Late 60s Australian action-series for kids stars a stunned-looking and lumpy kangaroo burdened with a prosthetic pair of
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alanr4447a — 13 years ago(September 03, 2012 08:32 PM)
The
format
was also a complete rip-off of
Flipper
: A widowed park ranger with a blond teen-age son, plus a "tween" son who's the closest friend of the family's "wild pet"; some episodes also feature a foreign woman scientist. Which show is it? Either one! -
jxh13 — 13 years ago(September 18, 2012 04:10 AM)
And then the geniuses came up with
Gentle Ben
, in which Flipper/Skippy became a bear; at least that show had a mom. And little Clint Howard.
And then the geniuses came up with
Maya
, about Dennis the Menace and his elephant traveling around India with his buddy, looking for his father. See, you don't need imagination to work in television; a Xerox machine will do.
Of course, I watched them all. I can still hum most of the theme from
Skippy. -
christopherbkk — 13 years ago(November 01, 2012 02:13 AM)
I can't believe you are saying such terrible things about 'Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo'. 4.00pm after school every day in the early 70s. It might be all the OP says, but a little kid doesn't see the terrible storylines, etc. (Although I must admit, even I would laugh at the prosthetic pair of claws.). This was an entertaining and much loved show!!
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HughBennie-777 — 13 years ago(November 02, 2012 04:01 AM)
As the soon-to-be brother in law to an Australian from Toowoombah, I never meant to show any disrespect for Skippy. But maybe it's because I have another 20,000 episodes of this to slog throughto properly honor the giftthat I couldn't help but bias my reporting, and not in Skippy's favor. My wife and I will try our best to be more objective in future adventures. Wish us luck.
Now we can turn down the theme song in the beginning, and that helps a great deal.
"It looks like you could fit his future into about 6 different garbage bags." -"LHTH" -
countrygirl-625-869250 — 13 years ago(March 06, 2013 03:46 PM)
I've watched Skippy soooooooo many times with my grands & great grands that my 4& 5 yr.old great/grands have learned to do the "click" that Skippy is supposed to dodrives their moms crazybut I love it. I have to admit that I had a huge crush on Ed Devereaux "aka Matt Hammond" He is/was so{ what's the word girls use now? oh, I remember-H-O-T!!!!!}} THEY SHOULD HAVE LET HIM KEEP HIS WIFE.
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countrygirl-625-869250 — 13 years ago(March 06, 2013 04:02 PM)
Does ANYONE know where I can get the bios of the stars of the skippy show? I know it's sort of self-explanatory, but it is really bugging me-Edward Devereaux {aka Matt Hammond} and his wife Irene/Rene divorced in 1986 and he married a woman named Julie {no last name} the same yearI can put 2 & 2 together enough to know that something was going on somewhere, but It's really bothering me as to who left whom and for what?
I know you all think I'm crazy, & I probably am, it's just that our daughter was murdered july 3 2003, and he died 5 months later, I just feel some sort of connection with him{yes, I know you can't understand unless you've walked in my shoes} I like to think of our daughter and him sitting at the river with all my other family that is up there in Heaven, and yes, I did have therapy when she was murdered, but you never ever get over it, or have what people call "closure"Anyway, if any of you know how I can get his complete biography, would you please let me know? -
HughBennie-777 — 13 years ago(March 12, 2013 04:04 AM)
I am very sorry for your tragedy. These are the two most detailed obits I can find, the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Associated Press:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/18/1071337092950.html?from=storyrhs
http://priusbb.blogspot.it/2012/03/nsw-skippy-actor-ed-devereaux-dies-in.html
"It looks like you could fit his future into about 6 different garbage bags." -"LHTH" -
Glen_Chapman — 13 years ago(March 07, 2013 11:55 PM)
Skippy's career sort of went down hill after the show was axed
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hankysmom57 — 12 years ago(March 09, 2014 09:01 AM)
OMG I can't believe anyone else has seen Skippy! We get a weird religious station called KTV that shows SkippyI'd never heard of it but was fascinated by how stunningly hilariously BAD it isSkippy removing audiotapes from a tape recorder was my favorite Skippystunt. My husband and I love torturing visitors with tapes of Skippya great way to get rid of company that's stayed too long! There only appear to be about 20 episodes and I have them all memorized. Love how straightlaced and cleancut everyone is especially considering the copyright dates show 1967-68. KTV adds to the wondrousness of the experience by showing it uncut, then filling the remaining 3-4 minutes of the time slot with stupefyingly bad music videos. Gotta love 60's TV!
