His seminal work, "Simulation of genetic systems by automatic digital computers" (1958), is quoted in the literature to this day.
His time with "Science in Close-Up" ended in a dramatic departure when censors refused to permit airing of a childbirth.
A surprisingly popular show was his "Doorway to Knowledge" as it was fairly sophisticated science that was broadcast at eleven o'clock in the morning.
He achieved a certain measure of celebrity through the shows and he turned up quite regularly in the Sydney Morning Herald, the city's primary newspaper.
In 1999, Fraser received the 1999 IEEE Neural Networks Council Pioneer Award in Evolutionary Computation.