Episodes and Presenters
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series premiere | Series final | |||
| 1 | 8 May 1989 (1989-05-08) | 4 December 1989 (1989-12-04) | ||
| 2 | 12 February 1990 (1990-02-12) | 12 November 1990 (1990-11-12) | ||
| 3 | 11 February 1991 (1991-02-11) | 18 November 1991 (1991-11-18) | ||
| 4 | 10 February 1992 (1992-02-10) | 9 November 1992 (1992-11-09) | ||
| 5 | 8 February 1993 (1993-02-08) | 15 November 1993 (1993-11-15) | ||
| 6 | 14 February 1994 (1994-02-14) | 14 November 1994 (1994-11-14) | ||
| 7 | 13 February 1995 (1995-02-13) | 13 November 1995 (1995-11-13) | ||
| 8 | 12 February 1996 (1996-02-12) | 11 November 1996 (1996-11-11) | ||
| 9 | 10 February 1997 (1997-02-10) | 10 November 1997 (1997-11-10) | ||
| 10 | 35 | 9 March 1998 (1998-03-09) | 2 November 1998 (1998-11-02) | |
| 11 | 35 | 15 March 1999 (1999-03-15) | 8 November 1999 (1999-11-08) | |
| 12 | 39 | 7 February 2000 (2000-02-07) | 6 November 2000 (2000-11-06) | |
| 13 | 32 | 8 April 2002 (2002-04-08) | 11 November 2002 (2002-11-11) | |
| 14 | 39 | 10 February 2003 (2003-02-10) | 3 November 2003 (2003-11-03) | |
| 15 | 41 | 9 February 2004 (2004-02-09) | 15 November 2004 (2004-11-15) | |
| 16 | 36 | 7 March 2005 (2005-03-07) | 7 November 2005 (2005-11-07) | |
| 17 | 38 | 13 February 2006 (2006-02-13) | 30 October 2006 (2006-10-30) | |
| 18 | 37 | 26 February 2007 (2007-02-26) | 12 November 2007 (2007-11-12) | |
| 19 | 39 | 18 February 2008 (2008-02-18) | 10 November 2008 (2008-11-10) | |
| 20 | 40 | 9 February 2009 (2009-02-09) | 9 November 2009 (2009-11-09) | |
| 21 | 40 | 8 February 2010 (2010-02-08) | 8 November 2010 (2010-11-08) | |
| 22 | 39 | 7 February 2011 (2011-02-07) | 7 November 2011 (2011-11-07) | |
At the end of the 2004 season, David Marr announced his intention to step down and return to mainstream journalism, and former Four Corners reporter Liz Jackson became host for 2005; at the end of the 2005 season Jackson returned to Four Corners. Monica Attard hosted the program in 2006 and 2007,. Jonathan Holmes is the current presenter.
- Stuart Littlemore (1989–97)
- Richard Ackland (1998–99)
- Paul Barry (2000, 2010)
- David Marr (2002–04)
- Liz Jackson (2005)
- Monica Attard (2006–07)
- Jonathan Holmes (since 2008)
In June 2010, the ABC announced that former host Paul Barry would be returning as Media Watch's temporary host for three months while Holmes took long service leave. Barry's tenure ran from August to November of that year. Holmes returned when the show did in 2011.
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“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”
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