Editing Rod Hull (section)

===Australia ===
Hull moved to Australia in 1956.<ref>{{citation |title=This Is Your Life - Rod Hull - 3rd February 1983 VHSRip UK | date=28 January 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbqBl5QQquQ&t=626 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/VbqBl5QQquQ |archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live |language=en |access-date=2019-11-30}}{{cbignore}}</ref>  His first job in television was as a lighting technician with [[TCN Channel 9]] in [[Sydney]].<ref name="screen"/> He then began appearing on air, including as Constable Clot in Channel 9's ''Kaper Kops'' with [[Reg Gorman]] and [[Desmond Tester]], a regular segment in its children's afternoon programming. Clot proved popular and soon gained his own segment, ''Clot in the Clouds'', which depicted him daydreaming about having other professions, such as a world-famous brain surgeon, 'Blood Clot.'

Later he worked with Marilyn Mayo as co-host of a children's breakfast TV programme, ''[[Super Flying Fun Show|The Super Flying Fun Show]]'', playing a wacky character named 'Caretaker Clot,' an extension of his ''Kaper Cops'' role. Hull first used Emu as a puppet in this show. There are conflicting reports as to how this came about. The 2003 [[Channel 4]] documentary ''Rod Hull: A Bird in the Hand'' states that "In fact, Emu was a Channel Nine creation".<ref>{{Citation |title=Rod Hull: A Bird in the Hand | date=24 April 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbeISqjKM4k |access-date=2024-03-11 |language=en}}</ref> Other sources cite a Channel Nine producer, Jim Badger, who said that he had requested a reluctant Hull to use Emu.<ref name="screen"/> Hull claimed full authorship of Emu, saying, "Sure I found him in a cupboard, but I had put him there in the first place. I concocted him, nobody else."<ref name="screen"/>  The bird subsequently became a regular part of Hull's set on cabarets back in the United Kingdom and Australia.