Up The Convicts

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = | image_upright = | image_size = | caption = | alt_name = | native_name =  | genre = | creator = | based_on = | developer = | writer = Hugh Stuckey | screenplay = | story = | director = | creative_director = | presenter = | starring = {{Plainlist| *Frankie Howerd *Frank Thring *Wallas Eaton *Carol Raye *Lee Young}} | voices = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = | country = Australia | language = English | num_seasons = 1  | num_episodes = 4 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = | location = | cinematography = | animator = | editor = | camera =  | runtime = 50 minutes | company = | budget = | network = ATN-7 | first_aired = {{Start date|1976|2|18}} | last_aired = {{End date|1976|8|8}} }}

'''''Up The Convicts''''' is an Australian comedy television series that aired on Channel 7 in 1976. It starred Frankie Howerd as a convict in Botany Bay in the 18th century.<ref>{{Citation | last= Plummer | first= Dale | title=Sydney's early convict days never funnier | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 15 February 1976}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last= Glover | first= Richard | title= Up the convicts! When a tour Downunder was a comedian's last gasp | url= https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/up-the-convicts-when-a-tour-downunder-was-a-comedian-s-last-gasp-20210608-p57z4b.html | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 11 June 2021}}</ref> There was four episodes, each billed as specials.<ref>{{cite web |last= McCann |first= Graham |date= 12 June 2022 |title= An Englishman abroad: Frankie Howerd's Commonwealth comedies |url= https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/comedy_chronicles/frankie-howerd-commonwealth-comedies/ |website= British Comedy Guide |location= |publisher= |access-date= 18 July 2025}}</ref> It was a similar style of show as Howerd's ''Up Pompeii!''.<ref>{{Citation | last= | first= | title= Behind the funny face | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 15 December 1975}}</ref>

==Cast== *Frankie Howerd as Jonathan Shirk *Frank Thring as Sergeant Bastion *Wallas Eaton as Sir Montague Fitzgibbon *Carol Raye as Lady Fitzgibbon *Lee Young as Quinney *Abigail as Charlotte *Kate Fitzpatrick *Anne Lambert as Gladys *Jacki Weaver as Emily *Crystal Redenko as Dapne *Patrick Ward as Roger *Arna-Maria Winchester

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0074067|title=Up The Convicts}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Up The Convicts}} Category:1976 Australian television series debuts Category:1976 Australian television series endings Category:1970s Australian comedy television series Category:English-language Australian television shows