The Aunty Jack Show Season 1

November. 16,1972
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8.1
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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.

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The Aunty Jack Show Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 8 - Horror
First Aired: December. 28,1972

Scudding clouds veil a full moon as three cloaked figures struggle up a windswept road burdened by the weight of an outsized coffin... But who is inside?

Episode 7 - Sex
First Aired: December. 21,1972

Put the toddlers in the kitchen. Check the street for the Vice Squad, as The Aunty Jack Show goes erotic.

Episode 6 - Family
First Aired: December. 14,1972

Aunty Jack this week introduces you to her remarkable family — Australia's first Royal Family. There's a two minute, twelve part historical series in one act and Australia's other first family — the Ken Howard Family.

Episode 5 - Anonymous
First Aired: December. 07,1972

The first successful attempt by a television program to remain completely anonymous. Throughout the program, not one person is named. Who is Spider Farrelly? You may well ask! The Aunty Jack Show will not give you the answer.

Episode 4 - Kulture
First Aired: November. 30,1972

The Aunty Jack Show takes a serious turn from which it hardly recovers. There are Italian lessons for the jet-setter and Gaelic lessons for the Irish Setter. Two genuine diggers fill us in on how ordinary great people really are.

Episode 3 - War
First Aired: November. 23,1972

Aunty Jack re-visits all the wars since the Trojan affair. A secret documentary unearths the man who choreographed World War Two. Narrator Neville poses the age old riddle — where would we be without walls?

Episode 2 - Radio
First Aired: November. 16,1972

Aunty Jack and her gang take on talk-back radio shows.

Episode 1 - The Travelling Show (Pilot)
First Aired: November. 16,1972

(unaired pilot)

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