The Australian Flipper: 'Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'

The format was also a complete rip-off of Flipper: A widowed park ranger with a blond teen-age son, plus a "tween" son who's the closest friend of the family's "wild pet"; some episodes also feature a foreign woman scientist. Which show is it? Either one!

And then the geniuses came up with Gentle Ben, in which Flipper/Skippy became a bear; at least that show had a mom. And little Clint Howard.

And then the geniuses came up with Maya, about Dennis the Menace and his elephant traveling around India with his buddy, looking for his father. See, you don't need imagination to work in television; a Xerox machine will do.

Of course, I watched them all. I can still hum most of the theme from Skippy.

I can't believe you are saying such terrible things about 'Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo'. 4.00pm after school every day in the early 70s. It might be all the OP says, but a little kid doesn't see the terrible storylines, etc. (Although I must admit, even I would laugh at the prosthetic pair of claws.). This was an entertaining and much loved show!!

As the soon-to-be brother in law to an Australian from Toowoombah, I never meant to show any disrespect for Skippy. But maybe it's because I have another 20,000 episodes of this to slog through--to properly honor the gift--that I couldn't help but bias my reporting, and not in Skippy's favor. My wife and I will try our best to be more objective in future adventures. Wish us luck.

Now we can turn down the theme song in the beginning, and that helps a great deal.

"It looks like you could fit his future into about 6 different garbage bags." -"LHTH"

I've watched Skippy soooooooo many times with my grands & great grands that my 4& 5 yr.old great/grands have learned to do the "click" that Skippy is supposed to do-----drives their moms crazy---but I love it. I have to admit that I had a huge crush on Ed Devereaux "aka Matt Hammond" He is/was so{ what's the word girls use now? oh, I remember----H-O-T!!!!!}} THEY SHOULD HAVE LET HIM KEEP HIS WIFE.

Does ANYONE know where I can get the bios of the stars of the skippy show? I know it's sort of self-explanatory, but it is really bugging me----Edward Devereaux {aka Matt Hammond} and his wife Irene/Rene divorced in 1986 and he married a woman named Julie {no last name} the same year-----I can put 2 & 2 together enough to know that something was going on somewhere, but It's really bothering me as to who left whom and for what?

I know you all think I'm crazy, & I probably am, it's just that our daughter was murdered july 3 2003, and he died 5 months later, I just feel some sort of connection with him---{yes, I know you can't understand unless you've walked in my shoes} I like to think of our daughter and him sitting at the river with all my other family that is up there in Heaven, and yes, I did have therapy when she was murdered, but you never ever get over it, or have what people call "closure"Anyway, if any of you know how I can get his complete biography, would you please let me know?

I am very sorry for your tragedy. These are the two most detailed obits I can find, the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Associated Press:




http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/18/1071337092950.html?from=storyrhs

http://priusbb.blogspot.it/2012/03/nsw-skippy-actor-ed-devereaux-dies-in.html




"It looks like you could fit his future into about 6 different garbage bags." -"LHTH"