Melbourne researcher Derham Groves is writing a book about the day in 1954, when TV hero Hopalong Cassidy rode into Melbourne. In November 1954, two years before television was switched on in Australia, and when the Saturday afternoon movie matinee was every kid’s dream, a visit by a Hollywood cowboy was enough to spark a riot, pilgrimages through the desert and the … [Read more...] about Hopalong Cassidy Rode into Melbourne