
Simon Townsend: Pioneer of Australian Children's Television
A tribute to Simon Townsend, creator of Wonder World, celebrating his contributions to Australian children’s television and his lasting legacy.
DAVIS Edward Harold "Ted"
Ted was born in 1952 in Apollo Bay with Siblings Bill and Janet.
He boarded with the Mann family in Caufield and attended Melbourne High.
Those various friendships remain to this day.
Ted studied Economics at Monash Uni and went to work for Treasury in Canberra.
Ted was just off camera at Gough's Dismissal speech on the steps of Old Parliament
"Well may we say God save the Queen".
Ted lived in swinging London for 3 years sharing a squat with Brother Bill.
He then toured Europe on his motorbike ending up working on a Kibbutz.
Bill joined him and they toured by motorbike visiting Petra.
In Cairo they loaded their motorbikes on a Dhow and sailed down the Nile to Khartoum.
They then travelled the backroads of Africa, climbing to the snowline of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
After their travels, Ted returned to Melbourne where he studied Acupuncture and eventually established a clinic in Caulfield.
He became a lifelong scholar of TCM.
He met Dinah and they had a son Henry in 1992.
They lived in Richmond with Cat Cookie and Galah Nelson.
In later years, Ted was supported by long standing family friend Gale, also living in Richmond.
Family and friends will remember him well and wish him Godspeed.
Condolences to Brother Bill and Gale.
"The superior man who, despite the troubles locked within his heart, clothed himself in refinement".
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