The Aunty Jack Show
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The Aunty Jack Show is 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 Aunty Jack Show | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Directed by | Maurice Murphy |
Starring |
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Opening theme | "Head of the Pack" (performed by Rory O'Donoghue) |
Ending theme | "Farewell Aunty Jack" (performed by Rory O'Donoghue and Grahame Bond) |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 13 + 2 specials and a pilot |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | 15 November 1972 (1972-11-15) – 29 November 1973 (1973-11-29) |
The lead character, Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation — obese, moustachioed and gravel-voiced, part trucker and part pantomime dame — who habitually solved any problem by knocking people unconscious or threatening to "rip yer 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 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 Grahame Bond and was partly inspired by his overbearing Uncle Jack, whom he had disliked as a child,[1] his grandfather Ben Doyle, and Dot Strong, the ABC's last official tea lady.[2]