But what year is it?
Monday, August 6 at 7.30pm on Channel Nine

It was the year people across the world started to question their faith in computers, but the world’s biggest selling toy was a fluffy computerised pet called a Furbie – and it’s the next instalment on Channel Nine’s What A Year, Monday, August 6 at 7.30pm.

In fashion, Sass and Bide burst out of Brisbane and became a force of nature in the fashion world. While Australians went to the polls to vote on becoming a republic – and chose to keep the Queen.

On the sporting field, Tony “Plugger” Lockett made his 1300th kick for goal, finally overtaking the record set by Collingwood’s Gordon Coventry in 1937. We watched a young Queensland golfer named Karrie Webb win her first major and launch the most successful female golfing career the world has ever seen.

On the music charts, white rapper Eminem was rising to fame while two young stars of Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears, were making their mark.

On the big screen, the world was left wondering whether the Blair Witch Project was a movie or a documentary, and Star Wars geeks queued to see the long-awaited “prequel” to the trilogy that began in 1977.

It was the year America’s Moral Majority leader, Jerry Falwell, accused everyone’s favourite Teletubbie, Tinky Winky, of being gay, Pamela Anderson had surgery to reduce her sizeable bustline, and gossip columnists worried whether Calista Flockhart, star of TV’s Ally McBeal, was getting enough to eat.

We said goodbye to Hey Hey It’s Saturday after 28 years and Eddie McGuire launched the ratings juggernaut, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

But in the end, it was a year of false starts and let-downs, so to celebrate, What A Year presents the Top Five Fizzers and Failures.

Join Bert Newton and Julia Zemiro when they present What A Year, Monday, August 6 at 7.30pm Channel Nine.