Green’s Dictionary of Slang

knobbly-knee n.

[rhy. sl.]

1. a key.

[UK]R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit.
[UK]B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.

2. (Aus.) a television, i.e. TV, thus a television show.

J. Byrell Liars, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 227: And she’d starred as an extraterrestrial sheila in eight episodes of that grand old knobbly, ‘Dr Who’.