Kingswood Country S01E12 Just A Giggolo

Ted Bulpitt's most precious possession is his Kingswood Holden car. He objects when his son, or his son-in-law, wants to

drive the car and keeps the keys hidden. He is also unimpressed with his daughter's choice of a husband. Ted's brother

is a sales representative for Datsun cars - something else which incurs Ted's disgust, as he feels that his brother

should only deal with Kingswood Holden cars.

While some condemned its racist and sexist humour, this was often simply a plot device to show the bigotry of the main

character, Edward Melba "Ted" Bullpitt (Ross Higgins), 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 and his worshipped

Holden Kingswood car (late in the show's run Ted traded-in the Kingswood, which had gone out of production around the

time the series began, for Holden's replacement mid-range family car, the Commodore). His long-suffering wife, the vague

and dithering Thelma (Judi Farr), was cast as a traditional housewife trapped by Ted's conservative family views, but

she often got her own back on Ted.

Humour was generated by the conflict of Ted's traditional views and his children's progressive nature. For example, his

son Craig (Peter Fisher) is portrayed as a sexually rampant medical student and is referred to as an "Al Grassby

Groupie", a reference to a progressive politician of the time. His daughter, Greta (Laurel McGowan), is portrayed

as a feminist and is married to Bruno (Lex Marinos), the son of Italian immigrants, to which Ted strongly objects (often

referring to him as a "bloody wog"). Other politically-incorrect humor includes Ted's references to Neville,

the concrete Aboriginal garden statue.

At other times, humour was based on the more traditional comedic methods of poorly thought-out schemes of Ted's

(usually get-rich-quick); class differences (between the suburban Bullpitts and Ted's upwardly-mobile sister-in-law

Merle) and simple misunderstandings leading to a chain of humorous events.

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Kingswood Country S01E12 Just A Giggolo

When Ted overhears Thel discussing some secret arrangment with a strange man, he jumps to the conclusion that she's

having an affair.

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