66-501: The Aunty Jack Show is 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 character, Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation – obese, moustachioed and gravel-voiced, part trucker and part pantomime dame – who habitually solved any problem by knocking people unconscious or threatening to "rip yer bloody arms off". Visually, she
132-624: A Sydney production of the musical Oliver! as well as being the lead singer and guitarist in the Sydney rock bands The Pogs and Oakapple Day . O'Donoghue was 14 at the time he met Bond, when The Pogs were brought in to provide musical backing for one of the Architecture Revues. After graduating, Bond and friends continued working together on a wide range of projects in radio, theatre, TV and film. He collaborated on several short films and stage pieces with Weir, and wrote and played in
198-529: A TV deal." Maurice Murphy was a pivotal figure in this fertile era of Australian television comedy—he oversaw Aunty Jack and its various spin-off series, and also acted as a vital buffer between the Aunty Jack creative team and the ABC's conservative management. Ted Robinson , then a young director, got his break working for Murphy on the second series of Aunty Jack . Robinson later took over Murphy's mantle in
264-447: A comment "I like the boy!" (in reference to a series of TV advertisements Bert had recently done). Ali became upset at the comment, as the term "boy" carried negative racial connotations for many black Americans, although Newton was oblivious to this use of the term and claimed this was not his intention. After realising his faux pas, Newton quickly apologised to Ali on stage. The most difficult guest to interact with, according to Newton,
330-546: A concert tour, a #1 hit single, " Farewell Aunty Jack " (a version of the closing theme of the series) and a best-selling album Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong , released in early 1974. "Farewell Aunty Jack" was released as a single in December 1973, reached Number 1 on the Australian charts a week later, where it stayed for 3 weeks. It was the first Australian single in picture-disc form to hit No.1 nationally, reputedly being
396-536: A daring football game starring Aunty Jack. Aunty Jack alternated one-off sketches with segments featuring many regular and semi-regular characters. All episodes featured segments with Aunty Jack and her sidekicks – Flange Desire (Sandra McGregor), Thin Arthur (Rory O'Donoghue) and, in the first season the Narrator Neville ( John Derum ) who was replaced in the second season by Kid Eager ( Garry McDonald ),
462-524: A heart attack. Bond then departed for a much-needed holiday on Norfolk Island where, jointly inspired by the convict ruins and his holiday reading, Errol Flynn 's My Wicked, Wicked Ways , he came up with the concept for a new series set in the bushranger days, which became Flash Nick from Jindivick . The next outing for the classic Aunty Jack team was Wollongong the Brave (1974), a series of four one-hour specials that showcased favourite characters from
528-571: A number of stage comedies and revues. The success of Bond's work in the Architecture Revues led to a professional stage revue for the PACT Theatre Company, Balloon Dubloon (1969) with Weir, which in turn led to an invitation from festival director Sir Robert Helpmann to stage a revue, Drip Dry Dreams at the Adelaide Festival and Richbrooke. Through Bob Allnutt, a staffer at the PACT Theatre Company who also worked for
594-526: A parodic amalgam of characters like Dennis the Menace and Ginger Meggs . There were also semi-regular appearances by the folk-singing duo Errol and Neil (Grahame & Rory), and rock'n'roll butcher Kev Kavanagh (Bond), a character that he had introduced (as "Mr Kevin") in Peter Weir's Homesdale . Derum left the show after Series 1, wishing to pursue other interests. Derum appeared in archival footage in
660-451: A predominantly Australian cast. Although in other years there has been a Logie for overseas programs, these awards are no longer part of the awards. People eligible for a Logie must have appeared on an Australian-produced show that was broadcast on Australian television in the previous year. There are long-held suspicions that network publicists engage in mass voting to rig the results. However, no hard evidence had emerged for this, other than
726-543: A single sketch in the second series, was given his own series The Norman Gunston Show which ran from 1975 to 1983. After a faltering start, it became hugely popular and McDonald won the Gold Logie in 1976. Bond, O'Donoghue, McDonald, MacGregor and Derum later appeared in News Free Zone , created by Murphy in 1985. Each episode included an Aunty Jack sketch in a section called Vintage Video . Bond also revived
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#1732772847353792-458: A television connection, this has not always been the case. In 2001, Ricky Martin was the headline performer. In 2002, Destiny's Child performed, with Elton John and Shakira making appearances. In 2004, it was Michael Bublé with Delta Goodrem . In 2011, Katy Perry performed and presented an award, while 2012 saw One Direction and Delta Goodrem perform on the night with appearances from Flo Rida , Tony Bennett and Seal . In 2013, it
858-780: A writing course and was inspired by the first episodes to write and submit scripts, which were welcomed by the team. This character featured only briefly in Aunty Jack , but became much more prominent in the spin-off Wollongong the Brave as the Wollongong media 'un-personality' Norman Gunston . The Gunston character also appeared on the Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong LP and starred in the Logie-winning Tonight Show parody, The Norman Gunston Show , which premiered in 1975. Some of
924-441: Is fourth with 25 Logies. Television personalities with the most national wins (excluding state-based Logie awards) are: Actors/actresses with the most national wins: Homesdale Homesdale is a 1971 Australian film directed by Peter Weir . Homesdale is a black comedy about visitors at a guest-house acting out their violent private fantasies and games under the control of the house staff. Several people gather at
990-554: The Antenna Awards . Despite this, in 2009 the Logies were dogged by minor controversy after organisers refused to allow an acclaimed community television show, The Bazura Project , to be nominated in the category of Outstanding Comedy Show, stating "As TV Week does not cover community television within the magazine, we are unable to consider individual programs on this platform." The ABC's Media Watch program first reported
1056-491: The Aunty Jack's Travelling Show and four episodes of the subsequent series. He gave up performing just before The Aunty Jack Show , saying in a later interview: "We were very much in the vein of Monty Python, and I saw them in England and they were so superior to what we did… that was it. I told my writing partner I wanted to focus on films, I sold him my sketches and that was it. It was very difficult because he had just gotten
1122-532: The Mickey Mouse Club and The Steve Allen Show as early interests, but cited the surreal black humour of Joseph Heller 's novel Catch-22 as a major comedic influence. Peter Weir was also involved behind the scenes in the early days of the series. He had been part of the university revues they had done together in the 1960s, and had a small part in Homesdale and was credited as a writer on
1188-557: The Most Popular Actor and Actress categories, 15 names for Most Popular Presenter and five programs for Most Popular Drama . These restrictions often are introduced over those who are not listed in the voting form, and as a result, they are not eligible to be nominated for an award. Many local and overseas performers have appeared at the Logie Awards ceremony. While it had been a tradition to choose performers with
1254-522: The National Archives of Australia the footage was located and restored, enabling the missing episodes to be reconstructed. The long-awaited release of the complete Series 1 on DVD took place in December 2005, and the complete Series 2 followed in April 2006. Although the master videotapes were monochrome, and the main episodes are presented in this format on DVD, much of the footage for the series
1320-516: The Nine Network , who have hosted the ceremony on the most occasions, and TV and former radio personality Bert Newton , particularly in the early days, who served as a solo host of the ceremony on 17 occasions, with a constant run from 1966 until 1980 and as co-host on three other occasions. Over the years, the Logies have been hosted in Melbourne and Sydney . From 2018 to 2022, the ceremony
1386-472: The 1980s, producing some of the best Australian TV comedy series of the period, including The Big Gig and The Gillies Report . Interviewed for Mouthing Off , a history of Australian comedy, Robinson enthusiastically sang Murphy's praises: Aunty Jack's Travelling Show convinced the ABC to commission a short series, to be screened weekly. The Aunty Jack Show premiered on 16 November 1972 and became an immediate cult hit with younger audiences, although it
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#17327728473531452-532: The ABC's Religious Affairs Department, Weir, Bond was one of a group of people commissioned to produce a TV special, Man on a Green Bike , a fantasy that examined three different views of Christmas; this screened on ABC-TV at the end of December 1969. The 50-minute film, which is Bond's first known TV appearance, was co-written by and starred Bond and Weir, with Geoff Malone, James Dellit, and Anna Nygh. The story concerned three men, once friends sharing many adventures, who are now mayors of three cities—medieval Ackley,
1518-616: The Farrelly Brothers, the Ri Fol Tit Men and bodgie butcher and meat artist Kev Kavanagh. Logie Award The TV Week Logie Awards (known colloquially as The Logies ) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian television , sponsored and organised by the magazine TV Week . The event is telecast live and billed as "television's night of nights". The first ceremony
1584-639: The Homesdale Hunting Lodge including butcher/rock singer Mr. Kevin, war veteran Mr. Vaughan, an octogenarian Mr. Levy. All are tormented by Homesdale's staff and forced to participate in a series of death games in which the true character of the guests starts to emerge. The movie was influenced by horror films such as The Cat and the Canary . The budget was covered by a grant from the Experimental Film and Television Fund. The film
1650-480: The cast was revived and returned for a special two years later to mark the inauguration of colour television in Australia on 1 March 1975. The special beat ABC's commercial rivals by beginning 3 minutes early, at 11:57 pm 28 February 1975 in black and white and then wiping to colour at midnight. Two series of The Aunty Jack Show were made in 1972 and 1973 respectively. The first series comprised seven episodes,
1716-643: The ceremony itself was in late April or early May. Since 2018, voting begins in March and the ceremony is held in July. The Most Outstanding categories are voted on by a jury comprising members of the Australian TV industry peers. There were 15 categories in the industry awards at the Logie Awards of 2018 . To be eligible to receive a Logie, a program must be Australian produced, set in Australia and have
1782-570: The ceremony. Bert Newton, who has won the Gold Logie four times, hosted the awards a total of 19 times. GTV-9 / Nine Network is also strongly associated with the history of the Logies. Nine has hosted the awards 46 times in their 60-year history. The Seven Network will take over from the Nine Network as host broadcaster. Seven had last broadcast the Logie Awards in 1995 . In 1973, American actor Michael Cole generated controversy after accepting an award while apparently drunk, uttering
1848-422: The character Kev Kevanagh. Although fans long hoped that The Aunty Jack Show might be released on home video, it was more than thirty years after the show's first screening until this took place. Although there have been a number of reasons suggested, it is generally accepted that the major stumbling block was a long-running disagreement between Bond and the ABC, stemming from Bond and O'Donoghue's resentment over
1914-434: The character's aggressive attitude, her golden boxing glove and her "I'll rip yer bloody arms off" catchphrase quickly established her, and the show, as comedy icons. Aunty Jack returned in early 2006 in a live stage show titled The Aunty Jack Show and Tell , starring Grahame Bond and Rory O'Donoghue. As well as Aunty Jack and Thin Arthur, the show featured the singing tramps Neil and Errol, Country and Eastern music exponents
1980-458: The children of certain ABC executives saved the show from being cancelled. This would not be the team's last such run-in with management, however, and the tensions between the creative and bureaucratic elements in the ABC eventually came to a head with The Off Show in 1977. Bond ended the show at the end of the second season by having Aunty Jack die of a heart attack, 'mortified' by the other cast members' 'dirty' language and content. Nevertheless,
2046-581: The equivalent of the Star of the Year Award , was presented in 1960, and again won by Graham Kennedy. The record for most "Gold Logie" wins—at five apiece—is a tie between Kennedy and Ray Martin . The 2020 and 2021 ceremonies were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The decade of the 2010s was the first decade where no one won the Gold Logie award more than once. The prestigious Logie Hall of Fame
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2112-419: The experiment by the satirical newspaper The Chaser , who attempted to have low-profile SBS newsreader Anton Enus nominated for the Gold Logie. They did so by getting their small readership to buy copies of TV Week and vote for Enus for the award. While the attempt failed (they came "reasonably close", to earning a nomination for Enus, according to a " TV Week Insider"), their failure gives some cause for
2178-595: The final nominees. Ten of the Logie Award categories are fan awards. In the past, the "Most Popular" Logies categories were voted by the readers of TV Week magazine using a coupon. SMS (short message service) voting was introduced in 2006 for the Gold Logie. In 2008, Internet votes could be cast for the first time without having to buy a copy of the TV Week magazine. Before 2018, public voting usually lasted for four weeks, beginning in December or January, while
2244-410: The first disc of its kind in the world (although "Goondiwindi Grey" by Tex Morton in 1972 had also been issued in Australia as a picture disc too, but didn't hit the top spot nationally). By the time Series 2 was underway Bond was already tired of Aunty Jack so he decided to kill her off in the final episode, "The R-Certificate Show" when, shocked by the gratuitous sex and nudity, Aunty Jack expires from
2310-563: The futuristic Cadmium, and Petal Lake, a community reminiscent of the 1930s. Into their midst comes the strange figure of Mr. Maloon, a man travelling on a heavily laden green bike, whose presence disturbs and embarrasses the mayors. During 1970 Bond, Weir and co. created and performed the revue Filth at the Phillip St Revue , followed by Hamlet on Ice at the Nimrod Theatre . Bond's friendship with Weir led to him writing
2376-421: The gang can't remove it and so they shrink to remove the moustache, but end up being swallowed and take our tour of the inside of Aunty Jack. The episode also shows a short documentary on a five-year bus driving course. The episode sees Aunty Jack haunted by her own ghost, using protection from the rest of the gang and a new fictional television show, New Faces, hosted by Norman Tavistock. The episode also features
2442-504: The music for the three-part AFI Award-winning 1970 film Three To Go (in which he also had a small acting role), for which Weir directed one segment. Bond also provided the music and played a leading role in Weir's first film, the 1971 short feature Homesdale . Aunty Jack was created for a proposed ABC Radio children's radio series, The Aunty Jack Show , commissioned by Paddy Conroy (former head of ABC TV and now cable channel manager). It
2508-461: The presumed loss of several Aunty Jack episodes and the Off Show incident. Since Bond and O'Donoghue controlled the rights for all the original music featured in the series, their refusal to release them effectively kept the series from release until 2005. For many years there were persistent rumours—fuelled by press statements from Bond himself—that some episodes had been lost or destroyed. This
2574-471: The second six episodes. There were also two specials, one aired 8 June 1973 before the second series began in October, and a second aired in 1975 and an unaired pilot, before the series started. Each episode was built around a central theme. Regular cast : Regular cast : The episode sees Channel 9 launching a new-look Aunty Jack Show, starring Kid Eager as Aunty Jack. Aunty Jack protests and takes back
2640-724: The series. Episode 1 Aunty Jack'n'The Gong in Bloody Concert featured the core characters, augmented by a rock group. Episode 2 featured 'Country and Mediterranean' music group The Farelly Brothers and their singing sheep Jason; Episode 3 featured meat guru Kev Kavanagh and the final instalment Norman Gunston: The Golden Weeks eventually spawned The Norman Gunston Show in late 1975. At 11:57 PM on Friday 28 February 1975, Aunty Jack, Thin Arthur, and Kid Eager introduced colour television broadcasting on ABC-TV , beating another channel's first colour program by deliberately starting three minutes early. The team's last major TV collaboration
2706-540: The show. Other skits include the Gong-fu skit, set in a Chinese Restaurant and a new segment 'What's on in Wollongong'. The episode sees Aunty Jack looking back on her past as Princess Jack, royalty in Wollongong, when 'things' kidnapped her parents, where she goes on search for them. Later in the episode, Kev Kavanagh is seen in London on a butcher's grant. The episode sees Aunty Jack back when she won her golden glove for
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2772-470: The sketches over the two series included the following: A compilation of colour filmed segments from the first series was edited into an 85-minute feature The Very Best of The Aunty Jack Show which was screened at the 1973 Montreux Film Festival . It was not seen by Australian audiences until it was broadcast on ABC television on 26 January 1991. The popularity of the series led to a one-off TV special, Aunty Jack Rox On with special guest Stevie Wright ,
2838-540: The special, Aunty Jack Rox On, and was replaced in Series 2 by a new cast member, Garry McDonald , a talented young actor, comedian and musician, who had recently graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art . His main role was as Aunty Jack's new sidekick, the cheeky, gum-chewing, freckle-faced Kid Eager. In one episode McDonald premiered a new character, devised by a viewer: Wendy Skelcher had taken up
2904-487: The story on Monday 9 March 2009, with many media outlets covering the growing support for the community television program since. The Logie Awards ceremony is televised and became generally more elaborate as years went by. The awards have mostly been held in a ballroom, rather than a theatre, which is common for the Emmy Awards and Academy Awards . Dinner is served just before the ceremony and drinks are served during
2970-787: The two teams evidently shared the same love of surreal humour , Aunty Jack had existed conceptually before Bond or other show creators had seen Monty Python . Indeed, Aunty Jack's television debut took place an hour and a half before the British show was first screened in Australia on 30 December 1971 (The "Aunty Jack's Travelling Show" episode of The Comedy Game was screened at 7:30pm, Monty Python at 8:55). The Goons have also been mentioned as an inspiration, but in Johnson and Smiedt's history of Australian comedy Boom Boom , Bond himself said that he had listened to The Goons only occasionally. He mentioned Australian radio star Jack Davey , Bob Dyer ,
3036-489: The university's legendary Architecture Revues from 1964 to 1969. It was here that he met and became friends with other Sydney students including scriptwriter Geoffrey Atherden , television and film director Maurice Murphy and Peter Weir , who would go on to become an internationally acclaimed film director. Through these stage revues Bond also met his longtime musical, writing and acting partner Rory O'Donoghue , who had begun his performing career playing The Artful Dodger in
3102-400: The victory. The trial of the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins was delayed because of comments from Lisa Wilkinson's acceptance speech. Every year before public voting opens, major commercial networks ABC, SBS, Seven, Nine, and 10 are restricted in the number of personalities and programs they can submit for consideration in the publicly voted category, including up to 10 names in both
3168-424: The widespread derision in the industry (particularly the 'quality' end) towards the popular-vote awards. Community television, Channel 31 , personalities and shows are eligible for nomination for Logies, however since their audiences are far smaller than those of the commercial channels and public broadcasters, they are at a tremendous disadvantage. For a time they had their own community television awards, known as
3234-455: The word "shit" in a short, incoherent acceptance speech. This was the first time such profanity had been said on Australian television. According to Bert Newton, Channel Nine received thousands of complaints about the use of the word, however, when it was edited for the repeat transmission Newton stated "they got double the calls complaining it had been dropped." In 1979, during a notable appearance with Muhammad Ali as co-presenter, Newton made
3300-422: The world heavy-weight boxing competition. Kid Eager discovers that the glove has magical powers and decides to steal it, whilst Flange Desire decides to marry Kid Eager for his money and so Aunty Jack and Thin Arthur engage him in a card game to make sure that the money goes to them instead. The episode sees Aunty Jack attempting to get rid of her feminity . It is decided that her moustache needs to come off, but
3366-474: Was Bruno Mars and 2014 Ed Sheeran . Gold Logie Silver Logie Program awards Gold Logie Silver Logie As of 2017, Home and Away is the most successful program in Logies history, having won 49 awards since it premiered in 1988. Neighbours is the second most successful having won 31 Logies since it began in 1985. A Country Practice follows as the third most successful program, having won 29 awards throughout its twelve-year run. Blue Heelers
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#17327728473533432-508: Was Star of the Year presented to IMT host Graham Kennedy . The following year, Kennedy coined the name Logie Awards, to honour the Scottish engineer and innovator who contributed to the development of television as a practical medium, John Logie Baird . The Logie statuette was designed by Alec De Lacy, chief designer for Melbourne-based trophy makers KG Luke Ltd. The first Gold Logie ,
3498-476: Was Vic Morrow in 1967. He would just stand there saying nothing, silently handing out the Logies. According to Bert, "every so often, I'd say 'how are you going, Vic?' and he would just nod his head." Grant Denyer's 2018 Gold Logie win has proved controversial with people believing he only won because of Tom Gleeson 's campaign. Gleeson has shrugged off those suggestions. Tom Gleeson's 2019 Gold Logie win has proved controversial with him not being so humble by
3564-401: Was filmed in colour and these are included as alternate scenes. The only episode in the entire Aunty Jack Show series not to be released on DVD was the 1973 special, 'Aunty Jack Rox On'. In 2019, TV Week listed The Aunty Jack Show at #99 in its list of the 101 greatest Australian television shows of all time, which appeared in its monthly TV Week Close Up publication. The magazine said
3630-402: Was first introduced in 1984; former conductor, turned television producer and pioneer and founder of Crawford Productions , Hector Crawford was the first inductee. The induction was a posthumous honour for TV cameraman Neil Davis , actor Maurie Fields , conservationist Steve Irwin , news anchor Brian Naylor , journalist Peter Harvey and television executive Brian Walsh . Rebecca Gibney
3696-456: Was given added credence by the fact that (like the BBC ) the ABC had undertaken an "economy drive" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during which (it has been reported) substantial portions of many shows were erased. Although (according to Bond) the original master tapes for three episodes were erased, all the original film footage shot for the missing episodes had survived and with the assistance of
3762-741: Was held on the Gold Coast before the 2023 ceremony was announced as moving to Sydney for the first time in 37 years. Known from their inception as the TV Week Awards, the awards were instigated by TV Week magazine with the first voting coupons provided in the magazine in late 1958, two years after the introduction of television in Australia. The first awards were presented on 15 January 1959 on an episode of In Melbourne Tonight . Only Melbourne television personalities were nominated and awards were given in eight categories, including two for American programs. The most prestigious award in 1959
3828-552: Was hosted in 1959 as the TV Week Awards . The Gold Logie is the most prestigious award and the industry's highest honour; it's awarded to the Most Popular Personality on Australian Television for the previous year. The award receives much publicity and media attention. Awards are presented in 20 categories, representing both industry and public voted prizes The event has been strongly associated with
3894-430: Was intended to replace the long-running children's radio series The Argonauts Club , which was about to be cancelled. The new series did not go to air because ABC executives felt that the Aunty Jack character and some of Bond's songs were "inappropriate" for young listeners. The Aunty Jack character made her TV debut in Aunty Jack's Travelling Show , an episode of ABC-TV's The Comedy Game , broadcast in late 1971. It
3960-528: Was originally to be called Aunty Jack's Travelling Abattoirs but ABC executives objected to the title. The program featured Bond, O'Donoghue and Derum, with Sharman Mellick and Kate Fitzpatrick in supporting roles. This marked the start of a fruitful partnership between Bond, O'Donoghue and ABC writer, producer and director Maurice Murphy . They became the creative nucleus for a string of programs that strongly influenced TV comedy in Australia. Although frequently compared to Monty Python's Flying Circus , as
4026-485: Was partly inspired by his overbearing Uncle Jack, whom he had disliked as a child, his grandfather Ben Doyle, and Dot Strong , the ABC's last official tea lady. Bond was already an accomplished writer, producer, comedian, singer, songwriter and guitarist by the time he graduated with an architecture degree from the University of Sydney . He cut his teeth writing and performing as a founder member and leading light of
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#17327728473534092-448: Was poorly received by critics. Some viewers found it too confronting, and according to Murphy, the ABC received hundreds of calls after the first episode, complaining about the violence, the "bad language" and especially about the drag aspect of the Aunty Jack character. The adverse reaction was reportedly strong enough for the ABC to seriously consider taking the series off the air, but it is generally reported that impassioned pleas from
4158-746: Was shot at Peter Weir's own home in Sydney in March 1971. The film premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in June 1971 and won the Grand Prix AFI Award in November. It was screened in universities, schools, film societies and occasionally commercial cinemas, as well as on the Seven network. This article related to an Australian film of the 1970s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This film article about
4224-501: Was the abortive comedy series The Off Show (1977) which was cancelled after only a few episodes following a controversial incident in which ABC executive Alan Batemen pulled the premiere episode from the schedule half an hour before it was due to air and then erased the tape, reportedly because he was offended by the Bill Harding religious parody sketch "Leave It To Jesus". The character of Norman Gunston , originally created for
4290-602: Was the fourth woman to be inducted into the Hall of Fame , joining former recipients Ruth Cracknell , Noni Hazlehurst and Kerri-Anne Kennerley . The Logies have been criticised for its lack of women inductees in the category These are the only programs that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Voting for the Most Popular Logie categories is done using an online form, or by SMS (short message service) voting for
4356-428: Was unmistakable, dressed in a huge, tent-like blue velvet dress, football socks, workboots, and a golden boxing glove on her right hand. She rode 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 off!", a phrase which immediately passed into the vernacular. The character was devised and played by Grahame Bond and
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