# Micro Macro

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{{short description|Australian game show}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=September 2025}}

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| director             = Jacqui Culliton
| presenter            = [Noel Ferrier](/source/Noel_Ferrier)
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| country              = Australia
| language             = English
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| executive_producer   = Lloyd Capps<br>Jacqui Culliton
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| runtime              = 30 minutes
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| network              = [ABC TV](/source/ABC_TV_(Australian_TV_channel))
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1978|10|5|df=y}}
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'''''Micro Macro''''' is a 1978 Australian television panel game show broadcast on the [Australian Broadcasting Corporation](/source/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation). It was based on the European show of the same name. Hosted by [Noel Ferrier](/source/Noel_Ferrier) it featured two teams of two competing to identify images flashed on a screen. Teams were led by [Carol Raye](/source/Carol_Raye) and [Jimmy Hannan](/source/Jimmy_Hannan) and featured celebrity guests.<ref name="Plummer">{{Citation | last= Plummer | first= Dale | title= Panel game? It's a real puzzler | url= | periodical=  The Sun-Herald | date= 1 October 1978 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last= Hogan | first= Christine | title= Can you guess what this photograph is? | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 2 October 1978 }}</ref><ref name="Teerds">{{Citation | last= Teerds | first= John | title= Viewers will participate in new ABC quiz programme | url= | periodical= The Age | date= 5 October 1978 }}</ref> First shown on Thursdays at 8pm it shifted to Mondays at 6pm due to poor ratings.<ref>{{Citation | last= Jones | first= Tom | title= Mini move | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 12 November 1978 }}</ref>

In the Age John Teerds said of the first episode "Although Ferrier claims to be "the worst
compere in Australia", it is expected his control of the show will improve with practice. There are some faults which could be overcome with practice and with tighter direction."<ref name="Teerds"/> The Sun-Herald's Dale Plummer said "If you have a spare half-hour for a spot of minor brain exercise, Micro Macro could be fun, but the game is slow and the scoring obscure."<ref name="Plummer"/>

The Age's Dennis Pryor noted "The admirable Noel Ferrier rightly treats the whole thing as an absurd joke. giving his imitation of a rogue elephant waving his trunk at the sheer idiocy of the whole thing." He says that three weeks in "The regular panellists are beginning to settle down and give the show some shape."<ref>{{Citation | last= Pryor | first= Dennis | title= Panel-beating | url= | periodical= The Age | date= 21 October 1978 }}</ref>

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Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Category:1980s Australian game shows
Category:English-language Australian television shows
Category:1983 Australian television series debuts
Category:1983 Australian television series endings

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