Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Flashback Friday: Sale Of The Century

Episode Date: May 25, 2023

This week we take a trip down memory lane to the TV show that used to reach 1.3 million people a night!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dogs, dogs, dogs, undies. You know I can't grab your cash chips. Nick, my neck. Friday, flashback. It's a Friday, it's a good feeling and I really enjoy doing this, looking back at something. We flashback on a Friday, get a little bit nostalgic for something that was big in New Zealand maybe 10 to 20 years ago. Yeah, now, game shows. There was a wonderful era of local game shows there for a while, and before we started chasing chasers or feuding with families, there was a sale of the century. Do you remember Sale of the Century?

Tonight on New Zealand's biggest sales sensation, we're offering over $70,000 in prizes, including this spacious Lancer GL wagon, and a fortnight of fun cruising the Pacific on a fair style on Sale of the Century. And now, here's the star of the show, Steve Park. Oh, so iconic. This is early 90s, Sale of the Century.

Steve Park came out, he had his moustache. Jeez, big, thick. That moustache was thicker than your body. Yeah. Big, big upper lip moustache. He'd come sliding along the stage. Yeah, and he had that one blooper, we slid too far. Do you remember that? That was iconic.

And that was, oh, Steve Parr went too far on his slide. He'd come sliding in. That was Judith Kirk or Judith Dobson, I think it was. Yeah, Judith Kirk back in the day there was first, and then Julie White was, you know. Yeah, and it was a wonderful day where you could have the ladies presenting the prizes, you know, sort of showcasing the electronic weirs.

Here's a VHS. A hand-knitted rug. I was watching one yesterday. It was the final, and one of the big prizes was a hand-knitted rug. I was like, jeez. I guess it was cool but you know but you didn't care you know nowadays we scoff oh you know it's easy to scoff at things that have gone by but back then you loved it you wanted a hand knitted rug and it was huge

it was a it was a massive massive tv show i felt like steve every time he came sliding out at any moment was about to do his ankle in. It was a risky one. You wouldn't get away with that nowadays with health and safety. No, you're right. Now, we managed to track him down, didn't we, on the hits a year or two ago. Like that show, what's the guy with bloody missing pieces? Oh, yeah. David.

Low miss. We low missed him. Yeah, and he's living in the Gold Coast now selling real estate, and he reflected on South of the Century and just how huge it was. It was kind of like the chase of the 90s. You know, the chase is such a big TV show on now, and it was New Zealand's biggest TV show, 7 o'clock every night. It was. Every night, 7 o'clock, we had 1.3 million people watching it.

Every night, rated number 1, 2, 3, four, and five every week in the rating. Wow. Jeez, you can hear TV crying at that. You can hear the TV industry just a single tear dribbling down their cheek. But yeah, it would be wonderful to bring that era back, wouldn't it? Get the Steve Powers back, the ladies in the sparkling dresses. Oh, jeez. Well, some things is good that times have changed.

But it was a very iconic show. And New Zealanders could get on TV for one of the first times to see themselves on TV and have a chance of winning big prizes like hand-knitted rugs. We must look back at Face the Music, too. That was another great one that Simon Bynum. Oh, Simon Bynum. Yeah, we'll do that next week for Flashback Friday.