Kangaroo Creek Gang

Kangaroo Creek Gang was an Australian children's television cartoon series which first screened on the Nine Network in 2002. It was produced by Southern Star Group and was based on a set of reading books created from 1981 that follow the adventures of a group of Australian bush animals.

History

Kangaroo Creek Gang began as a series of books, extending to 40 titles with over one million copies sold around Australia.^[1] A comic strip was developed for the children’s pages in News Limited’s Sunday newspapers in most states of Australia.

The gang featured in a series of Multi Media Packages distributed to primary schools and also were involved with in-flight children’s activity packages for Australian Airlines and Ansett. In 1990-91 the Kangaroo Creek Gang starred in a TV commercial for the State Bank of South Australia now known as Bank SA. The jingle was "saving makes sense is what we say". One of the characters, Kenny Kidna, had his own 30 second 'Goodnight girls and boys' segment at 7.30pm every night in Perth, Western Australia on television channel "NEW-10".

The animated series was first broadcast on television in April 2002 on the Nine Network and aired on Starz Kids & Family for some time. The Kangaroo Creek Gang also appeared in live costume and puppet shows throughout Australia, performing primarily in shopping centres.

Characters

• Kevin Kangaroo
• Kristie Koala
• Emily Emu
• Wally Wombat
• Peg Platypus
• Eddie Echidna
• Morrie Magpie
• Paddy Possum
• Connie Kookaburra
• Tiddles Tiger snake
• Kenny Kidna
• Mr. Lizard
• Mog, Mange, and Gabbo: The feral cats
• Swizzle the Croc
• The Great Dingo

Character voices

• Daniel Wyllie
• Marta Dusseldorp
• John Leary
• Rebecca Massey
• Akmal Saleh
• Anthony Hayes
• Eliza Logan
• Andrew Crabbe
• Keith Buckley

See also

• List of Australian television series

References

• imdb

External links

• Kangaroo Creek Gang