Basically Black
Basically Black is a 1973 Australian television comedy program, notable as the first television program written and created by Indigenous Australians. It was produced as one of a series of pilot programs called The Comedy Game.
| Basically Black | |
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| Genre | Sketch comedy |
| Directed by | Nicholas R. Parsons |
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| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 1 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Alan Morris |
| Producer | Bill Munro |
| Running time | 28 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | 7 July 1973 |
A single half-hour of sketch comedy, the program was based on a satirical political revue of the same name by the National Black Theatre that had been performed at the Nimrod Theatre in Sydney the previous year.
It premiered on 7 July 1973 as part of a series of ABC Television comedy pilots, The Comedy Game. Some elements of the original script had been censored by Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and it was described by Gary Foley as a "politically watered-down" version of the stage show.
The pilot was deemed a success, but the ABC did not proceed with creating a series from it.