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Goodnight Kiwi
Television (Full Length) – 1981 - 1994
TV Kiwi was a star: famous enough that he had his own books and magazine, famous enough that other programmes have parodied him.– Jaquie Brown on 2009 TV show Rocked the Nation 2 - Top 100 Pop Culture Stories
I think he's the one who makes you go to sleep.– A child is asked to describe the Goodnight Kiwi, on TV show Holmes, 18 October 1994
Don’t think too hard about why a supposedly nocturnal bird slept at night, or why that cat never ate him. Just watch and enjoy and think how quaint it was that an entire nation used to be sent off to nigh-nighs by this furry little fella.– Spinoff writer Tara Ward, 15 November 2019
The pair fast became part of the national psyche.– Kerryanne Evans reports on the day Goodnight Kiwi went off air, Holmes, 18 October 1994
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