GTK (TV series)

GTK
GenreMusic, Arts
Presented byNo presenter[2]
Opening themeGTK theme (composed by Hans Poulsen[3])
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes1,000+[4]
Production
Running time10 minutes (Monday to Thursday at 6.30 pm)[2]
Original release
NetworkABC
Release4 August 1969 (1969-08-04)[1] –
1975 (1975)
Related
Funky Road[5]
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GTK (standing for "Get to Know") was an Australian popular music TV series of ten minute episodes, produced and broadcast by ABC Television from 1969 to 1975.

  1. ^ "Australian film and television chronology". Australian Screen. National Film & Sound Archive. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b Page 204, Dig: Australian Rock and Pop Music, 1960-85, By David Nichols, ...Germaine Greer spoke to Led Zeppelin on a Sydney Harbour ferry in 1972....
  3. ^ "Television for teens and twenties". Canberra Times. Vol. 43, no. 12, 381. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 August 1969. p. 13. Retrieved 24 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia., ...Other features include...a segment with Melbourne singer and composer, Hans Poulsen, who wrote the bright GTK theme...
  4. ^ GTK's 1000th episode., Flickr, Teenage rock program 'GTK' celebrated its 1000th episode on 1 May 1973. (From left): John Hollands (film editor), Bernie Cannon (producer), Stephen McLean (interviewer), Adriane Hewson (production assistant), Albie Thoms (associate producer) and Violet Hamilton (interviewer). ABC Reference ID: abc.net.au/photo/DP025343
  5. ^ Rewind - Funky Road Follows Lindsay Kemp, 1971, ABC iview, In 1976, GTK was reincarnated as the longer, later Funky Road. This footage profiles Lindsay Kemp, the director, performer and muse of David Bowie's, during the production of his brilliantly bizarre Glebe show, Flowers.