Star Trot x 2

I'd seen "The Paul Hogan Show" version of "Star Trot", but this TV parody of "Star Trek" with the same name from the much earlier "Mavis Bramston Show" - another iconic Australian satirical sketch comedy series - and featuring Johnny Lockwood, later of "Number 96" fame. Very cool Youtube find!



Note that the captain calls one female officer "Number One", so it also drew from "The Menagerie" ("The Cage" being unknown in Australia in the 60s). The "Mavis Bramston Show" ran 1964-68, so it was sending up "Star Trek" as a then-current show.

Here's the "Paul Hogan Show" (late 70s/early 80s) version. It once received a write-up in "Starlog" magazine, long before Hogan became a household name in the USA. The skit uses the same Spock-in-the-elevator joke, not just the title of the old MBS skit:

Here's Johnny... at 90 - at "Number 96"!

Beloved and oh so familiar actors, James Elliott, Elisabeth Kirkby, Mike Dorsey, Philippa Baker, Jeff Kevin, Wendy Blacklock and Frances Hargreaves, surround Johnny Lockwood at his recent 90th birthday party, held in the Eva Breuer Gallery, 83 Moncur Street, Woollahra, the infamous building used as "Number 96" in the 70s soap opera.

Look carefully at Johnny's cake: the image in the icing is the front page photo from my website at www.number96.tv! Now that's very, very cool!



I'm a bit late with this "news". Thanks to blogger Tammy Tingles for the heads-up, and to "Woman's Day" (28 July 2010) for covering the celebration! There is a video clip at the "Woman's Day" website.


Top: James Elliott, Elisabeth Kirkby, Johnny Lockwood, Jeff Kevin and Philippa Baker.

Below right: Abigail hosting the TV special, "Number 96: And They Said It Wouldn't Last", in 1976.