Includes the following chapters:
Introduction: Australian Television: A Genealogy of Great Moments
1. In Melbourne Tonight/The Graham Kennedy Show: Advertising Transgression
2. Four Corners: Convincing Bias
3. Homicide: Life on the Melbourne Streets
4. The Mavis Bramston Show: Popular Politics
5. Playschool: Forbidden Pleasures
6. Number 96: Speaking Sex and Showing Sex
7. Anyhow ... Have a Winfield: Selling Ordinary Nationalism
8. Countdown: Sex and Drugs and Ambivalent Identities
9. The Sullivans: Nostalgic Visions of Perfect Women
10. Prisoner: Unglamorous Heroines
11. Sale of the Century: 'And the Ladies Look Beautiful Too'
12. A Country Practice: Making Issues Social
13. Return to Eden: Australianising America
14. Neighbours: National Niceness
15. Burke's Backyard: Neighbourly Communities
16. Live and Sweaty: 'When is Nudity Acceptable in Sport?'
17. Frontline: Media Studies Media
Conclusion: Television Choices.