{"id":627813,"date":"2026-04-24T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627813\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:05:15","slug":"friday-flashback-james-valentine-tv-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627813\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flashback: James Valentine | TV Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tA young James Valentine hosted ABC&#8217;s own afternoon show from 1987 &#8211; 1990.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I will always associate James Valentine with TVTV, which he hosted following Simon Townsend.<\/p>\n<p>But many readers this week referenced The Afternoon Show which screened as afternoon children\u2019s programming block between 5 to 6pm on ABC, with titles including Inspector Gadget, Count Duckula, Danger Mouse, Roger Ramjet, Rocky and Bullwinkle plus Monkey and Doctor Who.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Harvey Shore there were also segments and competitions fronted by a young Valentine, who hosted from 1987 \u2013 1990.<\/p>\n<p>The Afternoon Show ran until 1993 with Michael Tunn hosting from 1991. Tunn also hosted its replacement music show, Loud.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young James Valentine hosted ABC&#8217;s own afternoon show from 1987 &#8211; 1990. I will always associate James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-627813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}