About
In April 1975, TV One officially launched from Avalon Television Centre, New Zealand's first custom-made television facility. Comedy talent Fred Dagg (John Clarke) was asked to take part in its opening night celebration. The first excerpt shows a studio audience introducing Dagg with one of his famous catch cries. The second clip features Dagg in his best cut off dinner suit paying tribute to Avalon Television Centre or, as Dagg calls it: "the largest chaff container in the Southern Hemisphere". TV One started after the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation split its single channel model into TV One and TV2 (South Pacific Television).
