Skippy the Bush Kangaroo - Complete Series - 14-DVD Box Set ( Skippy )

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo - Complete Series - 14-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Skippy
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
2273 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Eric Fullilove
Max Varnel

Written By:
Lee Robinson
Ross Napier

Actors:
Ed Devereaux ..... Matt Hammond / ... (70 episodes, 1968-1970)
Garry Pankhurst ..... Sonny Hammond (70 episodes, 1968-1970)
Ken James ..... Mark Hammond (69 episodes, 1968-1970)
Tony Bonner ..... Jerry King / ... (67 episodes, 1968-1970)
Skippy ..... Himself / ... (55 episodes, 1968-1970)
Liza Goddard ..... Clancy Merrick / ... (52 episodes, 1968-1970)
Elke Neidhart ..... Dr. Anna Steiner / ... (27 episodes, 1968)
John Warwick ..... Sir Adrian Gillespie / ... (7 episodes, 1968-1970)
Hector ..... Emu (5 episodes, 1968-1969)
Deryck Barnes ..... Dr. Morton / ... (4 episodes, 1968-1969)
Tom Farley ..... Jefferson Judd / ... (4 episodes, 1968-1970)
Reg Evans ..... Fred / ... (3 episodes, 1968-1970)
Lex Mitchell ..... Hogwell / ... (3 episodes, 1968-1970)
Walter Sullivan ..... Det. Jefferson / ... (3 episodes, 1968-1969)
Gerry Duggan ..... Mr. Trundle / ... (3 episodes, 1968-1969)
Willie Fennell ..... Ernie / ... (3 episodes, 1968-1969)
Patrick McCarville ..... Jake / ... (3 episodes, 1968-1969)
Howard Vernon ..... Businessman / ... (3 episodes, 1968-1969)
Frank Thring ..... Dr. Stark / ... (3 episodes, 1968)
Reg Gorman ..... Jim Nelson / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Candy Devine ..... Moona (2 episodes, 1968)
Noel Brophy ..... Patrick Duffy / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Slim DeGrey ..... Charlie / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Harry Carpenter ..... Old One (2 episodes, 1968)
John Armstrong ..... Baker / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1970)
Colin Croft ..... Beazley / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1970)
Jim Bowles ..... Bookmaker / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Reg Collins ..... Fergus / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Jeanie Drynan ..... Dulcie Condon / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Edward Hepple ..... Ben / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Don Philps ..... Avery / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Des Rolfe ..... Mr. Hobbs / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Ron Shand ..... Ernie Stubbs / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Alister Smart ..... Alf / ... (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Jack Allan ..... Joe / ... (2 episodes, 1968)
Barbara Joss ..... Barbara Mason (2 episodes, 1968)
Ali Miller ..... Tara (2 episodes, 1968)
Red Moore ..... McMurrie / ... (2 episodes, 1968)
Fred Sims ..... Bill / ... (2 episodes, 1968)
Neva Carr-Glynn ..... Esmerelda / ... (2 episodes, 1969-1970)
Les Foxcroft ..... Cliff / ... (2 episodes, 1969-1970)
Phil Judd ..... Skippy (2 episodes, 1969-1970)
John Meillon ..... 'Nimble' Norris (2 episodes, 1969-1970)
Tom Oliver ..... Craig / ... (2 episodes, 1969-1970)
Judith Fisher ..... Lucy Schuyler (2 episodes, 1969)
Harold Hopkins ..... Tim Grant (2 episodes, 1969)
John Unicomb ..... Ben Schuyler (2 episodes, 1969)
Tony Barry ..... (unknown episodes)

Synopsis:

An irrepressible icon of Australian Pop culture Skippy is not only a legend of the small screen but a true blue Aussie hero. The most successful series ever made in Australia Skippy The Bush Kangaroo has had sales in over 100 countries and remains our first home grown international superstar. The grand expanse of Waratah National Park knows no bounds when Skippy is around to keep an eye and a paw on things - from shady poachers unwelcome campers deadly creatures and dangerous conditions - there is no shortage of peril and excitement to share. So join Sonny Ranger Hammond Jerry Mark and Clancy on the complete journey of Skippy - from thetentative friendshipof the first innocent episode to the final nail biting conclusion - featuring all 3 action-packed seasons of the ever-reliable marsupialand his gumleaf whistling best friend.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 0: Man from Space
Original Air Date-1 October 1968
Season 1, Episode 1: Poachers
Original Air Date-3 June 1968
Skippy sounds the alarm when three men try to steal some Koalas from the Waratah National Park for Dr. Stark's private zoo.
Season 1, Episode 2: Sports Car Rally
Original Air Date-29 April 1968
A sports car club receive permission to run a rally through the Waratah National Park, to Matt's disgust.
Season 1, Episode 3: The Golden Reef
Original Air Date-29 July 1968
Sonny and Skippy discover two geologists diving on a reef in Waratah National Park. The geologists suspect that gold may have washed down the river and collected on the reef. Two criminals watch from afar, waiting for a chance to pounce.
Season 1, Episode 4: Long Way Home
Original Air Date-5 February 1968
Doctor Stark offers Matt $1000 to buy Skippy, then attempts to kidnap her after he refuses.
Season 1, Episode 5: Cage of Koalas
Original Air Date-19 February 1968
Dr Steiner arrives at Waratah National Park to undertake research on the koala population but immediately clashes with Ranger Hammond by insisting on keeping the koalas in cages.
Season 1, Episode 6: The Lyre Bird
Original Air Date-1 July 1968
Skippy leads Sonny to an aspiring young ballerina who has been studying the dance of the lyrebird. When the lyrebird mimics an old man coughing, they search for a botanist who has been missing in the Waratah National Park for a few days.
Season 1, Episode 7: Dead or Alive
Original Air Date-22 April 1968
A mysterious disease threatens to wipe out all animals in the Waratah National Park, and Skippy is suspected of being the carrier.
Season 1, Episode 8: The Marine Biologist
Original Air Date-6 May 1968
Mark is annoyed when Ranger Hammond insists he spends the day assisting a marine biologist that is visiting the park. He changes his mind once he meets Dr Trout. Sonny and Skippy get into trouble while fishing.
Season 1, Episode 9: No Time for Clancy
Original Air Date-26 February 1968
Clarissa "Clancy" Merrick arrives at the Waratah National Park to board with the Hammonds, but soon gets into trouble.
Season 1, Episode 10: Time and Tide
Original Air Date-11 March 1968
Clancy borrows Dr Steiner's camera but gets into trouble taking photos down by the river. The boys race to rescue her before the tide comes in.
Season 1, Episode 11: Can You Keep a Secret?
Original Air Date-13 May 1968
After Clancy keeps a secret for Sonny, he agrees to take her up to visit his secret cave. There they caught up in the escape plans of a desperate criminal.
Season 1, Episode 12: The Swagman
Original Air Date-10 June 1968
Season 1, Episode 13: The Honeymooners
Original Air Date-5 August 1968
When Sonny befriends a couple on their honeymoon in the National Park, the wife takes a real shine to Skippy. Soon it becomes clear she wants more from Skippy than friendship.
Season 1, Episode 14: Many Happy Returns
Original Air Date-1 March 1968
Sonny gets his birthday wish when he flies with Jerry in the helicopter, but it takes an unexpected turn.
Season 1, Episode 15: My Best Friend
Original Air Date-12 August 1968
Mark and Clancy try to help Sonny get good marks at school when they substitute his painting of Skippy with their own, but they create a dilemma when it is entered in a competition that attracts an international art critic's attention.
Season 1, Episode 16: When the Bough Breaks
Original Air Date-8 July 1968
Skippy rescues a three-month old baby from drowning in a river.
Season 1, Episode 17: The Waratah Festival
Original Air Date-14 October 1968
A diamond thief has to join the Waratah National Park's float in the Sydney Waratah Festival procession in order to retrieve a stolen bracelet that Skippy picked up after he dropped it.
Season 1, Episode 18: Summer Storm
Original Air Date-15 April 1968
A huge storm sees the team from ranger headquarters involved in some dangerous rescues.
Season 1, Episode 19: The Rustlers
Original Air Date-18 March 1968
Sonny takes a job with a team of sheep shearers to earn money for a present for his father's birthday, unaware that the men are actually rustlers who intend to steal the wool.
Season 1, Episode 20: Double Trouble
Original Air Date-8 April 1968
An actor hired by Dr. Stark attempts to discredit Matt while impersonating him by running a car containing his boss and a Government Senator off the road.
Season 1, Episode 21: Trapped
Original Air Date-1 April 1968
Dr. Stark gets one of his henchmen to impersonate zoologist Professor Lewis. Armed with a mace gun disguised as a camera, the henchman attempts to steal some female anteaters for breeding in Dr. Stark's private zoo.
Season 1, Episode 22: They're Singing Me Back
Original Air Date-22 July 1968
A young aboriginal woman with a beautiful singing voice is pulled between her dream to further her singing career and the call of her elders to return to her people.
Season 1, Episode 23: Tara: Part 1
Original Air Date-20 May 1968
While exploring a cave, Sonny and Skippy find a secret entrance to a valley that was thought to be uninhabited and inaccessible. There, Sonny befriends Tara, an old Aboriginal man living happily on his own.
Season 1, Episode 24: Tara: Part 2
Original Air Date-27 May 1968
When aboriginal elder Tara mistakes Jerry's helicopter as a portent of death, Sonny and Matt seek help to stop him dying.
Season 1, Episode 25: Surf King
Original Air Date-28 October 1968
With some help from Mark, Jerry makes an attempt to overcome injuries he sustained while rescuing a swimmer in trouble and win the main race at a surf carnival. Matt and Clancy are kept busy troubleshooting at the Waratah National Park.
Season 1, Episode 26: The Runaway
Original Air Date-24 June 1968
Season 1, Episode 27: Last Chance
Original Air Date-26 August 1968
A film is being made in Waratah National Park. When the producers decide to include Skippy, she upstages all the human actors.
Season 1, Episode 28: No Trespassers
Original Air Date-19 August 1968
Season 1, Episode 29: Mayday: Part 1
Original Air Date-2 September 1968
Season 1, Episode 30: Mayday: Part 2: Where There's Smoke
Original Air Date-9 September 1968
Season 1, Episode 31: Date in Dalmar
Original Air Date-16 September 1968
While returning to Ranger Headquarters to meet Sir Adrian Gillespie, Matt, Sonny and Skippy stop to help a man who appears to be lying injured on the road, but the man produces a gun and orders Matt to drive him 80 miles to Dalmar.
Season 1, Episode 32: The Empty Chair
Original Air Date-15 July 1968
Season 1, Episode 33: Ten Little Visitors
Original Air Date-7 October 1968
Season 1, Episode 34: Aunt Evelyn
Original Air Date-21 October 1968
The Hammonds' Aunt Evelyn visits the park and tries to convince Matt that Sydney is a better place to raise a young boy than the dangerous wilderness.
Season 1, Episode 35: The Bushrangers
Original Air Date-17 June 1968
While left alone at Ranger Headquarters, Jerry is overpowered by burglars who steal everything that they can move. When Sonny and Skippy come across a group of people dressed like Ned Kelly, Sonny thinks they could be the burglars.
Season 1, Episode 37: Be Our Guest
Original Air Date-25 March 1968
Clancy's mother is expected at Waratah National Park to check on how her daughter is going, but Clancy gets hopelessly lost after she is thrown off her horse, and is followed by a group of Aborigines.
Season 1, Episode 38: The Long Night
Original Air Date-30 September 1968
Mark is accused of a hit-and-run accident that leaves a man badly injured, but the police who arrive to investigate are really industrial spies attempting to cover their tracks.
Season 1, Episode 39: View Matt
Original Air Date-23 September 1968
Sonny overhears Matt receiving advice from his doctor to re-marry, and answers a woman's lonely hearts newspaper advertisement in Matt's name.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: The Raft
Original Air Date-25 November 1968
Sonny and Skippy sail a home-made raft down the river and rescue a runaway boy from a mangrove swamp.
Season 2, Episode 2: The Perfect Hosts
Original Air Date-4 November 1968
While Matt and Mark are helping out a ranger who has broken down in a downpour near a swollen creek, Sonny and Clancy receive a visitor who matches a radio news report's description of an escaped robber.
Season 2, Episode 3: Honest Jack
Original Air Date-11 November 1968
Season 2, Episode 4: Follow My Leader
Original Air Date-13 December 1968
Clancy invites Norman Dupree, a friend of her family and a talented violinist, to lunch at Ranger Headquarters.
Season 2, Episode 5: Tex 'N Ranger
Original Air Date-3 February 1969
Sonny and Skippy see a man get kicked off a cliff.
Season 2, Episode 6: Chicken
Original Air Date-31 March 1969
Season 2, Episode 7: Belinda
Original Air Date-13 February 1970
Season 2, Episode 8: The Mine
Original Air Date-25 May 1969
An old Army friend of Matt's arrives at the Waratah National Park to help him blow up an abandoned mine.
Season 2, Episode 9: Rockslide
Original Air Date-6 January 1969
A young deserter from the National Service causes a rock-slide that injures Sonny, and then risks recapture to look after him at Ranger Headquarters.
Season 2, Episode 10: Hide and Seek
Original Air Date-27 January 1969
A childhood friend of Jerry's asks him for refuge in the Waratah National Park.
Season 2, Episode 11: Flying Saucers
Original Air Date-3 March 1969
While taking pictures of Skippy, Sonny sees and photographs what he thinks is a flying saucer.
Season 2, Episode 12: Esmerelda
Original Air Date-24 March 1969
Season 2, Episode 13: Puppets
Original Air Date-17 February 1969
Season 2, Episode 14: Vice Versa
Original Air Date-11 May 1969
Sir Adrian Gillespie brings Professor Leonard Clifton to Waratah National Park so he can take Skippy to a laboratory to study her and find out what makes her so intelligent.
Season 2, Episode 15: Oats
Original Air Date-9 April 1969
An aggressive National Parks & Wildlife Service inspector arrives at the Waratah National Park determined to instill fear into everyone at Ranger Headquarters.
Season 2, Episode 16: Black Spider
Original Air Date-24 February 1969
Sonny's been reading a lurid novel about blackmailers and he spots Clancy crying after reading a letter, he becomes convinced that his young friend has received a note from someone demanding money.
Season 2, Episode 17: Tread Softly
Original Air Date-28 April 1969
A released prisoner sets traps in the Waratah National Park, forcing its temporary closure.
Season 2, Episode 18: Shark Taggers
Original Air Date-30 June 1969
Season 2, Episode 19: Surprise! Surprise!
Original Air Date-17 April 1969
Mark plans a surprise birthday party for Clancy.
Season 2, Episode 20: Marco Polo
Original Air Date-21 April 1969
Season 2, Episode 21: The Wombat
Original Air Date-2 September 1969
Season 2, Episode 22: The Axeman
Original Air Date-26 May 1969
The Hammonds are plagued by lumberjacks illegally chopping down trees on National Park land.
Season 2, Episode 23: Up and Beyond
Original Air Date-4 April 1969
Two hot-air balloonists bail out over the Waratah National Park.
Season 2, Episode 24: Round-Up
Original Air Date-2 May 1969
When Sonny and Skippy discover a herd of wild horses damaging vegetation in the Waratah National Park, Matt enlists the aid of two champion rodeo riding brothers to capture them.
Season 2, Episode 25: The Hikers
Original Air Date-19 May 1969
Two schoolteachers go on a dangerous hike in the Loftus Valley.
Season 2, Episode 26: For My Next Trick
Original Air Date-11 April 1969
An itinerant entertainer visits the Waratah National Park while en route to Collingdale.
Season 2, Episode 27: A Bird in the Hand
Original Air Date-13 May 1969
Jerry goes to Sydney Airport to meet a visiting ornithologist, who turns out to be a lovely young nun. Mark finds a person trying to poach some birds from the Waratah National Park.
Season 2, Episode 28: Marathon
Original Air Date-15 September 1969
When the local athletics association hold a cross-country marathon that passes through the Waratah National Park, Mark decides to take part.
Season 2, Episode 29: The Best Man
Original Air Date-12 May 1969
Season 2, Episode 30: Plain Jane
Original Air Date-28 May 1969
Jane, a friend of Clancy's and a shy country girl, struggles to fit in when she visits Ranger Headquarters.
Season 2, Episode 31: Hi Fi
Original Air Date-14 July 1969
Mark builds himself a hi fi stereo set, for which he finds an unexpected use during a storm.
Season 2, Episode 32: Maggie
Original Air Date-21 July 1969
Season 2, Episode 33: Mixed Company
Original Air Date-14 April 1969
Season 2, Episode 34: Treasure Hunt
Original Air Date-8 September 1969
Season 2, Episode 35: The Sport of Kings
Original Air Date-16 June 1969
Sir Adrian Gillespie enters a horse in the Corinthian Handicap, a race for male amateur jockeys, at Royal Randwick. Skippy places a $1 bet on a horse with odds of 33:1.
Season 2, Episode 36: Bon Voyage
Original Air Date-4 May 1970
Season 2, Episode 37: Cobber
Original Air Date-11 August 1970
Season 2, Episode 38: Tiger
Original Air Date-1 September 1969
An amateur photographer shows Mark and Sonny some photos of an unusual animal, which Matt thinks could be the long-extinct Tasmanian tiger.
Season 2, Episode 39: Luna Park
Original Air Date-5 August 1969
Sonny wins a trip for himself and a friend to Luna Park in a newspaper competition.
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: A Work of Art
Original Air Date-10 September 1969
Skippy makes friends with a famous, yet eccentric, wildlife painter who comes to the Waratah National Park on a commission from Sir Adrian Gillespie.
Season 3, Episode 2: A Manner of Speaking
Original Air Date-27 October 1969
Mark accidentally releases a herd of Mr. Fiorini's cows, and tries to make amends by learning Italian.
Season 3, Episode 3: The Prince of Siam
Original Air Date-10 November 1969
Sonny gets a job with a local gardener so he can earn some pocket money to donate to charity. Skippy asks his bush friends to help search for a lost cat.
Season 3, Episode 4: High Fashion
Original Air Date-23 February 1970
Season 3, Episode 5: El Toro
Original Air Date-3 November 1969
An echidna frightens a bull, causing it to run amok in the Waratah National Park during a holiday weekend.
Season 3, Episode 6: Mr. Duffy
Original Air Date-24 September 1969
A strange Irishman bemuses the Hammonds by mending their shoes seemingly in the twinkling of an eye.
Season 3, Episode 7: The Medicine Man
Original Air Date-29 November 1969
Season 3, Episode 8: The Veteran
Original Air Date-17 November 1969
An abandoned sports-car leads Matt to a psychotic war hero who thinks he's back in Burma.
Season 3, Episode 9: The Rainmakers
Original Air Date-2 March 1970
A pilot with a cloud-seeding plane, an eccentric old inventor and a young Aborigine all make their own attempts to put an end to a dry spell that has hit the Waratah National Park.
Season 3, Episode 10: Up the Waratahs
Original Air Date-16 March 1970
Season 3, Episode 11: Merry-Go-Round
Original Air Date-9 March 1970
Sonny visits a travelling carnival and meets a young girl who wants to be a clown. Skippy takes an interest in a wooden kangaroo on the carnival's merry-go-round.
Season 3, Episode 12: Pigeon Pair
Original Air Date-23 March 1970
Season 3, Episode 13: Fred
Original Air Date-3 March 1970
After buying some wildflowers from a local florist who boasts that they have been freshly picked from the Waratah National Park, a furious Sir Adrian Gillespie orders the Hammonds to investigate. Matt thinks it could be the work of a person that they know only as "Fred".

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series for children created by John McCallum, produced from 1966-1968, telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, in the (fictional) Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales. Ninety-one 30-minute episodes were made over the three seasons of production. Although, at the time of first screening, Australian television was still in black and white, the show was filmed in colour on 16 mm film to increase its international marketability, most notably in the United States and Canada, where it aired in syndication between 1969 and 1972. The Nine Network readily repeated the series several times after Australian television switched to colour transmission in 1975. The series was dubbed into Spanish in Mexico, where it is known as Skippy el canguro, and distributed to most Spanish-speaking countries, including Cuba and Spain, countries where the show became very popular. The series also crossed the Iron Curtain and was aired in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s and is currently still being broadcast in Iran. However, the show was forbidden to be shown in Sweden where psychologists believed that the show would mislead children into believing animals could do things that they could not.

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