Aunty Jack creator marks 50 years of colour TV in Australia
Grahame Bond cannot believe that he was chosen to start the exciting new television period in Australia.
The year was 1975 and on March 1, to mark the passage from the Black and White, ABC chose a partial, partial pantomim Dame-Teyze Jack to the “Rip Yer Bloody Arms off” as a person.
Although the aunt’s Jack show ended two years after two seasons, the character returned to life for the special section.
“I was in bad books – we did everything possible to put it [ABC] “Aunt Jack, who created Aunt Jack, told ABC ILLAWARRA Drive to Boffins’ noses.
Aunt Jack Show section is considered the original of the first color television broadcasts in Australia. (ABC Archives)
However, in the midnight midnight, 180 seconds of commercial networks to “annoy people”, cross -dressing bikie alter ego, aunt Jack’s “Color Monster” of the upcoming arrival in a one -time section released.
At that time, with the groundbreaking special effects, aunt Jack tries to suppress the color from seizing the screen.
“I was looking at a monitor on the left to see where my hands should be to hold something [colour]”He said bond.
“When we pulled all the images to England, they didn’t know how we did it.”
Creators show that Rory O’Donghue (right) and Grame Bond enjoyed to push the borders. (AAP: Tracey complaint)
Early Love for Television and Pushing Rules
Growing up in Sydney, Bond said that his family could not get a black and white television.
Instead, the 81 -year -old writer and composer remembers that he was taken to watch the city center free of charge.
“Australia was one of the last countries to get colorful TV, but I remember when I was a child, my father would take me to the main street of Marrickville, and we were standing out of a shop window and we watched with other people without sound,”
he said.
“We were so desperate for entertainment.”
While the Aunt Jack show was remembered for being a pioneering television comedy, it was a huge journey to reach there.
First of all, he wanted to call the pilot of his Bond show as a slaughterhouse who visited Aunty Jack.
In consultation with ABC, they settled for the Aunt Jack show.
Later, when he made humiliating references to his hometown Wollongong, the main character came back.
“He went to the air and got a thousand objections and I was mortgaged,”
He said bond.
Rory O’Donghue and Grame Bond, black and white days. (ABC Archives)
“Murph [director Maurice Murphy] If a thousand people hate it, imagine how many people love, so we’re stuck with him. “
Then there was the Wollongong Council and Stoush, then Mayor Frank Archall called an extraordinary general meeting to ban the show.
“Frank ARKELL Gone [TV show] Today he said he showed Wollongong in a bad light tonight, Bond said Bond.
“I went and I saw him and said that the pollution levels in Wollongong were seven times the acceptable limit, and he asked why it was not visible in the meeting minutes and almost died.”
Aunt Jack’s deep love for Wollongong
Despite his fight against the Wollongong Council, Bond has a deep relationship with the city.
After moving to his uncle and aunt Dapto, he visited regularly and was amazed at the beauty of the landscape as he looked down from the Bulli Pass.
But there was something he couldn’t bear.
“I remember seeing the beautiful intact view and then the terrible BHP [steelworks] He came and my life became the band “
he said.
A souvenir aunt Jack stamp was produced by the Australian mail. (Given: Australian mail)
He said his contribution to color television would be remembered by Australia Post.
“I approached and I was asked to use an image from the colorful TV moment for a monumental stamp, so you can lick us for about $ 3,” he said.
