8.5/1018 votesLoading...#1 - The Swagman
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/18/1968
An old tramp, Trundle, looking for odd jobs, fascinates Sonny with tales of adventure. However, Matt Hammond believes the stories are figments of Trundle's imagination and considers it a bad association for Sonny. Trouble begins when the old swagman gives Sonny an expensive antique watch as a parting gift. Matt discovers the gift, asks the police to trace the owner… and discovers the Swagman's secret. Trundle turns out to be Miles Vincent Archer, the wealthy chairman of a vast corporation.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: N/A
8.3/1021 votesLoading...#2 - Dead or Alive
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/13/1968
A mysterious disease threatens to wipe out all animals in Waratah National Park, and evidence points to Skippy as the carrier. Sonny is heartbroken at the possibility of losing Skippy, and disappears into the bush with the kangaroo. There he comes across a poacher, and Dr. Steiner discovers that the poacher's dogs are the actual carriers of the disease.
Director: Eric Price
Writer: James Workman
8.1/1015 votesLoading...#3 - The Runaway
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 9/12/1968
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 the boy who would rather fall to his death than accept help.
Director: N/A
Writer: Will Pryor
7.9/1020 votesLoading...#4 - Double Trouble
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/22/1968
Matt Hammond's boss and a government Senator decide to sack him after it appears that Matt has run their car off the road and threatened them. It transpires that Dr. Stark has hired an actor to impersonate Matt Hammond in order to discredit him, but the whole scheme backfires and Dr. Stark has to honour the promise of a $10,000 donation to Waratah National Park.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ed Devereaux
7.9/1013 votesLoading...#5 - Honest Jack
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/1968
Sonny finds a man chopping down trees in Waratah National Park and when Sonny tells him it is illegal, the determined man insists that he owns the land. Matt Hammond has received word from Jerry of a bulldozer clearing land in the Park, and Mark radios in from his patrol boat that someone is building a fence down by the river. It transpires that "Honest Jack", a slick operator, has been selling blocks of land in Waratah National Park. For his final scam he tries to sell off Ranger Headquarters as an 'ideal home'.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: Ross Napier
7.7/1015 votesLoading...#6 - The Raft
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/25/1968
While on a rafting trip throught the mangrove swamp, Sonny and Skippy come to the aid of a boy who has run away from his step-father while on a camping trip.
Director: Eric Fullilove
Writer: Moya Wood
7.5/1014 votesLoading...#7 - Tara (1)
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 8/30/1968
Sonny and Skippy discover the hidden entrance to a remote valley, thought to be inaccessible and uninhabited. There Sonny makes friends with an old Aboriginal living alone, whose tribe has long since migrated to other parts of the country. One day Sonny finds Tara weak and in a semi-coma — he believes he has been visited by a 'death spirit' and is going to die.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: Joan Levy
7.5/1012 votesLoading...#8 - Oats
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/9/1969
In Matt's absense, an inspector from the Department of Civil Services arrives to evaluate operations at Ranger Headquarters. His strict by-the-book manner creates trouble for everyone and his panic during a crisis has near fatal consequences.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: Ross Napier
7.4/1016 votesLoading...#9 - The Lyre Bird
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/6/1968
Sonny makes a new friend Lisa, a young ballerina. Together they find an aged Botanist who has been missing in Waratah National Park and, with Skippy's help, bring about his rescue.
Director: Eric Price
Writer: N/A
7.4/1020 votesLoading...#10 - Many Happy Returns
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 8/1/1968
Sonny's birthday wish comes true — a ride in the helicopter, but not the way he expects. While flying over Sydney, Flight Ranger Jerry King collapses, leaving Sonny alone with the controls. To save their lives, Matt tries to use a tranquilizer gun to deliver the medicine to Jerry while flying alongside. When that fails, Sonny must be talked through landing the helicopter on his own.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1017 votesLoading...#11 - The Waratah Festival
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 8/9/1968
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 the ranger station where the Hammonds are busy building a parade float. The thief stows away on the float and a dramatic fight breaks out when he tries to recover the necklace as the float makes its way through the streets of Sydney.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: Carol Odell
7.4/1016 votesLoading...#12 - The Rustlers
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/16/1968
Sonny, helped by Skippy, takes a job with a team of sheep shearers, not knowing they are rustlers, to earn money to buy a birthday present for his father. His absence from home puts Matt Hammond on the track of the three strange characters who have developed a variation of sheep rustling — they only take the wool!
Director: N/A
Writer: Margaret Trist
7.4/1013 votesLoading...#13 - Follow My Leader
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/13/1968
A spoiled young violin prodigy, and an old family friend of Clancy's, insists on acquiring a baby koala but Skippy saves him from losing his life in the attempt.
Director: Eric Fullilove
Writer: Ross Napier
7.4/1013 votesLoading...#14 - Rockslide
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/6/1969
A young National Service deserter risks recapture to look after Sonny after he is injured in a rockslide.
Director: Eric Fullilove
Writer: Ted Roberts
7.3/1014 votesLoading...#15 - They're Singing Me Back
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/29/1968
Aboriginal warriors come to Waratah National Park to claim a run-away tribal girl. Head Ranger Matt Hammond defies their spears, convinces the elder that the girl's great talent for singing can help bring white and black people closer together.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1015 votesLoading...#16 - Ten Little Visitors
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 10/3/1968
Sonny and Skippy become guides for foreign children stopping at Waratah National Park while touring Australia.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: N/A
7.3/1012 votesLoading...#17 - A Bird in the Hand
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 5/13/1969
Jerry and a visiting ornithologist, who herself is not what anyone was expecting, nab two men poaching wild birds in Waratah National Park.
Director: Eric Fullilove
Writer: Ross Napier, Maureen Walsh
7.3/1013 votesLoading...#18 - Luna Park
Season 2 Episode 39 - Aired 8/5/1969
Sonny wins a trip for himself and a friend to Sydney's Luna Park in a newspaper competition. En route, Sonny encounters a pickpocket who hides a stolen wallet in Skippy's pouch to evade the police. Sonny talks his new friend into rescuing a child trapped on the Ferris wheel.
Director: Eric Fullilove
Writer: Joy Cavill
7.3/1013 votesLoading...#19 - Merry-Go-Round
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 3/9/1970
While visiting a travelling carnival, Sonny meets Carrie Mason, a girl who wants nothing in the world but to be a clown. Skippy falls in love with a wooden kangaroo on the carnival's merry-go-round. Carrie finds she has much in common with Skippy when they both decide to run away and join the carnival.
Director: Peter Maxwell
Writer: Harry Woolerton
7.2/1018 votesLoading...#20 - Sports Car Rally
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/9/1968
An invasion of sports cars threatens the life of protected fauna in Waratah National Park, but when Matt leads a rescue squad to save the life of a driver pinned under his car in a serious accident, the rally organisers gratefully decide on another venue.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: Lee Robinson
7.2/1016 votesLoading...#21 - Cage of Koalas
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/30/1968
A research scientist who is to study marsupial wildlife at Waratah National Park turns out to be an attractive young woman. Her methods anger Chief Ranger Matt Hammond and she has to be rescued from serious trouble on a koala trapping foray into the lonely bush.
Director: Eric Price
Writer: N/A
7.2/1012 votesLoading...#22 - Tara (2)
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/5/1968
Matt locates Mr Judd, the businessman whose life Tara saved, hoping he will help bring in people from Tara's tribe who will have the ability to free Tara from death.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: Joan Levy
7.2/1015 votesLoading...#23 - Surf King
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 9/6/1968
While Park Ranger Matt Hammond and Clancy are busy fighting a bush fire, Jerry makes a gallant attempt to win the Bondi Surf Championship — despite having just sustained serious injuries while rescuing a surfer girl in distress.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: N/A
7.2/1013 votesLoading...#24 - Plain Jane
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 5/28/1969
A shy and unassuming young woman visits Clancy at Ranger Headquarters. Mark makes an effort but Jerry goes out of his way to avoid spending time with her until Clancy, with the help of a friend, transforms her for a beach party.
Director: Eric Fullilove
Writer: Ross Napier
7.2/1014 votesLoading...#25 - A Manner of Speaking
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/27/1969
While trying to do a good deed for Theresa Fiorini, Mark accidentally releases her father's cows from their paddock. Mark tries to impress the pretty girl by learning Italian but his language skills prove more useful with her father.
Director: Peter Maxwell
Writer: Denys Burrows
The Best Episodes of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Every episode of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo!
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors...
Genre:Family
Network:Nine Network
Best Episodes Summary
"The Swagman" is the best rated episode of "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo". It scored 8.5/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by Max Varnel and written by N/A, it aired on 7/18/1968. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dead or Alive".