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The Video Dispatch - 15 December 1983

Television (Full Length Episode) – 1983

Kids of the 80s will fondly recall this after school current affairs show. Presenter Lloyd Scott was a national celebrity at the time as ‘Scotty’, Barry Crump’s hapless companion in a popular series of ads for Toyota. Items in this last edition for 1983 include traffic safety with radio hosts Lindsay Yeo and Buzz O’Bumble, and the arrival at Auckland Zoo of a pair of Galapagos tortoises (whose faces reporter Jane Dent guesses were inspirations for E.T.). Backed by children from Taita Central School, Scott signs off with ‘Merry Christmas’ in English, Māori and Samoan.

The tortoises came in two by two ...
– Video Dispatch reporter Jane Dent on the arrival of Galapagos tortoises at Auckland Zoo

Key Cast & Crew

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Lloyd Scott

Presenter

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Kathy Edmond

Reporter

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Marcia Fleming

Reporter

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Jane Dent

Reporter