[1][2] The show was created by Don Lane who co-hosted it with Bert Newton.
Lane is quoted as saying: I used to watch him and Graham working on IMT, and look at them with great envy.
Its broadcast time-slot varied in its early years, including a brief stint in 1980 when it ran four nights a week, but eventually settled on Mondays and Thursdays at 9:30pm on the Nine Network and many stations across Australia.
Some regional and remote commercial stations would receive the program on videotape for delayed broadcast.
Lane was inducted into the Logie Awards Hall of Fame in 2003.