Lenny the Lion costume from The Bobo Show

For many children growing up in the 1960s in Australia, Bobo the Clown was a TV phenomenon. Bobo was ably assisted by Lenny the Lion, who wore this charmingly retro '60s costume. Hal Turner wore the clown suit and greasepaint as Bobo, while under the lion’s mane was his daughter, Gail Kelly, who helped her father on The Bobo Show from 1965 to 1967. The suit's simplicity would have worked on low-resolution TV screens, however rudimentary it may look today. More importantly, the costume is colourful, fun, recognisably a lion, and wouldn't have frightened Bobo's youngest fans during public appearances.

Hal Turner began performing in vaudeville theatre at just six years old. Having honed his craft on stage, he found himself in the right place at the right time when television arrived in Adelaide. Thanks to his growing popularity, Bobo soon became a radio host, a newspaper columnist, and even promoted his own cordial brand in lemon and lime flavours. After achieving success with NWS9, Turner switched to the new competitor SAS10, where The Bobo Show became the first program to be televised on the station in 1965.