A lifetime of memories from children's television

By Harry Hollinsworth
Updated January 11 2017 - 4:18pm, first published 4:00pm
Miss Marilyn Mayo on  Channel Nine's 1970s children's show <i>Super Flying Fun Show</I>. Photo: Robert Pearce
Miss Marilyn Mayo on Channel Nine's 1970s children's show <i>Super Flying Fun Show</I>. Photo: Robert Pearce
Channel Ten's <i>Commander Strongarm</I> - Warwick Rankin - in 1975. Photo: Robert Pearce
Channel Ten's <i>Commander Strongarm</I> - Warwick Rankin - in 1975. Photo: Robert Pearce

My earliest television memory was the manga cartoon Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, which first aired in Australia on Network 10 in 1973. Also known as "Giant Robo", it revolved around a young boy who gains control of (you guessed it), a giant flying robot that kind of resembled an Egyptian Pharaoh and fights an organisation of earth invaders known as Big Fire. It's pretty vague in the memory, the only thing I can picture is the dramatic launching of the robot when coming to the rescue of the boy/world.

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