Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
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| Also known as | Skippy |
| Genre | Children/Family Adventure/Drama |
| Created by | Lee Robinson |
| Written by | Ross Napier |
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| Theme music composer | Eric Jupp |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 91 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | John McCallum |
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| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Fauna Productions |
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| Original network | Nine Network |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| First shown in | Australia |
| Original release | 5 February 1968 – 4 May 1970 |
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| Related shows | The Adventures of Skippy |
| The Adventures of Skippy | |
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| Starring | Andrew Clarke |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Running time | 30 mins |
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| Original network | Nine /Animal Planet. |
| Original release | 1992 |
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (known commonly as Skippy) is an Australian television series created by Australian actor John McCallum, produced from 1967–1969 (airing from 1968–1970) about 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.
Ninety-one 30-minute episodes were produced. Additionally, a full-length movie titled Skippy and The Intruders was released to theaters in 1969.The show was filmed in colour and after airing in its home country, it was shown in the United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands, where it was first screened between 1969 and 1972. The Nine Network readily repeated the series several times after Australian television switched to colour transmission in 1975.
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Skippy, (Man From Space, pilot episode) and 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of Skippy being filmed on location at Waratah Park.
The Australian series was one of the most heavily exported programs. It was broadcast in all Commonwealth countries, including in Canada where it was adapted in Quebec for the Standard French market as Skippy le kangourou. The series was also widely distributed in Ghana where is aired weekly on the GBC. It was dubbed into Spanish in Mexico, where it is known as Skippy el canguro, and has been seen in most Spanish-speaking countries, including Cuba and Spain, where it became very popular. In Germany, it was known as Skippy, das Buschkänguruh, while in Italy was known as Skyppy il canguro and broadcast by Rai television. The series crossed the Iron Curtain and was aired in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, and is still being broadcast in Iran. The show was popular in Scandinavia, indeed in Norway a chain of shopping centres were named in honour of the program. In Latín América are broadcast in Free TV in 1970s, in Pay TV (Cable, Satellite and IPTV) vía Sundance Channel (Channel 520 of DIRECTV).
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