Kingswood Country

Kingswood Country is an Australian sitcom that screened from 1980 to 1984 on the Seven Network. The series started on 30 January 1980 and was a spin-off from a sketch on comedy program The Naked Vicar Show that had featured Ross Higgins as a blustering bigot. It was produced by RS Productions. While some condemned its racist and sexist humour, this was often simply a plot device to show and mock the bigotry of the main character, Edward Melba "Ted" Bullpitt , a white Australian, conservative, bigoted, Holden Kingswood-loving putty factory worker and WWII veteran who recalls his difficult... childhood in ever more exaggerated ways. He lives for three things: his beloved chair in front of the TV, his unsuccessful racing greyhounds Repco Lad & Gae Akubra and his worshipped Holden Kingswood car . His long-suffering wife, the vague and dithering Thelma , was cast as a traditional housewife trapped by Ted's conservative family views, but she often got her own back on Ted.
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