The Comedy Game


The Comedy Game is an Australian television comedy anthology series that aired in 1971 and 1973 on ABC. The new comedies screened in the series were seen as possible pilots for a full television series.
The episodes led to the series Our Man in Canberra in 1971, A Nice Day at the Office in 1972, The [Aunty Jack Show] in 1972, Flash Nick From Jindivick in 1974 and Scattergood: Friend of All in 1975.

Season 1 (1971)

A Nice Day at the Office

Aired 2 November 1971, 25 November. By Marcus Cooney and John Brendan. Plot: Harvey and Crisp work in the filing section of a government office.
Aired 9 November 1971, 2 December. The story of newlyweds George and Peggy Trump and their friends Gordon Bates and Leonard Cartaris. Produced by Maurice Murphy.
Aired 16 November 1971, 16 December. By John O'Grady.
  • Jeff Ashby as Humphrey Sullivan
  • Robyn Nevin as Kate Sullivan
  • Walter Sullivan as The Minister
  • Fred "Cul" Cullen as Fred Larkin
  • Delore Whiteman as Mrs Wheeler
  • John Meillon as Lift Mechanic

    Gaudeamus Igitur

Aired 23 December 1971. By Jenny Wager. A university department has had no professors or students for thirty years.
Aired 9 December 1971.
Aired 7 December 1971, 30 December 1971. Writers include Geoffrey Atherdon Graham Bond, Sherman Merlick, Peter Weir. Music and lyrics by Bond and Rory O'Donoghue.
Aired 14 December 1971, by Michael Aitkins. Arthur Potter is an out of work young man.
This series was produced by Bill Munro.

Fat Max

Aired 19 May 1973. By John O'Grady. About a 40 year old bachelor.
Aired 26 May 1973. By John Dingwall. Set in a drivers pool at a city newspaper's office.
Aired 9 June 1973, 23 June 1973 at 7:30 pm, 7 November. Episode consisted of three separate plays, written by three different writers, satirising the human condition. By Maurice Wiltshire, Ray Biehler, Arthur Sherman.
Aired 30 June 1973.
Aired 16 June and 23 June 1973, 14 and 21 Nov. By Grahame Bond.
Aired 2 June 1973.
Basically Black was the first television program written and created by Indigenous Australians, and starred: