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When Dot's koala friend develops an eye disease that is devastating the koala population, Dot takes to Hollywood in an effort to raise the funds needed for an operation to cure him.
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The film opens with two cards, reminiscent of the cards used between scenes in silent films, reading, 'Yoram Gross and Dot and the Kangaroo salute one hundred years of Hollywood'.
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A series of animated films (against live-action backgrounds) produced by Yoram Gross Film Studios between 1977 (Dot and the Kangaroo) and 1994 (Dot in Space).
Inspired by Ethel Pedley's novel Dot and the Kangaroo, the films soon branch out into unique storylines.
