Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
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Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

5.6 / 10
1968
3 seasons
91 episodes
Family

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.

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Cast

Seasons

  • Poachers

    1.Poachers

    05-02-1968

    Sonny, Mark and Jerry investigate an expensive game fishing cruiser with three men aboard after Skippy and Sonny came across men trapping animals in the bush at night. Swimming out...

  • Sports Car Rally

    2.Sports Car Rally

    09-05-1968

    An invasion of sports cars threatens the life of protected fauna in Waratah National Park, but when Matt leads a rescue squad to save the life of a driver pinned under his car in a...

  • The Golden Reef

    3.The Golden Reef

    16-05-1968

    Skin-diving geologists discover aluvial gold on a reef at Seal Rocks, in the mouth of the Flinders River. Thieves move in armed with deadly spear guns, and once again Matt, Sonny a...

  • Long Way Home

    4.Long Way Home

    23-05-1968

    Dr. Alexander Stark is determined to have Skippy for his private zoo. When Matt Hammond refuses to sell at any price, Stark has two of his henchman steal the kangaroo and she begin...

  • Cage of Koalas

    5.Cage of Koalas

    30-05-1968

    A research scientist who is to study marsupial wildlife at Waratah National Park turns out to be an attractive young woman. Her methods anger Chief Ranger Matt Hammond and she has...

  • The Lyre Bird

    6.The Lyre Bird

    06-06-1968

    Sonny makes a new friend Lisa, a young ballerina. Together they find an aged Botanist who has been missing in Waratah National Park and, with Skippy's help, bring about his rescue.

  • Dead or Alive

    7.Dead or Alive

    13-06-1968

    A mysterious disease threatens to wipe out all animals in Waratah National Park, and evidence points to Skippy as the carrier. Sonny is heartbroken at the possibility of losing Ski...

  • The Marine Biologist

    8.The Marine Biologist

    20-06-1968

    Mark is unhappy when his father, Matt Hammond, tells him to accompany a marine biologist who wants to collect underwater specimens. But his misery turns to delight when he discover...

  • No Time For Clancy

    9.No Time For Clancy

    27-06-1968

    Matt Hammond is faced with a human problem when one of his rangers moves to a new nature reserve up north, taking his wife and sons but leaving his daughter Clancy, who has exams p...

  • Time and Tide

    10.Time and Tide

    04-07-1968

    While working on a project for Dr Steiner, Clancy encounters trouble and is in risk of drowning when her leg becomes trapped underwater.

  • Can You Keep A Secret?

    11.Can You Keep A Secret?

    11-07-1968

    Sonny takes Clancy to his secret hideout where the pair are taken hostage by an escaped convict. Skippy brings help and jumps on the convict, allowing Sonny to get free of his clut...

  • The Swagman

    12.The Swagman

    18-07-1968

    An old tramp, Trundle, looking for odd jobs, fascinates Sonny with tales of adventure. However, Matt Hammond believes the stories are figments of Trundle's imagination and consider...

  • The Honeymooners

    13.The Honeymooners

    25-07-1968

    When the greedy wife of a rich husband tries to trap Skippy, wanting her skin for a fur coat, Sonny finds himself locked in the cabin of a speeding cruiser, with no-one but Skippy...

  • Many Happy Returns

    14.Many Happy Returns

    01-08-1968

    Sonny's birthday wish comes true — a ride in the helicopter, but not the way he expects. While flying over Sydney, Flight Ranger Jerry King collapses, leaving Sonny alone with the...

  • My Best Friend

    15.My Best Friend

    02-08-1968

    Sonny paints a picture of Skippy for his art class but before he mails it in, Mark replaces it with a 'better' one he made to help Sonny get a better grade. Sharing Mark's good int...

  • When the Bough Breaks

    16.When the Bough Breaks

    08-08-1968

    Skippy rescues a baby from drowning when the child's pram rolls into the river. Skippy alerts Sonny who brings the baby back to the house just as Matt, Jerry, and Mark are leaving...

  • The Waratah Festival

    17.The Waratah Festival

    09-08-1968

    A diamond thief loses a valuable necklace while on the run from the police in the park. The thief sees Skippy find it and places it in her pouch and follows her back to the ranger...

  • Summer Storm

    18.Summer Storm

    15-08-1968

    Ranger Headquarters is cut off by a violent storm as Matt Hammond lies poisoned by a snakebite. The phone line is down, the radio is not working, the serum is lost in the creek, th...

  • The Rustlers

    19.The Rustlers

    16-08-1968

    Sonny, helped by Skippy, takes a job with a team of sheep shearers, not knowing they are rustlers, to earn money to buy a birthday present for his father. His absence from home put...

  • Double Trouble

    20.Double Trouble

    22-08-1968

    Matt Hammond's boss and a government Senator decide to sack him after it appears that Matt has run their car off the road and threatened them. It transpires that Dr. Stark has hire...

  • Trapped

    21.Trapped

    23-08-1968

    Dr Stark sends an operative into the park to collect a rare ant-eater specimen using a special gas-emitting camera. Clancy stumbles across the collector and is temporarily paralyse...

  • They're Singing Me Back

    22.They're Singing Me Back

    29-08-1968

    Aboriginal warriors come to Waratah National Park to claim a run-away tribal girl. Head Ranger Matt Hammond defies their spears, convinces the elder that the girl's great talent fo...

  • Tara (1)

    23.Tara (1)

    30-08-1968

    Sonny and Skippy discover the hidden entrance to a remote valley, thought to be inaccessible and uninhabited. There Sonny makes friends with an old Aboriginal living alone, whose t...

  • Tara (2)

    24.Tara (2)

    05-09-1968

    Matt locates Mr Judd, the businessman whose life Tara saved, hoping he will help bring in people from Tara's tribe who will have the ability to free Tara from death.

  • Surf King

    25.Surf King

    06-09-1968

    While Park Ranger Matt Hammond and Clancy are busy fighting a bush fire, Jerry makes a gallant attempt to win the Bondi Surf Championship — despite having just sustained serious in...

  • The Runaway

    26.The Runaway

    12-09-1968

    A young runaway holds Mark and Jerry at gunpoint demanding to be flown out of the park. Skippy leaps to the rescue and the boy flees on foot only to go over a ravine. Jerry risks h...

  • The Last Chance

    27.The Last Chance

    13-09-1968

    An aging film star attempts a comeback on a new movie being filmed in the National Park. When Skippy inserts herself into a scene, a new star is born — much to the annoyance of the...

  • No Trespassers

    28.No Trespassers

    19-09-1968

    Skippy stumbles on a secret boxing training camp illegally set up in Waratah National Park. A young champion, Rocky Miller, takes a forbidden joy ride in the helicopter with Jerry...

  • Mayday (1)

    29.Mayday (1)

    20-09-1968

    Flight Ranger Jerry King breaks Waratah Park regulations when a helicopter flight is the only way he can keep a date with his girlfriend, Babs. A dramatic crash results — and Skipp...

  • Mayday (2)

    30.Mayday (2)

    26-09-1968

    Two Crash Detectives investigate Jerry's helicopter accident and are unable to substantiate his story of going off course to check on a bushfire. Skippy and Sonny head off to find...

  • Date in Dalmar

    31.Date in Dalmar

    27-09-1968

    With Sonny Hammond as a hostage and a rifle pointed at Head Ranger Matt Hammond's head, bank robber Keeler forces Matt to drive him from Waratah National Park to keep his rendezvou...

  • The Empty Chair

    32.The Empty Chair

    04-10-1968

    Sonny travels to Sydney to persuade his friend Mr Trundle (alias Miles Vincent Archer) to return temporarily to his desk as chairman of a vast corporation and reverse the board's d...

  • Ten Little Visitors

    33.Ten Little Visitors

    03-10-1968

    Sonny and Skippy become guides for foreign children stopping at Waratah National Park while touring Australia.

  • Aunt Evelyn

    34.Aunt Evelyn

    10-10-1968

    When Aunt Evelyn comes to Waratah National Park determined to persuade Head Ranger Matt Hammond that he should put his younger boy Sonny in boarding school in Sydney. Sonny and Ski...

  • The Bushrangers

    35.The Bushrangers

    11-10-1968

    Alone at Ranger Headquarters, Jerry is overpowered by burglars who take everything movable. Later, Sonny and Skippy come across a group wearing Ned Kelly armour entering a cave. So...

  • Man From Space

    36.Man From Space

    17-10-1968

    Sonny has been placed in charge of an automatic recording unit deep in the bush of Waratah National Park, supervised by his father, Chief Ranger Matt Hammond. While servicing the b...

  • Be Our Guest

    37.Be Our Guest

    18-10-1968

    Thrown from her horse deep in the bush of Waratah National Park, Clancy is hopelessly lost and her mother is due at Ranger Headquarters to see how Head Ranger Matt Hammond has been...

  • The Long Night

    38.The Long Night

    24-10-1968

    A pair of industrial spies, on the trail of a secret roll of microfilm, masquerade as detectives and try to cover their tracks by accusing Mark of a hit-and-run accident. Only Skip...

  • View Matt

    39.View Matt

    31-10-1968

    Overhearing the doctor tell Matt that he ought to marry again, Sonny tries his hand at matchmaking when he answers lonely hearts advertisements in Matt's name — and has to face the...

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