It's your old Aunty Jack, back for a second season. Having given the first season a fairly comprehensive wrap I'll be brief. John Derum ("Narrator Neville") left the show and was replaced by Gary McDonald ("Kid Eager"). The second season contained material which hadn't been tried out on stage with a live audience and was a different "feel". Still very funny in places. Bond, O'Donoughue and (the delectable) McGregor play their respective roles with their usual flair, although "Kev Kavanagh" gets on the nerves a bit.
McDonald introduces here a character who eventually took Australian TV by storm, Norman Gunston. It was he (Gunston) who had Paul McCartney present him with a "Gold Record", it was he who managed to fight Mohammed Ali to a scoreless (verbal) draw and it was he who reduced Sally Struthers to helpless tears of laughter and a confession of "Oh, Norman I love you".
In the "reunion interview" all the main performers (Bond, O'Donoghue, McGregor, Derum and McDonald) reminisce 30 plus years down the road, and Derum rather ruefully admits he could have played the gormless TV interviewer Gunston "competently" but could never have turned him into an "industry" as McDonald did.
If you have the first series, this second is worth it on a couple of levels - eg visit the University of Bus Driving, the voyage inside Aunty Jack's head, as well as the retrospective interviews.
Episodes in the second series:
Channel Nine; Iron Maiden; Golden Gloves; Ear, Nose and Throat, Little Lovelies and R Certificate.
Further, there is a bonus or two, including Aunty Jack's valiant (but futile) battle to prevent colour taking over black-and-white television.
If you don't have the first series, get it.
Or I'll send Aunty Jack round to rip ya bloody arms orf!!!!
McDonald introduces here a character who eventually took Australian TV by storm, Norman Gunston. It was he (Gunston) who had Paul McCartney present him with a "Gold Record", it was he who managed to fight Mohammed Ali to a scoreless (verbal) draw and it was he who reduced Sally Struthers to helpless tears of laughter and a confession of "Oh, Norman I love you".
In the "reunion interview" all the main performers (Bond, O'Donoghue, McGregor, Derum and McDonald) reminisce 30 plus years down the road, and Derum rather ruefully admits he could have played the gormless TV interviewer Gunston "competently" but could never have turned him into an "industry" as McDonald did.
If you have the first series, this second is worth it on a couple of levels - eg visit the University of Bus Driving, the voyage inside Aunty Jack's head, as well as the retrospective interviews.
Episodes in the second series:
Channel Nine; Iron Maiden; Golden Gloves; Ear, Nose and Throat, Little Lovelies and R Certificate.
Further, there is a bonus or two, including Aunty Jack's valiant (but futile) battle to prevent colour taking over black-and-white television.
If you don't have the first series, get it.
Or I'll send Aunty Jack round to rip ya bloody arms orf!!!!