The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill facts for kids
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| Genre | Animated |
| Based on | Blinky Bill, by Dorothy Wall |
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| Creative director(s) | Andy Collins |
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| Opening theme | "Put Your Paws In" |
| Ending theme | "Put Your Paws In" (Instrumental) |
| Country of origin | Australia Ireland |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (whole) 52 (segments) |
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| Running time | 26 minutes (whole) 11 minutes (segments) |
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| Distributor | Studio 100 Comarex |
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| Original network | 7TWO (formerly) ABC ME |
| Picture format | 576i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 5 December 2016 – 5 October 2017 |
The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill is an Australian animated television series based on Dorothy Wall's books about Blinky Bill. The show currently airs on Kids Central.
Plot
Blinky Bill is back to bring his trademark mischief, mayhem, and humour to life. Along with his best mate and sidekick Jacko, Blinky takes on the role as defender of his outback home, Greenpatch.
Characters
- Blinky Bill (voiced by Cam Ralph) – an 11-year-old koala who is the main protagonist.
- Jacko Browing (voiced by Akmal Saleh) – a frill-necked lizard is Blinky's sidekick and best friend.
- Nutsy Koala (voiced by Bridie Connell) – a young female koala that is Blinky Bill's closest friend.
- Cranky (voiced by Peter McAllum) – a tyrannical goanna is Blinky's nemesis and the mayor of Green-Patch.
- Juan Pablo (voiced by Rupert Degas) – a Paraguayan parrot.
- Bandi (voiced by Rupert Degas) – a mischievous bandicoot.
- Coot (voiced by Cam Ralph) – another mischievous bandicoot.
- Wombo (voiced by Jim Pike) – a wombat and Blinky's mentor.
- Claude (voiced by Ash Ricardo) – a feral cat and Blinky's other nemesis
- Eddy (voiced by Rupert Degas) – an American squirrel.
- Robert (voiced by Cam Ralph) – a lyrebird and one of Blinky's friends.
- Marcia (voiced by Charlotte Hamlyn) – a marsupial mouse and one of Blinky's friends.
- Sugar (voiced by Bridie Connell) – a sugar glider and one of Blinky's friends.
- Spike (voiced by Nathan Harvey) – an echidna and one of Blinky's friends.
- Mrs. Bill (voiced by Beth Armstrong) – a koala who is Blinky's mother.
- Ms. Tibbins (voiced by Beth Armstrong) – a kiwi bird who is a school teacher.
- Bill Koala (voiced by Jamie Croft) – a koala who is Blinky's father only mentioned on the episodes and he appears in "Home to Roost".
- San Jorge (voiced by Tin Pang) – a sulphur-crested cockatoo.
- Roddy Macbill – a koala and is Blinky Bill's uncle he plays the bagpipes.
- Bob – was a friend of Jacko, years later he is dead. Killed for Hunts Hunters.
- Uncle Jack – a frill-necked lizard and Jacko's uncle.
- Echo – a gecko barrowing Robert's glasses.
- Bluey (voiced by Coco Jack Gillies) – is a blue footed boobie.
- Bell (voiced by Stuart Brown) – TBA
- Doris Cranklepot – is Cranky's mother
- Whoogle – is an owl.
- Kev – a koala who becomes a Guardian of Greenpatch.
- Mr. Owl – is Whoogle's father.
- Priscilla – is a frog.
- Midge – is a grasshopper.
- Eagle – is a wedge tailed eagle.
- Crocodiles – is a salt water crocodiles.
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date |
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| 1a | "Brain Freeze" | Andrew Collins | Fin Edquist | Manuk Chang and Steve Cooper | 5 December 2016 |
| When a scorcher of a day sends everyone troppo, Blinky and Jacko set out to find the only known cure. | |||||
| 1b | "The Bunyip Hunter" | Steve Cooper; Andrew Collins (co-director) | Giula Sandler | TBA | 5 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko investigate an alarming increase in honey theft. | |||||
| 2a | "New Sheriff in Town" | Andrew Collins | Tim Lee | TBA | 6 December 2016 |
| Greenpatch is in need of a new law enforcer as its slam poetry battle looms, and Sheriff Jacko is up for the job. | |||||
| 2b | "Cranky the Clown" | Steve Cooper; Andrew Collins (co-director) | Cleon Prineas | TBA | 6 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko set out to save Spike's birthday from Cranky. | |||||
| 3a | "Blinky the Brave" | Andrew Collins | Charlotte Rose Hamlyn | TBA | 7 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko must rescue the town from the endless swooping tyranny of Magpie Season. | |||||
| 3b | "Poopy Trudy" | Andrew Collins | Fin Edquist | TBA | 7 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko happen upon a lost doll they mistake for a human baby. | |||||
| 4a | "It's a Date" | Andrew Collins | Jane Schneider | TBA | 8 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko help Pablo on their most difficult mission yet: a quest for love. | |||||
| 4b | "Sir Claude's Last Life" | Andrew Collins | Cleon Prineas | TBA | 8 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko cut a deal to protect Greenpatch when they discover Claude has lost 8 of his 9 lives. | |||||
| 5a | "Jurassic Burrow" | Andrew Collins | Michelle Offen | TBA | 9 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko embark on an epic journey through the catacombs of Wombo's burrow. | |||||
| 5b | "Rainbows & Princes" | Richard Simmons | Sam Meikle | TBA | 9 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko fall through a rainbow and help a snotty frog princess find her prince. | |||||
| 6a | "Mystery Ball" | Richard Simmons; Andrew Collins (co-director) | Adam Smith and Pete Reeves | TBA | 12 December 2016 |
| A mysterious talking ball lands in Greenpatch and has the townsfolk enraptured with its wise words. | |||||
| 6b | "Freaky Frillday" | Andrew Collins | Bruce Griffiths | David Gonzales | 12 December 2016 |
| Jacko wakes up with a case of the jumps but Blinky's cure works a little too well. | |||||
| 7a | "Notions Eleven" | Andrew Collins | Zoe Harrington | TBA | 13 December 2016 |
| Blinky launches a rescue mission with a crack team of professionals when Jacko is lizard napped. | |||||
| 7b | "Attack of the Extra-Tree-Restrials" | Steve Cooper; Andrew Collins (co-director) | Bruce Griffiths | TBA | 13 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko set out to protect the town from mind melding aliens. | |||||
| 8a | "Robert's Sound" | Andrew Collins | Giula Sandler | TBA | 14 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko embark on a treasure hunt to recover Robert's lost glasses. | |||||
| 8b | "Cloud Catchers" | Andrew Collins | Rachel Spratt | Ben McLaughlin | 14 December 2016 |
| Blinky takes to the skies on a mission to bring a rain cloud back to Greenpatch. | |||||
| 9a | "The Ultimate Prey" | Andrew Collins | Charlotte Rose Hamlyn | TBA | 15 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko decide to amp up the annual class bush survival walk. | |||||
| 9b | "Box World" | Andrew Collins | Richie Conroy | Allan Abelardo | 15 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko are transported to an imaginary land called Box World. | |||||
| 10a | "Crazy Golf" | Richard Simmons | Pete Reeves | Manuk Chang | 16 December 2016 |
| Blinky invents a game so fantastic that Mayor Cranky bans everyone but himself from playing. | |||||
| 10b | "Outbreak into Song" | Andrew Collins | Barbara Deignan and Adam Smith | Ben McLaughlin | 16 December 2016 |
| Then, a catchy tune causes mayhem and spreads through Greenpatch. | |||||
| 11a | "The Crankynator" | Andrew Collins | Bruce Griffiths | TBA | 19 December 2016 |
| Blinky unwittingly unleashes a force of horrifying cleanliness when he invites Cranky's mother to visit Greenpatch. | |||||
| 11b | "Time Machine" | Andrew Collins | Sam Meikle | Marc Camelbeke | 19 December 2016 |
| A dangerous croc is rumoured to be closing in on Greenpatch. | |||||
| 12a | "Mine for the Taking" | Andrew Collins | Tim Lee | TBA | 20 December 2016 |
| Blinky and Jacko search for gold on a quest to retrieve Blinky's compass. | |||||
| 12b | "The Escape" | Richard Simmons | Barbara Deignan | TBA | 20 December 2016 |
| Mayor Cranky's annual lecture looms and Blinky must find a way to get out of it. | |||||
| 13a | "The Pierat Queen" | Andrew Collins | Cleon Prineas | TBA | 18 September 2017 |
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| 13b | "Recycled" | Andrew Collins | Tim Lee | TBA | 18 September 2017 |
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| 14a | "Dragon's Tale" | Andrew Collins | Tim Lee | TBA | 19 September 2017 |
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| 14b | "Kev" | Richard Simmons | Patrick Chapman; Sergio Delfino (co-writer) | TBA | 19 September 2017 |
| Blinky was being jealous of Kev learning how to be the Guardian of Greenpatch. | |||||
| 15a | "Castaways" | Andrew Collins | Tim Lee | TBA | 20 September 2017 |
| Bandi and Coot cut the bridge near Wombo's place. Will Blinky and his friends get across the bridge? | |||||
| 15b | "Mission Impossumable" | Richard Simmons | Richie Conroy | TBA | 20 September 2017 |
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| 16a | "The Highland Games" | Richard Simmons | Jason Tammemagi | TBA | 21 September 2017 |
| Blinky's uncle Roddy Macbill comes to visit Greenpatch for these highland games. | |||||
| 16b | "Gnome Man's Land" | Richard Simmons | Patrick Chapman | Marc Camelbeke | 21 September 2017 |
| It's all out warfare in the epic battle to protect Wombo's compost heap from a relentless flock of crows bent on invasion. | |||||
| 17a | "Blankie Bill" | Richard Simmons and Andrew Collins | Jason Tammemagi and Adam Smith | TBA | 22 September 2017 |
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| 17b | "Born to Teach" | Andrew Collins | Michelle Offen | TBA | 22 September 2017 |
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| 18a | "The Inconvenient Friend" | Andrew Collins | Tim Lee | TBA | 25 September 2017 |
| When Blinky discovers Jacko is caught in a friendship with Cranky he can't get out of, he devises a genius plan to free him from the awkward bromance. | |||||
| 18b | "The Font of All Kn-Owl-edge" | Richard Simmons | Barbara Deignan | TBA | 25 September 2017 |
| Blinky finds himself at odds with a new kid at school who seems to know everything about everything. | |||||
| 19a | "The Winged Koala" | Richard Simmons | Jason Tammemagi | TBA | 26 September 2017 |
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| 19b | "Beware the Moon" | Andrew Collins | Richie Conroy | TBA | 26 September 2017 |
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| 20a | "Mum vs Cranky" | Richard Simmons | Michelle Offen | TBA | 27 September 2017 |
| The water is dried out by Cranky when Jacko is going away. Blinky and Mrs. Bill go out to find the water to the waterfall. | |||||
| 20b | "Curse of the Double Curse" | Richard Simmons | Jason Tammemagi | TBA | 27 September 2017 |
| Blinky and Jacko accidentally make an enemy of a powerful toad sorceress who casts a double curse on all of Greenpatch. | |||||
| 21a | "Old School" | Richard Simmons | Richie Conroy | TBA | 28 September 2017 |
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| 21b | "The Budgie Smuggler" | Andrew Collins | Charlotte Rose Hamlyn | TBA | 28 September 2017 |
| Blinky and Jacko find the Budgies while Claude is inside this cave. | |||||
| 22a | "Dune Busters" | Richard Simmons | Richie Conroy | TBA | 29 September 2017 |
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| 22b | "Blinky's Birthday" | Richard Simmons | Barbara Deignan | TBA | 29 September 2017 |
| Blinky and Jacko went inside the cave so Mayor Cranky, Bandi and Coot have to follow them for the surprise birthday party. | |||||
| 23a | "Home to Roost" | Richard Simmons | Barbara Deignan | TBA | 2 October 2017 |
| Blinky's father Bill Koala comes home to Greenpatch so Blinky and Bill decide to have Mayor Cranky do the chicken run. | |||||
| 23b | "Super Heroes" | Andrew Collins | Tim Lee | TBA | 2 October 2017 |
| When Blinky and Jacko save a young impressionable potoroo they unwrittingly unleash chaos on Greenpatch. | |||||
| 24a | "Homesick" | Richard Simmons | Patrick Chapman | TBA | 3 October 2017 |
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| 24b | "Flying Circus" | Andrew Collins | Bruce Griffiths | TBA | 3 October 2017 |
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| 25a | "The One" | Andrew Collins | Cleon Prineas | TBA | 4 October 2017 |
| Blinky and his friends sees an Goat went to visiting Greenpatch. | |||||
| 25b | "Getalong Shirt" | Andrew Collins | Michelle Offen | TBA | 4 October 2017 |
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| 26a | "Founders Day" | Andrew Collins | Fin Edquist | TBA | 5 October 2017 |
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| 26b | "Roommates" | Richard Simmons | Jason Tammemagi | TBA | 5 October 2017 |
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International exhibition
| Country | Channel | Debut | Title |
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 Australia |
7TWO | 5 December 2016 | The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill |
 Poland |
TeleTOON+ | 16 January 2017 | Bystry Bill |
 Finland |
Nelonen | 11 November 2017 | Vili Vilperin seikkailut |
 Brazil |
Nat Geo Kids Fox Broadcasting Company |
3 October 2017 | As Aventuras de Blinky Bill |
 Bolivia |
1 July 2017 | Las Aventuras de Blinky Bill | |
 Argentina |
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 Chile |
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 Colombia |
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 Dominican Republic |
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 Ecuador |
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 El Salvador |
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 Guatemala |
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 Peru |
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 Mexico |
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 Uruguay |
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 Canada |
Ici Radio-Canada Télé | 9 September 2017 | Les aventures extraordinaires de Blinky Bill |
 Portugal |
RTP2 | 19 October 2017 | Blinky Bill |
 Germany |
KIKA | 1 January 2018 | Die unglaublichen Abenteuer von Blinky Bill |
 United Kingdom |
Pop | 2018 | The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill |
 United States |
Kids Central | 2018 | The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill |
 Italy |
Pop | 2018 | TBA |
 Ukraine |
PLUSPLUS | 25 March 2019 | Дикі пригоди Блінки Білла |
 Russia |
Carousel | 16 September 2019 | Дикие приключения Блинки Билла |
Broadcast
The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill debuted on 7TWO in Australia on 5 December 2016. The series aired on teleTOON+ in Poland on 16 January 2017. In Hungary, it began airing on Minimax on 19 June 2017. In Latin America debuted on Nat Geo Kids on 1 July 2017 and Brazil on 1 September 2017. In Canada debuted on Ici Radio-Canada Télé on 9 September 2017., In United Kingdom it debuted on Pop in TBA., In Italy it debuted on Pop in TBA., In Germany it debuted on KiKA on 1 January 2018.
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