| The Aunty Jack Show | |
|---|---|
 Kid Eager, Aunty Jack and Thin Arthur from the cassette cover of Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong (1974) (cassette version) | |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Directed by | Maurice Murphy |
| Starring | |
| 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 – 29 November 1973 |
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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 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]
- ^ Rob Johnson & David Smiedt, Boom-boom! A Century of Australian Comedy (Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, 1999), p.189
- ^ "Aunty's last Tea Lady | radioinfo.com.au". Archived from the original on 25 September 2017.