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Kangaroo Creek Gang was an Australian children's television cartoon series which first screened on the
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in 2002. It was produced by
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and was based on a set of reading books created from 1981 that follow the adventures of a group of Australian bush animals. Prior to the television series, the original Kangaroo Creek Gang Cassette Tapes for the read-along books were recorded in the early 1980s in Perth, Western Australia and were voiced by Gregory Ker amongst others. Ker voiced the characters of Kevin Kangaroo, Wal Wombat, Tiddles Tiger Snake, Ranger West and also voiced the narrator for some of the read-along books. Helen Matthews, a well-known jazz singer, was also present for the cassette tape recordings and recorded the songs that were on the tapes.


History

Kangaroo Creek Gang began as a series of books, extending to 40 titles with over one million copies sold around Australia. A comic strip was developed for the children's pages in
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's Sunday newspapers in most states of Australia. The gang featured in a series of multi media packages distributed to primary schools, and were also involved with in-flight children's activity packages for
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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
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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
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.


Characters

* Kevin
Kangaroo Kangaroos are four marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern ...
: (Voiced by Daniel Wyllie) is the main protagonist of the entire series. He is a kangaroo who likes to pull pranks on people. * Kristie
Koala The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear (''Phascolarctos cinereus''), is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the ...
* Emily Emu * Wally
Wombat Wombats are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials that are native to Australia. They are about in length with small, stubby tails and weigh between . All three of the extant species are members of the family Vombatidae. They are ad ...
* Mog, Mange, and Garbo: The
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s * Peg
Platypus The platypus (''Ornithorhynchus anatinus''), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the sole living representative or mono ...
* Eddie
Echidna Echidnas (), sometimes known as spiny anteaters, are quill-covered monotremes (egg-laying mammals) belonging to the family Tachyglossidae . The four extant species of echidnas and the platypus are the only living mammals that lay eggs and the ...
* Morrie Magpie * Paddy Possum * Connie
Kookaburra Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers of the genus ''Dacelo'' native to Australia and New Guinea, which grow to between in length and weigh around . The name is a loanword from Wiradjuri ''guuguubarra'', onomatopoeic of its call. The ...
* Tiddles Tiger snake * Kenny Kidna * Mr. Lizard * Swizzle the
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* The Great Dingo


Character voices

* Daniel Wyllie *
Marta Dusseldorp Marta Dusseldorp (born 1 February 1973) is an Australian stage, film and theatre actress. Her television credits include ''BlackJack'', ''Crownies'' (and its spin-off '' Janet King''), ''Jack Irish'' and '' A Place to Call Home''. Early life an ...
* John Leary *
Rebecca Massey Rebecca Massey is an Australian film, television and theatre actress. She has been nominated and won numerous awards for her performances including the prestigious Helpmann Award for both Steve Martin's The Underpants ( Belvoir) and Steven ...
*
Akmal Saleh Akmal Saleh ( ar, أكمل صالح Coptic: AKMAΛ CAΛΕϨ) (born 21 July 1964) is an Egyptian-Australian comedian and actor. He was born in Egypt and arrived in Sydney with his family in 1975 at the age of 11. He has been performing comedy si ...
* Anthony Hayes * Eliza Logan * Andrew Crabbe * Keith Buckley * Gregory Ker (Cassette Tape recordings for read-along books 1980's)


See also

* List of Australian television series


References


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External links


Kangaroo Creek Gang
Australian children's animated television series Nine Network original programming 2002 Australian television series debuts 2002 Australian television series endings 2000s Australian animated television series Television series by Endemol Australia Australian preschool education television series Television series about kangaroos and wallabies {{Australia-tv-prog-stub