The Daryl and Ossie Show

The Daryl and Ossie Show

Company type	Television program
Industry	Television entertainment
Founded	1978
Founder	Daryl Somers, Ernie Carroll
Headquarters	Melbourne , Australia
Area served	Melbourne, Australia
Key people	Daryl Somers, Ernie Carroll, Monique Daams, Betty Bobbitt, Reg Grundy (producer)
Products	Comedy game show

The Daryl and Ossie Show was an Australian comedy game show with a brief run, broadcast in 1978 on Melbourne's Channel 0. The program was hosted by Daryl Somers, alongside the puppet character Ossie Ostrich (performed by Ernie Carroll), model Monique Daams, and actor-comedian Betty Bobbitt. Produced by Reg Grundy, it was developed as a successor to Blankety Blanks.

Following five years of hosting the Saturday morning children's program Hey Hey It's Saturday, Somers and Carroll did not continue with the show in 1978. Instead, they created a one-hour evening special titled The Daryl and Ossie Special, which aired on 10 May on Channel 9. This special included appearances by Chelsea Brown, The Echoes, and psychic Kevin Arnett. It was reportedly scheduled quickly as part of Channel 9’s plan to present six to eight specials annually starring the duo.

After departing from Nine Network, Somers and Carroll accepted an offer from the 0-10 Network to host a program intended to fill the slot left by Graham Kennedy’s Blankety Blanks. Inspired by the UK’s popular Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game, The Daryl and Ossie Show was broadcast exclusively in Melbourne. Despite launching with minimal advertising, the show soon experienced low viewership. Although there were plans for a Sydney broadcast, it ultimately remained limited to Melbourne.

In October 1978, announcements indicated that the daily 7 pm airing would end after 3 November, with plans to reformat the show into a one-hour Sunday edition for the next year. Somers expressed challenges in sustaining daily production quality and cited fatigue as a factor. The series was eventually cancelled before the end of 1978, leading Somers and Carroll back to Nine’s Hey Hey It's Saturday in 1979.

A 1992 profile of Somers highlighted this short-lived and unsuccessful period at Channel 0, which is notably omitted from his official career history.

Nine episodes of The Daryl and Ossie Show have been archived within the National Film and Sound Archive.