Aunty Jack Introduces Colour is a one-off television special edition of The Aunty Jack Show, broadcast on ABC television 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, even though she had been killed off in the last season in 1973.[1] The episode was five minutes long and was the first show on ABC television to be broadcast in colour.[2][3][a]
| Aunty Jack Introduces Colour | |
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| Directed by | Maurice Murphy |
| Starring | Grahame Bond Garry McDonald Rory O'Donoghue |
| Music by | Rory O'Donoghue |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 5 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Features edit
The special shows the three main characters trying to combat the invasion of television by the colour monster,[4] but Aunty Jack (Grahame Bond), Thin Arthur (Rory O'Donoghue), and Kid Eager (Garry McDonald) 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.[1] The characters attempt to resist, with Aunty Jack making a futile endeavour to fight the process with "colour remover".[5]
Cast edit
- Aunty Jack - Grahame Bond
- Kid Eager - Garry McDonald
- Thin Arthur - Rory O'Donoghue[6]
Broadcast dates (ABC) edit
The special started at three minutes to midnight,[7][8] 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[which?] incorrectly say that the episode was aired on 1 March.
Technical information edit
Length - 5 mins.
Aspect ratio - 4:3
See also edit
Notes edit
References edit
- ^ a b Bond, Grahame; McDonald, Garry; O'Donoghue, Rory (28 February 1975), Special: Aunty Jack Introduces Colour, retrieved 18 May 2017
- ^ "Aunty Jack Introduces Colour". Vrroom, National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ a b "The Aunty Jack Show". ASO. National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- ^ Bronywn Barnett (2015). "Colour TV in Australia, Part 2". National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ "40 Years of Colour TV". Televisionau.com. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ Bond, Grahame; O'Donoghue, Rory; McGregor, Sandra; Derum, John (15 November 1972), The Aunty Jack Show, retrieved 19 May 2017
- ^ Emma James (1 March 2012). "From the Vault: the advent of colour television". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ "Classic TV Guides : Friday 28 February 1975 - Melbourne". Television.AU. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
- ^ admin (20 February 2015). "Colour TV in Australia, Part 2". www.nfsa.gov.au. Retrieved 18 May 2017.