the present. The collection database of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra indicates that the Archive holds copies of most of the episodes made between 1964 and 1966. However the database shows no copies of any program from the 1967 series, which are presumably now lost and only compilations of highlights from the 1968 series, suggesting that the full original program tapes from that series are also lost. These losses might be explained by contemporary changes in Australian broadcasting and production practices. The 1964–66 episodes of Mavis were evidently broadcast live and most survive on 16mm film, since it was the practice in the early 1960s for the major commercial channels in Sydney and Melbourne to record telecine film transfers of these shows for distribution to regional and interstate TV stations. By 1967, however, most independent producers and Australian TV stations were using videotape but (as in the UK and the USA) a high proportion of videotaped Australian programming from the 1960s and 1970s was subsequently erased or otherwise disposed of. See also List of Australian television series Notes References TV Logie Awards for 1965 TV Logie Awards for 1966 The Mavis Bramston Show at Nostalgia Central The History of The Mavis Bramston Show "Forty Years of Television: The Story of ATN 7" External links The Mavis Bramston Show — Australian Television YouTube: Ron Frazer in dual split-screen roles as "Ocker" and "Hugo", with Barbara Angell, c. 1968 Barry Creyton and Al Thomas parody the ABC-TV science program Why Is It So and its host, Julius Sumner Miller, c. 1966 Gordon Chater and Barry Creyton satirise Australia's colonial administration in New Guinea, 1965 "Golf Girls" with Noeline Brown, June Salter and Arlene Dorgan, ca. 1966 slapstick restaurant sketch with Gordon Chater, Barry Creyton, Hazel Phillips and unknown actor, late 1965 Seven Network original programming Australian television sketch shows Australian satirical television shows 1964 Australian television series debuts 1968 Australian television series endings English-language television shows Black-and-white Australian television shows