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1969 - 1979

Only two programs, Four Corners and Playschool, have been running longer than BtN.

This script takes a look at our first ten years - 1969 to 1979.

Nineteen sixty nine, the rocket carrying the first man to walk on the moon blasts off. In the same year, something else was blasting off.

For the next thirty years Behind the News would be a classroom fixture, bringing the news of the day to generations of Australian school kids.

New technology meant we could explore areas we have never been before.

"One small step for man - one giant leap for mankind"
Neil Armstrong - First man on the Moon

Six hundred million people watched the first man walk on the moon through television. The next decade would bring many more advances.

The first health warnings appeared on cigarette packs, then cigarette advertising was banned.

We went metric. Pounds and ounces were out, in came grams and kilogams.

In nineteen seventy one the first microchip meant th...