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Old 21-06-2010, 07:06 PM   #1
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Ford Falcon 50th Anniversary Special

5pm – 5.30pm Nine
Saturday 26 June 2010

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To celebrate this amazing milestone, we step through time to when the very first Australian-built Falcon rolled off the Broadmeadows production line on June 28, 1960, and journey right through to today's incredibly equipped 2010 FG Series. Hosted by Glen Moriarty.

Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia
Rating: G
Other: Widescreen
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Duration: 30 mins
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Old 21-06-2010, 07:41 PM   #2
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Only 30mins, didn't Holden get an hour just for the release of the VE
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Old 22-06-2010, 04:37 PM   #3
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Yes but it's difficult to squeeze that much **** into half an hour .
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Old 22-06-2010, 04:37 PM   #4
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Yes but it's difficult to squeeze that much crap into half an hour .
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Old 22-06-2010, 06:08 PM   #5
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Excellent, I will look forward to watching it.
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Old 21-06-2010, 07:44 PM   #6
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Ford would have made the doco, so its not Ch9's fault the marketing budget only allowed for 30mins.
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Old 21-06-2010, 07:48 PM   #7
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30mins is better then no celebration on tv at all
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Yeah I know that, just saying. Good on Ford for doing it, just thought they would have gone a bit more all out for it.
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Old 21-06-2010, 09:08 PM   #9
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billion dollar failure got a 2 hour special didnt it? with brocky and that stuck up chick

o well just grateful this even made it to air!
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Old 21-06-2010, 09:18 PM   #10
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For Newcastle viewers:

4.30pm, Sat June 26th, NBN Digital/NBNHD

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Oh yeh sick as definatly won't be missing this for the world
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Ford Falcon 50th Anniversary Special

5pm – 5.30pm Nine
Saturday 26 June 2010

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To celebrate this amazing milestone, we step through time to when the very first Australian-built Falcon rolled off the Broadmeadows production line on June 28, 1960, and journey right through to today's incredibly equipped 2010 FG Series. Hosted by Glen Moriarty.

Genre: Documentary
Country: Australia
Rating: G
Other: Widescreen
Premiere

Duration: 30 mins
30 minutes ???!!!???!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!

Barely enough time to do a decent cover on the FG range, let alone 50 years of the mighty Falcon !!!

Still, if it's on here in Tas, I'll be watching it...
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Old 21-06-2010, 10:03 PM   #14
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30 minutes would barely cover the XR-XB GT's development and killing off of them alone. Let alone development changes from X series to E series etc.
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Old 21-06-2010, 11:19 PM   #15
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In Canberra it looks like it will be on at 4pm.
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Who knows, maybe it's a 30 minute doco on the 50th Anniversary FG Falcon. It's nice dweling on the history of the Falcon, but 30 minutes on the current model and future updates would be smarter.
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Old 22-06-2010, 09:52 AM   #17
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Thanks for letting us all know It will be interesting to see.
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No worries mate, your the first to say thanks
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No worries mate, your the first to say thanks

i too would like to say a big thankyou for the info, will be watching this one for sure

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Cool. Thanks for posting the info!!! Even if it is only 30 mins long.
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Set for record on the foxtel.
Now having said that and you know I have foxtel and pay for it I must say
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Incase this isn't shown in Kiwiland, any chance someone could upload to YouTube?

Although if the Ford Marketing dept. have have a clue they'll do it themselves (in HD) as soon as it airs on TV.
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Damn just saw this thread. Can anybody upload it for people that missed it?
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Damn just saw this thread. Can anybody upload it for people that missed it?
yeh i missed it as well the kids wanted to watch shrek the tird

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One of the things I noticed, is that it specifically said that the Phase 3 GTHO had 381 HP (284kw). Not sure if that was actually ever stated by Ford before.

They had a 30 second section made up of snip's from "Love the Beast".

A fair bit of it was made up of an Interview with Dick Johnson. Discussing mainly bathurst and an AD he was in.

There was more, but those are the main things I remember....
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There was more, but those are the main things I remember....
Nope that was about it .... lots of old adds. Not much really and was more a advertorial. Would have been better as more of a 1 hour doco.



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Nope that was about it .... lots of old adds. Not much really and was more a advertorial. Would have been better as more of a 1 hour doco.
I believed it was an advert - disguised slightly as a doco - and paid for by Ford. We enjoyed it despite the fact that it was brief but they crammed in quite a bit in the time frame - there were also plenty of adverts so it would not have made 30 mins.

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One of the things I noticed, is that it specifically said that the Phase 3 GTHO had 381 HP (284kw). Not sure if that was actually ever stated by Ford before.

They had a 30 second section made up of snip's from "Love the Beast".

A fair bit of it was made up of an Interview with Dick Johnson. Discussing mainly bathurst and an AD he was in.

There was more, but those are the main things I remember....
When I heard them state that power figure, I thought the same thing.
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it wasn't bad...but was way way WAY too short, wish i could've recorded it as i missed some large chunks...
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No mention of anything between EB and AU though.....so time was obviously short. No real meat, just a whole series of pictures and glossy info. So yes, a 30 minute advertisement.

HOWEVER, there were some interesting interviews that were cut brief. So it might be nice to see a proper 2 hour documentary - or even a multi-disc doco series - come out of this, available for sale on the shelves of your local Ford dealer.


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