Number 96

He later turned to acting.

His credits include Number 96, Skippy, The Sullivans, Sons and Daughters, A Country Practice and Neighbours.

He featured in the very first episode of Play School, which aired in 1966 and would appear for the next 27 years.

I tell you what, you've got to be adaptable, don't you, to appear in Number 96 and Skippy.

I mean...

Wow.

Uh, Philippa Baker.

Do you remember Number 96? Yes.

You remember the Gandolfos that had the deli store? That's right.

And Johnny Lockwood played Al, El, Elfis or, uh, Dolfo? Adolphus.

I'm sure the listeners- I know the face well, yeah ... would know her well.

Uh, she was 93 when she passed away, and, um, she was a, a lovely actress.

She did a lot of work actually, apart from Number 96, and, uh, uh, God, God bless her, and she has passed on at the age of 93.

Uh, Alistair Smart, who was in Play School in 1966- Oh, okay ... which [laughs] is- One of the originals ... one of the originals.

A message here, Rob, from Joy that's not related to what we were talking about, but I'll go back to what we were talking about in a minute.

Joy says, Rob, so sad to hear all these actors from number 96 passing away.

So sad.

I really like that show.

Yes, and

I'm sorry, I can't remember his name off the top of my head at the moment, but we do.

We're losing lots of those great old actors, and as Joy says, from number 96, but from all of our shows, it just seems to be, you know, that golden age of television, we're now... looking getting so far beyond those golden years of tv that now we're seeing the the time passing on and unfortunately some of our favorite entertainers are as well

dennis haskins is who you were talking about rob i thank you i was confident it was dennis but i couldn't i didn't want to say the wrong thing so i looked it up but uh dennis haskins um some more feedback for you tommy says i don't notice much difference between sunrise and today but he doesn't watch it too closely he has it on in the background but i think that's the point isn't it rob that it generally is on the background for parents getting ready taking the kids to school getting ready for work whatever it might be and i think there needs to be enough substance to get the viewers to drag them in rather than just have it on as background noise

And the other one from the acting world, Sheila Kennelly, passed away at the age of 88.

Norma Whittaker at number 96.

We remember her well in that.

She was in Home and Away.

They didn't want all the oldies in it.

So Sheila and a couple of other of the veteran actors got the – Got the Kyber.

So she did 243 episodes of Number 96 and also did Kingswood Country where she played Ted Bullpit's love interest in it after Thel had left him.

Rosa.

And then they got the $6 million man.

So the O10 network was the number one network in 1974 for the first and I think last time in its history because of the combination of Number 96 and The Box, which by the way, were on air 11 months of the year 48 weeks of the year, five nights a week.

It's incredible.

So the box in Melbourne and 96 in Sydney, right? Yep.