The first of some TV Gold bonus episodes: TV Icons with Andrew Mercado. The first episode features Gaynor Wheatley.
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Before marrying promoter Glenn Wheatley, Gaynor Martin was a huge TV star. She was first seen in 1979 on Crawfords' airport drama Skyways before then being relocated to Holiday Island. When that show bit the dust, Gaynor was snapped up by Sons and Daughters to play another rich bitch who locked horns with Pat the Rat. Her TV career was put on hold so she could raise three children with Wheatley, but when he died in 2022, Gaynor stepped up to complete a long cherished project of his. The documentary film John Farnham: Finding The Voice is now the highest grossing Aussie doco of all time as well as winning the AACTA Award for Best Documentary. A generation of soap fans, however, will never forget that amazing run on TV and here she finally talks about how that all happened.

00:00 - Start
01:30 - Skyways debut
05:05 - Carmen Duncan plays mum
09:00 - inspired by Universal's Airport movies?
12:30 - Bill Stalker
14:00 - NASA
15:25 - working with chroma key
18:20 - Skyways cast
21:08 - Holiday Island
30:22 - using her own wardrobe
31:45 - Bunney Brooke
32:38 - Crawfords crossover
34:30 - Hector Crawford
38:10 - Sons and Daughters
39:19 - Rowena Wallace
41:08 - those changing hairstyles!
42:18 - Glenn Wheatley
49:13 - John Farnham

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