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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 to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 Episode 36 - Man From Space
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Man From Space

    S1:E36

    Sonny has been placed in charge of an automatic recording unit deep in the bush of Waratah National Park, supervised by his father, Chief Ranger Matt Hammond. While servicing the box, Sonny finds an Air Force pilot who has ejected from his airplane. In trying to rescue him, Sonny slips and becomes trapped on a cliff face. Skippy goes for help and returns with Matt who rescues Sonny and, with help from Mark and Jerry in the helicopter, the pilot as well.

    Director:Lee Robinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 35 - The Sport of Kings
    5.5/10(13 votes)

    #2 - The Sport of Kings

    S2:E35

    As an amateur jockey, Mark is given the chance to ride Stormaway, Sir Adrian's best horse, in the Corinthian Handicap at Royal Randwick but when he goes missing before the race, Clancy secretly takes his place. Skippy places a $1 bet on a longshot, Wallaby Bill.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Ted Roberts

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  3. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 38 - Tiger
    5.7/10(12 votes)

    #3 - Tiger

    S2:E38

    An amateur photographer shows Mark and Sonny some photos of an unusual animal which Matt thinks could be the long-extinct Tasmanian tiger. An expert is called in to verify the finding and while Mark has his suspicions, it is Sonny who discovers the men are working together to poach animals.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Stephen Rhodes

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  4. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 Episode 18 - Summer Storm
    5.8/10(15 votes)

    #4 - Summer Storm

    S1:E18

    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:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 Episode 38 - The Long Night
    6.0/10(14 votes)

    #5 - The Long Night

    S1:E38

    A pair of industrial spies, on the trail of a secret roll of 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.

    Director:Max Varnel
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 23 - Up and Beyond
    6.0/10(12 votes)

    #6 - Up and Beyond

    S2:E23

    Two high-altitude hot-air balloonists bail out over the Waratah National Park. With the pair at Ranger Headquarts, Sonny and Skippy find the bolloon and manage to get airborn. As the balloon drifts out over the ocean, Jerry and the others pursue.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Ross Napier

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  7. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 Episode 34 - Aunt Evelyn
    6.1/10(15 votes)

    #7 - Aunt Evelyn

    S1:E34

    When Aunt Evelyn comes to Waratah National Park determined to persuade Head Ranger Matt Hammond that he should put his younger boy Sonny in boarding school in Sydney. Sonny and Skippy save Evelyn from death by drowning and Sonny is saved from a fate he'd consider worse than death.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Ross Napier

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  8. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 29 - The Best Man
    6.1/10(14 votes)

    #8 - The Best Man

    S2:E29

    Jerry is asked to be the Best Man at a friend's wedding but gets caught up chasing two hooligan's in a stolen motorboat and rescuing a stranded hiker.

    Director:Max Varnel
    Writer:Ross Napier

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  9. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 12 - Esmeralda
    6.2/10(12 votes)

    #9 - Esmeralda

    S2:E12

    An old gypsy woman takes her revenge on Head Ranger Matt Hammond and his boys in a way that proves more embarrassing than harmful. Even Skippy is powerless to prevent the trick.

    Director:Max Varnel
    Writer:Ross Napier

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  10. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 16 - The Black Spider
    6.2/10(12 votes)

    #10 - The Black Spider

    S2:E16

    Clancy's music teacher stops by Ranger Headquarters to share her concerns with Matt about Clancy's recent change in behaviour. Mark convinces Sonny Clancy is living a double life and is being blackmailed — just like in Sonny's novel. While Sonny waits to catch the blackmailer, Matt follows Clancy in Sydney and discovers the truth.

    Director:Max Varnel
    Writer:Ross Napier

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  11. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 20 - Marco Polo
    6.2/10(11 votes)

    #11 - Marco Polo

    S2:E20

    As Sonny urges his brother on, Matt plays along with Mark's plans of going on an around-the-world bicycle trip with a friend realising there are enough obstacles to halt the trip without him putting his foot down.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Moya Wood

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  12. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 21 - Wombat
    6.2/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Wombat

    S2:E21

    Sonny finds an orphaned baby wombat and brings it back to Ranger Headquarters where it runs amok. While Sonny goes in seach of the mother, Mark and Clancy must help with Sonny's exams and Matt calls from Sydney is need of some important paperwork.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Ross Napier

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  13. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 31 - Hi Fi
    6.2/10(12 votes)

    #13 - Hi Fi

    S2:E31

    Mark's homemade Hi-Fi stereo comes in handy when the radio at Ranger Headquarters is knocked out during a storm preventing Mark from delivering his father an urgent warning about a damaged bridge.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Ron McLean

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  14. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 Episode 35 - The Bushrangers
    6.3/10(20 votes)

    #14 - The Bushrangers

    S1:E35

    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 sloppy mud fight.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 19 - Surprise! Surprise!
    6.3/10(11 votes)

    #15 - Surprise! Surprise!

    S2:E19

    Clancy thinks no one has remembered her birthday unaware that Mark has been planning a surprise party. Matt and Clancy run aground in the Ranger boat and nearly miss the party when they must walk back to Ranger Headquarters.

    Director:Max Varnel
    Writer:Moya Wood

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  16. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 Episode 31 - Date in Dalmar
    6.4/10(14 votes)

    #16 - Date in Dalmar

    S1:E31

    With Sonny Hammond as a hostage and a rifle pointed at Head Ranger Matt Hammond's head, bank robber Keeler forces Matt to drive him from Waratah National Park to keep his rendezvous with accomplices.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Ross Napier

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  17. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 Episode 32 - The Empty Chair
    6.4/10(16 votes)

    #17 - The Empty Chair

    S1:E32

    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.

    Director:Max Varnel
    Writer:Ross Napier

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  18. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 22 - Axeman
    6.4/10(14 votes)

    #18 - Axeman

    S2:E22

    A professional woodchopper practicing illegally in the National Park solves a problem for Jerry by helping him and Mark clear land for an emergency helipad. When the axeman's competition sabotages his car in an attempt to prevent him from competing, Skippy comes to his aid.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Scotty Denholm

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  19. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 36 - Bon Voyage
    6.4/10(14 votes)

    #19 - Bon Voyage

    S2:E36

    Clancy's time with the Hammond family appears to be at an end when she sits her final music exam. Her departure is ensured when she wins a prestigious scholarship to study music in London. Sir Adrian asks Matt to select a Ranger to go oversees to work in Sherwood Forrest.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Lee Robinson

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  20. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 Episode 15 - My Best Friend
    6.5/10(16 votes)

    #20 - My Best Friend

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown

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  21. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 2 Episode 18 - Shark Taggers
    6.5/10(12 votes)

    #21 - Shark Taggers

    S2:E18

    When Sonny and Skippy help an attractive young scientist in her research work on sharks, only the last minute arrival of Jerry and Mark in the Ranger helicopter can save them from a school of maneaters.

    Director:Max Varnel
    Writer:Valerie Taylor

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  22. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 3 Episode 3 - The Prince of Siam
    6.5/10(14 votes)

    #22 - The Prince of Siam

    S3:E3

    Sonny gets a job with a local market gardener so he can earn some pocket money to donate to charity. Skippy asks his bush friends to help search for a lost cat — a potentially expensive rescue for Matt.

    Director:Peter Maxwell
    Writer:Phyllis McLean

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  23. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 3 Episode 5 - El Toro
    6.5/10(14 votes)

    #23 - El Toro

    S3:E5

    The animal and patrons of Waratah National Park run for cover when a bull gets loose and runs amok.

    Director:Eric Fullilove
    Writer:Ted Roberts

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  24. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 Episode 10 - Time and Tide
    6.6/10(18 votes)

    #24 - Time and Tide

    S1:E10

    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

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  25. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 Episode 37 - Be Our Guest
    6.6/10(13 votes)

    #25 - Be Our Guest

    S1:E37

    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 Head Ranger Matt Hammond has been looking after the teenaged house-guest. A band of aboriginal nomads find Clancy and bring her back to headquarters, just in time.

    Director:Max Varnel
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Man From Space" is the worst rated episode of "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Lee Robinson and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/17/1968. This episode scored 5.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Sport of Kings".