Australian TV legend Mike Walsh has been blasted as "stingy" after it was revealed that he charged Jeanne Little's family to use his venue for the late entertainer's memorial service. | The Morning Show

THROWBACK THURSDAY: The strong vision of a budding film director can launch their career and that of their contemporaries, proven by Gillian Armstrong in this clip as she discusses her first feature film My Brilliant Career (Australia, 1979) with Mike Walsh. It had just been chosen to screen in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Despite Walsh's surprise at the casting of the unknown Judy Davis in the lead role of Sybylla Melvyn, Armstrong promises she delivers in her mas

If you saw a UFO, what would you do? Glenys Messiah from French’s Forest, a suburb of Sydney, told her UFO-sighting story on a 1980 episode of ‘The Mike Walsh Show’. Alongside interviews with stars from Australia and abroad, the show regularly featured offbeat segments like this one, about ordinary people who do – or see – extraordinary things. Guest host Ita Buttrose, at her most icily immaculate in sapphire blue shoulder pads, scarcely bothers to conceal her scepticism, and the audience even l