As of July 2026, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 aired in 1968 with 39 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1

1968 39 Episodes Family ⭐ 6/10

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 has built a real following among viewers who do not usually seek out animation. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. Its 6/10 TMDB score, built from 20 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Watch it in order — the character development is cumulative. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Visually distinctive and narratively ambitious, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 operates well above the genre average. Season 1 of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo includes 39 episodes. It aired from February 1968 to October 1968. This season stars Ed Devereaux, Garry Pankhurst and Ken James. Ed Devereaux and Garry Pankhurst lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1968. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 uses the freedom of animation to tell stories live-action could not attempt. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Genuinely enjoyable for a wide range of viewers, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 treats animation as a delivery mechanism, not a limitation. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Ed Devereaux brings more to the role than the format usually demands. A harder one to justify skipping than to start.

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🎬 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
Poachers
1968-02-05
Sonny, Mark and Jerry investigate an expensive game fishing cruiser with three men aboard after Skippy and Sonny came across men trapping animals in the bush at night. Swimming out to the cruiser, Jerry overhears a conversation which indicates the men are stealing koalas for Dr. Stark's private zoo.
E2
Sports Car Rally
1968-05-09
An invasion of sports cars threatens the life of protected fauna in Waratah National Park, but when Matt leads a rescue squad to save the life of a driver pinned under his car in a serious accident, the rally organisers gratefully decide on another venue.
E3
The Golden Reef
1968-05-16
Skin-diving geologists discover aluvial gold on a reef at Seal Rocks, in the mouth of the Flinders River. Thieves move in armed with deadly spear guns, and once again Matt, Sonny and Skippy are there to stop them.
E4
Long Way Home
1968-05-23
Dr. Alexander Stark is determined to have Skippy for his private zoo. When Matt Hammond refuses to sell at any price, Stark has two of his henchman steal the kangaroo and she begins a tense series of adventures to find her way home.
E5
Cage of Koalas
1968-05-30
A research scientist who is to study marsupial wildlife at Waratah National Park turns out to be an attractive young woman. Her methods anger Chief Ranger Matt Hammond and she has to be rescued from serious trouble on a koala trapping foray into the lonely bush.
E6
The Lyre Bird
1968-06-06
Sonny makes a new friend Lisa, a young ballerina. Together they find an aged Botanist who has been missing in Waratah National Park and, with Skippy's help, bring about his rescue.
E7
Dead or Alive
1968-06-13
A mysterious disease threatens to wipe out all animals in Waratah National Park, and evidence points to Skippy as the carrier. Sonny is heartbroken at the possibility of losing Skippy, and disappears into the bush with the kangaroo. There he comes across a poacher, and Dr. Steiner discovers that the...
E8
The Marine Biologist
1968-06-20
Mark is unhappy when his father, Matt Hammond, tells him to accompany a marine biologist who wants to collect underwater specimens. But his misery turns to delight when he discovers that the marine biologist is a spunky young woman. The two of them quickly find themselves having to rescue Skippy and...
E9
No Time For Clancy
1968-06-27
Matt Hammond is faced with a human problem when one of his rangers moves to a new nature reserve up north, taking his wife and sons but leaving his daughter Clancy, who has exams pending, to board with the Hammonds. Clancy is in trouble from the moment she comes to stay, and she gets the idea she is...
E10
Time and Tide
1968-07-04
While working on a project for Dr Steiner, Clancy encounters trouble and is in risk of drowning when her leg becomes trapped underwater.
E11
Can You Keep A Secret?
1968-07-11
Sonny takes Clancy to his secret hideout where the pair are taken hostage by an escaped convict. Skippy brings help and jumps on the convict, allowing Sonny to get free of his clutches and for Matt to overpower the criminal.
E12
The Swagman
1968-07-18
An old tramp, Trundle, looking for odd jobs, fascinates Sonny with tales of adventure. However, Matt Hammond believes the stories are figments of Trundle's imagination and considers it a bad association for Sonny. Trouble begins when the old swagman gives Sonny an expensive antique watch as a partin...
E13
The Honeymooners
1968-07-25
When the greedy wife of a rich husband tries to trap Skippy, wanting her skin for a fur coat, Sonny finds himself locked in the cabin of a speeding cruiser, with no-one but Skippy aboard to help him.
E14
Many Happy Returns
1968-08-01
Sonny's birthday wish comes true — a ride in the helicopter, but not the way he expects. While flying over Sydney, Flight Ranger Jerry King collapses, leaving Sonny alone with the controls. To save their lives, Matt tries to use a tranquilizer gun to deliver the medicine to Jerry while flying alongs...
E15
My Best Friend
1968-08-02
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 prestig...
E16
When the Bough Breaks
1968-08-08
Skippy rescues a baby from drowning when the child's pram rolls into the river. Skippy alerts Sonny who brings the baby back to the house just as Matt, Jerry, and Mark are leaving to help the distraught parents search for their lost baby.
E17
The Waratah Festival
1968-08-09
A diamond thief loses a valuable necklace while on the run from the police in the park. The thief sees Skippy find it and places it in her pouch and follows her back to the ranger station where the Hammonds are busy building a parade float. The thief stows away on the float and a dramatic fight brea...
E18
Summer Storm
1968-08-15
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...
E19
The Rustlers
1968-08-16
Sonny, helped by Skippy, takes a job with a team of sheep shearers, not knowing they are rustlers, to earn money to buy a birthday present for his father. His absence from home puts Matt Hammond on the track of the three strange characters who have developed a variation of sheep rustling — they only...
E20
Double Trouble
1968-08-22
Matt Hammond's boss and a government Senator decide to sack him after it appears that Matt has run their car off the road and threatened them. It transpires that Dr. Stark has hired an actor to impersonate Matt Hammond in order to discredit him, but the whole scheme backfires and Dr. Stark has to ho...

🎭 Cast of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Season 1

Ed Devereaux
Ed Devereaux
Matt Hammond
GP
Garry Pankhurst
Sonny Hammond
Ken James
Ken James
Mark Hammond
Tony Bonner
Tony Bonner
Jerry King

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