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*The Adventures of Blinky Bill*
The Adventures of Blinky Bill
	Title card
Genre	Adventure; Comedy; Animation
Based on	The Complete Adventures of Blinky Bill by Dorothy Wall
Written by	Sally Farrell Odgers (Season 1–2); Susan Beak (Season 1–2); Geoff Beak (Season 1–2); John Palmer (Season 1 & TV movie); Yoram Gross (Story, Season 1 only); Carol Witt (Season 1); David Witt (Seasons 1 & 3); Hugh Stucky (Season 1); Ray Nowland (Season 2); Phil Sanders (Season 3); Rhett Walton (Season 3); Gina Roncoli (Season 3); Maryam Master (Season 3); Fiona Kelly (Season 3); Stephen Davis (Season 3); Fiona Bozic (Season 3); Chris Phillips (Season 3); Lisa Hoppe (Season 3); Melanie Alexander (Season 3); Andy Ryan (Season 3);
Directed by	Yoram Gross (Season 1–2); David Evans (Season 3); Guy Gross (TV movie);
Voices of	Robyn Moore; Keith Scott; Sarah Aubrey (Season 3 & TV movie); Troy Planet (Season 3); Nick Jasprizza (Season 3); Drew Forsythe (Season 3); Rachel King (Season 3); Shane Withington (TV movie);
Theme music composer	Guy Gross
Opening theme	"Hey, Hey, Blinky Bill" performed by Keith Scott (Season 1) and Ric Herbert (Season 2-3);
Ending theme	I'm Blinky Bill (Season 1); Yahoo, Didgeridoo (Season 2); Instrumental version of "Hey, Hey, Blinky Bill" (Season 3);
Composers	Guy Gross; Clive Harrison (additional music, Season 3 only);
Country of origin	Australia; United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	78 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Sandra Gross (Season 1–3 and TV movie); Tim Brooke-Hunt (Season 1–2); Siegmund Grewenig (Season 3); Yoram Gross (Season 3 & TV movie); Geoff Watson (Season 3 & TV movie);
Producers	Yoram Gross (Season 1–2); Manuela Lumb (Season 3); Rodney Whitham (Season 3); Andre Kussmaul (Season 3); Martina Mosner (Season 3); Guy Gross (TV movie);
Running time	26 minutes (Season 1–2); 24 minutes (Season 3);
Production companies	Yoram Gross Film Studios (Season 1–2); Yoram Gross-EM.TV (Season 3 & TV movie); EM.TV and WDR;
Original release
Network	Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Season 1–2); Seven Network (Season 3 & TV movie); British Broadcasting Corporation (Season 1–3 & TV movie);
Release	1 January 1993 –; 5 July 2004
Related
	Tabaluga (1997–2004); Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown (1998–1999); Flipper and Lopaka (1999–2005)

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The Adventures of Blinky Bill is an Australian animated television series based on Dorothy Wall's books about Blinky Bill, and is a sequel series to the 1992 film Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala. The series is produced by the Yoram Gross^[1] companies: Yoram Gross Film Studios (from 1993 to 1995) and Yoram Gross-EM.TV (from 2004 to 2005), with the main co-production of EM.TV and WDR. All three seasons of the series and the TV film were animated overseas by Colorland Animation Productions Co., Ltd. in Hong Kong. Set in Greenpatch, a fictional Australian bushland town, the series presents stories through the activities and misadventures of Blinky Bill, as well as his family and friends.^[2] The series looks like Warner Bros. and Disney.

Series

Season 1 (The Adventures of Blinky Bill, 1993)

In the first season of The Adventures of Blinky Bill (1993, 26 episodes), Blinky Bill and his friends rebuild the buildings and the community in Greenpatch, following its destruction by humans. They also come to terms with their new neighbours, the ill-famed Dingo family. The season first aired on ABC Television in 1993. Yoram Gross (with his first studios Yoram Gross Film Studios) co-produced the first series with: EM.Entertainment (Germany), WDR/ARD (Germany), ABC (Australia), and BBC (UK).

Season 2 (Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion, 1995)

In the second season of Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion (1995, 26 episodes), Blinky Bill and his friends become lost while on a school excursion in the bush. Finding their way home across different parts of Australia, they have many adventures helping out other animals in need, including a crocodile, penguins, and farm and circus animals.

The second season was a Yoram Gross Film Studios co-production with EM.Entertainment, WDR/ARD and VIDEAL of Germany, as well as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was aired on ABC Television in Australia.

Season 3 (Blinky Bill, 2004)

In season 3 (alternatively known as Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Balloon Adventure and Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures in marketing), Blinky Bill, Nutsy, and Flap travel around the world in a hot air balloon that takes them on exciting adventures being chased by two humans named Basil and Cyril who are the Circus Bros. The animals he rescued were: Slippery, Leo, Ling-Ling, Tico, Yoyo, and Penelope (who originally works for the Circus Bros.). They went to Antarctica, the African plains, China, the Amazon Rainforest, India and Paris.

The season aired on 10 June 2004 on the Seven Network. The third series was a Yoram Gross-EM.TV co-production with EM.TV (Germany), WDR (Germany), ABC (Australia), and Wavery (Netherlands).

Spin-offs

Two spin-off pilot episodes, Flap's Family and Flap's Island, both following the story of supporting character Flap, were developed by Yoram Gross with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission and the New South Wales Film and Television Office in 1996, but both were not picked up.^{[citation needed]}

TV movie (Blinky Bill's White Christmas, 2005)

In 2005, a television movie entitled Blinky Bill's White Christmas was produced by Yoram Gross-EM.TV,^[3] with the co-production of WDR (Germany). The telemovie first aired on the Seven Network on 24 December 2005. Its theme song, "Christmas in Australia", was performed by Christine Anu.^[4]

In the Philippines, the special was aired across two parts on GMA Network on 1 and 2 December 2020.^[5]

Characters

Soundtracks

Blinky Bill and Friends Singing Songs Based On the TV Series (1994)
Blinky Bill and his "Extraordinary" Christmas Sing-Along! (1999)
Don and Blinky's Outback Adventure - The Lost Cooee (2002)

Video games

Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave (1996)
Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Balloon Adventure (1997)
Blinky Bill and the Magician (1998)
Print & Play with Blinky Bill (1998)
Blinky Bill's Play & Learn: Preschool (1999)
Blinky Bill's Play & Learn: Kindergarten (1999)
Blinky Bill's Play & Learn: Year One (1999)
Blinky Bill's Cartoon Maker (2001)

Forest industry controversy

The theme of the first series carried a strong anti-woodchip message, with the second line saying "Save us from that woodchip mill", together with scenes of forest destruction. There were also obvious environmental messages in most episodes. Some forest industry groups lobbied the ABC arguing that the opening scene showed illegal wood chipping, which was not fair to the timber industry. In the following two series, these song lyrics and the opening credits sequence were different (the line in the theme became "You'll never catch him standing still"), reflecting the change in storylines and locations.^[6]

Reception

The Adventures of Blinky Bill received generally positive reviews.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "Marsupial Madness: The Success of Yoram Gross". Animation News Network. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 62. ISBN 978-1476665993.
^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 30. ISBN 9781476672939.
^ "Xmas TV battle hots up". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 December 2005. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
^ "Naghahangad ang lahat ng 'di malilimutang Pasko sa pangalawang linggo ng 'Christmas Cartoon Festival Presents'". GMA Network. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
^ Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade (1992) curator's notes on ASO – Australia's audio and visual heritage online

External links

The Adventures of Blinky Bill at IMDb
Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion at IMDb
Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Balloon Adventure at IMDb
Blinky Bill's White Christmas at IMDb
The Adventures of Blinky Bill at Big Cartoon Database
Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Adventures at Big Cartoon Database
Blinky Bill's White Christmas at Oz Movies

[1] "Marsupial Madness: The Success of Yoram Gross". Animation News Network. Retrieved 22 May 2011.

[2] Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 62. ISBN 978-1476665993.

[3] Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 30. ISBN 9781476672939.

[4] "Xmas TV battle hots up". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 December 2005. Retrieved 5 December 2008.

[5] "Naghahangad ang lahat ng 'di malilimutang Pasko sa pangalawang linggo ng 'Christmas Cartoon Festival Presents'". GMA Network. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2020.

[6] Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade (1992) curator's notes on ASO – Australia's audio and visual heritage online

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v t e Dorothy Wall's Blinky Bill
Books	Blinky Bill
Characters	List of Blinky Bill characters
TV series	The New Adventures of Blinky Bill (1984–1987) The Adventures of Blinky Bill (1993–2004) episodes The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill (2016–2017)
Films	Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala (1992) Blinky Bill the Movie (2015)
Related	Yoram Gross