The Paul Hogan Show

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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
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	12
Broadcast
Original channel	Seven Network (1973 – 1977) Nine Network (1978 – 1984)
Original run	1973 – 1984
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The Paul Hogan Show aired on Australian television from 1973 until 1984. It made a star out of Paul Hogan who later appeared in Crocodile Dundee. Hogan's friend and producer of Crocodile Dundee John Cornell, also appeared in the show, as 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 opened with Paul Hogan presenting a stand-up comedy routine and ostensibly playing himself, Hoges, 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, a boozy vagrant, 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 and zinc clad bogan hero whose superpower is his ability to use his esky in innovative ways, as well as boozy vagrant Arthur Dunger. Many of Hogan's sketches sent up contemporary TV shows, such as Pot o'Gold (Pot o'Brass), Sale of the Century (Sale of the Week), and Hawaii Five-O (Benny Five'O). The latter show featured a guest appearance by UK television comedian Benny Hill. Another recurring sketch featured Hogan again playing "himself", depicting the character's situation of living the carefree life of a bachelor in a disorderly house with dim flatmate Strop.