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In this revival of the charming Aussie series, Sonny Hammond is a park ranger with two children Jerry and Louise. The kids are involved in adventures that often have an environmental theme. Kate Burgess is a researcher at the habitat.
Andrew Clarke
Sonny Hammond
Simon James
Jerry Hammond
Kate McNeil
Louise Hammond
Fiona Shannon
Kate Burgess
Joss McWilliam
Ranger Dave
Moya O'Sullivan
Thelma Woods
1992
Sonny is severely injured after a fall, forcing a move to a desk job. Jerry and Lou have to leave Skippy behind. Dave and Kate try to make the 'Roo happy but Skippy runs away. The Hammonds must find a way to return to the reserve.
When a rival park opens up, the Habitat gets a new volunteer helper. But when problems start arising out of no where, suspicion falls on the new helper.
Still wary after the saboteur, Lou and Jerry want to find out more about the rival park. However, they soon find themselves in over their heads as they witnesses animal cruelty.
Watch out! Beware! A mischevious Simon wanders into the Hammonds twins' lives and sparks mischief in the house. Ingeniously using electronics, he creates mayhem with prank spiders, spins stories that the old mill is haunted and talks Jerry into sneaking out after dark to see the 'ghost'. Tables are soon turned when Lou and the girls decide to get their own back on Jerry and Simon for all their pranks. Skippy saves the day as he finds Simon trapped in the haunted house and alerts the others.
Bird Smuggling is a SERIOUS crime in Australia, and when it comes home to Habitat, it takes the combined efforts of the twins, Sonny, and Ranger Dave to prevent it. Dealing with the two criminal men, Skippy, Lou and Jerry help save the native birds, and put a spanner in the works for the criminals.
Skippy leads Lou and Jerry to one of her favourite hideouts - a CAVE in the hills near Habitat. But the twins discover that there is more to the cave than meets the eye!
Lou does well in a school science project that involves throwing the voice by simple electronics! But her cleverness backfires when she attaches the device to Skippy's collar and plays a trick on the local storekeeper, Jack.
New kid in on the block! When a wealthy boy moves into the Hammonds' neighbourhood, Jerry is in awe of the boy's possessions; his video games, all the gear in his room at home and most of all by his trail bike. Forbidden by Ranger Dave to ride the bike in the national park, the two boys defy authority, and when a wombat gets injured Jerry begins to see the error of his ways.
Is there a fox killing the birds at Habitat? It looks like it! Sonny and Dave investigate. In the meantime Skippy gets a fright - she has always been mates with buster, Elyse's dog, but when buster starts snarling at skippy suspicions arise.
Making friends can be difficult for a girl whose family moves around a lot! Emma works for the travelling reptile show, and Lou is disappointed that her offer for friendship was rejected and Emma runs away. Skippy saves the day, by helping to find her as she is in danger of dehydration.
Somethings Fishy! Lou causes trouble for everyone when Thel won't let her go to the fish market so she takes a dingy and gets caught in the dangerous currents in the river. Skippy alerts the fisherman to save her, but he wrenches his shoulder in the process. How can Lou make it up to him now? Lou decides that some serious fishing is in order and with the help of the 14 year old Kenny, they set out once again, in spite of the fears of the adults and Skippy.
Tamiko, a Japanese girl from Australia, who plays violin, is welcomed into the Hammond family. Tamiko stays with them whilst she's on an orchestra tour, however racial tension between Thel and Tamiko make her stay uncomfortable. Thel is aggravated because of the past events of the Pacific war. However, when Lou takes a tumble on a cliff, opinions are forced to change.
Camera... ACTION! A child model comes to Habitat to shoot a commercial with skippy for 'Jack Horner Jams' one in a series featuring the girl and different animals. Although charming to Skippy on the surface, she takes every opportunity to be secretly cruel to her co-star. Why?
Dive in! Jerry's fear of diving off the high board is getting him down, but he is encouraged when his hero, Uncle Jerry comes to visit. However, when Kate, Sonny and Skippy get into trouble, Jerry has to return the favour by helping Uncle Jerry regain his lost nerves and save the day!
UH OH! Lou and Skippy find evidence of animal traps in the national park, and that's not allowed! But Lou's desire to catch the wrongdoer turns to empathy when she meets him - 13 year old Jim. Lou tries to keep his secret and hide him, until ranger Dave discovers the truth.
Unexplained death of a fish and a kangaroo poses a few questions and it's suspected that the river is being polluted. Kate's grandfather Bill, a farmer, stages a one-man demonstration at the local paper mill against the polluters. However, Skippy, Lou and Jerry discover something unexpected. The twins also learn that in the environment war, everyone must take care of his own little corner of the world.
Glen is a boy who wants to be a stuntman! But he doesn't seem to be going in the right direction. Then when Kate is sent a mistreated horse, Glen is the only one who can manage to handle it. With the help of everyone at Habitat, the horse and Glen start to reform.
Truth or dare? Jerry is dared to sneak into a bush treehouse, where there lives an eccentric hermit, angry at todays' civilisation. Kevin's trying to guard a colony of koalas and will do anything in order to protect his beloved friends. A naughty boy sneaks into the old mans' camp to try and steal a koala, but he falls and hurts himself. In trying to attract attention to his plight, he accidentally lights a bushfire, putting koalas at risk.
Lou and Jerry are baffled by a new girl who moves into the area. Why does she stay home all the time? It's because she is in a wheelchair, the result of a tragic accident. The twins and Skippy help the girl visit Habitat and go on a picnic! But has she taken one step to many?
Cheating is no excuse! Jerry is fired up with enthusiasm for cross country running but is disappointed when his rival Brendan cheats to win a race. However, it all works out in the end and in an interesting turn of events an unexpected volunteer dresses up as the Easter Bunny for the organised Easter egg hunt.
Arrrrr! Follow as the gang journey from pirates to Junior Rangers and adventure through 'crocodile' infested waters. A battle over possession of the waterhole breaks out! Meanwhile, Ranger Dave spots a problem with all their noise - it's driving the animals away from the waterhole! It's got to be stopped! Skippy is the ship's mascot and Lou's upset as she isn't allowed to join the new gang.
SURFS UP! Lou & Jerry are mad keen to join the Nippers, the Junior Surf Lifesavers. Lou's swimming isn't quite up to scratch so everyone joins in to help her train. Then things go badly. A less-than-friendly beach inspector hunts Skippy of the beach, and shortly afterwards, Lou is caught in a real-life rescue situation and freezes. Jerry offer to pretend to be drowning so she can save him and feel better. However Jerry runs into REAL trouble in the surf trying to save someones dog, and this time Lou meets the challenge. She rescues her brother with Skippy's help!
A balloon is tethered at Habitat as a tourist attraction, while Skippy and the Hammonds have guests- Lou's friend Tamiko and a Japanese boy who is staying with Tamiko's family, sent to Australia to improve his English and find out how ordinary employees of the company live. When his father comes to take him back to Japan, he cuts himself adrift in the balloon, declaring that he wants to stay in Australia. Only timely intervention by Skippy and a concerted effort by everyone else gets him safely back to earth and reunited with his father.
Think before you act! Jerry is obsessed with getting money for a bike. When vandals attack some of the local primary schools, he stakes out a school in the hope of collecting the reward money. Although trying to help, he scares the vandals off, so the security guard doesn't catch them, Jerry feels that he's let everyone down. The situation is saved when Skippy notices the vandals lurking around the local amateur art show, in which Thel is a competitor. Skip alerts everyone to their intentions to destroy the entries, and sonny and the family return to the hall in time to capture the annals and save the paintings.
Skippy and Jerry are excited! Jerry's pen pal is coming to visit. And the pen pal is no ordinary kid, his letters have told Jerry that his dad is an archaeologist who goes to EXOTIC places, sometimes in physically dangerous locations, and often taking his son with him. However the boy turns out to be a fake. In fact he's got quite an ordinary family from a farm. But when he told his previous pen pals the truth, they didn't want to know about him. So he made things up and for a time it worked - he got Jerry really excited didn't he? At the end of the episode, he is ready to face up to himself as he really is and introduce his real father to the Hammonds and Skippy!
Think cooking's just for girls? Jerry's soccer team, The Roos, lose their support team mid-season as Thel and Sonny have the flu, so they need to find a new cook. Jerry turns out to be a natural in the kitchen and he is taunted by the opposition for his "girly" traits. In a burst of macho spirit, Jerry punches out an opponent and is sent off, the game is lost and there'll be no finals for the Roos this year. Everyone has learnt a lesson about male and female roles and team spirit.
It's Winter and the kids enjoy going to the beach and watching the surfers ride the BIG WAVES!. Two bullies, Josh and Sam decide the beach is theirs and start picking on the smaller children. Assisted by Skippy, Jeny and Lou get the better of the bullies until Josh calls on his big brother for help. For a while the surfers believe that Skippy is the one who has been menacing the children and are going to report her to the police. Kate's brother, Simon, is able to get both the attention and respect of the surfers by riding the biggest wave of the year, and once they listen to him he is able to show them what really happened.
City kid, Sean, comes to Habitat for a visit, but is unhappy in the bush. He's even less pleased when he discovers that he has spend time with his granddad Bill. Jerry and Lou let him take Skippy along.The rascals next door to grandad keep setting the bull onto him but Sean thinks he's making it all up. The four children live by themselves and don't want to be discovered as they may be split up and put into foster homes and so decide to try and take the bull and run away to the city. They soon get into trouble in the bush. Sean and Skippy find them, and with the help of granddad Bill a happy resolution is found.
While playing on a home made flying fox, Lou gets a hard bump on the head when she collides with a young girl who seemingly ignored Jerry's warning and ran into Lou's path. The young girl runs off, and in a half daze, Lou thinks that she has seen an almost extinct wallaby in the bush. None else saw the wallaby. They find out that the mysterious girl in is the daughter of the visiting researcher, also that she is deaf. The kids quickly make friends with Bridget and enjoy learning sign language. While there is some doubt that Lou really saw the wallaby, the adults decide to look just in case. After upsetting their search , Lou, Bridget and Jerry go off on their own, and Lou gets into trouble, eventually needed to be rescued by Ranger Dave and the helicopter. In the end, Lou and Skippy are the only ones who know for certain that the wallaby was really there!
Be Careful! Pretending you are something you are not can get you into trouble. Derek, an asthmatic boy from the city comes to Habitat for a weekend visit. He hates telling other kids he has asthma, because they always treat him differently when they find out. Lou goes to a popular girls party and tries to dress for the occasion, but it backfires! Derek is almost discovered by Jerry using his inhaler, and to avoid detection, throws it into the bush where it goes down a snake hole. When he needs his inhaler, with Skippy's help they find where the inhaler is and are able to retrieve it when Lou bravely puts her hand into the hole!
Ever wanted to beat your sibling at anything? Sibling rivalry is ripe in this episode of Skippy as Jerry and Lou go head to head for first prize in the Junior Ranger's competition. The pair are in for a big surprise when Ranger Dave announces the winner at the end and they learn a few life lessons along the way.
Will Skippy be returned to the Hammonds, or will they be separated forever? Grumpy Johnson always felt cheated out of land by Thel's grandfather. Jerry and Lou are at Thel's fishing shack. Grumpy J has always been a bit of a swindler, or Flim Flammer, as Thel calls him, and is teaching his grandson Brett to do the same. Brett wins Jerry's bike and also Skippy from him in a game of poker. Jerry's heartbroken, and Lou saves the day by working out a way to turn the tables on Grumpy and Brett.
When the water main at Habitat bursts, Jerry and Lou find out first hand what it is like to live without running water. They find out at school that there are lots of people who have never had running water, and decide to make a project out of raising enough money to buy a water pump for a poor African village. Soon there is a competition between the girls and boys, but becomes dangerous when one boy falls ill. The contest is called off and it is only with the help of a generous patron that the village gets it's pump and the children see the virtue of working together.
Roll up! Roll up! For the main attraction, Sinbad the tiger. Joe Flood, brings his circus to Habitat. A dangerous game to play, the young Christopher likes to pretend that he is on safari, and can see no harm in playing with a real gun. Sonny quickly puts him right and his mother locks away the rifle. However, he gets hold of it again to play the hero, when Sinbad escapes. Panic leads to a wounded Sinbad, but luckily Skippy is there to draw Sinbad away from Lou while she goes for help.
In conquest of one of the rarest and most beautiful of orchids, Eleanor, Jerry and Lou's grandmother, comes to Australia. She recruits Lou as her assistant and together they head off to the national park. When Eleanor's pig, trained to sniff out the underground orchid, is banned from the park, Skippy and Jerry get to work to find it, with limited success .When Eleanor leaves, the trio, Lou, Skippy & Jerry, continue determinedly on their quest.
Jerry and Lou, with the assistance of Skippy, have become local heroes when they led the police to two bank robbers who were hiding out in the national park, although the $250,000 that the robbers stole, was never recovered. Alex and Bill, two loveable vagabonds who once tried to kidnap Skippy because they thought she could talk, see her picture in the paper and think she will be able to lead them to the money. But Skippy leads them into one misadventure after another.
So what is the importance of school?! Jerry and Tim have been stealing golf balls from the fairways of a local golf course. When they are found out, they are given the punishment of weeding the gardens to pay for the value of the balls they 'borrowed'. Brad, the junior pro at the course decides to teach them what golf is all about. Both Jerry and Tim become fascinated with the game. Tim is a natural and starts missing school to play golf, with Brad's encouragement, however when lighting strikes and Brad is injures, he realizes that without golf - and without an education, he has nothing. Both Tim and Brad decide that school may have it's place after all.
Skippy goes under the radar as she hops into the boat when the Hammond family go water skiing. Skippy gets left behind and finds her way back to the river where the family are, only she hops into one of the nearby houses where Miranda finds Skippy and wants to keep her. Her father grants her request, but Jerry and Lou are devastated when they find Skippy missing. Jerry and Lou find a way to get Skippy back to Habitat, but Miranda's dad obtained a permit for Skippy so they come to take her back. Will Skippy be separated from the Hammonds forever?
Life at Habitat is disrupted when the famous wildlife film maker, Greg O'Neil, comes to Habitat to film the mating dance of the Cape Barren Goose. Everyone is preoccupied with film making and Lou thinks Greg is going to ask Kate to Marry him! When Thel is taken unwell she is unable to help when Lou is in trouble, Skippy interrupts filming until everyone realizes something is wrong and Lou finally gets rescued. Kate reveals that Greg has asked her to work with him not marry him but there is going to be a wedding!
