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Jim Burnett Jim Burnett i(A21289 works by)
Born: Established: 1947 Battersea, London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Captain Bloody Grahame Bond , Jim Burnett , 1984 Z850214 1984 single work musical theatre

'Captain Bloody is an Australian musical comedy by Grahame Bond and Jim Burnett.

It concerns a young gynaecologist, Eric Blood, whose closet fantasy is to be Errol Flynn. He finds out about a club, Heroes Anonymous, where people can live out their fantasies without hurting anyone, run by a man who thinks he is Winston Churchill.

Captain Bloody opened at the Footbridge Theatre in Sydney on 1 May 1984 and ran to 23 June 1984, produced by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and Dunsinane Enterprises. It then played a short season at the Canberra Theatre from 3-7 July 1984. The cast included Bond, Arky Michael, Elizabeth Lord, John O'Connell, Greg Stone and George Washingmachine. A Melbourne season played at the Princess Theatre from March 1985.

The Sydney Morning Herald described the musical as "a Boys Own adventure, slightly bent but harmless enough. It features snappy dance routines, excellent music, and jokes about police corruption and Young Liberals are kept to a tasteful minimum."Bond reflected that Captain Bloody "did well in Sydney but was savaged in Melbourne". (Source website)
1 2 y separately published work icon Boy's Own McBeth : A Really Rotten Tragedy Grahame Bond , Jim Burnett , 1979 (Manuscript version)x401044 Z284330 1979 single work musical theatre humour
1 form y separately published work icon The Tea Ladies Grahame Bond , Jim Burnett , Don Catchlove , ( dir. Maurice Murphy ) Australia : Lyle McCabe Productions Paradine Productions , 1978 Z1821414 1978 series - publisher film/TV humour

As Moran notes in his Guide to Australian TV Series, this was (like other productions of the same period, including Are You Being Served? and Father, Dear Father) an importation of a British concept: unlike the other programs, however, this was based on a concept for which William Stewart had produced a pilot, but that had never been picked up for production.

The series revolved around tea ladies working in Parliament House, Canberra. Moran notes that 'The short series made at ATV Channel 0 in Melbourne cost $500 000. Each episode was aired almost immediately after studio shooting and was screened at 8:30pm to small audiences with almost no reviews.'
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