| Basically Black | |
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| Genre | Sketch comedy |
| Directed by | Nicholas R. Parsons |
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| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 1 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Alan Morris |
| Producer(s) | Bill Munro |
| Running time | 28 minutes |
| Distributor | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | 7 July 1973 |
Basically Black is a 1973 Australian television comedy program, notable as the first television program written and created by Indigenous Australians.
A single half-hour of sketch comedy, the program was based on a satirical political revue of the same name by the National Black Theatre. It premiered on 7 July 1973 as part of a series of ABC comedy pilots, 'The Comedy Game'. Some elements of the original script had been censored by ABC.