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Does anyone else ever remember him getting some kind of partner at some point or am I thinking of another show. I'm pretty sure it was this big dude with bleach blonde hair, I think he used to do battery commercials. Wasn't his name Jack-O or something? Please let me know if you remember anything.

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Yes I do remember him, he had the more streamlined truck, he was an australian aussie rules player or something, who used to advertise energizer batteries and at the end of every advert he used to yell out Oi!!

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That's right. Mark Jackson is his name. And everyone knows him from the very brief Energizer battery commercials he did at the same time he starred in Highwayman. Why Jackson's not listed on this site as a main player, Highwayman's partner JACKO, is beyond my ken. Perhaps he was only in the last few of the 9 or 10 episodes of this great show.

Accord to The Simpson's episode about Australian corporal punishment, Jackson lost favour with American audiences right about the time that all things Australian became distasteful. Right after Paul Hogan reprised his role in Crocodile Dundee II. :)



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Here you go:

http://www.whom.co.uk/whom/highwaym.htm

Just seen 'Road Ranger' (1st ep after the pilot according to this site) and he was in that ..... have to see if he's in the rest of the early ones or just an occasional character till later on in the series, as I only got the disks yesterday :-)

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Here is the link to IMDB's Highwayman TV series page, which features Mark Jackson's credits.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094479

Having two different listings is rather confusing. I guess Terror on the Blacktop was the pilot or was it just a stand-alone episode without Jackson?


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Hmmmm .... think Terror on the Blacktop was the pilot and was kinda classed as a movie, before the series started the following year ...

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thanks for all the info guys, good to know I wasn't imagining that dude.

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I think his character name on the show was "Jeddo". I remember on the credits it said: "Jacko as Jeddo"

"Oh my God, what happened?" "I don't know man, I just got here myself..." - Jim Goose

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It was Mark "Jacko" Jackson as Jetto. Sam Jones was the only original cast member from the original movie to appear in the series. Jetto and the others were introduced for the series. I've had a few episodes on VHS for a few years and just finally got the missing ones on DVD, woo-hoo!

As a kid, I loved Jetto.

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