A 'second-generation' Skippy, with Ranger Hammond's younger son Sonny grown up and running an animal-based theme park, Habitat, on Australia's Gold Coast, in company with his ten-year-old twins, Jerry and Lou. The theme park is adjacent to a national park, bringing in Ranger Dave as a character, along with Sonny Hammond's housekeeper Thelma and assistant Kate.
Skippy
Lee Robinson
,
Dennis Hill
,
( dir. Eric Fullilove
et. al. )agent
1966
Australia
:
Nine Network
Fauna Productions
,
1968-1970
Z1624851
1966
series - publisher
film/TV
Set in the fictional Waratah National Park (NSW), the Skippy series focuses largely on the adventures of a young boy, Sonny Hammond, and his intelligent pet kangaroo, Skippy. Sonny is the youngest child of Head Ranger Matt Hammond. Matt was left a widower in his early forties when his wife Mary died not long after Sonny was born. Other principal characters are Sonny's older brother Mark, Flight Ranger Jerry King (the park's helicopter pilot), and Ranger Clancy Merrick, the teenage daughter of another park ranger.
Skippy and the Bird Smugglers
Sydney
:
Ashton Scholastic
,
1992
Z849030
1992
single work
children's fiction
children's
adventure
