In 1943 Hunter appeared in the London West End Lyric Theatre production of the musical revue Flying Colours, co-starring with Binnie Hale and Douglas Byng.
His other BBC shows included All the Fun of the Fair, Ensa's Over to You, and Starlight, Navy Mixture, Music-Hall, Variety Bandbox, Monday Night at Eight, Up and Doing, Round the Halls, Scrapbook For 1925, Dance Cabaret, Canadian Capers, Du Barry Was a Lady, and the music comedy programme Big Time with Arthur Askey and Florence Desmond, which was first aired on 15 February 1942 on the BBC Forces Programme.
[5] On 1 July the same year he appeared, billed as 'the Canadian Comedian', in BBC TV programme Variety, which included the 14-year-old Petula Clark, broadcast from the Golders Green Hippodrome.
He repeated his appearance on Variety twice in January the following year, and in December 1948, billed as 'The one-man BBC', starred twice in his own show Melody and Mirth.
[2] On 26 July 1948 he appeared in a variety bill at the London Casino which was reviewed by The Billboard: "Jackie Hunter got off to a slow start but reached a high pitch with an imaginary poker game.