Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series for children created by John McCallum, produced from 1966–68, telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, in the (fictional) Waratah National Park, near Sydney, New South Wales.
Ninety-one 30-minute episodes were made over the three seasons of production. Although, at the time of first screening, Australian television was still in black and white, the show was filmed in colour on 16 mm film to increase its international marketability, most notably in the United States and Canada, where it aired in syndication between 1969 and 1972. The Nine Network readily repeated the series several times after Australian television switched to colour transmission in 1975.
