The Jack Perry Show

Overview

The Jack Perry Show is an early Australian variety television series. Broadcast on Melbourne station GTV-9, it was one of the very first regular series by the station. It was hosted by Jack Perry, aired live and also featured guests. Lasting about a month, the half-hour series aired at 7:30PM, with competition in the time-slot consisting of British series The Adventures of Robin Hood on HSV-7 and American sitcom Life with Elizabeth on ABV-2. Although his variety series was short-lived, host Jack Perry proved popular with 1950s and 1960s era Melbourne viewers as part of the clown duo Zig and Zag, who had a long running children's show on station HSV-7 originally titled Peters Fun Fair. Although kinescope recording had been developed, given the short run and the era it aired in, the series is most likely lost.