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2	[[caption-width-right:320:[[ABoyAndHisX Sonny and Skippy]]]]
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4	''Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'' is [[UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} Australia]]'s answer to ''Series/{{Lassie}}'' and ''Series/{{Flipper}}''. This Australian television series was created by John [=McCallum=] and produced from 1966 to 1968. It tells the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo. Sonny Hammond (Garry Pankhurst) and Skippy live in the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales. Sonny's father, Matt (Creator/EdDevereaux) is the park's Head Ranger. The stories revolved around events occurring in the park, including its animals, dangers arising from natural hazards in the Park's environment, and the actions of various visitors to the Park.
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6	The series was shot in northern Sydney at the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the adjacent Waratah Park (now known as Waratah Park Earth Sanctuary). Ninety-one 30-minute episodes were made over the three seasons of production.
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8	In 1969 the feature film ''Skippy and The Intruders'' was released.
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10	The series was revived in 1992 as the short-lived ''The Adventures of Skippy'' using an entirely new cast.
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12	!!What's that, Skippy? You've found some tropes on the Internet?
13	* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his kangaroo.
14	* AbandonedMine: "What's that, Skippy? The kids are trapped down the old mine-shaft, '''''again'''''?"
15	%%* AllAnimalsAreDogs
16	* AnimatedAdaptation: ''WesternAnimation/SkippyAdventuresInBushtown'', which gave the title character an AnthropomorphicShift and a GenderFlip.
17	* BeachEpisode: The beach episode features a surfing contest.
18	* TheBoxingEpisode: In one of the episodes, a boxer and his father sets up a training ring in the park. The episode focuses on how the father has pushed the son into boxing, but the son is thinking that he wants to do something else. The episode ends with Skippy wearing boxing gloves, invoking the BoxingKangaroo trope, but it is used as a joke and Skippy never actually boxes.
19	* CastTheExpert: Invoked in-universe. In one of the episodes, a movie director decides to cast heroic pet Skippy as a heroic pet, which results in Skippy saving an actor for real when something goes wrong.
20	** In the episode "The Marine Biologist" SpecialGuest RealLife scuba model and marine biologist [[http://kathytroutt.wordpress.com/about/ Kathy Trout]] makes an appearance as a scuba diving marine biologist, though arguably it had as much to do with the fact that she was [[MsFanservice very attractive]] as for her diving skills.
21	%%* CharacterTitle
22	* EvilPoacher: Episodes that don't focus on Sunny being saved from certain death often focus on Skippy being saved (or saving herself) from an EvilPoacher. For added bonus, some episodes have both. In a variant on the theme, one of the recurring villains is trying to kidnap Skippy alive for his private zoo.
23	* FakeBand: The Bushrangers
24	* FurAndLoathing: One of the early villains was a woman who tried to trap Skippy in order to skin the kangaroo for her fur coat. While she was shown wearing a [[{{Fanservice}} bikini]] instead of a fur coat, she had lots of animal skins and stuffed animals on her boat.
25	* GirlsHaveCooties: The word "cooties" may not actually be used, but Sunny, at least in the early episodes (at the age of 10) shows evidence of this attitude.
26	* HeroicPetStory: Skippy is the star of the show and regularly rescues characters in trouble.
27	* HerrDoktor: Dr Anna Steiner is a German biologist studying koalas.
28	* {{Hobos}}: The episode "The Swagman" features an eccentric old man camping out in the park and offering to do odd jobs for food. Ranger Hammond is hesitant at first because he has had bad experiences with other odd jobs men, but agrees to give him work. [[spoiler: It turns out the man is really a wealthy, famous individual that has decided to get back [[WalkingTheEarth to a life of adventure]].]]
29	* HomeBase: The main characters all live in at the Ranger Headquarters for the park, complete with a helicopter pad.
30	%%* KangaroosRepresentAustralia
31	%%* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Skippy again
32	* MissingMom: The absence of a 'Mrs Hammond' (Sonny and Mark's mother) is explained (in Episode 48) as being due to her death when Sonny was a young child.
33	%%* NearlyNormalAnimal: Skippy
34	* NoisyNature: Skippy's trademark 'tchk tchk tchk' noise was entirely fictional. Kangaroos make no such sounds.
35	* ParentService: For a kids show, they have a surprising amount of [[FanService blatant]] bikini scenes and {{Shirtless Scene}}s.
36	* RecycledInSpace: Series/{{Lassie}} [[LandDownUnder DOWN UNDER!]]
37	* TimmyInAWell: Not every episode has Skippy save Sunny from certain death, but plenty do.
38	* TropeyComeHome: The first episode has Skippy having to find her way home after escaping from being kidnapped.

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