In Season One, Grahame ("Aunty Jack") and Rory ("Thin Arthur") co-starred with actors Sandra MacGregor and John Derum (respectively playing the recurring characters "Flange Desire" and "Narrator Neville"). The four lead actors played the roles of Aunty Jack and her sidekicks in a series of sketches and link pieces, as well as playing many other unrelated characters. Derum left the show after Season 1 to pursue other work and he was replaced for Season 2 by actor-comedian-musician Garry McDonald ("Kid Eager"). McDonald subsequently enjoyed enormous solo success as Norman Gunston, an awkward and charmless regional TV presenter (created by series writer Wendy Skelcher) who made a brief first appearance in a Season 2 episode of Aunty Jack. In collaboration with writer Geoffrey Atherden, McDonald took the character to national stardom in Australia in the late 1970s.
