The Go!! Show
| The Go!! Show | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Music |
| Directed by | Godfrey Phillips |
| Creative director(s) | Bruce Rowland |
| Presented by | Alan Field Ian Turpie Johnny Young |
| Composer(s) | The Strangers |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 222 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Willard-King |
| Location(s) | Nunawading, Victoria |
| Production company(s) | DYT Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | ATV |
| Original release | 1964 – 1967 |
The Go!! Show (also known simply as Go!!) was a top rating Australian popular music television series which aired on ATV-10 Melbourne from 1964 to 1967, and was produced by DYT Productions at the Channel 10 (then known as network 0) studios in Nunawading, Victoria.
When Go!! premiered in 1964, the other major competing television music show was the well-established Channel 9 series Bandstand, which was made in Sydney. While that series had been an important outlet for the first wave of Australian rock'n'roll, it did not engage strongly with the so-called "Beat Boom" acts that emerged in the mid-1960s and from the mid-1960s onwards, Bandstand settled into a mainstream musical variety format aimed at a broad general audience.
Unusually, the main competition for Go!! was broadcast on the same station. In early 1965 Channel 0 took the unusual step of commissioning a second pop show called Kommotion, produced by the Willard-King organisation and hosted by popular Melbourne radio and TV personality Ken Sparkes.
Go!! focussed on the more sophisticated segment of the newly discovered youth market and tended to concentrate on local solo performers, while Kommotion (which was in part modelled on the American series Shindig) pursued a more group- and chart-oriented format, as well as featuring a troupe of go-go dancers and a regular team of young performers who mimed to the latest overseas hits.
The Go!! Show was made by DYT Productions, a production company founded and run by veteran Australian musician Horrie Dargie with partners Arthur Young and Johnny Tillbrook. It premiered in August 1964, just after the Beatles' Australian tour and Channel 0's inaugural broadcast. It was videotaped before a live audience, with early episodes being one-hour long and it screened three nights per week. In its third season of 1966-67, it was shortened to thirty minutes. Because national television networking was only just being established in Australia, The Go!! Show was only seen in Victoria for its first two years.
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