In Melbourne Tonight

Other In Melbourne Tonight regulars included Joff Ellen, Val Ruff, Panda Lisner, Anne Marie Fabry, Evie Hayes, Mary Hardy, Rosie Sturgess, Patti McGrath (later Patti Newton), Toni Lamond, Philip Brady, Johnny Ladd, Buster Fiddess, Frank Rich, Jack Little, Noel Ferrier, Elaine McKenna, Bill McCormick, Honnie Van Den Bosch ("barrel girl"), Ted Hamilton, Lesley Baker, The Tune Twisters, and the GTV or Channel 9 Ballet.

[1] On 20 October 1970, during one of the final programs under the IMT banner, British actor Patrick Wymark was scheduled to appear as a guest to promote a theatre play and a TV special.

His nonappearance prompted jokes between host Stuart Wagstaff and guest Richard Deacon until news reached GTV-9 that Wymark had collapsed in his hotel room.

Drawing on his radio experience with Nicky Whitta (who had routinely "sent up" advertisers), Kennedy transformed the live commercials from what would have otherwise been dull pro-forma obligations into a unique comedic art form.

Newton has written:The blood would drain from the face of Pelaco shirt-wearing executives in television, advertising and business until they realised that instead of televisual suicide, this skinny little wiseguy was commercial gold.

[3]Gerald Stone recounts in his book Compulsive Viewing that a "cocky young salesman" visited the IMT set hoping for an extra plug for his employer's product.

The studio audience collapsed in hysterics, but the duration and urgency of Rover's impressively hydraulic performance might have led some cynics to question just how impromptu the event really was.

In early June 2005, on the 3AW program Nightline with Philip Brady and Bruce Mansfield, Patti (McGrath) Newton stated that her father had often looked after Rover when he appeared at GTV-9.