| Kangaroo Creek Gang | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animation |
| Written by | Robert Greenberg |
| Voices of | Andrew Crabbe Marta Dusseldorp John Leary |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nine Network |
| Original airing | 1 April 2002 |
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.
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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 State Bank in 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.