Friday, August 5, 2011

Big Girl's Blouse + D Generation + Marx and Venus

Here's some Australian rarities.

Big Girl's Blouse was a comedy sketch show by Jane Turner, Gina Riley and Magda Szubanski of Kath & Kim fame. 8 episodes were made and broadcast by the Seven Network between the Autumn of 1994 and Autumn of 1995.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Girl%27s_Blouse

The D Generation was a comedy sketch show featuring a large group of actors (including Magda Szubanski and Jane Turner) that produced 20 shows between 1986 and 1989. Featured here is a compilation of clips made into 4 episodes that were rebroadcast at some point as "The Least Worst Of D Generation".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_generation

Marx and Venus was a sitcom in 2007 that takes place in Perth and consists of 23 5-minute episodes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_and_Venus

Little bit of space left so here's a couple episodes of Hey Dad...! which was a very popular Australian sitcom that ran for nearly 300 episodes from 1987 to 1994. This was big in other countries, particularly Germany where a lot of the episodes are available on DVD, but they remain elusive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Dad...!

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