then he handed out prizes. (One lucky viewer got a model helicopter, books and a record. Try getting that out of an algorithm.)

The programmes went to air around 1982, going by the news and the music recorded either side of them. None of them has a confirmed broadcast date, so this page does not give them one. The number 143 identifies the tape, not an episode.

First broadcast
c. 1982, several programmes estimated
Network
Network Ten
Host
Simon Townsend
Source
NFSA Betamax digitisation of archive tape 143

The compilation

Studio

Simon, Woodrow and the Wonder World Viewers

Simon shares viewers' photographs, collections, music and drawings, with Woodrow alongside him. Five viewer features from archive tape 143 are brought together without the repeated postal instructions.

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The prize handovers

Each Short is one viewer's prize handover, cut from the compilation above. Watch the compilation for the photos, collections and drawings that earned them.