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- Title
- Country Calendar - Spoofs Special
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
Ask Country Calendar viewers which shows they remember and inevitably the answer is "the spoofs" — satirical episodes that screened unannounced. Sometimes there was outrage but mostly the public enjoyed having the wool pulled over their eyes. Created by producer Tony Trotter and Bogor cartoonist Burton Silver, the first (in late 1977) was the fencing wire-playing farmer and his "rural music". This special episode collects the best of the spoofs, from the infamous radio-controlled dog, to the ...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1999
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/country-calendar-spoof-special-1999
- Related subjects
- gay farmer / gumboots / john gordon / farming / satire / mockumentary / rural music / spoof / night farming / city farm / sheep farms / jogging / sheep organ / tuning fence / dairy farm / jim hickey / 1999 / 1990s / 90s / fool / stress-free farming / remote-controlled dog / radio-controlled dog / fence playing / fence-wire playing / icon / iconic / nz on air / new zealand on air
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