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.

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Logie - Australian - 1972 - 1973 - ABC-TV

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The lead character, Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation - an obese, moustachioed, gravel-voiced transvestite, part trucker, part pantomime dame - who habitually solved any problem by knocking people out or ripping their arms off. Visually, she was unmistakeable, dressed in a a huge, tent-like blue velvet dress, football boots, 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 orf!", 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 an overbearing uncle, Ben Doyle whom he had disliked as a child.

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Aunty Jack - Transvestite - Pantomime dame - Football - Boxing glove - Harley-Davidson - Motorcycle - Grahame Bond

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