Bony (series)
- Production country: Australia, Germany
- Creator: Reg Watson
- Production companies: Seven Network
- Genre: Drama, Crime
- Release date: 8/15/1992
- Release date of last episode: 12/19/1992
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 13
- Run time: 60 min.
Series description
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, under the tutelage of "Uncle Albert", an elderly Aborigine (Burnham Burnham). 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.