‘Jocko’s’ back

Press, 29 June 1983, Page 11

‘Jocko’s’ back

Bruce Allpress returns as Jocko, the drifter stockhand with his own unorthodox remedy for life’s little problems, in a new series of that name beginning on One this evening. Jocko’s uncanny sense of self-preservation and impish humour are given full reign when he and his old crony China are caught up in the happenings of a small country town. Their wanderings are temporarily interrupted when Jocko’s battered old truck breaks down in the sleepy hollow of Middleborough. He and China drop in as uninvited guests on an old friend, the landlord of the local hostelry . . . In tonight’s episode, “Nine Points of the Law,” Jocko finds out to his cost that possession is certainly that during his first encounter with the local landowner. Mark DeFriest, the Canadian who produced the first series of “Jocko,” as well as the one-off drama “High Country” in which the character of Jocko first appeared, is also the producer of this second series. DeFriest had only just finished post-production work on the series when he left for Australia.