The Paul Hogan Show

*The Paul Hogan Show*
The Paul Hogan Show
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Genre	Variety
Written by	Bill Harding; Paul Hogan
Directed by	Peter Faiman
Starring	Paul Hogan; John Cornell
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	12
Original release
Network	Seven Network (1973 – 1977); Nine Network (1978 – 1984)
Release	1973 –; 1984

The Paul Hogan Show aired on Australian television from 1973 until 1984. It made a star of Paul Hogan who later appeared in Crocodile Dundee. Hogan's friend and producer of Crocodile Dundee John Cornell, also appeared in the show, playing Hogan's dim flatmate Strop. The series also regularly featured attractive female models and actors in its sketches - frequently in revealing costumes. Television actor and presenter Delvene Delaney who later married Cornell, was the most frequent and best-known of these. Other women to appear in the series were Sue McIntosh, Anya Saleky and Abigail.

Episodes of the series generally opened with Hogan, playing a version of himself he called 'Hoges', presenting a stand-up comedy routine dressed in his bridge rigger's costume of boots, shorts, and shirt with sleeves cut off. The show then presented a series of comedy sketches, usually with Hogan in the lead role and playing various recurring characters, including a parody of famous comic book hero The Phantom, an inept daredevil stuntman Leo Wanker; television journalist George Fungus (inspired by real-life journalist George Negus); Nigel Lovelace, a skateboarding eleven year old; Super Dag, a Terrycloth-hat wearing, zinc-cream smeared bogan hero whose superpower is his ability to use his esky in innovative ways; silent films starring boozy vagrant Perc The Wino; Sgt Donger, the tough cop with a bionic beer-gut and Arthur Dunger, a pot-bellied caricature of the suburban tinny-chugging Australian male. Many of Hogan's sketches were parodies of contemporaneous TV shows, such as Mastermind (Thick 'Ead), Pot o'Gold (Pot o'Brass), Sale of the Century (Sale of the Week), and the Benny Hill and Hawaii Five-O-inspired (Benny Five'O). Another recurring sketch featured Hogan again playing "himself" as Hoges, depicting the character's situation of living the carefree bachelor life in a disorderly apartment with his flatmate Strop.

The show was very popular and was compared to Saturday Night Live and The Benny Hill Show. The series also became popular in the UK as a result of its scheduling within peak time on the new Channel 4 on launch in November 1982.

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