and Private Place" by Alan Bradley mentions an Aunt Sally in a traveling fair at an English country village in the early 1950s. In music "The Wheel and the Maypole" by XTC: "I've got the seed if you've got the valley I've got the big stick if you've Aunt Sally's head" In television In Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages Series 3 (September 2016), Keith visits Hook Norton in Oxfordshire. While there, she spoke to people about Aunt Sally and showed numerous people playing the game. Old footage of David Cameron playing the game was included. Aunt Sally also featured on the BBC Countryfile programme in August 2013. In the season 1 premiere episode of the UK TV series House of Cards (1990), journalist Mattie Storin – in her first conversation with the Chief Whip, Francis Urquhart – confirms she understands Francis' explanation of how newly elected Prime Minister Henry Collingridge is being used as a pawn and set up to take a fall by calling the PM an Aunt Sally Aunt Sally is played in the British detective television series Midsomer Murders in episode 5 of series 4, "Dark Autumn", and episode 1 of series 22, “The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy” Aunt Sally appears as a character, portrayed by Una Stubbs, in the television adaptation of the children's series Worzel Gummidge, produced by Southern Television for ITV, which was adapted from Todd's books, from 1979 to 1981, and in the sequel/spin-off series Worzel Gummidge Down Under; she is a fairground doll of the type used as a target for throwing competitions but nevertheless considers herself to be of a superior class to Worzel, a scarecrow, and her frustrated suitor. Vicki Pepperdine also portrayed the same character, who is portrayed more closely to the Aunt Sally of the original novels, and is Worzel's aunt as opposed to being his (one-sided) crush, in the 2019 BBC adaptation of Todd's books, Worzel Gummidge. In video games In the Frostpunk expansion The Last Autumn, workers can be seen playing a game of Aunt Sally with a doll in a bowler hat, a reference to one of their foremen. In politics In the Saville Report about Bloody Sunday (1972), Judge Saville suggested that lieutenant Colonel Derek Wilford "wanted to demonstrate the way to deal with rioters in Derry was not for soldiers to shelter behind barricades like (as he put it) Aunt Sallies while being