"Kingswood Country" (1980) TV series 1980-1984

User Rating:

9.0/10   

Creators:

Gary Reilly
Tony Sattler

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | unknown

Release Date:

30 January 1980 (Australia)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Ted Bulpitt's most precious possession is his Kingswood Holden car. He objects when his son, or his son-in-law...

Plot Keywords:

Humor | Sitcom

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Ross Higgins

...

Ted Bulpitt / ... (69 episodes, 1979-1984)

Runtime:

25 min (89 episodes)

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

ATN-7 Studios, Mobbs Lane, Epping, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company:

7 Network

Trivia:

The fictional address of the Bullpitt home is 14 Wombat Crescent, Goanna Heights, New South Wales.

Quotes:

Ted Bullpitt: Somebody should blow those kids up.

Movie Connections:

Spin off from "The Naked Vicar Show" (1977)

"Leave your money on the fridge, wog!"

Streets ahead of its time, Kingswood Country was the Antipodean version of 'Love Thy Neighbour', its central character a self-centred, penny-pinching, sexist bigot with a penchant for surly diatribes, his wife a long-suffering but slightly backward housewife, and his son-in-law - much to Ted's disgust - an ethnic Australian. It summed up Australian men of the period (and, thankfully to a lesser extent, today) incisively and helped them come to grips with exactly how ugly and unreasonable many of their views and behaviours were.

Ross Higgins' Ted was both the source of the humour and the target of the satire. His fondness for all things nominally Australian - like the Commodore car and 'Neville the concrete Aboriginal' - was hammered home relentlessly. But while he was a patriot of admirable fervour, he was a lousy husband, a terrible father, a racist son-in-law and a suspicious, conniving neighbour. Few Australians were this bad, of course, but the beauty of Ted Bullpit being such an unappealling buffoon was that he usually received his come-uppance in every episode (without learning any lesson, of course). The whole thing was simply good fun, and doubtless showed some people how not to behave.