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Fred Dagg adjusts the aerial for TV2

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In the character of Fred Dagg, a black-singlet-and-gumboot-wearing Kiwi bloke, John Clarke became a major comic personality on New Zealand television in the 1970s. Here he explains to viewers how to adjust the aerial for the arrival of a second channel in 1975.

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Trisha Dunleavy, Television – History of television in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/45675/fred-dagg-adjusts-the-aerial-for-tv2 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Trisha Dunleavy, published 13 June 2014.