Bony

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Bony (TV series)

Bony is an Australian television series made in 1992. The series of 13 episodes followed on from a telemovie made in 1990. The series was criticised for casting a white man (Cameron Daddo) as the title character Detective David John Bonaparte (Bony), under the tutelage of "Uncle Albert", an elderly Aborigine played by Burnum Burnum. Bony was supposed to be a descendent of the Bony character created by Arthur Upfield in dozens of novels from the late 1920s until his death in 1964.

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Pilot

The pilot movie to the series aired in 1990. It concerned Bony investigating an attempted rape allegation.

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Bony (character)

Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) is a half Aboriginal, half-white detective character created by Arthur Upfield. Bony appeared in dozens of Upfield's novels from the late 1920s until the author's death in 1964.

Early life

His white father is unknown and his Aboriginal mother was murdered while he was still an infant. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Brisbane University.

Career

He is a member of the Queensland police force, although the novels are set throughout Australia.

Bony often works undercover, usually as a station hand or labourer, with only a few senior police aware of his true identity. He frequently uses the alias Nat Bonnar, but other names such as Robert Burns are used also. He often states that "my friends call me Bony".

He has an unblemished record of solving cases, and he is sometimes lent out by the Queensland Criminal Investigation Department(CID) to other jurisdictions that experience a murder unsolvable by the local authorities.

Bony is a tracker without peer, often seeing what other and lesser trackers have missed.