Introduction: Australian Television: A Genealogy of Great Moments -- 1. In Melbourne Tonight/The Graham Kennedy Show: Advertising Transgression -- 2. Four Corners: Convincing Bias -- 3. Homicide: Life on the Melbourne Streets -- 4. The Mavis Bramston Show: Popular Politics -- 5. Playschool: Forbidden Pleasures -- 6. Number 96: Speaking Sex and Showing Sex -- 7. Anyhow ... Have a Winfield: Selling Ordinary Nationalism -- 8. Countdown: Sex and Drugs and Ambivalent Identities -- 9. The Sullivans: Nostalgic Visions of Perfect Women -- 10. Prisoner: Unglamorous Heroines -- 11. Sale of the Century: 'And the Ladies Look Beautiful Too' -- 12. A Country Practice: Making Issues Social -- 13. Return to Eden: Australianising America -- 14. Neighbours: National Niceness -- 15. Burke's Backyard: Neighbourly Communities -- 16. Live and Sweaty: 'When is Nudity Acceptable in Sport?' -- 17. Frontline: Media Studies Media -- Conclusion: Television Choices
