I ended up here from the National Archives of Canada... Heyyo my Aussie friends. Having no context when watching this is freaking hilarious. I am happy to have found a channel that will give me an insight into my distant relatives. 🖖
It was the decade of monty python, skyhooks, mother goose, benny hill, the goodies, catweasel, split enz, captain matchbox and the whoopee band, (just to name a few) crazy costumes, crazy personas in performers. Fun music, funtimes.
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...
My dad had just brought a small Sony Trinitron TV back from Japan. All the neighbours crowded into our living room to watch this episode on the small screen. That TV only stopped working a few years ago when the plug was pulled on analogue TV.
Peter mccarthy Not Rory O'Donoghue! I was only watching the Aunty Jack DVDs this morning. Rory seemed like such a pleasant person, not to mention an exceptional musician. Another great entertainer fallen victim to depression. RIP
In 1975 this was Aussie humour , here we are in 2024 and it's all become reality. Aunty Jack even has a worldwide cult following and yet none of them/have ever heard the name. Some 50 years later and the world is more wacky than this (special hello to Canada 👋 and my distant relative (got a little chuckle out of that, cheers) . How did they know? Foresight? Premonition? Some of the plot and the lines, uncanny. SPOILER ALERT "It's changed him into a woman" "Pick on someone your own colour." " just to name a couple from many, Aunty Jack, them/they self, well there's a whole conversation unto its self. Graham Bond (All mighty cult leader)(aka Aunty Jack) I hold you solely responsible. It was you who laid out the ground work for our modern day dystopia. 🤪🙄
Might of been for adults at the time but I am eleven and the whole thing looks too fake to be for adults nowadays more of a preteen,kids thing nowadays
I ended up here from the National Archives of Canada... Heyyo my Aussie friends. Having no context when watching this is freaking hilarious. I am happy to have found a channel that will give me an insight into my distant relatives. 🖖
This was the first moment colour television arrived in Australia - this was the first show and its 'introduction'. We are a very strange country! :)
It was the decade of monty python, skyhooks, mother goose, benny hill, the goodies, catweasel, split enz, captain matchbox and the whoopee band, (just to name a few) crazy costumes, crazy personas in performers. Fun music, funtimes.
Magic. I Loved Aunty Jack in the 70s ❤
Only the 70s? Don't let Aunty Jack hear of your disloyalty these last 40-odd years, she'll rip yer bloody arms off! :)
When Australia introduces Colour Television, it does it with profanity, violence, surrealism and cross dressing.....I love this country!!!!
We watched it going up the screen, it was AWESOME!
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...
motherarnold Well the part where the colour comes must be at 12:00.
just 8 years after US... seems like you were little bit outdated
I said in a comment I had posted (now deleted)
"I wish there were more details about the program in the description."
...
Dude!
You got my back! Thx 🥰
@@TiPiDablju We got a better colour system. PAL rather than the NTSC (never twice same colour) that the US had.
@@TiPiDabljuand we adopted metric before you. While you’re stuck well and truly in the past.
Oh gawd, I remember this going to air for the first time. It was kind of lost on me at the time since we only had a B&W TV still. :-D
Yeah, I think most people only had B&W sets then :)
Did she jump thru yr set and rip yr bloody pink arms off..?
Mychael Darklighter
Well, the odd thing is that my arms were black and white back then too. Colour came later. :)
My dad had just brought a small Sony Trinitron TV back from Japan. All the neighbours crowded into our living room to watch this episode on the small screen. That TV only stopped working a few years ago when the plug was pulled on analogue TV.
RIP Thin Arthur. Died earlier this week. What a talent.
Peter mccarthy Not Rory O'Donoghue! I was only watching the Aunty Jack DVDs this morning. Rory seemed like such a pleasant person, not to mention an exceptional musician. Another great entertainer fallen victim to depression. RIP
Met the actor of Aunty Jack recently!
So awesome and funny.
You Fr?💀
Brilliant... I remember Colour TV coming in & thought HOW AMAZING it was!
Did you have a colour set to watch it on?
No but my cousin did So it was great to watch
we got one years later
How many countries were able to move into colour like this?
I think only us.
THIS SHOW WAS AWESOME TOO WATCH IN THE 70'S
i wonder what they did when the internet hit woollongong
2 Arthurs in this show! Thin Arthur and Arthur Beare!
Rest in peace Rory my little lovely loved this show as,a kindy earliest memory
This is the weirdest adaptation of Gormenghast I've ever seen.
I love Aunty Jack,I used to watch her on tv when i was a lad ! now ya know...lol
hahaha this is so funny!
It's a shame this wouldn't be moraly acceptable in society these days... :(
What a show... what colour
what nice color. i love the contrast. and that is some funny shit,.
And this is the clip that directly followed Aunty Jack's 'Introduction To Colour':
th-cam.com/video/TaIUcvEDsjQ/w-d-xo.html
3:54 #Martian
Good old ABC TV & Wollongong the Brave ❤🙂❤
Originality
I live in Wollongong
...met gary McDonald at the restaurant at our local temple
Ditto
One of Robin Williams' favourite shows, according to imdb.
uncle Frank and aunt jack.
This reminds me of Pleasantville!
Norman Gunston
@meringandan Yes it was Gary Macdonald.
In 1975 this was Aussie humour , here we are in 2024 and it's all become reality. Aunty Jack even has a worldwide cult following and yet none of them/have ever heard the name. Some 50 years later and the world is more wacky than this (special hello to Canada 👋 and my distant relative (got a little chuckle out of that, cheers) .
How did they know? Foresight? Premonition? Some of the plot and the lines, uncanny.
SPOILER ALERT
"It's changed him into a woman"
"Pick on someone your own colour." " just to name a couple from many, Aunty Jack, them/they self, well there's a whole conversation unto its self.
Graham Bond (All mighty cult leader)(aka Aunty Jack) I hold you solely responsible. It was you who laid out the ground work for our modern day dystopia. 🤪🙄
This is scary 😨
How?
must have been a great time to be in your twenties!!!
No wonder Australia is in the trouble it is today.
And the ABC behind all the bull .... as well as usual
Dear old Aunty jack was wearing grey greasepaint, which is how he stayed black and white . . .
The pirate looks like Gary Macdonald anyone know?
National Archives should have been able to put this in its original 4:3 aspect ratio instead of letting it stretch like amateurs. :-(
@quizmaster85 They clearly believe you - noone's disliked this video yet.
i spoke too soon. i just saw the gay guy.
Might of been for adults at the time but I am eleven and the whole thing looks too fake to be for adults nowadays more of a preteen,kids thing nowadays
I'd check the colour of your poo. It may be trying to tell you something....