[Сезон 1] Skippy (1968)
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Sonny, Mark and Jerry investigate an expensive game fishing cruiser with three men aboard after Skippy and Sonny come across men trapping animals at night. Swimming out to the cruiser, Jerry finds out that they are collecting animals for Dr. Stark's private zoo.
There is a rally going through the park and animals are in danger of being run over. There are also branches blocking the road and avoiding them, the car is turned upside down and the driver is pinned under the car which is on the edge of the cliff. It's up to Skippy to deliver the message from Sonny to Matt and then Jerry and Mark are needed with the chopper and a grappling hook to pull the car off the driver. However when lowering the hook, it gets caught around a tree and again Skippy is the only one able to release the hook.
Skin diving geologists find alluvial gold. Thieves move in with spear guns, and once again, Matt, Sonny, and Skippy are there to stop them.
Skippy is in trouble when she is kidnapped by Dr. Alexander Stark who wants her in his zoo, after Matt refuses to sell her, Skippy escapes, but can she find her way home?
Matt Hammond is annoyed and angry when research scientist, Dr. Anna Steiner starts trapping koalas in the Waratah National Park. But he has to put his personal feelings aside, when she gets into trouble.
Sonny makes a new friend, Lisa, who is a ballerina. Together they find an aged botanist, and bring about his rescue.
A mysterious disease threatens to wipe out all wildlife in Waratah National Park and the evidence is Skippy is to blame.Sonny is heartbroken at the thought of losing Skippy and after releasing her, Sonny finds a poacher and his dogs who are the real cause of the problem.
Mark is unhappy when Matt asks him to accompany a Marine biologist. But his misery turns to delight when he discovers the biologist is a spunky young woman with whom he falls completely in love with immediately. They find themselves having to rescue Skippy and Sonny from an out of control speedboat.
Clancy's father, Tom Merrick, is moving his family as he is going to be the Head Ranger of a new park. Matt offers to take in Clancy, so she can finish her school exams and then join them. What they don't know yet is, Clancy likes to play the piano, early in the morning!
Clancy loses Dr. Anna Steiner's camera after a spider jumps onto her and startles her. After going into the water to search for it, she gets her foot stuck under a rock. The tide starts rising, and it's up to Jerry and Mark to rescue Clancy.
Sonny is bored and goes to his secret cave with Clancy. But when they get there, there is an escaped convict waiting for them, who holds Clancy hostage. He forces Sonny to get food and clothes for him. Later, when the convict tries to escape from the park, in the boat, he takes Sonny as a hostage, and it's up to Skippy to rescue Sonny.
Sonny meets an Irish swagman, Mr. Trundle, and has a difficult time believing that the stories he tells Sonny are lies. The pocketwatch that he owns is believed to be stolen and the police are after him. It later turns out that Miles Vincent Archer and Mr. Trundle are the same people.
A millionaire and his wife are in their boat in the park and the wife aims to have Skippy's coat for her collection. Sonny is trapped, locked in the boat, Skippy knocks the couple into the water and it's up to Skippy to save Sonny before the boat crashes.
It's Sonny's birthday, and he wishes to learn to fly the chopper. After he leaves, Mark is sick in his stomach because of food poisoning from eating fish. Jerry receives the same pain soon after. It's up to Sonny to fly the chopper, and Jim Ferguson to help Sonny land it and give Jerry the medication he needs.
Sonny has to paint a painting for school. But when it's finished, Clancy and Mark think that his painting is terrible and wanted him to get a good mark in class. so they substitute his with their own each in turn. First Mark, then Clancy.
A couple are out on the lake canoeing when their baby rolls down the shore and into the water. When the baby is rescued by Skippy, she goes to find Sonny to pick up the baby.
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 Ranger Headquarters where everyone is busy constructing a float for the Waratah Festival. The thief stows away on the float and Mark and Sonny start fighting the thief, and they win the fight and the trophy.
When a storm hits the Waratah National Park, the communication lines go down. What makes matters worse is that Matt is bitten by a snake and with the radios out no one can radio for help. It is up to Skippy to go for help and the antidote to save Matt's life.
Skippy interrupts Sonny's radio lesson to show Sonny shearers rustling sheep who con Sonny into working for them.
Still determined to have Skippy in his Zoo, Doctor Alexander Stark hires an actor to pose as a Park Ranger, and tries to get Matt fired from his job as Head Ranger.
Dr. Stark sends an operative into the park to collect a rare ant eating specimen, using a gas emitting camera. Clancy stumbles across the collector and is temporarily paralysed by the device. Skippy returns a cassette back to Ranger headquarters leading to the thief's capture and Clancy's safe return.
Sonny comes across an Aboriginal woman, Noonar who has run away from her tribe and says they're "singing her back". As her tribe searches for her, she becomes more and more agitated. Noonar, is a very talented singer who wants to become a professional singer. Matt tries to help her by giving her clothes and accommodation, but her life and sleep are still disturbed. She gives in to the tribal elder when he wants to make an exchange for Sonny. He then relents when Matt negotiates with him about the benefits that each other can learn from one another..
Sonny and Skippy discover the hidden entrance to a remote valley thought to be uninhabited. There, Sonny makes friends with an old aboriginal, who lives alone. One day Sonny finds Tara weak, in a Semi Coma and that he has been visited by a "Death Spirit" and he is about to die.
Matt locates Judd, the man whose life Tara saved, hoping he will bring in people from Tara's tribe who will have the ability to free Tara from death.
At a beach (not Bondi), Jerry wants to win the Championship, but instead swims out to rescue a trapped swimmer. While back at the Waratah National Park, Clancy and Matt have to fight a fire before it gets out of control.
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 his life to save for the boy who would rather fall to his death than accept help.
An ageing film star attempts a comeback on a new movie being filmed in the Park. When Skippy inserts herself into a scene a new star is born-much to the annoyance of the leading man who tries to have Skippy "taken care of".
Skippy stumbles upon a secret boxing training camp illegally set up in Waratah National Park. A young boxer, Rocky Miller, takes a forbidden joy ride in the chopper with Jerry and a forced landing has surprise results. Guest stars Jimmy Carruthers and Chips Rafferty.
Jerry breaks Waratah National Park regulations when a chopper flight is the only way he can keep a date with his girlfriend Barbara "Babs" Mason. A dramatic crash results and it's Skippy to the rescue.
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 the evidence needed to clear Jerry of the charges. Meanwhile, Jerry hands in his resignation, effective immediately.
With Sonny as hostage and a rifle pointed at Matt's head, bank robber Keeler forces Matt to drive him from Waratah National Park to keep his rendezvous with his accomplices.
Sonny and Skippy become guides for foreign children stopping at Waratah National Park while touring Australia.
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 decision to despoil Waratah National Park by drilling for oil
When Aunt Evelyn comes to Waratah National Park determined to persuade Matt that he should put Sonny in boarding school in Sydney, Sonny and Skippy save her from death by drowning and Sonny is saved from a fate he'd consider worse than death.
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. Sonny suspects they are the burglars but they turn out to be a pop group, "The Bushrangers", who have set up their instruments in the Park after being driven from their town by neighbours complaining about the noise. The group eventually help catch the burglars after a mud fight.
Sonny has been placed in charge of an automatic recording unit deep in the bush of Waratah National Park, supervised by Matt. While servicing the box, Skippy and Sonny come across an injured airman who has ejected from his plane, hanging by the cord of his parachute from a tree. In trying to rescue him, Sonny slips and becomes trapped on a cliff face. Realising that the weight of his body is ripping the parachute and that it is only a matter of time before he falls to his death, Sonny sends Skippy for help. who returns with Matt and who rescues Sonny, with help from Jerry and Mark in the chopper as well. This Episode was also the Original Pilot Episode
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 Matt has been looking after her. A band of Aboriginal Nomads finds Clancy and brings her back to headquarters, just in time.
A pair of industrial spies on the trail of a roll of secret microfilm, masquerade as detectives and try to cover their tracks by accusing Mark of a hit and run accident. Only Skippy is aware of their true identities.
Overhearing Dr. Morton that Matt ought to marry again, Sonny tries his hand at matchmaking, when he answers lonely hearts advertisements in Matt's name. Asking Clancy's advice, Sonny types out an answer and sends in Matt's Photograph. However, Jerry manages a switch and gives Mr. Stubbs Matt's uniform and identity which suits the lady.