The Paul Hogan Show

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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 director 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 Hogan presenting a stand-up comedy routine and ostensibly playing himself 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, and inept daredevil stuntman Leo Wanker, along with send-ups of television journalists such as George Negus. 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.

The show was very popular and was compared to Saturday Night Live and Benny Hill.

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• List of Australian television series