"The Intruders (1969 film) The Intruders (also known as Skippy and the Intruders) is a 1969 Australian film directed by Lee Robinson. It is a spin-off of the popular ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"" TV series. A gang of criminals led by Meredith is looking for sunken treasure off Mallacoota, pretending to be diving for abalone. Sonny, son of Matt Hammond, the Chief Ranger of Waratah National Park, investigates with their family friend, Clancy. Sonny and Clancy are kidnapped. Skippy comes to the rescue. After a speedboat chase and a fight in the sand dunes, Meredith is captured. Filming began in"
"continued to the mid-1970s. The LPs (and the show) often featured vocalists Shirley McDonald (whom Jupp married in the 1960s) and Neil Williams. Jupp soon made a name for himself as a leading composer for film and TV in Australia. Undoubtedly his best-remembered composition is the theme for the hugely popular 1960s TV series ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"". The long version (the B-side on the record) has lyrics written by Ted Roberts. In early 1968 Jupp moved to Norfolk Island, commuting by air to the mainland for his TV, radio and film work. Among his later film and television credits,"
"Ponderosa Ranch The Ponderosa Ranch was a theme park based on the popular 1960s television western ""Bonanza"", which housed the affluent land, timber and livestock-rich Cartwright family. The amusement park operated in Incline Village, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, from 1967 until 2004. Portions of the last five seasons of the TV series and three TV movies were also filmed at that location. The Ponderosa was the fictional setting for ""Bonanza"". According to the 9th episode (""Mr. Henry Comstock"") in the first season, it was a thousand-square mile (640,000 acre or 2,600 km) ranch on the shores of Lake Tahoe, nestled"
"still known as Duffys Wharf and the road is Duffys Track. In the 2016 Census, there were 474 people in Duffys Forest. 76.7% of people were born in Australia and 86.1% of people only spoke English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 32.0%, Catholic 25.9% and Anglican 21.1%. Waratah Park Earth Sanctuary () was a popular tourist attraction in Duffys Forest, famous as the film set of the popular television series ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"". Much of the set and props are still there, although since being closed in August 2009 all of the animals"
"January 2003, after several months' illness. He was survived by his third wife Anita, his two daughters Linda and Catherine, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Eric Jupp Eric Jupp (7 January 1922 – 2 January 2003) was a British-born musician, composer, arranger and conductor who gained wide popularity in Australia after settling there in the 1960s, hosting a long-running light music TV show and composing for film and TV. He is best remembered for his theme music to the TV series ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"". Jupp was born in Brighton in 1922 and began to study piano at seven. He"
"Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown is an 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"". It differs from the other Skippy series as it is animated and features anthropomorphic characters. Skippy, for example, is an anthropomorphic kangaroo who wears a baseball cap. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (voiced by Jamie Oxenbould) is a young park ranger (possibly early 20s) who resides in Bushtown. He always happens to get in the way of Mayor Croco, his greedy wife"
"Sulka, his pack of goons and his frequent get-rich schemes which often endanger the town. Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown is an 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"". It differs from the other Skippy series as it is animated and features anthropomorphic characters. Skippy, for example, is an anthropomorphic kangaroo who wears a baseball cap. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (voiced by Jamie Oxenbould) is a young park ranger (possibly early 20s) who resides in"
"Bony made 50 years ago."" Arthur Upfield's grandson William Upfield looks after the Estate to this day. From 1972 to 1973, Fauna Productions (also responsible for ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"") produced a 26-episode television series. After a long search for a half-white, half-Aborigine actor, the producers chose English actor Jon Finch for the role of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. When he suddenly became unavailable, Fauna's John McCallum flew to London in panic and was lucky enough to audition New Zealand actor James Laurenson on his last day there. Offered the lead role, Laurenson hurriedly flew to Australia, reading ""Bony"" books"
"Eric Jupp Eric Jupp (7 January 1922 – 2 January 2003) was a British-born musician, composer, arranger and conductor who gained wide popularity in Australia after settling there in the 1960s, hosting a long-running light music TV show and composing for film and TV. He is best remembered for his theme music to the TV series ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"". Jupp was born in Brighton in 1922 and began to study piano at seven. He left school and started his musical career at fourteen, playing in nightclubs. He joined the R.A.F. at the outbreak of World War II. When the"
"based in part on the tragic 1949 Mann Gulch fire, was filmed in Montana. Scapegoat Wilderness The Scapegoat Wilderness consists of 239,936 acres (971 km) spread across three different National Forests in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1972, the wilderness is located in Lewis and Clark, Helena and Lolo National Forests. The Scapegoat Wilderness is a part of the 1.5 million acre (6,070 km) Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex as it shares a boundary with the Bob Marshall Wilderness, which in turn is connected to the Great Bear Wilderness further north. U.S. Wilderness Areas"
"Lawler. Also, during this decade, sequences were filmed for the ""Six O'Clock Rock"" and ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"" television series. In 1976, television soap opera ""Number 96"" had characters Dorrie and Herbert Evans, Flo Patterson and junior (Pat McDonald. Ron Shand, (Bunney Brooke) and Kurt Jenson) and visit the park, including scenes of them in Coney Island, eating fairy floss, and riding on the Big Dipper and the Topsy-Turvy House. This footage has been preserved and was featured in ""Number 96: And They Said It Wouldn't Last"", a bonus feature on the DVD release of the feature film version of"
"entrepreneur David Duffield in 2004. In September 2004 he closed the Ponderosa ""indefinitely"". Ponderosa Ranch The Ponderosa Ranch was a theme park based on the popular 1960s television western ""Bonanza"", which housed the affluent land, timber and livestock-rich Cartwright family. The amusement park operated in Incline Village, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, from 1967 until 2004. Portions of the last five seasons of the TV series and three TV movies were also filmed at that location. The Ponderosa was the fictional setting for ""Bonanza"". According to the 9th episode (""Mr. Henry Comstock"") in the first season, it was a thousand-square mile"
"Australia and elsewhere in the world. The Terence Lane kangaroo collection at the National Museum of Australia consists of more than 150 objects and ephemera in a wide range of styles produced over a period of 150 years. The collection ranges from a one-metre-high Doulton ceramic kangaroo umbrella stand to small items of jewellery. Kangaroos are extremely well represented in films, television, songs, toys and souvenirs around the world. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, star of the 1960s Australian children's television series. ""Wake in Fright"" is a 1971 movie which includes a controversial kangaroo hunting scene containing graphic footage of kangaroos"
"Pat Woolley. His first wife, Beth, died in 1998. Ted Roberts Ted Roberts (17 April 1931 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian television screenwriter and supervising producer. After completing his education at Marist Brothers College in Randwick, Roberts worked in advertising and sales promotion before commencing his career as a freelance writer for television and film Ted Roberts began his career in television in the 1960s, writing early episodes of ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"". The series was screened in over eighty countries and its theme tune, composed by Eric Jupp, is one of the best known and most recognisable"
"Wayne, ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"", ""The Electric Horseman"", ""Jeremiah Johnson"", ""Run of the Arrow"" (1957), ""They Came to Cordura"" (1959), ""The Appaloosa"" (1966), ""Six Black Horses"" (1962), ""Bullet for a Badman"" (1964) and ""Gunpoint"" (1966). Originally called Dixie State Park, it was later renamed for Lorenzo and Erastus Snow, prominent pioneering Utah leaders. The vegetation of the area mainly consists of desert plants, such as creosote bush, scrub oak, yucca, cacti, and sagebrush. Wildlife in Snow Canyon includes the Gila monster, peregrine falcon, and desert tortoise. Small fences to keep the ground-dwelling creatures from accidentally wandering onto roads"
"budge. He left it at Dogpatch USA so there would be no headaches and problems. Like the Coconino County depicted in George Herriman's ""Krazy Kat"" and the Okefenokee Swamp of Walt Kelly's ""Pogo"", Dogpatch's distinctive cartoon landscape became as identified with the strip as any of its characters. Later, Capp licensed and was part-owner of an $35 million theme park called Dogpatch USA near Harrison, Arkansas. As utterly wretched as existence was in Dogpatch, there was one place even worse. Frigid, faraway Lower Slobbovia was fashioned as a pointedly political satire of backward nations and foreign diplomacy, and remains a"
"Minister for Lands, Tom Lewis, before shooting of the series began in 1967, to showcase the new NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service government department he had just established. The clicking sounds made by Skippy are vocal sound effects, rather than the natural vocalisations of a kangaroo, with chocolate, chewing gum or grass and in some cases, an elastic band around the lower jaw, used to make Skippy move her mouth. Between nine and fifteen kangaroos were used for each show. The apparent manual dexterity was often achieved by using separate arms in the hands of human operators. The main"
"palace, where the comedic troupe ""Billy Hill and the Hillbillies"" entertains guests. Critter Country opened in 1972 as ""Bear Country"", and was renamed in 1988. Formerly the area was home to Indian Village, where indigenous tribespeople demonstrated their dances and other customs. Today, the main draw of the area is Splash Mountain, a log-flume journey inspired by the Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris and the animated segments of Disney's Academy Award-winning 1946 film, ""Song of the South"". In 2003, a dark ride called The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh replaced the Country Bear Jamboree, which closed in"
"Ross Napier Ross Napier (1932-November 2, 2004) was an Australian radio and TV writer best known for his work on the radio drama, ""The Castlereagh Line"" (which he later adapted into novels) and the TV series ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"", for which he wrote a large number of episodes and served as a script editor. Napier was one of Australia's leading radio writers from the 1950s to 1970s He began working for Associated Programs on the half hour drama series ""Address Unknown"". He lived for a time in London, then returned to Australia in the 1950s and went to work"
"TV series ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"" and ""Barrier Reef"" and the feature film ""Nickel Queen"", they found finance to make a series titled ""Bonaparte"" from various international sources (American investors had shown enthusiasm, but had pulled out when their demand that Bony be completely white was refused). It was decided to shoot the stories in contemporary Australia, and English playwright and scriptwriter Eric Paice flew over to head the writing team. Signed up to direct alternate episodes were experienced drama helmers Peter Maxwell and Eric Fullilove, and casting for Upfield's unusual half-Aboriginal hero began. ""We looked all over Australia!"" John"
"reality. One fateful weekend at Australia's equivalent of Woodstock, the 1973 Nimbin Aquarius Festival, McMahon found himself intrigued by the performance of The White Company an experimental Theatre Troupe featuring a number of alternative culture artists including one Peter Carolan, a 25-year-old actor with roles in Australian TV's ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"", ""The Rovers"", and stage productions such as ""Servant of Two Masters"", and Graham Bond's Drip Dry Dreams. Carolan came from a musical family. His mother played classical piano; his father was a professional jazz musician who performed on accordion, piano, organ, and synthesiser; and his paternal grandfather, Bart"
"and Wildlife Service or volunteer organisations like the Kosciuszko Huts Association. In the 19th century gold was mined on the high plains near Kiandra. At its height this community had a population of about 4,000 people, and ran 14 hotels. Since the last resident left in 1974, Kiandra has become a ghost town of ruins and abandoned diggings. The Kosciuszko National Park came into existence as the National Chase Snowy Mountains on 5 December 1906. In 1944 this became the Kosciuszko State Park, and then the Kosciuszko National Park in 1967. Recreational skiing began at Kiandra in the 1860s and"
"strikes on Thursday 6 December 2007 caused 63,433 hectares of Flinders Chase National Park to be burnt, before finally being contained on 16 December. Flinders Chase National Park Flinders Chase National Park (formerly Flinders Chase) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located at the west end of Kangaroo Island about west-south west of the state capital of Adelaide and west of the municipal seat of Kingscote. It is a sanctuary for endangered species and home to a few geological phenomena. It was the second national park to be declared in South Australia. Flinders Chase National"
"and documentaries. In 1969, Happy Shahan hired 18-year-old Johnny Rodriguez to sing at Alamo Village, an opportunity that rocketed Rodriguez to stardom. Kickapoo Cavern State Park, in both Edwards and Kinney County, opened to the public in 1991. Formerly a private ranch. The Kinney County Groundwater Conservation District was approved by the voters in 2002. The 1958-1959 syndicated western television series ""Mackenzie's Raiders"", starring Richard Carlson as Colonel Ranald Mackenzie, is set at the former Fort Clark in Kinney County. Mackenzie was stationed at Fort Clark during much of the 1870s, the time frame of the fictional series. According to"
"Productions with John McCallum to produce the television series ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"". Robinson had been advised that a children's show would sell well globally. Robinson was inspired by ""Flipper"", changing the dolphin into a kangaroo. The series was filmed in colour before Australia had colour television. Robinson directed a feature film of the series called ""The Intruders"" (1969) or ""Skippy and the Intruders"". Throughout the 1970s he concentrated on television production. In the early 1980s he returned to feature films, producing two films based on the activities of Z Special Unit during World War II. Robinson married Gwenyth in"
"Tony Bonner Anthony Frederick Bonner (born 23 November 1943) is an Australian television, film and stage actor and singer. Bonner became famous in the 1960s children's television series ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"", later moving on to lead roles in the dramas ""Cop Shop"" and ""Skyways"". Bonner was born in Manly, a northern beach suburb of Sydney. His grandfather, James Bonner, was a former Mayor of Manly and founding President of the Manly Life Saving Club. His father, Frederick Bonner, was a musical comedy actor at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney. After leaving school he started work for a company supplying mannequins"
"Kickapoo Cavern State Park Kickapoo Caverns was opened as a state park in 1991. The park is located 22 miles north of Brackettville, Texas, straddling the Kinney and Edwards county line. Interesting features of the park include 20 known caves, two of which are large enough to be significant. Kickapoo Cavern is approximately .25 mile in length (1400 feet). It contains 14 miles of mountain biking trails, and 18 miles of undesignated hiking and birding trails. Primitive tours of Kickapoo Cavern are scheduled every Saturday and require reservations. Mammals commonly found in the park include whitetail deer, raccoon, ringtail, gray"
"Alan Herschell-Spillman Company of North Tonawanda, New York, created a 38-animal carousel adorned with dogs, frogs, zebras, and roosters as well as horses. In 1959, Bob Anderson of California erected the Herschell-Spillman carousel at Incline Village amusement park near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, better known as Ponderosa Ranch where the 1960s television western ""Bonanza"" was filmed. By 1959 the carousel had undergone significant wear, and many of the original animals were switched for less elaborate ones. The carousel continued to operate in Nevada until 1983, when it was dismantled and the animals were sold at auction. The frame was sold to"
"Monument, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, the privately owned Moqui Cave, and the largest animal sanctuary in the United States, Best Friends Animal Society. Locals refer to Kanab as ""Little Hollywood"" due to its history as a filming location for many movies and television series, prominently western, such as ""Stagecoach"" (1939), ""The Lone Ranger"", ""Death Valley Days"". ""Gunsmoke"", ""Daniel Boone"", ""El Dorado"" (1966), ""Planet of the Apes (1968)"", ""Mackenna's Gold"", ""Sergeants 3"", ""WindRunner: A Spirited Journey"", ""Western Union"" (1941), ""The Desperadoes"" (1943), ""In Old Oklahoma"" (1943), ""Buffalo Bill"" (1944), ""Westward the Women"" (1952), ""Tomahawk Trail"" (1957), ""Fort Bowie"" (1958),"
"Ed Devereaux Edward Sidney Devereaux (27 August 192517 December 2003), better known professionally as Ed Devereaux, was an Australian actor, director and scriptwriter who lived in the United Kingdom for many years. He was best known for playing the part of Matt Hammond the head ranger in the Australian television series ""Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"". He was also involved in the series behind the scenes, Devereaux writing the script and directing the episode ""The Veteran"" (1969), for which he received much critical acclaim. Devereaux based the story of the episode ""Double Trouble"" on an idea conceived by his children, wrote"
"shape of the Monkey Puzzle trees. The park was used as filming location for Walking with Dinosaurs, a television series produced by the BBC. It was declared a national park in 1950. In 1983, the park, along with Alto Bío Bío National Reserve, was designated by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve, which is known as Araucarias Biosphere Reserve. The park is situated 120 km east of Temuco. This sector also via the paved road that goes from Lautaro to Curacautín. The remaining stretch of road until the park entrance is the same route previously mentioned. Lonquimay River flows into the"
"series, including many of the ""Tarzan"" films; ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938), which used the site as a location, and ""Doctor Doolittle"" (1967). Goebel himself camped by the filming site of ""Tarzan, the Ape Man"" (1932) by Lake Sherwood to watch his lions during filming. It became one of Southern California's most popular tourists attractions in the 1940s and 1950s, when the 170-acre park offered shows, lion training, elephant rides, train rides, safari tram buses and more. The park changed name to Jungleland USA in 1956 after Disneyland was established. The park later went bankrupt in May 1969, due"
"chimpanzee, featured in the ""Jungle Jim"" movies and television series. Many TV and movie productions used the park's trained animals, and many productions were filmed there, including ""Birth of a Nation"", ""Tarzan"", ""Doctor Dolittle,"" and ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"". It was also featured prominently in an episode of the television show ""Route 66"" (Season 2, Episode 31, ""Hell Is Empty, All The Devils Are Here""). The park made headlines in 1966 when a male lion at the compound named Sammy mauled Zoltán Hargitay, the young son of actors Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield. A barn fire in 1940 killed"