#Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

[houseofcatwic]

1960s SKIPPY Jigsaw puzzles.

[enbycrip]

Late-night conversation with my OH idea: a remake of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo in the mould of Confessions of a Justified Sinner, where the protagonist first slowly comes to realise that Skippy is pushing the kids into wells, into the path of bushfires etc etc, then even more slowly comes to realise that Skippy is either some part of himself, his dark alter ego, or the devil himself in the form of an increasingly homicidal mangaroo…

[mishalogic]

Sleigh ride to billycart ride Santo likes to change to Australia Reindeer to kangaroo Led by "skippy" the bush kangaroo bringing Santa to the children of Australia Merry Christmas Santa and kids ... Misha

[sohannabarberaesque]

In conversation one evening between Hokey Wolf and Ding-a-Ling at their bungalow, rather than watching TV as was starting to get rather predictable

HOKEY WOLF, in his best Sgt. Bilko-type goloss: Is it any wonder, Ding, they don't call me "Hokey Wolf" for nothing? Let alone still recalling some rather hokey "boy-rescued-by-animal"-type dramas such as Lassie, Flipper and Skippy the Bush Kangaroo as well--no wonder they were rife for parody! DING-A-LING, quick to add his quarter: I believe there was an episode of The Flintstones as spoofed the whole Lassie schtick; I assume you still recall it in one way or another ... HOKEY WOLF: Thank you, Ding, for the aide-memoire! And what's more, this whole "Timmy's-fallen-down-the-well" trope those particular shows seemed to rely on as a plot device must probably be getting hackneyed, if not already! And come to think of it-- DING-A-LING, interjecting: At least our own Funtastic kind manages to be a breath of fresh air in the face of hokey predictability--no pun intended! [Hokey pats his Ding-a-Ling on the head] HOKEY WOLF, even more excited in the Sgt. Bilko mold: That's certainly using the old head, Ding, if you ask me ... How about maybe a weekend's diving holiday sometime?! DING-A-LING, enthused like an excited schoolboy: HOKEY IS MY HERO!!!

[highbrow-hepcat]

[unbound-space-trash]

bo-katan: what’s that, kid?

grogu: *frantic baby noises*

bo-katan: din djarin’s stuck in the mines?

[sgiandubh]

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

In the jungle, the mighty jungle I spy some refugees...

Why on Earth would a 44 year old bachelor buy and/or display an Australian kangaroo mascot, in his 44 year old bachelor trailer, nonetheless?

Why would the above kangaroo lie down so nonchalantly in the above trailer, like the last GLA drunkard?

Who played with Skippy the Bush Kangaroo? Same 44 year old bachelor?

Oh, give me a break, here. 😉

[humble-humbler]

Skippy ....... the bush ...... Kangaroo?!

The way he ......... SKIPS ........... off ....... he does remind me of the TV series ........... "Skippy the bush Kangaroo?!!"

[enpr-ss]

1 HOUR LONG RUN?! HE WOULDNT FARM THAT LONG WOULD HE?

He doesn’t recognize the bony ravagers lol. “You gotta feed the ravagers they’re skins and bones!” LOL.

Also the amount of cards he has is just visually intimidating.

The joy in his voice every time loot n scoot plays.

He just can’t stop hitting these pressure plates. LOL HE THREW A BERRY INSTEAD OF THE COMPASS. dude needs to stop jumping onto the pressure plates. He’s just booking it out because he’s scared. And of course he gets bounding strides as he is being chased by a ravager to go right over the jump boost wall. HOW DID HE FALL IN JUMP BOOST?!? THERES LITERALLY A JUMP BOOST BYPASS FOR THE CHAIN PARKOUR. AND HE DOES IT AGAIN!!! DOES HE NOT KNOW ABOUT THE PATH? He could have made it on the second try but now the ravager’s there.

Ravager ping pong is always so funky to watch. What do you mean very hard to do with bounding strides etho please. THERES A BYPASS SPECIFICALLY FOR BOUNDING STRIDES. how does he fall into the same pit 3 times WITH bounding strides. HE GOT BOUNDING STRIDES AGAIN?!? AND HES GOING TO WAIT FOR IT TO END BEFORE GETTING OUT?!? WHY. I’m having a breakdown watching this. I’m losing my mind. Tango is also correct; there’s other ways besides the chain parkour and he has jump boost AND armor. He can take 2 ravager hits. “But they’re not blocked because you have jump boost, skippy” TANGO LOL.

Is this really our champion. The best player. The winner of phases 3 and 4?

“We’re going to get it first try” *takes berry damage* AND HE FALLS DOWN FOR FOURTH TIME. THE RAVAGER ISNT EVEN INTERESTED IN HIM ANYMORE BUT GETS LINE OF SIGHT BECAUSE HE LINGERED TOO LONG ON THE WRONG END. How does someone fall into the same pit 5 times. He was almost out of there. “How many times can I fail this?” “You’ve surprised me so far” Tango absolutely obliterating this man. Good. And he finally realizes the jump boost bypass. The regret in his voice. Delicious. He’s begging, weeping and wailing and cowering in the pit. Keep it coming this is fantastic. “I’m safe to come up now” as the ravagers wanders closer LOL. THE DUNGEON TRULY IS YANKING HIS CHAIN HAHAHAA. where are your Jedi mind tricks now Etho? Look at him yelling and pleading with the ravager. Pearl logging in just to roast him. We love it. NOW THERE ARE TWO RAVAGERS LOL. IM LAUGHING SO HARD IM CRYING. He’s overloaded with sounds and no one has any pity for him. We’re too busy laughing. Kangaroo Master LOL. NUMBER 6 HAHAHA

lackey on demand for 30 crowns honestly not a bad idea. LET HER IN!! LET HER KILL! 7 times. This is a farce. “That was a bad booping.” That llama idea by Pearl is brilliant. The shame, the humiliation of dying by being literally spat on. Definitely should be the path of the coward death. Meatball and Snausages LOL.

New plan to live in the dungeon? DUNGEON LET’S PLAY CUB HAHAHA.

AND TANGO GOES IN JUST TO PUNCH HIM. OH MY GOD. PEAK COMEDY. “I can’t believe this. It’s ridiculous at this point. What are you doing?” Eat your own words Etho.

AND HE’S OUT!!! AFTER LIKE 20 MINUTES. Is he literally going to go camp the berry bush. Just live in the treat or trick hut. I’m losing it. IS HE GOING TO RUTSY? I HATE HIM SO MUCH. 12 CROWNS AND 53 EMBERS?!?! DIE. “Just a little more berries and I’ll go just trust me IM GOING Don’t let Gem in” most pathetic man ever.

HES JUST BEELINIG TO ALL BERRIES LOL. AND THE RAVAGER IN THE WATER HAZARD IN THE CRYPT AGAIN. NOT AGAIN. NOT THIS CAMPING AGAIN.

“Oh no you might hit max clank soon” tango stop LOL. “Which year?” LOL. THE HAZARD BERRY BUSH IS INSANE. IT REGREW INSTANTLY TWICE. AND HES JUST THROWING COINS AND KEYS INTO THE LAVA.

AND HE FAILS!! AND DIES TO A VEX!! YAY!!!! GET HIM GEM!!! GET HIS ASS!!

A lava bucket at max clank! Making it worse for himself! Etho’s run was so long that the server died HA.

This run as long as one of my reaction posts.

[ropermike]

Ed Devereaux and Ken James in Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo - "Esmeralda". More pics here.

An old woman seeks revenge on Matt and his sons.

[teaforce-steph]

One of my favorite things about the Zelda series is just people reacting to Link as if he's Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

Link: [Gesticulating wildly without saying a word]

Stablehand: "What's that, Skip? The chicken fell down the well?!"

[scotianostra]

"There's been a murder!" arguably the most uttered phrase ever by a Scottish TV cop and on February 21st 1935 the man himself, Mark McManus was born.

Taggart star Mark McManus, despite dying aged just 59, in 1994, lived more lives than most. Hamilton-born Mark had already been a miner, a docker, and an amateur boxer before he took up acting - in Australia, where he shared screen time with both Skippy The Bush Kangaroo, and Mick Jagger, in director Tony Richardson's 1970 take on the Ned Kelly story

Returning home in 1971, McManus appeared in productions at the Royal Court and the National Theatre, playing alongside such actors as Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. But it was not until 1983 that he found the role which he was born to play, Tough Glasgow polisman, Jim Taggart. To some critics, the character veered into the danger zone of caricature: the sort of Glaswegian hardnut who could be summed up by all those cliched epithets: 'dour', 'gruff', 'gritty', 'stony-faced', he certainly carried off the part with ease.

He may have come across all of them, but in real life Mark loved a wee laugh to himself, one anecdote I found to confirm this relates to last weeks birthday girl, Annette Crosbie, who incidentally attended Edinburgh's Boroughmuir School with my Uncle Edmund!.

Anyway Annette featured in a 1987 edition of Taggart. Being a perfectionist, she kept asking McManus to rehearse together. McManus, who usually read over his lines just once before filming, became so annoyed that during one scene he went to light her cigarette and "accidentally" burnt away part of her wig with an extra-long flame (a gaff which later featured on It'll be Alright on the Night). While making the next episode, McManus quipped to a co-star, "I hope you're not gonna be any trouble or I'll set you on fire like the last one!"

McManus was a graduate summa cum laude of the 'Less Is More' School of Acting.

An average of 13 million viewers (including, it is said, the Queen Mother) agreed. Taggart became as synonymous with Glasgow as Inspector Morse is with Oxford. The programme is now Scottish Television's biggest money-earner, playing in over 60 countries, including Afghanistan, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Brunei and Bosnia. Wonder how they all translated the word "murd'rrr"?!!?

[smokygluvs]

Vivian Leopold James - 1939-2019

Australia's greatest export? Well, Clive James certainly beats Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

Not only a man that I wanted to have me from a very young age, but also, as I grew older, a man I would have liked to have had as a friend (sexual or not).

Poet, TV critic, writer, intellectual, broadcaster, journalist and professional Australian. He left Sydney in 1962 for Cambridge and (apart from visits) never went back.

He had an intense regard but also a ready wit and smile and a fantastic voice and broadcast delivery. Check out his "Postcard" travelogue series or "Clive James on TV".

A heavy smoker, not known for cigars, but there are a few (like this publicity still for "Postcard from Havana". No pipe or glove photos as far as I can find. Let me know if you spot any.

Even in later years, he retained his wit, his intellect and his looks.

[coveredinbees]

Settle an argument for me.

Edit: goddamn it, I'm already losing this argument.

[glenhannah]

TV Week / TV Times cover gallery.

TV Times was and TV Week is (it’s still going) two popular TV publications that competed against each other in the 1960s and 1970s in Australia. Local and international celebrities adorned the covers

Above: Belinda Montgomery from Bewitched and an autographed David (Man from Uncle) McCallum cover.

Below: They may have been television guides but when Beatlemania exploded they knew that putting the mop tops on the front cover could dramatically increase sales. This issue features the lyrics to 10 Beatles tunes.

Above: I think this is promoting the NEW Phil Silvers Show that came about in the 1960s.

Below: British actress Hayley Mills.

Above: Mod Squad was popular in Australia and Peggy Lipton was invited to The Logies as a special guest. The Logies or Logie Awards (named after TV pioneer inventor John Logie Baird) are an annual awards show for the best in Australian TV. Michael Cole also attended the awards a few years later and caused a minor scandal when he got drunk and swore on stage.

Above: Ann-Margaret

Below: Get Smart was phenomenally popular in Australia. Episodes were repeated endlessly into the 1970s and 80s

Below: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was a Children’s series that became iconic and gained international appeal.

Below: TV Wrestling was also hugely popular in Australia and featured local and international names. Look at those faces. Mario Milano was a local legend.

[oldshowbiz]

The New Adventures of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo