Collectors

Friday, 08 August
8.00pm

To complement the opening of the Beijing Olympics Collectors does sport. Niccole Warren checks out the National Sports Museum at the MCG. Charles Leski, an auctioneer who specialises in sporting memorabilia, passes on some excellent tips about what is valuable and what isn't in the vast array of sporting memories.

Gordon Brown's Roving Eye lights up when he finds a chance to offer some 'expert' golfing advice to a 'novice' called Peter Thomson. Avid Gold Coast surfer Carl Tanner has one of the largest collections of surfboards in Australia, if not the world. He has more than 300 boards ranging from a rare 1915 Duke Kahanamoku design, to one with its own built-in jet engine.

Friday, 04 July
8.00pm

Join Collectors tonight from the magnificent harbourside location of the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. Andy gives us a tour of the Museum's indoor collection and Adrian looks at the Museum's historic collection of swimsuits that shows how the swimsuit evolved with changes in bathing and swimming practices from the early 20th century to the 21st century.

Andy and the team visit some of their favourite Sydney collecting hot spots - Andy head to Jacksons Rare Guitars, Niccole immerses herself in the crims and larrikins of old Sydney pubs at the Police and Justice Museum. Gordon is in 'heaven' at Australia's oldest antiques' market and 20th century loving Adrian hits Newtown's second hand and op shops.

Friday, April 25 at 8pm on ABC1

The Collectors team takes a special look at a Perth-based collection of Gallipoli memorabilia.

08:00PM
COLLECTORS
New Series Friday, 15 February 2008

It's off to tropical Cairns and art deco collector Debra Kinsella whose Carl Palda crystal collection is simply stunning. We get up a head of steam with TV and film actor Scott McGregor, whose NSW property has become a shrine to his railway obsession - 4.5 km of track, several fully restored and very beautiful vintage carriages, signals, signs, platforms, mirrors, works of art, buckets and trolleys. Host Andy Muirhead takes us to a collection very few people are allowed to see. Housed in the State Library of Victoria is the lifetime collection of Magician Will Alma.

'Roving Eye' Gordon Brown introduces us to Folk Art - objects from the 1800s up to the Depression years that were made with whatever was available.

Sunday 09:15PM
COLLECTORS: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Final Sunday, 23 December 2007

In this glittering one-off, host Andy Muirhead and the team gather around the tree in Hobart's historic Town Hall and are joined by Christmas collectors and special musical guests.

Australian rock icon, Martin Plaza of Mental as Anything has been throwing things in suitcases for 25 years. He needed somewhere to store his compulsive op shop purchases and the suitcase collection almost started by accident. It's a great collection and he sings us a carol too!

Where does Santa go for his big sack of ideas? To Alan Griffiths who runs the Australian Museum of Childhood in Port Adelaide. Professor Adrian Franklin reveals his own Christmas collectables and Justin visits the Australian War memorial in Canberra to explore a sad but moving side of Christmas.