RON BLASKETT & GERRY GEE
The Doughty Brothers worked with the great Ron Blaskett & Gerry Gee.
A GERRY GEE TARAX CLUB BADGE FROM THE LATE 1950's, EARLY 1960's
ron Edgar Bergen and I at the Chevron Hotel,Sydney.We received a whole page in 'The Listener In' for this stunt.
RON BLASKETT SADLY SOLD GERRY GEE AT AN ACTION AFTER HE RETIRED
ABOVE - PUBLICITY CARD
BELOW - SON PETER BLASKETT PERFORMS AT BORONIA MALL MANY YEARS AGO - CHRISTOPHER DOUGHTY ON RIGHT
BELOW - SON PETER BLASKETT PERFORMS AT BORONIA MALL MANY YEARS AGO - CHRISTOPHER DOUGHTY ON RIGHT
Peter Blaskett, son of Ron with his own show, Gerry Gee Junior. The Little Boy is Chris Doughty. Photograph taken at the Boronia Mall, Victoria, Australia
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Gerry Gee, Ron Blaskett, Susan Gay Anderson and King Corky.
A VERY YOUNG PATTI NEWTON WITH THE GREAT GERRY GEE
Ron Appearing in 1974 with Ernie Sigley.He said that he was great to work with and very co-operative.I had been over to Adelaide previously to work with him.My thoughts are with his wife Glenys coping with Ernies' illness.
Happy Hammond, Ron Blaskett and Gerry Gee with audience members during broadcasts of The Happy Show from the basement of Myer Melbourne.
GERALDINE GEE
Gerry Gee as a ventriloquist. Ron used a model aeroplane transmitter and servos to animate the Gerry Gee Jr.
Gerry Gee. And King Corky, King of the Kids (Geoff Corke)
GERALDINE GEE
The original Gerry Gee Junior doll with it's box
A very rare Gerry Gee hand puppet
Geraldine Gee Cow Girl
Geraldine Gee, Gerry Gee's Sister
Gerry Gee Junior Football mascot Doll
A nice colour photograph of Ron Blaskett and Gerry Gee.
Uncle Norman (Norman Swain) and Ron Blaskett with guests
To mark the Australian Tour of the Beatles in the early 1960s, a Beatle Gerry Gee Junior was produced.
Ron Blaskett and Gerry Gee enjoy a Tarax soft drink
Gerry Gee with Ron Blaskett live on GTV9 week days.
ABOVE - Other famous dolls with their pals
A wonderful early coloured photograph of Ron Blaskett and Gerry Gee
A classic publicity photo of Ron Blaskett and Gerry Gee. Gerry is sporting his Tarax Club membership badge on his blazer.
King Corky
Farmer Doll And Ron.
The Happy Club. - A regular entertainer, Stanley Stafford, who was once a jockey until he had a terrible accident which left him in a wheel chair for life.
Professer Nitwitty And Gerry.
Fan-Card Gerry Gee.& Ron
Rags-the-Dog & Ron
Geoff Corke Welcome.
Junior Dolls.
The Girl Next Door.
Uncle Norman Swain, Patti, Joffa and Ron
Joffa Boy, Patti, Uncle Norman, Susan Gaye Anderson, Gerry Gee and Ron.
TV Week Cover featuring Gerry Gee.
Happy Hammond, Gerry Gee and Ron Blaskett.
Tarax Show Birthday Card.
King Corky and Gerry.
Luna Park, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, late 1950's .
Ron and Gerry.
Tarax show at Myers basement Melbourne, Australia late 1950's.
Happy Show Publicity Picture in the late 1950's.
Happy Hammond, Gerry Gee and Ron in Myers Window, Melbourne, Australia in the 1950's.
Happy Show- Original Cast ion the late 1950's.
An early Patti McGrath Portrait.
TAA Junior Flyers Club.
Pioneering Australian ventriloquist Ron Blaskett, who appeared on The Tarax Show with his doll ‘Gerry Gee’, has died aged 96.
Blaskett performed with his doll on The Tarax Show, IMT and Young Talent Time, as well as making thousands of Live entertainment appearances such as the 1975 Toronto Expo, to cyclone victims in Darwin and Diggers in Vietnam.
Blaskett appeared on the GTV9’s Tarax Show from 1957 – 1964. Gerry Gee, imported from the US, cost £200 and was named after the “Gee” in the station’s name. It sold for $17,000 in 2006.
“My first impression when I saw Gerry Gee was one of disappointment,” he once recalled. “The slotted jaw, almond eyes and general modelling didn’t really grab me. Then as I started to work with him, although he seemed to weigh a ton on my arm, I realised the great expressions I could extract from him. One particularly good movement was the way his eyes could be rolled upward with a look of disgust. Not many figures have been made around the world with this ability. The fact that he could poke his tongue out was also an advantage — particularly for ice-cream commercials that came later. On trying him out on kids and adults, they liked his cheeky look and personality. Gerry Gee had certainly arrived.”
Blaskett performed with his doll on The Tarax Show, IMT and Young Talent Time, as well as making thousands of Live entertainment appearances such as the 1975 Toronto Expo, to cyclone victims in Darwin and Diggers in Vietnam.
Blaskett appeared on the GTV9’s Tarax Show from 1957 – 1964. Gerry Gee, imported from the US, cost £200 and was named after the “Gee” in the station’s name. It sold for $17,000 in 2006.
“My first impression when I saw Gerry Gee was one of disappointment,” he once recalled. “The slotted jaw, almond eyes and general modelling didn’t really grab me. Then as I started to work with him, although he seemed to weigh a ton on my arm, I realised the great expressions I could extract from him. One particularly good movement was the way his eyes could be rolled upward with a look of disgust. Not many figures have been made around the world with this ability. The fact that he could poke his tongue out was also an advantage — particularly for ice-cream commercials that came later. On trying him out on kids and adults, they liked his cheeky look and personality. Gerry Gee had certainly arrived.”
