Grahame John Bond AM (born 21 November 1943) is an Australian Bachelor Architecture, actor, writer, director, musician and composer, known primarily for his role as Aunty Jack.
[citation needed] Following the success of the 1967 Sydney University Architecture Revue "The Great Wall of Porridge",[citation needed] Bond and others (including Atherden and Weir) were invited to stage a professional revue for Producers Authors Composers and Talent (now PACT Centre for Emerging Artists) and Sydney's Cellblock Theatre at the National Art School, called Balloon Dubloon which (at the request of festival director Sir Robert Helpmann) was also staged at the Adelaide Festival.
[citation needed] In 1971, Peter Weir wrote and directed his first short feature film, a surreal black comedy called Homesdale with an ensemble cast that included rising actress Kate Fitzpatrick.
As well as writing many sketches and co-writing all the original music with Rory O'Donoghue, Bond played many recurring and occasional characters including Aunty Jack, rock'n'roll butcher Kev Kavanagh and nervous folk singer Errol.
The only surviving artefact of the erased program is the theme song for the "Leave It To Jesus" sketch, which was released in 2006 as a bonus track on the CD reissue of Aunty Jack Sings Wollongong.
As a result, the ABC was for many years unable to release The Aunty Jack Show to home video because Bond and O'Donoghue refused to agree to the licensing of their music rights over the series.
The missing episodes were found in the early 2000s, Bond and O'Donoghue reconciled with the ABC, and the complete, restored series of The Aunty Jack Show and Wollongong the Brave were released on DVD in 2005/2006.