Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown
Title card
Genre	Animated series
Created by	John McCallum (original TV series)
Based on	Skippy the Bush Kangaroo by Fauna Productions
Written by	John Palmer [1] Paul Lacy Sally Odgers Carol Adams
Directed by	Yoram Gross
Starring	Jamie Oxenbould Robyn Moore Keith Scott
Music by	Guy Gross
Opening theme	"Skippy Adventures in Bushtown" by Keith Scott
Ending theme	"Skippy Adventures in Bushtown" (instrumental)
Country of origin	Australia France Germany
Original languages	English French German
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producers	Sandra Gross Tim Brooke-Hunt
Producer	Yoram Gross
Running time	25 minutes
Production companies	Yoram Gross-Village Roadshow International Tele Images Videal GmbH
Original release
Network	Nine Network
Release	5 September 1998 (1998-09-05) – 26 February 1999 (1999-02-26) [2]

Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown (also known as Skippy: Adventures in Bushland) is an Australian animated children's series created by Yoram Gross, set in a fictionalised Australian town. It is based on the character Skippy from the 1968 live-action series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.^[3]

It differs from the other Skippy series as it is animated and features anthropomorphic characters. Skippy, for example, is an anthropomorphic, male kangaroo who wears a baseball cap and is depicted as a Park Ranger of the fictional town of Bushtown.^[4]

Premise

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (voiced by Jamie Oxenbould) is a young park ranger who resides in Bushtown. He always happens to get in the way of Mayor Croco, his greedy wife Suka, his pack of goons, and his frequent get-rich schemes which often endanger the town.^[5][6]

Characters

• Skippy: A bush kangaroo and the protagonist. He works as the park ranger of Bushtown. He is a very thoughtful, caring, dutiful, and well-educated sort doing what he can to keep Bushtown in order and its people happy.
• Matilda Roo: A bush kangaroo who casts the news on television around Bushtown and the host of Bushtown Tonight. Usually, she is first on the scene and she's a good friend of Skippy, open to his ideas. In "Bye Bye Birdies," Skippy is implied to have a crush on her.
• Professor Angus McPouch: A Scottish-accented Pelican who invents gizmos to improve progress in Bushtown. Half of his inventions don't always have a successful testing phase.
• Mayor Croco: A crocodile and the primary antagonist. He starts out as a garbage collector and becomes mayor of Bushtown by a pure stroke of luck, but he doesn't do his fair service for the people and regards Skippy as a hindrance to his campaign.
• Damon: A rat and one of Croco's goons who serves as his chauffeur, with a voice based on former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
• Sirloin: A bull and one of Croco's goons, with a voice-based on Sylvester Stallone.
• Bruiser: A boar and another of Croco's goons, with a voice based on Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Suka: Croco's spoiled and prissy wife with an obsession for cleanliness.
• Pos: A possum cameraman, with a voice that resembles that of Eddie Murphy. His character design and voice is reused from Slick, who appeared in two episodes of Blinky Bill.
• Bomba: A wombat boom operator for Matilda's shows.
• Mayor Plato Bill: The previous mayor of Bushtown who had been in service for 50 years before Croco.^[7]
• Mr. Roge: The recorded producer teaching Suka to sing.
• Mrs. Kooka: a kookaburra and Professor McPouch's maid. Unalike most other female characters, Kooka is voiced by Keith Scott
• Rowdy: a rat is Captain Numbat's assistant.
• Giselle: a koala who wears a magenta dress and a yellow bow. She is reused as Myrtle in Blinky Bill.

Voice cast

• Jamie Oxenbould as Skippy
• Robyn Moore as Matilda, Suka, other characters
• Keith Scott as Mayor Croco, Damon, Bruiser, Sirloin, Pos, Bomba, Professor McPouch, Mrs Kooka other characters

Episodes

Film

• Skippy Saves Bushtown, a feature-length special.^[9]

Video games

• Skippy's Cartoon Maker PC game.^[10]
• Skippy: The Curse of the Temple of Ock ^[11]