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Hide And Seek (Skippy The Bush Kangaroo)
This is the list of episodes for the original ''Skippy the Bush Kangaroo ''Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'' (known commonly as ''Skippy'') is an Australian television series created by Australian actor John McCallum, Lionel (Bob) Austin, and Lee Robinson, produced from 1967 to 1969 (airing from 5 February 1968 to 4 May 1 ...'' series, aired from 1968 to 1970. It has been difficult to determine a proper order for Skippy episodes. The official numbering has many anomalies. The airdate order is also difficult to obtain, as the series was screened in a completely different sequence in different cities. Season 1 (1968) Season 2 (1968-1969) Season 3 (1970) {{DEFAULTSORT:Skippy the Bush Kangaroo episodes, List of Lists of Australian children's television series episodes Skippy the Bush Kangaroo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
''Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'' (known commonly as ''Skippy'') is an Australian television series created by Australian actor John McCallum, Lionel (Bob) Austin, and Lee Robinson, produced from 1967 to 1969 (airing from 5 February 1968 to 4 May 1970) about the adventures of a young boy and his highly intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park, filmed in today's Waratah Park and adjoining portions of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park near Sydney. Three series comprising 91 30-minute episodes were produced. Additionally, a full-length film titled '' Skippy and the Intruders'' was released to theatres in 1969. Plot and setting Skippy, the show's namesake star, is a female eastern grey kangaroo, that is befriended by 9-year-old Sonny Hammond, who with 16-year-old brother Mark are the children of widower Matt Hammond, the head ranger of Waratah National Park. The stories revolved around events in the park, including its animals, the danger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Crocker
Barry Hugh Crocker (born 4 November 1935 Official Barry Crocker website) is an Australian -winning character actor, television personality, singer, and variety entertainer with a vocal style. Crocker is known for his iconic Australian films during the 1970s, including '' The Adventures of Barry McKenzie'' (1972) and its sequel, '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Adams (actor)
Peter John Adams (18 May 1938 – 13 December 1999) was a New Zealand-born Australian actor, best remembered for his performances on Australian television in soap operas and serials. Born in Taumarunui, King Country, North Island, New Zealand, Adams later emigrated to Australia. He was married to actress Kirsty Child. Career Adams appeared in the Australian soap opera ''Number 96'' as Andy Marshall in 1974-75 and had a five-week stint in medical soap opera ''The Young Doctors'' as comedian, Clarrie Baker in 1977. Adams' defining role came in 1977 when he was cast as a leading character, Detective Jeff Johnson, in the police procedural series ''Cop Shop''. His character "JJ" became a hit with audiences, winning Adams several Logies. In 1980 he won Best Lead Actor in a Series and in 1981, the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor. He left that series for a role in musical theatre, but later returned, staying until the series was cancelled in December 1983. He subsequently appeare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Ferrier
Noel Ferrier Member of the Order of Australia, AM (20 December 193016 October 1997) was an Australian television personality, comedian, stage and film actor, raconteur, and theatrical producer. He was a regular panelist in Graham Kennedy's popular game show ''Blankety Blanks (Australian game show), Blankety Blanks''. His movie credits include ''Avengers of the Reef'' (1973), ''Alvin Purple'' (1973), ''Alvin Rides Again'' (1974), ''Scobie Malone (film), Scobie Malone'' (1975), ''Deathcheaters'' (1976), ''Eliza Fraser (film), Eliza Fraser'' (1976), ''Turkey Shoot (1982 film), Turkey Shoot'' (1982), ''The Year of Living Dangerously (film), The Year of Living Dangerously'' (1982), and ''Backstage (1988 film), Backstage'' (1988). He received an AFI nomination for Best Actor for his role in ''Eliza Fraser''. His final movie role was in ''Paradise Road (1997 film), Paradise Road'' (1997). Death Noel Ferrier died 15 October 1997 in Sydney, aged 66, reportedly from a heart attack. Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Hull
Rodney Stephen Hull (13 August 1935 – 17 March 1999) was a British comedian and popular entertainer on television in the 1970s and 1980s. He rarely appeared without Emu, a mute and highly aggressive arm-length puppet modelled on the Australian bird. Early life Hull was born on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England in 1935. He attended Delamark Road School and the County Technical School, Sheerness. After national service with the Royal Air Force, he qualified as an electrician. TV career Australia Hull moved to Australia in 1956. His first job in television was as a lighting technician with TCN Channel 9 in Sydney. He then began appearing on air, including as Constable Clot in Channel 9's ''Kaper Kops'' with Reg Gorman and Desmond Tester, a regular segment in its children's afternoon programming. Clot proved popular and soon gained his own segment, ''Clot in the Clouds'', which depicted him daydreaming about having other professions, such as a world-famous brain surgeon, 'Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Dence
Margaret Helen Dence (born 1 February 1942) is an Australian actress of stage and screen, with a career spanning some seven decades. She is equally at home in both comedy and drama roles. Dence is best known to early audiences for her roles in the satirical TV comedy ''The Mavis Bramston Show'', and also serving as that series' mascot (originally portrayed in the pilot by Noeline Brown). Dence featured in comedy ''Kingswood Country'' with stars Ross Higgins and Judi Farr as snobbish Merle Bullpit. Her dramatic roles she is known for were in TV series ''The Sullivans'' as Rose Sullivan, ''Prisoner'' as Bev Baker and ''Neighbours'' as school headmistress Dorothy Burke. Professional career TV and film ''Mavis Bramston'' and ''Kingswood Country'' Dence played various characters influential Australian satirical sketch comedy program ''The Mavis Bramston Show'' from 1966 and 1968. One of her characters was the title character Mavis Bramston – the joke being that Mavis appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Caton
Michael Caton (born 21 July 1943) is an Australian actor, comedian and television host, best known for playing Uncle Harry in the Australian television series '' The Sullivans'', Darryl Kerrigan in 1997's low-budget hit film '' The Castle'', and Ted Taylor in the television series '' Packed to the Rafters''. Early life Caton was born in Monto, Queensland, was educated in Gympie at St Patrick's College, a Boarding School, where he had his first experience as an actor, and then grew up in Woolloongabba, Brisbane. Media career Television In 1976, Caton starred as Uncle Harry Sullivan in the long running Channel 9 war family drama ''The Sullivans''. Caton starred in the Australian drama series '' Five Mile Creek'' from 1983 until 1985. He then appeared in the risqué 1990s soap opera '' Chances'' (in 1991 and 1992). Since 1999, Caton has hosted two lifestyle programs – '' Hot Property'' and '' Hot Auctions'' – on the Seven Network until 2009, and Channel Nine since 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Thompson (actor)
John Hadley Thompson, AM (né Pain; born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and a major figure of Australian cinema, particularly Australian New Wave. He is best known for his role as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films, including such classics as '' The Club'' (1980), '' Sunday Too Far Away'' (1975), '' The Man from Snowy River'' (1982) and '' Petersen'' (1974). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society, and was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards. Early life Born John Hadley Pain in Manly, a suburb of Sydney, Thompson was five years old when his mother Marjorie died, leaving his father Harold (a purser for Qantas seconded to the RAAF during the war) unable to care for him and his brother, David. He was sent to "LakeHouse orphanage" in Narrabeen by his aunt and subsequently adopted by the poet and ABC broadcaster Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Meillon
John Meillon ( ; 1 May 1934 – 11 August 1989) was an Australian character actor known for dramatic as well as comedy roles. He portrayed Walter Reilly in the films '' Crocodile Dundee'' and '' Crocodile Dundee II''. He also voiced advertisements for Victoria Bitter beer. He appeared in several Australian New Wave films including '' Wake in Fright'' and '' The Cars That Ate Paris''. Early life Meillon was born in Mosman, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. His younger brother was director Bob Meillon (1943–2012). Career Acting Meillon began his acting career at the age of eleven in the ABC's radio serial ''Stumpy'', and made his first stage appearance the following year. He joined the John Alden Shakespeare Touring Company when he was sixteen. He appeared in a number of early Australian TV plays. Like many actors of his generation from 1959 to 1965, he worked in England, but while working in Britain he consciously steered away from Australian roles. Meillon claimed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liza Goddard
Louise Elizabeth Goddard (born 20 January 1950), professionally known as Liza Goddard, is an English television and stage actress, best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Goddard was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire.Before 1 April 1974 Smethwick was in Staffordshire She is the daughter of David Goddard (1925–1992), who produced and directed numerous TV shows and programmes, and his wife Clare. Her parents met in Germany. Her sister is Maria. Clare trained in rep, and appeared in television adverts. They lived at Heath End, Surrey then at 10 Weybourne Rd in Weybourne, Surrey, and in Frensham, then 'Huffins' in Tilford. Maria and Liza performed in the Junior Tilford Players. She attended Farnham Girls' Grammar School, before her father moved the family to Sydney, when she was 15 in April 1965, upon his appointment as Head of Drama at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Career Goddard made early television appearances in Australia, including episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randwick Racecourse
Royal Randwick Racecourse is a racecourse for horse racing located in the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. Randwick Racecourse is Crown Land leased to the Australian Turf Club and known to many Sydney racegoers as headquarters. The racecourse is located about six kilometres south-east from the Sydney Central Business District in the suburb of Randwick. The course proper has a circumference of 2224m with a home straight of 410m. On 14 October 2017, the inaugural running of The Everest was held at Royal Randwick. The Everest is the richest race in Australia and the richest turf race in the world with $15 million in prize money. Since 2014, Randwick hosts The Championships, a two-day season-ending meeting in April that offers over AUD$20 million in prize money. It features several Group One, Group 1 races such as the Australian Derby, Doncaster Handicap and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (ATC), Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Other annual events inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Fennell
William John Fennell (20 January 1920 – 9 September 1992) was an Australian radio, television (serials and mini-series), stage and film actor, comedian, producer, radio scriptwriter and writer who appeared in many Australian television series in a lengthy career spanning over 50 years, recognised by his slightly nasal, raspy voice, moustache and pork pie hat. As a comedian, his style was stated as a sad humour worth more than a belly-laugh and said to be contrasted with the blue comedy of contemporary performer Roy Rene. He appeared in numerous films, TV movies, miniseries and series, but is probably best known for his longer running roles in ''The Young Doctors'' as Arthur Simmonds and '' Sons and Daughters'' as Spider Webb. Biography Early life Fennell was born to William Hugh Fennell, a vocational trainer, and his wife Alma Doris (née Tie). After finding employment as a travelling salesman, he pursued interests in scriptwriting, tap dancing, radio entertaining and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
