The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie Award–winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. Produced by and broadcast on ABC-TV, the series attained an instant cult status that persists to the present day.
The lead character, Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation — an obese, moustachioed, gravel-voiced transvestite, part trucker and part pantomime dame — who habitually solved any problem by knocking people unconscious or threatening to 'rip their bloody arms off'. Visually, she was unmistakable, dressed in a huge, tent-like blue velvet dress, football socks, workboots, and a golden boxing glove on her right hand. She rode everywhere on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and referred to everyone as "me little lovelies" — when she was not uttering her familiar threat: "I'll rip yer bloody arms off!", a phrase which immediately passed into the vernacular. The character was devised and played by the multi-talented Grahame Bond and was partly inspired by his overbearing Uncle Jack, whom he had disliked as a child, his grandfather Ben Doyle and Dot Strong the ABC's last official tea lady.
Title | The Aunty Jack Show - Season 2 |
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Year | 1973 |
Genre | Comedy |
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Studio | ABC |
Cast | Garry McDonald, John Derum |
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First Air Date | Nov 16, 1972 |
Last Air date | Nov 29, 1973 |
Season | 2 Season |
Episode | 14 Episode |
Runtime | 25:14 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb: | 7.00/ 10 by 2.00 users |
Popularity | 1.267 |
Language | English |