Aunty Jack Introduces Colour

Aunty Jack Introduces Colour is a one-off television special edition of The Aunty Jack Show, broadcast on the ABC. It was created two years after The Aunty Jack Show finished and featured the main character, Aunty Jack, played by Grahame Bond even though the main character was killed off in the last season in 1973.[1] The episode was 5 minutes long and remains today most known to be the first show to be broadcast in colour.[2][3][lower-alpha 1]

Features

The special shows the three main characters interacting with the new colour monster[4] invasion to television, as 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 of the screen, converting the ABC into colour television.[1] The characters are shown attempting to resist the arrival of colour, with Aunty Jack fighting the process with "colour remover" in what ultimately becomes a futile process.[5]

Cast

Broadcast dates (ABC)

The special was 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 respectively changed to colour television on the 1 March 1975, although many sources misquote that the episode was aired on the 1 March.

Australia - 28 February 1975[9]

Technical information

Length - 5 mins.

Aspect ratio - 4:3

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Certain skits from the original two series were shot in colour, but were broadcast in black and white. Those colour episodes were included on later DVD releases.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Bond, Grahame; McDonald, Garry; O'Donoghue, Rory (1975-02-28), Special: Aunty Jack Introduces Colour, retrieved 2017-05-18
  2. ↑ "Aunty Jack Introduces Colour". Vrroom, National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  3. 1 2 "The Aunty Jack Show". ASO. National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Bronywn Barnett (2015). "Colour TV in Australia, Part 2". National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "40 Years of Colour TV". Televisionau.com. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  6. ↑ Bond, Grahame; O'Donoghue, Rory; McGregor, Sandra; Derum, John (1972-11-15), The Aunty Jack Show, retrieved 2017-05-19
  7. ↑ Emma James (1 March 2012). "From the Vault: the advent of colour television". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Classic TV Guides : Friday 28 February 1975 - Melbourne". Television.AU. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  9. ↑ admin (2015-02-20). "Colour TV in Australia, Part 2". www.nfsa.gov.au. Retrieved 2017-05-18.

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