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Fredd Bear

1972

Fredd Bear

1972

  • NFSA IDN029VWSW
  • TypeTelevision
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormAdvertisement (includes promotional), Series
  • GenresChildren
  • Year1972

In a film probably made as a promotion for The Wonderful World of the Young, Fredd Bear has obviously hit the big time. The clip frames him as a celebrity, less a TV personality than an A-list actor. To a jazzed-up version of the 'Love Theme' from Franco Zeffirelli’s hit 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, he enters the scene in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce and is saluted by the doorkeeper. Fredd has his own customised psychedelic-print luggage, and gets a face-brush from adoring make-up girls as well as a kiss from his co-star Judy Banks.

Courtesy of
Network Ten

In a film probably made as a promotion for The Wonderful World of the Young, Fredd Bear has obviously hit the big time. The clip frames him as a celebrity, less a TV personality than an A-list actor. To a jazzed-up version of the 'Love Theme' from Franco Zeffirelli’s hit 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, he enters the scene in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce and is saluted by the doorkeeper. Fredd has his own customised psychedelic-print luggage, and gets a face-brush from adoring make-up girls as well as a kiss from his co-star Judy Banks.

Courtesy of
Network Ten
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  • The clip is shot at the studios of Channel 0 in Nunawading, Melbourne. We see the control room, with several ATV-0 staff directing the episode, and a sequence from an actual episode, filmed just to the left of one of the broadcast cameras. Fredd Bear (played by Tedd Dunn), Judy Banks, Colin McEwan and newsreader Michael McCarthy are all glimpsed here.

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