The Aunty Jack Show 1973
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.
- Released: 1972-11-16
- Runtime: 25 minutes
- Genre: Comedy
- Stars: Garry McDonald, John Derum
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1. The Channel 9 Show 1973-10-25
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2. The Iron Maiden Show 1973-11-01
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3. The Golden Glove Show 1973-11-08
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4. The Ear, Nose and Throat Show 1973-11-15
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5. The Little Lovelies' Show 1973-11-22
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6. The R Certificate Show 1973-11-29
