 It referenced many Australian club and TV entertainment genres including the RSL club circuit, and vintage television programs in the sport, variety, quiz, talk and music genres.The intertextual and subversive nature of the humour was evidenced by the title.The program ran for two series of 28 episodes each under the title "Club Buggery" and it then was retitled as "The Channel Nine Show" (retaining the same basic format) for a further series of ten episodes in 1998.