19 Jul 2015

What would the Wests watch?

From Standing Room Only, 1:44 pm on 19 July 2015

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Image: Kete Christchurch (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ)

TV3's drama Westside came to a close two weeks ago. It was set in the 1970s, with each episode based in a year from 1974 to 1979. But what was really on our TV screens back in the decade of flairs and fondues?

NZ On Screen content director Irene Gardiner takes a look back at what the Wests would have been watching on their TV screens.

Some of the clips referred to by Irene Gardiner

Out on the Street
Close to Home - First Episode
Moynihan - You Can't Win 'Em All (Episode Two)
Top Town - 1977 Final
Radio Waves - 16 May 1978 episode