Career
Hutchinson"s choice in the mid-1980s to screen the 1946 film Song of the South for his "Ivan"s Friday Family Movie" programme on the Seven Network was a source of protest against both Hutchinson and Seven. In his last years, Hutchinson was a film columnist for The Sun News-Pictorial and its successor, the Herald Sun. In addition to his on-air role for Seven, Hutchinson served as Music Director for Herpes simplex virus from 1964–1994.