7.0/1021 votes#1 - Poachers
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/5/1968
Sonny, Mark and Jerry investigate an expensive game fishing cruiser with three men aboard after Skippy and Sonny came across men trapping animals in the bush at night. Swimming out to the cruiser, Jerry overhears a conversation which indicates the men are stealing koalas for Dr. Stark's private zoo.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: N/A
7.2/1018 votes#2 - 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
7.0/1016 votes#3 - The Golden Reef
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/16/1968
Skin-diving geologists discover aluvial gold on a reef at Seal Rocks, in the mouth of the Flinders River. Thieves move in armed with deadly spear guns, and once again Matt, Sonny and Skippy are there to stop them.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: Ron Taylor
7.1/1021 votes#4 - Long Way Home
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/23/1968
Dr. Alexander Stark is determined to have Skippy for his private zoo. When Matt Hammond refuses to sell at any price, Stark has two of his henchman steal the kangaroo and she begins a tense series of adventures to find her way home.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ross Napier
7.2/1016 votes#5 - 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
7.4/1016 votes#6 - 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
8.3/1021 votes#7 - 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
6.9/1017 votes#8 - The Marine Biologist
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/20/1968
Mark is unhappy when his father, Matt Hammond, tells him to accompany a marine biologist who wants to collect underwater specimens. But his misery turns to delight when he discovers that the marine biologist is a spunky young woman. The two of them quickly find themselves having to rescue Skippy and an unconscious Sonny from an out-of-control speedboat.
Director: Dennis Hill
Writer: Lee Robinson
7.0/1018 votes#9 - No Time For Clancy
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/27/1968
Matt Hammond is faced with a human problem when one of his rangers moves to a new nature reserve up north, taking his wife and sons but leaving his daughter Clancy, who has exams pending, to board with the Hammonds. Clancy is in trouble from the moment she comes to stay, and she gets the idea she is not wanted and runs away.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: Denys Burrows
6.2/1015 votes#10 - Time and Tide
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/4/1968
While working on a project for Dr Steiner, Clancy encounters trouble and is in risk of drowning when her leg becomes trapped underwater.
Director: Eric Fullilove
Writer: Michael Wright
6.7/1015 votes#11 - Can You Keep A Secret?
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/11/1968
Sonny takes Clancy to his secret hideout where the pair are taken hostage by an escaped convict. Skippy brings help and jumps on the convict, allowing Sonny to get free of his clutches and for Matt to overpower the criminal.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: Peter Finnane
8.4/1019 votes#12 - 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
6.7/1015 votes#13 - The Honeymooners
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/25/1968
When the greedy wife of a rich husband tries to trap Skippy, wanting her skin for a fur coat, Sonny finds himself locked in the cabin of a speeding cruiser, with no-one but Skippy aboard to help him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Denys Burrows
7.4/1020 votes#14 - 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
6.1/1013 votes#15 - My Best Friend
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/2/1968
Sonny paints a picture of Skippy for his art class but before he mails it in, Mark replaces it with a 'better' one he made to help Sonny get a better grade. Sharing Mark's good intentions, Clancy unknowingly swaps Mark's painting for her 'better' version but when the painting is entered in a prestigious art competition and talk of an art scholarship begins, Clancy and Mark must come clean.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: N/A
6.8/1013 votes#16 - When the Bough Breaks
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 8/8/1968
Skippy rescues a baby from drowning when the child's pram rolls into the river. Skippy alerts Sonny who brings the baby back to the house just as Matt, Jerry, and Mark are leaving to help the distraught parents search for their lost baby.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: N/A
7.4/1017 votes#17 - 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
5.7/1013 votes#18 - Summer Storm
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 8/15/1968
Ranger Headquarters is cut off by a violent storm as Matt Hammond lies poisoned by a snakebite. The phone line is down, the radio is not working, the serum is lost in the creek, the helicopter is out of fuel, the bridge is out and the ford is flooded. Skippy crosses an impassable gorge to fetch help, and the life-saving serum is parachuted to Ranger Headquarters just in time.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1016 votes#19 - 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
7.9/1020 votes#20 - 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
6.7/1013 votes#21 - Trapped
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/23/1968
Dr Stark sends an operative into the park to collect a rare ant-eater specimen using a special gas-emitting camera. Clancy stumbles across the collector and is temporarily paralysed by the device. Skippy returns an incriminating audio recording of the encounter back to the ranger HQ leading to the thief's capture and Clancy's safe return.
Director: Max Varnel
Writer: Peter Kay
7.3/1014 votes#22 - 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
7.5/1014 votes#23 - 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
7.2/1012 votes#24 - 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 votes#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1
Every episode of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Poachers" is the best rated episode of "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by Max Varnel and written by N/A, it aired on 2/5/1968. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Sports Car Rally".