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One-glove wonder out to rip ya bloody arms off again
Aunty Jack anarchic.
By Stephen Gibbs
November 23, 2005
She's still big, round and fat, but don't tell her that. She has ridden her black bike, driven through the night and, after more than 30 years of waiting, she is finally coming home.
Hello, Aunty Jack.
For the first time since bidding her a fond farewell in 1973, Australian television viewers can welcome a transvestite boxer into their lounge rooms - The Aunty Jack Show is out on DVD.
For those not old enough to remember the two years when the "Queen of Wollongong" was terrorising the South Coast, the phrases "I'll rip ya bloody arms off" and "me little lovelies" might finally make sense.
Perhaps no other Australian television program is steeped in such mystique. That mystery has included how a biker who wore red lipstick, one golden boxing glove and a tent-like, blue-velvet dress could disappear.
Whole generations have not seen the program that introduced Norman Gunston and colour broadcasting to local TV. It was rumoured for many years that the ABC had lost or taped over most of the 13 episodes.
Instead, they have been digitally restored with the help of the National Archives and the first season of seven episodes will be released by ABC Video and Roadshow on December 1.
Aunty Jack was created and played by Grahame Bond, an architecture graduate whose Sydney University friend Rory O'Donoghue played Thin Arthur and wrote most of those songs.
They were supported by John Derum as Narrator Neville, Sandra MacGregor as Flange Desire and Garry McDonald as Kid Eager. In the second series, McDonald appeared as the TV reporter Gunston.
A fixture on most lists of seminal and all-time-great Australian TV shows, Aunty Jack's mix of anarchic sketches and musical comedy has not been repeated since the second series finished in 1973.
The following year the show's anthemic closing song, Farewell Aunty Jack, topped Australian music charts. The character came back for five minutes in 1975 to present a segment introducing colour to Australian TV.
A gloved Aunty Jack is on the DVD cover. "Watch it," she warns. "Or I'll rip your bloody arms off."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/oneglove-wonder-out-to-rip-ya-bloody-arms-off-again/2005/11/22/1132421664283.html
One-glove wonder out to rip ya bloody arms off again
Aunty Jack anarchic.
By Stephen Gibbs
November 23, 2005
She's still big, round and fat, but don't tell her that. She has ridden her black bike, driven through the night and, after more than 30 years of waiting, she is finally coming home.
Hello, Aunty Jack.
For the first time since bidding her a fond farewell in 1973, Australian television viewers can welcome a transvestite boxer into their lounge rooms - The Aunty Jack Show is out on DVD.
For those not old enough to remember the two years when the "Queen of Wollongong" was terrorising the South Coast, the phrases "I'll rip ya bloody arms off" and "me little lovelies" might finally make sense.
Perhaps no other Australian television program is steeped in such mystique. That mystery has included how a biker who wore red lipstick, one golden boxing glove and a tent-like, blue-velvet dress could disappear.
Whole generations have not seen the program that introduced Norman Gunston and colour broadcasting to local TV. It was rumoured for many years that the ABC had lost or taped over most of the 13 episodes.
Instead, they have been digitally restored with the help of the National Archives and the first season of seven episodes will be released by ABC Video and Roadshow on December 1.
Aunty Jack was created and played by Grahame Bond, an architecture graduate whose Sydney University friend Rory O'Donoghue played Thin Arthur and wrote most of those songs.
They were supported by John Derum as Narrator Neville, Sandra MacGregor as Flange Desire and Garry McDonald as Kid Eager. In the second series, McDonald appeared as the TV reporter Gunston.
A fixture on most lists of seminal and all-time-great Australian TV shows, Aunty Jack's mix of anarchic sketches and musical comedy has not been repeated since the second series finished in 1973.
The following year the show's anthemic closing song, Farewell Aunty Jack, topped Australian music charts. The character came back for five minutes in 1975 to present a segment introducing colour to Australian TV.
A gloved Aunty Jack is on the DVD cover. "Watch it," she warns. "Or I'll rip your bloody arms off."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/oneglove-wonder-out-to-rip-ya-bloody-arms-off-again/2005/11/22/1132421664283.html
