Each episode of Martin/Molloy would consist of several prerecorded sketches, regularly satirising pop culture of the time and often using commercial music. Even though these sketches were often some of the show’s funniest, they didn’t find their way on to their three compilation albums due to rights issues. Using musical cues in a repetitive way was a regular trope in these sketches and it is used to brilliant effect in this parody of the tabloid newsmagazine show, Entertainment Tonight.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.