The Samurai's Australian Craze

When a few episodes of the Japanese series "The Samurai" aired on Australian TV in 1964, viewer demand exploded. The network TCN9 quickly picked up the entire series, and it became the station's most popular show up to that point. Later, when lead actor Ose Koichi arrived in Melbourne, thousands of fans, many dressed as samurai, crowded the airport to greet him.

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