Skippy the bush kangaroo

Published by Paula Bray on July 3, 2009 5 Comments

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English-born television and stage actress Liza Goddard ( see Clive Conway celebrity productions ) (b. 1950, arr. Australia 1965) acted in many classic British television series including Doctor Who, Bergerac and Midsomer Murders. Here she’s captured by English-born Sydney-based photographer David Mist with one of the kangaroos she starred alongside in the popular Australian television series ‘Skippy the Bush Kangaroo’ (produced in Sydney between 1966 and 1968).

The photographer recalls: ‘The joey came in a sack from the set of the TV series and was remarkably well behaved. Sat there and looked at us all. Liza made herself at home with him.’ The image was published in ‘Made in Australia’, a book of photographs by David Mist dated 1969 – the year Goddard returned to England. It has been scanned from a negative in the David Mist archive which was acquired by the Powerhouse Museum as a gift from the photographer in 1996, under the Commonwealth Government’s Taxation Incentives for the Arts program.

Photography by David mist
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Post by Anne-Marie Van de Ven, Curator

  • JOE

    I don’t think Liza ever looked lovelier and I loved the series as a kid. When Liza came back here to the UK I never realised that it’d been she who’d played Clancy. All the kids of that era tried to do Sonny’s trick of calling for Skippy with our weedy Pommy grass! I think we’d've loved having ‘joeys’ hopping alongside our roads.

    The use of monochrome helps make this a delightful photo and those worried about the ethical treatment of animals needn’t worry because ‘Skippy’ looks happy enough…the theme tune is playing away in my head now…

  • http://savewaratah.blogspot.com/ Penny Edmonds

    Hi every Skippy fan that ever was. Please take a moment to sign this petition as every australian should be aware as to what might be happening to Waratah Park, home of Skippy.
    Thankyou
    http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/31033.html

  • Anne-Marie Van de Ven

    Thanks for your delightful post Joe (18 Sept 09)
    It’s always fun when someone overseas posts on our Aussie photographs.

  • http://www.sonnywithachance.info Kelly Stakes

    Tawni is my favorite on the show. This is by far my favorite show on television! Thanks for your post, it was awesome reading it!

  • Briony Gray

    I Love Skippy. He Is Just So Cute And Fluffy