''Aunty Jack Introduces Colour'' is a one-off television special edition of ''
The Aunty Jack Show
''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 chara ...
'', broadcast on
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on the night of 28 February 1975. It was created two years after ''The Aunty Jack Show'' finished, and featured the main character, Aunty Jack, played by
Grahame Bond
Grahame John Bond AM (born 21 November 1943) is an Australian actor, writer, director, musician and composer, known primarily for his role as Aunty Jack.
Early career
Bond began his career in entertainment at University of Sydney in the 1960s ...
, even though she had been killed off in the last season in 1973.
The episode was five minutes long and was the first show on ABC television to be broadcast in colour.
Features
The special shows the three main characters trying to combat the invasion of television by the colour monster, but Aunty Jack (
Grahame Bond
Grahame John Bond AM (born 21 November 1943) is an Australian actor, writer, director, musician and composer, known primarily for his role as Aunty Jack.
Early career
Bond began his career in entertainment at University of Sydney in the 1960s ...
), Thin Arthur (
Rory O'Donoghue
Rory O'Donoghue (13 May 194913 December 2017) was an Australian actor, composer and musician, best known for playing the character "Thin Arthur" in the 1970s ABC Television sketch comedy series ''The Aunty Jack Show'', and for playing the guita ...
), and Kid Eager (
Garry McDonald
Garry George McDonald AO (born 30 October 1948) is an Australian actor, satirist and comedian. In a career spanning five decades he has had many theatre, television and film roles, and has been listed as a National Living Treasure. He is bes ...
) are swallowed into the world of colour television, as colour wipes from the bottom to the top of the screen, converting the ABC television into colour.
The characters attempt to resist, with Aunty Jack making a futile endeavour to fight the process with "colour remover".
Cast
* Aunty Jack -
Grahame Bond
Grahame John Bond AM (born 21 November 1943) is an Australian actor, writer, director, musician and composer, known primarily for his role as Aunty Jack.
Early career
Bond began his career in entertainment at University of Sydney in the 1960s ...
* Kid Eager -
Garry McDonald
Garry George McDonald AO (born 30 October 1948) is an Australian actor, satirist and comedian. In a career spanning five decades he has had many theatre, television and film roles, and has been listed as a National Living Treasure. He is bes ...
* Thin Arthur -
Rory O'Donoghue
Rory O'Donoghue (13 May 194913 December 2017) was an Australian actor, composer and musician, best known for playing the character "Thin Arthur" in the 1970s ABC Television sketch comedy series ''The Aunty Jack Show'', and for playing the guita ...
Broadcast dates (ABC)
The special started at three minutes to midnight, so that the episode would swipe to colour at midnight, beating all other Australian commercial television stations, which changed to colour on 1 March 1975, although many sources incorrectly say that the episode was aired on 1 March.
Australia - 28 February 1975
Technical information
Length - 5 mins.
Aspect ratio - 4:3
See also
* ''
Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong
''Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong'' is an Australian album released in November 1974 as a spin-off from the cult ABC Television (Australian TV network), ABC Television show ''Aunty Jack''. It contains a mixture of songs and sketches and, along with ...
''
* ''
Farewell Aunty Jack
"Farewell Aunty Jack" was the closing theme to ''The Aunty Jack Show'', played at the end of each episode. It was re-recorded and released as a hit single in late 1973 and spent 3 weeks at number one in the charts in Australia in February and M ...
''
* ''
Wollongong the Brave
Aunty Jack's ''Wollongong the Brave'' is a collection of four comedy specials derived from the Australian television series, ''The Aunty Jack Show''. The fourth and final episode was the precursor to ''The Norman Gunston Show''. The episodes wer ...
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Notes
References
External links
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Australian television specials
Australian comedy short films
The Aunty Jack Show
1975 short films
1970s English-language films
Films directed by Maurice Murphy