This made for TV special is a documentary which was made to celebrate the first 1000 episodes of the Australian television series Number 96 (1972).
This 90 minute TV Special is available on the 2006 2-disc Australian DVD release of Number 96 (1972).
This program was first broadcast in Australia on the 26th June 1976. According to a title card added for the DVD release, the show was repeated on Australian television on 17 January 1977. The repeat included an additional segment which updated details of the Number 96 (1972) series since the premiere screening six months earlier. The title card states: "Here now is that additional segment which covered the show's final summer cliffhangers." The 2006 Australian DVD release of this title includes both the additional segment and the original ending from the first broadcast.
The television series Number 96 (1972) had won nine Australian Television Logie Awards when this TV special about the show first went to air in mid 1976.
The 2006 Australian DVD release of this show includes a 2006 introduction by 1970s Australian sex-symbol and one of the show's many stars, Abigail.
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By what name was Number 96... And they said it wouldn't last (1976) officially released in Canada in English?
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