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'''The Raccoons''' is a Canadian animated [[cartoon]] sitcom focusing on environmental and wildlife consciousness, created by songwriter/artist Kevin Gillis. Unlike many other cartoons of its time, it handled action, humor, and romance in a fairly sophisticated manner, while remaining sufficiently uncomplicated for younger viewers.<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
* '''Bert Raccoon''' (voiced by the late Len Carlson) - Jack of all trades, and master of all (by his own account), Bert was the heroic, clumsy, loveable star of the gang. Incredibly lucky, his non-stop antics never managed to do more than injure his pride and he sometimes stumbled into just the position where he needed to be.<br />
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* '''Ralph and Melissa Raccoon''' (Bob Dermer and Susan Roman/others) - a married couple, these two are really the brains behind most plans to combat the schemes of Cyril Sneer. In the series, they owned the "Raccoondominium" where Bert stays as a permanent houseguest and ran the forest's newspaper, the ''Evergreen Standard''. They also seemed somewhat more vocal in the series as compared to the specials, especially Melissa by the time voice actress Susan Roman portrayed her. <br />
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*'''Schaeffer and Broo''' (Carl Banas and Sharon Lewis) - Two English sheepdogs. Schaeffer was the elder and acted as sort of a guardian to the puppy Broo. Oddly, Broo was one of only two [[non-morphic]] character on the show. In the series, Schaeffer acted as a wise mentoring type of friend and denizen of the forest community, but in the specials he was a pet who travelled back and forth between the "real" world and the realm where the other characters lived.<br />
<br />
*'''Cyril Sneer''' (Michael Magee)- Cyril is ostensibly an [[w:aardvark|aardvark]], though highly stylized. For some reason, he never wears clothes, even though his employees usually do. He was usually portrayed as a cunning businessman who had little in the way of scruples, although he did gain some sympathetic character development later on. His role as the villain was more pronounced in the specials than in the series, in which he was partly supplanted in that capacity by one Mr. Knox the alligator, and later Milton Midas (who pollutes the Evergreen Lake in the penultimate episode). His pet dog is Snag, who has a long snout like his master, but like Broo is non-morphic.<br />
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*'''Floyd, Lloyd, and Boyd''' (Nick Nichols, Len Carlson, Keith Hampshire, Fred Little) - These three pigs (likely no coincidence) are Cyril's top lieutenants. Like most middle management, they are easily intimidated by their own boss but not above harshness to their own subordinates as well as seeking their own advancement given the opportunity. They do have distinct personalities (Pig One is bossier and more dominant than the other two), in spite of the fact that they usually report and act in concert. The credits of the show just refer to them by numbers rather than names. <br />
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*'''Cedric Sneer''' (Fred Little, Marvin Goldhar) - Cedric is Cyril's son (by some unknown means) and a very smart young man. Despite his father's evil intentions, he has a good heart and is known in the series as Bert's best friend. He is a "geek" or "nerd" stereotype and timid, but he slowly learns to overcome his lack of self-confidence and helps to save the day on various occasions. In the specials, he had a love interest in Sophia Tutu, but her character inexplicably disappeared (many fans do not consider her a material loss).<br />
<br />
== The animated specials ==<br />
The first animated special featuring the Raccoons was ''The Christmas Raccoons'' (1980), which was followed by ''The Raccoons On Ice'' (1981), ''The Raccoons and the Lost Star'' (1983), and ''The Raccoons:&nbsp;Let's Dance!'' (1984), which consisted mostly of songs and footage from the previous three specials. There is little in the way of continuity between the specials, although in ''Lost Star'', Schaeffer comments that he recognizes the other characters in spite of the fact that they don't seem to recognize him. Music included songs performed by Leo Sayer, John Schneider, Rupert Holmes, Rita Coolidge, and Dottie West.<br />
<br />
== The series ==<br />
The ''Raccoons'' series aired on various networks, including the [[w:CBC Television|CBC]] (its original broadcaster) in Canada, and [[w:Disney Channel|Disney Channel]] in the United States during its original run, between 1985 and 1992. It would later air on [[w:Trio (TV network)|Trio]] in the USA, and on [[w:A Channel (Craig)|A Channel]], [[w:APTN|APTN]], and [[w:Teletoon Retro|Teletoon Retro]] in Canada. There were a total of sixty episodes. The series was well-known for its [[w:New Wave|New Wave]]-inspired soundtrack. Music included songs performed by Lisa Lougheed, Luba, and others.<br />
<br />
== Reboot ==<br />
On July 4, 2017, it was revealed that series creator Kevin Gillis was working on a reboot of the series. An unlisted pitch pilot with slightly redesigned characters was found on YouTube on the 11th of March, 2018, however the video was soon taken down by Big Jump Entertainment due to a copyright claim. On June 17th of that same year, Big Jump officially revealed the new designs for Bert, Ralph, Melissa, Cyril and Cedric [https://bigjumpent.com/projects/the-raccoons/ on their website]. The reboot is scheduled to premiere in the near future, beginning with a holiday special entitled "When Raccoons Fly!".<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.gilsinan.com/raccoons/ James Gilsinan IV's "UnOfficial Raccoons Home Page"]<br />
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'''The Raccoons''' is a Canadian animated [[cartoon]] sitcom focusing on environmental and wildlife consciousness, created by songwriter/artist Kevin Gillis. Unlike many other cartoons of its time, it handled action, humor, and romance in a fairly sophisticated manner, while remaining sufficiently uncomplicated for younger viewers.<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
* '''Bert Raccoon''' (voiced by the late Len Carlson) - Jack of all trades, and master of all (by his own account), Bert was the heroic, clumsy, loveable star of the gang. Incredibly lucky, his non-stop antics never managed to do more than injure his pride and he sometimes stumbled into just the position where he needed to be.<br />
<br />
* '''Ralph and Melissa Raccoon''' (Bob Dermer and Susan Roman/others) - a married couple, these two are really the brains behind most plans to combat the schemes of Cyril Sneer. In the series, they owned the "Raccoondominium" where Bert stays as a permanent houseguest and ran the forest's newspaper, the ''Evergreen Standard''. They also seemed somewhat more vocal in the series as compared to the specials, especially Melissa by the time voice actress Susan Roman portrayed her. <br />
<br />
*'''Schaeffer and Broo''' (Carl Banas and Sharon Lewis) - Two English sheepdogs. Schaeffer was the elder and acted as sort of a guardian to the puppy Broo. Oddly, Broo was one of only two [[non-morphic]] character on the show. In the series, Schaeffer acted as a wise mentoring type of friend and denizen of the forest community, but in the specials he was a pet who travelled back and forth between the "real" world and the realm where the other characters lived.<br />
<br />
*'''Cyril Sneer''' (Michael Magee)- Cyril is ostensibly an [[w:aardvark|aardvark]], though highly stylized. For some reason, he never wears clothes, even though his employees usually do. He was usually portrayed as a cunning businessman who had little in the way of scruples, although he did gain some sympathetic character development later on. His role as the villain was more pronounced in the specials than in the series, in which he was partly supplanted in that capacity by one Mr. Knox the alligator, and later Milton Midas (who pollutes the Evergreen Lake in the penultimate episode). His pet dog is Snag, who has a long snout like his master, but like Broo is non-morphic.<br />
<br />
*'''Floyd, Lloyd, and Boyd''' (Nick Nichols, Len Carlson, Keith Hampshire, Fred Little) - These three pigs (likely no coincidence) are Cyril's top lieutenants. Like most middle management, they are easily intimidated by their own boss but not above harshness to their own subordinates as well as seeking their own advancement given the opportunity. They do have distinct personalities (Pig One is bossier and more dominant than the other two), in spite of the fact that they usually report and act in concert. The credits of the show just refer to them by numbers rather than names. <br />
<br />
*'''Cedric Sneer''' (Fred Little, Marvin Goldhar) - Cedric is Cyril's son (by some unknown means) and a very smart young man. Despite his father's evil intentions, he has a good heart and is known in the series as Bert's best friend. He is a "geek" or "nerd" stereotype and timid, but he slowly learns to overcome his lack of self-confidence and helps to save the day on various occasions. In the specials, he had a love interest in Sophia Tutu, but her character inexplicably disappeared (many fans do not consider her a material loss).<br />
<br />
== The animated specials ==<br />
The first animated special featuring the Raccoons was ''The Christmas Raccoons'' (1980), which was followed by ''The Raccoons On Ice'' (1981), ''The Raccoons and the Lost Star'' (1983), and ''The Raccoons:&nbsp;Let's Dance!'' (1984), which consisted mostly of songs and footage from the previous three specials. There is little in the way of continuity between the specials, although in ''Lost Star'', Schaeffer comments that he recognizes the other characters in spite of the fact that they don't seem to recognize him. Music included songs performed by Leo Sayer, John Schneider, Rupert Holmes, Rita Coolidge, and Dottie West.<br />
<br />
== The series ==<br />
The ''Raccoons'' series aired on various networks, including the [[w:CBC Television|CBC]] (its original broadcaster) in Canada, and [[w:Disney Channel|Disney Channel]] in the United States during its original run, between 1985 and 1992. It would later air on [[w:Trio (TV network)|Trio]] in the USA, and on [[w:A Channel (Craig)|A Channel]], [[w:APTN|APTN]], and [[w:Teletoon Retro|Teletoon Retro]] in Canada. There were a total of sixty episodes. The series was well-known for its [[w:New Wave|New Wave]]-inspired soundtrack. Music included songs performed by Lisa Lougheed, Luba, and others.<br />
<br />
== Reboot ==<br />
On July 4, 2017, it was revealed that series creator Kevin Gillis was working on a reboot of the series. An unlisted pitch pilot with slightly redesigned characters was found on YouTube on the 11th of March, 2018, however the video was soon taken down by Big Jump Entertainment due to a copyright claim. On June 17th of that same year, Big Jump officially revealed the new designs for Bert, Ralph, Melissa, Cyril and Cedric [https://bigjumpent.com/projects/the-raccoons/ on their website]. The reboot is scheduled to premiere in the near future, beginning with a holiday special entitled "When Raccoons Fly!".<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.gilsinan.com/raccoons/ James Gilsinan IV's "UnOfficial Raccoons Home Page"]<br />
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'''''Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown''''' is a 1997 animated children's series created by Yoram Gross, set in a fictionalized Australian town. It is based on the character Skippy from the 1968 live-action series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.{{cn}}<br />
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It differs from the other Skippy series as it is animated and features [[anthropomorphic]] [[character]]s. Skippy, for example, is an anthropomorphic [[kangaroo]] who wears a baseball cap.{{cn}}<br />
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==Premise==<br />
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (voiced by Jamie Oxenbould) is a young park ranger (possibly early 20s) who resides in Bushtown. He always happens to get in the way of Mayor Croco, his greedy wife Suka, his pack of goons and his frequent get-rich schemes which often endanger the town.{{cn}}<br />
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==Characters==<br />
*Skippy: A bush kangaroo and the protagonist. He works as the park ranger of Bushtown. He is a very thoughtful, caring, dutiful, and well-educated sort doing what he can keep Bushtown in order and its people happy.<br />
*Matilda Roo: A bush kangaroo who casts the news on television around Bushtown and the host of Bushtown Tonight. Usually, she is first on the scene and she's a good friend of Skippy, open to his ideas.<br />
*Professor Anus McPouch: A Scottish-accented Pelican who invents gizmos to improve progress in Bushtown. Half of his inventions don't always have a successful testing phase.<br />
*Mayor Croco: A [[crocodile]] and the primary antagonist. He starts out as a garbage collector and becomes mayor of Bushtown by a pure stroke of luck, but he doesn't do his fair service for the people and regards Skippy as a hindrance to his campaign.<br />
*Damon: A [[rat]] and one of Croco's goons who serves as his chauffeur.<br />
*Sirloin: A [[bull]] and one of Croco's goons, with a voice-based on Sylvester Stallone.<br />
*Bruiser: A [[boar]] and another of Croco's goons, with a voice-based on Arnold Schwarzenegger.<br />
*Suka: Croco's spoiled and prissy wife with an obsession for cleanliness.<br />
*Bomba<br />
*Pos: A [[possum]] cameraman, with a voice that resembles that of Eddie Murphy. His character design is reused from Slick, who appeared in two episodes of [[Blinky Bill (series)|Blinky Bill]].<br />
*Plato Bill: The previous mayor of Bushtown who had been in service for 50 years before Croco.<br />
*Digger Dan<br />
*Captain Shelley<br />
*Mr. Roge: The recorded producer teaching Suka to sing.<br />
*Mrs. Cocka: Professor McPouch's maid.<br />
*Rowdy: a rat is Captain Numbat's assistant.<br />
*Luke<br />
*Wallaby<br />
*Wanda Wombat<br />
*Major Winston Gelles<br />
*Ms. Bronnie Hatchet<br />
*Honest L. Slick<br />
*Rocky Star<br />
*Captain Numbat<br />
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==Voice cast==<br />
*[[Jamie Oxenbould]] as Skippy<br />
*[[Robyn Moore]] as Matilda, Suka, other Voices<br />
*[[Keith Scott]] as Mayor Croco, Damon, Brusier, Sirloin, Poss, other voices<br />
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==Episodes==<br />
# "Trouble in Bushtown" (5 September 1997). Mayor Bill is retiring. Croco gets money out of the candidates for the crowds he brings to them. The voting event gets out of hand, but when Skippy saves Croco, Ex-Mayor Bill accidentally announces Croco as the mayor.[8]<br />
#"Hooray for Crocowood" (12 September 1997). When the furniture is confiscated by the Bushtown Council Tax Collector for Croco's mansion, Skippy plans to get them back by pretending to shoot a movie there.<br />
#"Sabotage at Sea" (19 September 1997). Croco tries to put Bushtown's ferry service out of business and replace it with his own.<br />
#"The Mean Green Queen" (25 September 1997). When Croco hires a waitress to pretend to be a visiting queen, she gives her crown to Suka who goes mad with power.<br />
#"The Big Drought" (2 October 1997). Croco and Suka waste water while Bushtown suffers a horrid drought and Skippy plans to get even while finding water for his friends.<br />
#"The Oil Crisis" (9 October 1997). MacPouch creates a device that can turn garbage into petrol to deal with Croco constantly rising petrol prices. Sirloin, Bruiser, and Damon take spy lessons from a disguised Skippy in order to steal the device.<br />
#"Invasion of the Robots" (16 October 1997). Professor MacPouch has invented a tree-planting robot to fix the damage done by bush fires. Croco replaces his factory workers with robots to fund Sulka's dream opera house, but that causes a financial halt in the business.<br />
#"Battle of the Pumpkins" (23 October 1997). Suka has MacPouch's plant growth formula stolen to win a pumpkin competition but Sirloin drinks it, making him super smart.<br />
#"A Town Called Suka" (30 October 1997). Skippy learns that Croco's irrigation system is actually a scam to build a casino.<br />
#"Dance Fever" (6 November 1997). Skippy hosts a fundraiser to build special shoes for an injured girl, but Croco's schemes threaten to ruin it.<br />
#"Skippy the Fire Fighter" (13 November 1997). Skippy becomes the new fire chief but Croco steals the fire truck's pump and motor for a fountain for Suka.<br />
#"Calling Doctor Skippy" (20 November 1997). Skippy discovers that Croco and Suka have used the funds for a new hospital to improve the road to their mansion. Distraught, Skippy devises a set of tricks that convince Croco and Suka that they are in need of a new hospital.<br />
#"A Fistful of Opals" (27 November 1997). Skippy's old friend Digger Dan digs up in the old mine then the volcano blows sky high with the hot lava but Mayor Croco is up to his old tricks again.<br />
#"You’re in the Army Now" (4 December 1997)<br />
#"Run for the Money" (11 December 1997)<br />
#"The End of the World" (18 December 1997). Croco is told by Captain Shelley of Pearl World that it'll take the end of the world for him to hand over a prize pearl. Croco convinces the citizens that Bushtown is in the path of a comet and Skippy goes into disguise to get the pearl back.<br />
#"The Sound of Suka" (25 December 1997). Skippy becomes suspicious when Suka, with a voice so bad even her husband Mayor Croco concedes she's absolutely dreadful, is a big hit with her first music video. The magnificent voice, however, is not hers but belongs to Skippy's friend Wallaby, recorded by the unscrupulous music agent Roj.<br />
#"Underwater Treasure" (1 January 1998). Skippy dresses of Mayor Croco's great antsier Captain McCroc warns Croco the treasure is hunted when Croco and his goons on the submarine to get the treasure.<br />
#"Suka the TV Star" (8 January 1998)<br />
#"The Kissing Frog" (15 January 1998). Skippy spots a rare frog at one of Croco's construction sites and Croco tries to get rid of it.<br />
#"Close Encounters of the Croco Kind" (22 January 1998)<br />
#"Curse of the Blue Diamond" (29 January 1998). When Croco steals a diamond from an ancient temple, Skippy and friends convince him that he's haunted by a ghostly king.<br />
#"Skippy's Double Trouble" (5 February 1998)<br />
#"The First Crocodile on the Moon" (12 February 1998). Croco steals $20 million dollars from farmers affected by a dust bowl to build himself a moon rocket. Skippy and friends fake his take-off to get back at him.<br />
#"Bye Bye Birdies" (19 February 1998)<br />
#"The Kidnap Caper" (26 February 1998). Skippy finds a lost joey which gives Croco the idea to scam Bushtown by pretending Suka's been kidnapped.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skippy:_Adventures_in_Bushtown Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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'''The Raccoons''' is a Canadian animated [[cartoon]] sitcom focusing on environmental and wildlife consciousness, created by songwriter/artist Kevin Gillis. Unlike many other cartoons of its time, it handled action, humor, and romance in a fairly sophisticated manner, while remaining sufficiently uncomplicated for younger viewers.<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
* '''Bert Raccoon''' (voiced by the late Len Carlson) - Jack of all trades, and master of all (by his own account), Bert was the heroic, clumsy, loveable star of the gang. Incredibly lucky, his non-stop antics never managed to do more than injure his pride and he sometimes stumbled into just the position where he needed to be.<br />
<br />
* '''Ralph and Melissa Raccoon''' (Bob Dermer and Susan Roman/others) - a married couple, these two are really the brains behind most plans to combat the schemes of Cyril Sneer. In the series, they owned the "Raccoondominium" where Bert stays as a permanent houseguest and ran the forest's newspaper, the ''Evergreen Standard''. They also seemed somewhat more vocal in the series as compared to the specials, especially Melissa by the time voice actress Susan Roman portrayed her. <br />
<br />
*'''Schaeffer and Broo''' (Carl Banas and Sharon Lewis) - Two English sheepdogs. Schaeffer was the elder and acted as sort of a guardian to the puppy Broo. Oddly, Broo was one of only two [[non-morphic]] character on the show. In the series, Schaeffer acted as a wise mentoring type of friend and denizen of the forest community, but in the specials he was a pet who travelled back and forth between the "real" world and the realm where the other characters lived.<br />
<br />
*'''Cyril Sneer''' (Michael Magee)- Cyril is ostensibly an [[w:aardvark|aardvark]], though highly stylized. For some reason, he never wears clothes, even though his employees usually do. He was usually portrayed as a cunning businessman who had little in the way of scruples, although he did gain some sympathetic character development later on. His role as the villain was more pronounced in the specials than in the series, in which he was partly supplanted in that capacity by one Mr. Knox the alligator, and later Milton Midas (who pollutes the Evergreen Lake in the penultimate episode). His pet dog is Snag, who has a long snout like his master, but like Broo is non-morphic.<br />
<br />
*'''Floyd, Lloyd, and Boyd''' (Nick Nichols, Len Carlson, Keith Hampshire, Fred Little) - These three pigs (likely no coincidence) are Cyril's top lieutenants. Like most middle management, they are easily intimidated by their own boss but not above harshness to their own subordinates as well as seeking their own advancement given the opportunity. They do have distinct personalities (Pig One is bossier and more dominant than the other two), in spite of the fact that they usually report and act in concert. The credits of the show just refer to them by numbers rather than names. <br />
<br />
*'''Cedric Sneer''' (Fred Little, Marvin Goldhar) - Cedric is Cyril's son (by some unknown means) and a very smart young man. Despite his father's evil intentions, he has a good heart and is known in the series as Bert's best friend. He is a "geek" or "nerd" stereotype and timid, but he slowly learns to overcome his lack of self-confidence and helps to save the day on various occasions. In the specials, he had a love interest in Sophia Tutu, but her character inexplicably disappeared (many fans do not consider her a material loss).<br />
<br />
== The animated specials ==<br />
The first animated special featuring the Raccoons was ''The Christmas Raccoons'' (1980), which was followed by ''The Raccoons On Ice'' (1981), ''The Raccoons and the Lost Star'' (1983), and ''The Raccoons:&nbsp;Let's Dance!'' (1984), which consisted mostly of songs and footage from the previous three specials. There is little in the way of continuity between the specials, although in ''Lost Star'', Schaeffer comments that he recognizes the other characters in spite of the fact that they don't seem to recognize him. Music included songs performed by Leo Sayer, John Schneider, Rupert Holmes, Rita Coolidge, and Dottie West.<br />
<br />
== The series ==<br />
The ''Raccoons'' series aired on various networks, including the [[w:CBC Television|CBC]] (its original broadcaster) in Canada, and [[w:Disney Channel|Disney Channel]] in the United States during its original run, between 1985 and 1992. It would later air on [[w:Trio (TV network)|Trio]] in the USA, and on [[w:A Channel (Craig)|A Channel]], [[w:APTN|APTN]], and [[w:Teletoon Retro|Teletoon Retro]] in Canada. There were a total of sixty episodes. The series was well-known for its [[w:New Wave|New Wave]]-inspired soundtrack. Music included songs performed by Lisa Lougheed, Luba, and others.<br />
<br />
== Reboot ==<br />
On July 4, 2017, it was revealed that series creator Kevin Gillis was working on a reboot of the series. An unlisted pitch pilot with slightly redesigned characters was found on YouTube on the 11th of March, 2018, however the video was soon taken down by Big Jump Entertainment due to a copyright claim. On June 17th of that same year, Big Jump officially revealed the new designs for Bert, Ralph, Melissa, Cyril and Cedric [https://bigjumpent.com/projects/the-raccoons/ on their website]. The reboot is scheduled to premiere in 2021.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.gilsinan.com/raccoons/ James Gilsinan IV's "UnOfficial Raccoons Home Page"]<br />
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'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bushland town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young [[koala]] who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and one of Blinky's best friends, known for his intellect and his large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A youthful, boisterous [[kangaroo]], and the strongest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo teen, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, who's usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople. Despite this, he's got a heart of gold. <br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious teenage dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo, and Danny's younger brother; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength. <br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted, sensitive dingo, and the youngest member of the family, who becomes a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1. Despite his well-meaning nature, he's a popular target for insults from his family and friends, especially from Marcia.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a huge appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle in teaching her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets, who usually puts himself before others, much to the town's chagrin.<br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous boy, tending to cause trouble around the town, and frequently receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky feels very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decide to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, and because peace has been made with the Dingo family, Shifty is now an official member of Blinky's gang. However, when Miss Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he and Meatball decide to go camping themselves, but the rain washes them away on account of them ignoring Miss Magpie's advice.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - he just needs to figure out how! While Nutsy and Splodge are tasked with figuring out how to create snow, Flap and Blinky leave Greenpatch to find a pine tree. However, when they come across an animal who lives in the pine forest, and two humans who are trying to catch it, the chase is on to get back to Greenpatch in time for that night's festivities!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bushland town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young [[koala]] who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and one of Blinky's best friends, known for his intellect and his large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A youthful, boisterous [[kangaroo]], and the strongest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo teen, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, who's usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople. Despite this, he's got a heart of gold. <br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious teenage dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo, and Danny's younger brother; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength. <br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted, sensitive dingo, and the youngest member of the family, who becomes a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1. Despite his well-meaning nature, he's a popular target for insults from his family and friends, especially from Marcia.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a huge appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle in teaching her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets, who usually puts himself before others, much to the town's chagrin.<br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous boy, tending to cause trouble around the town, and frequently receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky feels very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decide to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, and because peace has been made with the Dingo family, Shifty is now an official member of Blinky's gang. However, when Miss Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he and Meatball decide to go camping themselves, but the rain washes them away on account of them ignoring Miss Magpie's advice.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
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| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
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| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
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| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - he just needs to figure out how! While Nutsy and Splodge are tasked with figuring out how to create snow, Flap and Blinky leave Greenpatch to find a pine tree. However, when they come across an animal who lives in the pine forest, and two humans who are trying to catch it, the chase is on to get back to Greenpatch in time for that night's festivities!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bushland town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young [[koala]] who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and one of Blinky's best friends, known for his intellect and his large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A youthful, boisterous [[kangaroo]], and the strongest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo teen, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, who's usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople. Despite this, he's got a heart of gold. <br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious teenage dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo, and Danny's younger brother; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength. <br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted, sensitive dingo, and the youngest member of the family, who becomes a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1. Despite his well-meaning nature, he's a popular target for insults from his family and friends, especially from Marcia.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a huge appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle in teaching her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets, who usually puts himself before others, much to the town's chagrin.<br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous boy, tending to cause trouble around the town, and frequently receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky feels very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decide to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, and because peace has been made with the Dingo family, Shifty is now an official member of Blinky's gang. However, when Miss Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he and Meatball decide to go camping themselves, but the rain washes them away on account of their ignoring Miss Magpie's advice.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
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| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
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| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
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| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
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| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
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| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - he just needs to figure out how! While Nutsy and Splodge are tasked with figuring out how to create snow, Flap and Blinky leave Greenpatch to find a pine tree. However, when they come across an animal who lives in the pine forest, and two humans who are trying to catch it, the chase is on to get back to Greenpatch in time for that night's festivities!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bushland town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young [[koala]] who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and one of Blinky's best friends, known for his intellect and his large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A youthful, boisterous [[kangaroo]], and the strongest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo teen, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, who's usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople. Despite this, he's got a heart of gold. <br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious teenage dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo, and Danny's younger brother; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength. <br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted, sensitive dingo, and the youngest member of the family, who becomes a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1. Despite his well-meaning nature, he's a popular target for insults from his family and friends, especially from Marcia.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a huge appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle in teaching her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets, who usually puts himself before others, much to the town's chagrin.<br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous boy, tending to cause trouble around the town and frequently receive scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky feels very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decide to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, and because peace has been made with the Dingo family, Shifty is now an official member of Blinky's gang. However, when Miss Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he and Meatball decide to go camping themselves, but the rain washes them away on account of their ignoring Miss Magpie's advice.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - he just needs to figure out how! While Nutsy and Splodge are tasked with figuring out how to create snow, Flap and Blinky leave Greenpatch to find a pine tree. However, when they come across an animal who lives in the pine forest, and two humans who are trying to catch it, the chase is on to get back to Greenpatch in time for that night's festivities!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bushland town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young [[koala]] who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and one of Blinky's best friends, known for his intellect and his large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A youthful, boisterous [[kangaroo]], and the strongest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo teen, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, who's usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople. Despite this, he's got a heart of gold. <br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious teenage dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo, and Danny's younger brother; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength. <br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted, sensitive dingo, and the youngest member of the family, who becomes a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1. Despite his well-meaning nature, he's a popular target for insults from his family and friends, especially from Marcia.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a huge appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle in teaching her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets, who usually puts himself before others, much to the town's chagrin.<br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decide to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, and because peace has been made with the Dingo family, Shifty is now an official member of Blinky's gang. However, when Miss Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he and Meatball decide to go camping themselves, but the rain washes them away on account of their ignoring Miss Magpie's advice.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
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| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - he just needs to figure out how! While Nutsy and Splodge are tasked with figuring out how to create snow, Flap and Blinky leave Greenpatch to find a pine tree. However, when they come across an animal who lives in the pine forest, and two humans who are trying to catch it, the chase is on to get back to Greenpatch in time for that night's festivities!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bushland town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young [[koala]] who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and one of Blinky's best friends, known for his intellect and his large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A youthful, boisterous [[kangaroo]], and the strongest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo teen, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, who's usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople. Despite this, he's got a heart of gold. <br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious teenage dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo, and Danny's younger brother; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength. <br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted, sensitive dingo, and the youngest member of the family, who becomes a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1. Despite his well-meaning nature, he's a popular target for insults from his family and friends, especially from Marcia.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a huge appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle in teaching her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets, who usually puts himself before others, much to the town's chagrin.<br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decide to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, and because peace has been made with the Dingo family, Shifty is now an official member of Blinky's gang. However, when Miss Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he and Meatball decide to go camping themselves, but the rain washes them away on account of their ignoring Miss Magpie's advice.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
<br />
'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bushland town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young [[koala]] who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and one of Blinky's best friends, known for his intellect and his large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A youthful, boisterous [[kangaroo]], and the strongest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
<br />
=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
<br />
At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
<br />
Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
<br />
Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
<br />
'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decide to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he and Meatball decide to go camping themselves, but the rain washes them away on account of their ignoring Miss Magpie's advice.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
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| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
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| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young [[koala]] who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and one of Blinky's best friends, known for his intellect and his large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A youthful, boisterous [[kangaroo]], and the strongest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
<br />
'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decide to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he and Meatball decide to go camping themselves, but the rain washes them away on account of their ignoring Miss Magpie's advice.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
<br />
'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young [[koala]] who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and one of Blinky's best friends, known for his intellect and his large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A youthful, boisterous [[kangaroo]], and the strongest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decide to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he and Meatball decide to go camping themselves and hijack the students' own trip, but the rain washes them away on account of their ignoring Miss Magpie's advice.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
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| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
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| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
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| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
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| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
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| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
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| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
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| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
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| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
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| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
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| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong, boisterous [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
<br />
Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
<br />
'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decide to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he and Meatball decide to go camping themselves and hijack the students' own trip, but the rain washes them away on account of their ignoring Miss Magpie's advice.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
<br />
'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong, boisterous [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decides to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidentally breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with her students. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
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| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
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| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
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| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
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| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
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| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
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| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
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| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
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| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
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| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
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| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons (from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia).]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong, boisterous [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decides to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
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| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
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| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The scatterbrained mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and his gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his gang must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his gang try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his gang form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his gang take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that being the teacher is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his gang see that Mr. Possum's car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it.<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes steal some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply.<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his gang stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his gang sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his gang need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his gang find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. The gang decides to take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his gang be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his gang find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his gang find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his gang meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his gang volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his new gang land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
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| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
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| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
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| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and gang reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
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| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky, Nutsy and Flap make their way to the airport. They decide to give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
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| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky, Flap and Nutsy finally make it back to Australia and reunite with their friends and family in Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum before being chased out by Danny, Daisy and Meatball. After narrowly evading capture, Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save everybody else, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch's citizens regardless! Eventually, Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril turns on Basil and summons the fire brigade to extinguish the bushfire, and Basil is arrested for his criminal activities as the citizens of Greenpatch celebrate their victory.<br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
<br />
Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friends Flap, a platypus, and Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
<br />
'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || In the Australian bush town of Greenpatch, the local animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise, nothing is left of the town and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat, and Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving scoldings from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf koala lady, "Granny" Grunty. Down the river, they meet up with Blinky's friend Splodge, a kangaroo, and his family, who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor, who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, where they find that Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff, a frill-necked lizard, and his mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a raging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill, which is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals' former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the main buzz-saw. They stay in hiding untill night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. Blinky slingshoots the security light, and Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the mill, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia, a marsupial mouse, to join them. Blinky has Jacko the koookaburra drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, analysing the house layout and items. Meanwhile, Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed, who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night and break into the house. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky finally locates his mother and they all leave the mill in the woodcutters' truck. Claire waves tearfully goodbye to Nutsy, and Blinky and his gang make plans to rebuild Greenpatch.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
<br />
At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
<br />
Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
<br />
'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
<br />
At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
<br />
Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
<br />
Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
<br />
'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
<br />
'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
<br />
Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
<br />
Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
<br />
Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
<br />
Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
<br />
'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
<br />
'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals, returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
<br />
'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals and returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
<br />
=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
<br />
Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
<br />
Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
<br />
Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
<br />
Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
<br />
Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
<br />
'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
<br />
'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals and returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] who considers herself to be tough, with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
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| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
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| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
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| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
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| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
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| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
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| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
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| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
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| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
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| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
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| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals and returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyway.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Miss Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in magic tricks, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initially a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
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| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
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| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
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| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals and returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in martial arts, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initally a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky, where he joined Tico in making their own circus troupe.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
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| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
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| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
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| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
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| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
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| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals and returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in martial arts, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initally a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable miscellaneous characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals and returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in martial arts, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initally a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Notable misc. characters ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate, who considers himself to be a ladies' man, but is really a bit of a coward. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour. Known for pranking the residents of Greenpatch, perhaps even more so than Blinky.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking vagabond possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2. At one point, Marcia points out that he sounds like [[W:Eddie Murphy|Eddie Murphy]].<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky meets in Season 2, who was shunned by his father for being too soft. With the help of Blinky and the gang, he eventually became the winner of the Iron Croc Contest.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
<br />
Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
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| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
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| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
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| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
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| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals and returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Bros. ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in martial arts, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initally a double agent for the Circus Bros. who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Misc. ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky encounters in Season 2.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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The next morning, Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Flo urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Claire.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Claire's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Claire immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Flo locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Claire waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pimm's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and "Club Pet" || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip!<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank (full name Henry Cornelius) whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pimm and her budgie! <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy ||Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home!<br />
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| 11 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison! <br />
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| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
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| 13 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers?<br />
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| 14 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 15 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky Bill & the Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill & the Possum's Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
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| 21 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety?<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble.<br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be? <br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|}<br />
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=== Series 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
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| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Bros. have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Bros. capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
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| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Bros. are right on the gang's trail!<br />
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| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
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| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
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| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
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| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
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| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
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| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Bros. right behind them!<br />
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| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Bros. hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
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| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
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| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Bros. capture the mistress' cat! <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
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| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the first two seasons, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy leave Greenpatch and travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan with a gang of escaped circus animals and returning the animals to their proper homes while being chased by the circus' owners.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Brothers ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in martial arts, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initally a double agent for the Circus Brothers who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Misc. ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky encounters in Season 2.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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Next morning Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Joan urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Clara.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Clara's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Clara immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Joan locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Clara waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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'''''After the peaceful bush town of Greenpatch is destroyed by loggers, Blinky and his friends must rebuild it while dealing with a family of con artist-like dingoes.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pym's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
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| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky Bill and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and Club Pet || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who Is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
'''''Continuing on from last season, Greenpatch has been fully rebuilt, but when Ms Magpie takes Blinky's gang on a school excursion, the kids become lost. Now without their teacher and without a plan, the gang has to fend for themselves in the brutal Australian wilderness, and try to find their way back home.'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch. <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be?<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy || Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and The Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children! <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pym and her budgie!<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Possum Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety? <br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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'''''A circus comes to Greenpatch and intrigues the town, however, the animals are begging to escape and get back to the countries they came from! Blinky, Nutsy and Flap leave their friends and Greenpatch behind, and bring along the circus animals in an effort to return them to their respective countries, but the circus owners, Basil and Cyril, are constantly on their tail, and want Blinky for themselves! With Blinky, Flap, Nutsy and their new friends travelling the world and on the run, the stakes have never been higher!'''''<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Brothers have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Brothers capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Brothers are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Brothers right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Brothers hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Brothers capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Brothers ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in martial arts, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initally a double agent for the Circus Brothers who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Misc. ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky encounters in Season 2.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
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=== Movie (“Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala”) ===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
<br />
Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
<br />
Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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Next morning Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Joan urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Clara.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Clara's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Clara immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Joan locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Clara waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pym's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and Club Pet || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who Is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch. <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be?<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy || Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and The Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children! <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pym and her budgie!<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Possum Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety? <br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Brothers have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Brothers capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Brothers are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Brothers right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Brothers hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Brothers capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Brothers ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in martial arts, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initally a double agent for the Circus Brothers who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Misc. ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky encounters in Season 2.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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Next morning Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Joan urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Clara.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Clara's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Clara immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Joan locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Clara waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pym's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and Club Pet || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who Is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch. <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be?<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy || Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and The Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children! <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pym and her budgie!<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Possum Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety? <br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Brothers have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Brothers capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Brothers are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Brothers right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Brothers hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Brothers capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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= See also =<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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= External links =<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Brothers ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in martial arts, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initally a double agent for the Circus Brothers who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Misc. ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky encounters in Season 2.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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Next morning Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Joan urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Clara.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Clara's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Clara immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Joan locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Clara waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pym's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and Club Pet || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who Is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch. <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be?<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy || Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and The Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children! <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pym and her budgie!<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Possum Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety? <br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Brothers have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Brothers capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Brothers are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Brothers right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Brothers hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Brothers capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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= Trivia =<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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=== The Circus Brothers ===<br />
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* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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=== The circus animals ===<br />
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* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in martial arts, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initally a double agent for the Circus Brothers who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Misc. ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky encounters in Season 2.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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Next morning Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Joan urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Clara.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Clara's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Clara immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Joan locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Clara waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pym's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and Club Pet || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who Is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch. <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be?<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy || Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and The Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children! <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pym and her budgie!<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Possum Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety? <br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Brothers have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Brothers capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Brothers are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Brothers right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Brothers hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Brothers capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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== The Circus Brothers ===<br />
* '''Basil''': The main villain of season 3, who'll stop at nothing to keep his travelling circus in business, even if it means abusing his animals.<br />
* '''Cyril''': Basil's younger brother and bumbling sidekick, who eventually grows smarter as the season progresses.<br />
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== The circus animals ===<br />
* '''Slippery''': A clumsy seal who was returned to Antarctica by Blinky shortly after leaving Australia.<br />
* '''Leo''': A cowardly lion, and the leader of a tribe of lions, who was returned to the African plains by Blinky.<br />
* '''Ling-Ling''': A young panda experienced in martial arts, who was returned to her village in China by Blinky.<br />
* '''Tico''': A grumpy toucan, initally a double agent for the Circus Brothers who later switched to Blinky's side. The only animal of the group to not return to his own country (Brazil), instead staying in India with Yoyo to form a circus troupe of his own.<br />
* '''Yoyo''': A hyperactive Indian monkey, who was returned to an Indian village by Blinky.<br />
* '''Penelope''': A glamorous French poodle, who was returned to Paris by Blinky to live with her rightful owner. <br />
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=== Misc. ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Jacko''': A loudmouthed kookaburra with a dry sense of humour.<br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
* '''Sirol''': A sensitive crocodile who Blinky encounters in Season 2.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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Next morning Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Joan urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Clara.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Clara's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Clara immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Joan locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Clara waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pym's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
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| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
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| 11 || Blinky Bill and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
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| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
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| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
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| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
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| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill and Club Pet || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
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| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
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| 24 || Who Is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch. <br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be?<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
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| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame?<br />
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| 7 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble. <br />
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| 8 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip! <br />
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| 9 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
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| 10 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison!<br />
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| 11 || Blinky Bill Is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy || Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home! <br />
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| 13 || Blinky Bill and The Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children! <br />
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| 14 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
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| 15 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
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| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
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| 17 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
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| 18 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pym and her budgie!<br />
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| 19 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
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| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
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| 21 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
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| 22 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
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| 23 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers? <br />
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| 24 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together? <br />
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| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Possum Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
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| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety? <br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Brothers have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
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| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
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| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
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| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
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| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Brothers capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
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| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
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| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
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| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
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| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Brothers are right on the gang's trail!<br />
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| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
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| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
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| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
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| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
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| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Brothers right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Brothers hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Brothers capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
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=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
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* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
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* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
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=== The Dingo family ===<br />
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* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
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=== The adults ===<br />
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* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
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=== Misc. ===<br />
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* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
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= Episodes =<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
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! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| Movie || Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala || The local woodland animals are going through their days as normal until two men, Harry and Joe, start to take down the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut down including Mrs. Koala's home, and a falling tree knocks Blinky unconscious.<br />
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At sunrise nothing is left of the bush and every animal is left homeless. They move out of the grounds to search for a new home, including Mr. Wombat, nicknamed "Wombo" by the locals. Blinky, dazed and confused, calls for his mother, but she is nowhere in sight. Blinky rescues a young female koala named Nutsy from a cluster of fallen trees. They both run into Mr. Wombat. Nutsy tells him that Blinky has amnesia, so Wombo informs Blinky of his past.<br />
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Blinky was a very mischievous sort, causing trouble and receiving a scolding from Mayor Pelican, his teacher Miss Magpie and his mother for his many antics. Blinky is feeling very guilty about the trouble he had caused for his mother, so he decides to find her.<br />
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Blinky and Nutsy make their way towards a riverbank where they meet up with a deaf Granny Grunty Koala. Down the river, they meet up with Splodge and his family who tell them about what happened to Mrs. Koala, who refused to evacuate out of pride of her own home. Blinky and Nutsy make their way to Mayor Pelican, who is assigning all the woodlanders to their recovery areas. Blinky approaches the mayor who is less than pleased, and orders Nurse Angelina to take the children to the leaking North Cave, but unfortunately Blinky's mother isn't there.<br />
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Blinky asks Ruff's mother for directions to the woodchip mill. Ignoring the fact there is danger there, Blinky goes to find his mother at the mill, and Nutsy follows him as they make their way though a rampaging river and the woods. They finally make it to the mill. The woodchip mill is home to the very woodcutters that destroyed their homes.<br />
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Next morning Blinky and Nutsy witness the woodcutters reducing the animals former homes into sawdust, narrowly escaping the circular buzz-saw. Then they stay in hiding till night time, but as they try to escape, they alert the dogs. When Blinky slingshoots the security light, Harry's wife Joan urges her husband to investigate. Blinky manages to slip out of the place, but Nutsy is trapped and makes a run for it, climbing into the bedroom of the family's daughter Clara.<br />
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Blinky tearfully goes back to the tell the others about the tragic news. Blinky's gang form a rescue party, forcing Marcia to join them. Blinky has Jacko drop Marcia down the chimney of the woodcutters' house, taking notes of the house layout and items. Meanwhile Nutsy climbs into Clara's bed who wakes up happy to find a real koala in her bed and manages to get her parents to let to her keep the koala temporarily.<br />
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Blinky's gang sneak up to the house at night, then break into the house, but then they start up a commotion. Clara immediately hides herself and Nutsy in her bedroom cupboard. Splodge manages to fend off both the dogs and Joe, while Blinky keeps Harry and Joan locked in their bedroom. In the chaos that follows, the woodchip machines start up. Blinky gets Nutsy out of the house and they both fight off Harry. The chain of chaotic events against Harry and Joe end them up in a water tank. Blinky locates his mother and they all leave the place in the woodcutters' truck, while Clara waves tearfully goodbye to her newfound koala friends.<br />
|}<br />
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=== Season 1 ("The Adventures of Blinky Bill") ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
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| 1 || Blinky Bill's Favourite Cafe || Blinky and his friends try to help a depressed Mr. Gloop by getting Mayor Pelican to rebuild his cafe, but the Dingoes try to hijack the plan in order to make the cafe their own. With Wombo's help, Blinky stops the dingoes and keeps the cafe opened for all.<br />
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| 2 || Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade || After the new school is constructed, a storm occurs and starts fires on the ground. Realizing the danger, Blinky and his friends form a fire brigade.<br />
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| 3 || Blinky Rescues the Budgie || Blinky and his friends take Ms. Pym's pet budgie Cedric, thinking he's in need of freedom. Cedric tries to enjoy his new experience, which causes trouble for the entire town.<br />
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| 4 || Blinky Bill's Fund Run || At Blinky's suggestion, Mayor Pelican sets up a charity marathon to rebuild the local hospital, which the Dingoes join in order to take the money for themselves.<br />
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| 5 || Blinky Bill the Teacher || Tired of school life, Blinky humiliates Ms. Magpie in front of the school inspector. With Ms. Magpie fired, the inspector gives the teaching position to Blinky, who soon realises that teaching is harder than he thought.<br />
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| 6 || Blinky and the Red Car || Blinky and his friends see that Mr. Possum's red car is for sale, and compete against the Dingoes in order to earn the money to buy it. <br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Breaks the Drought || Blinky helps Mrs. Rabbit grow carrots to cut down her expenses. The Dingoes swipe some carrots from the garden for personal profit, but after being caught, they take revenge by blocking off the town's water supply. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Saves Granny's Glasses || The Dingoes, while cycling, break Granny Grunty's glasses. To replace them, Blinky and his friends stage a performance of Romeo and Juliet to gain the money they need. However, the play's story becomes twisted when the Dingoes hijack the show in an attempt to take the money themselves. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave || A family of rabbits is homeless and without their belongings. Blinky finds a cave, ideal for the rabbits to move into, however, the rabbits believe a ghost is inside. Blinky and Nutsy find out that the "ghost" was actually the Dingoes, who have been been stealing the rabbits' belongings, so Blinky creates his own ghost in order to scare them out of the cave. <br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill's Zoo || After Ms. Magpie teaches her class about humans, Blinky and his gang find a lost little girl, who is soon housed in a zoo of their own.<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill and the Magician || The entire town is intrigued by El Diablo, a mysterious magician, whom Blinky finds out is actually Danny Dingo in disguise, and has started the act in order to distract the citizens of Greenpatch while Meatball steals the town's food supply.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Detective Blinky || Blinky and Splodge become detectives when all the Mulgar Berries in Greenpatch mysteriously disappear.<br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky and the Heart of the Tree || In this fairytale-inspired episode, Wombo tells Blinky the story of a brave young koala who fights against an evil queen in order to save an ancient tree. <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky and the Strange Koala || A strange-looking black and white koala is being held at a local zoo and Blinky and his friends sneak in to release it. They soon find out that the "koala" is actually a panda, and is due to be shipped back to China, but the zookeepers cage up a real koala by mistake! <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill's Gold Mine || After Wombo tells him about Greenpatch's gold rush days, Blinky decides to see if there is any gold still uncovered, and opens his own gold mine. When he discovers Danny Dingo is interested in it, he plants a gold necklace in the mine as bait, but soon finds out that it belongs to Marcia's mother, and to make matters worse, the necklace goes missing!<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky and the Film Star || The Dingoes are making a western-style film, and Daisy, the film's leading lady, manages to seduce Blinky, Flap and Splodge. While the boys are fighting over Daisy, Nutsy and Marcia discover that there isn't really a film being shot at all, and the pivotal bank robbery scene isn't just being staged; it's a real robbery plan! Will Blinky, Flap and Splodge snap out of their enamour and stop the robbery in time?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky Bill's Treasure Hunt || Wombo tells Blinky about the legend of Captain Moonbeam's treasure, and the gang decide to look for it underground. The Dingoes steal the treasure chest for themselves, but are less than pleased when they find out what the treasure actually is!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill and Club Pet || A new tourist resort is built in town, but this is all part of Danny's plan, as feral cats begin showing up in Greenpatch and try to eat the residents! Will Blinky shut the club down and set up the hospital as planned?<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Leads the Gang || An election takes place for gang leader between Blinky and Danny. Danny wins via shady means, so Blinky and his friends need to come up with a plan to outwit him, and fast!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill Finds Marcia Mouse || Feeling left out, Marcia tries a rebel image and ends up in trouble at school. When she gets grounded, she runs away from town, so Blinky and Nutsy formulate a plan to get her to come back.<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and the Monster || Danny claims that a monster dwells in a local lake, so Blinky challenges him to prove it!<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Saves Twiggy || Blinky and his friends find a lost baby echidna named Twiggy who is trying to find her mother. Blinky and his friends take care of her while the search for her mother is on.<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Mayor Blinky Bill || With many complaints filed against Mayor Pelican, he decides to lend the job to Blinky. While trying to build a river road, Blinky tries to keep everyone satisfied, which is easier said than done. <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Who Is Blinky Bill? || A family of koalas come to Greenpatch for two days. Their son Algenon looks exactly like Blinky, but has a completely different personality. Blinky and Algenon decide to swap places, causing confusion for their parents and Ms. Magpie. <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill's Mothers Day || Mother's Day arrives in Greenpatch, but Nutsy is more traumatised than anything, as her mother was killed when the old town was destroyed. Will Blinky and his friends be able to cheer her up?<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic || Blinky's mother and Nutsy's father decide to get married and invite the whole town. However, things don't go as planned, as Shifty decides to practice dancing with Daisy, and accidently breaks his leg! Will he make it to the wedding in time?<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Season 2 ("Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion") ===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || Blinky the Hypnotist || Blinky practices hypnotism, which causes confusion among the town. Things worsen as a group of goannas invade Greenpatch. <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Blinky Bill and the Old Wombat's Home || Wombo has been suffering from back pain and is sent to a retirement home; but is it all it's cracked up to be?<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Blinky Bill and the Baby Show || Blinky and his friends volunteer to babysit Mrs. Spotty's six babies and take them to the local baby show, but when the biggest baby goes missing, Flap has to take his place... whether he likes it or not!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Blinky Bill Meets Mr. Echidna || Mrs. Echidna has finally had enough of Blinky's mischief and leaves to join her sister. However, her absence allows termites to freely feed on Greenpatch's trees, causing the birds to migrate.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Blinky Bill and the House Guest || A storm destroys Mayor Pelican's house, which causes him to move in with Blinky and his mum. How long can Blinky deal with the mayor's shenanigans before he snaps?<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || Blinky Bill and the Mystery Pollution || Daisy Dingo opens a beauty salon, but something from it is making the residents of Greenpatch develop green fur and black spots! The town suspects that Daisy is behind the situation, but is she really to blame?<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery || Strange disappearances of blue items occur, and everyone in Greenpatch thinks Blinky is behind them. Blinky's gang become detectives to clear his name, but their attempts get him in even more trouble. <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Blinky Bill Goes Camping || Miss Magpie decides go to camping with the school children. Danny tries to sell her a tent, but when she refuses, he decides to go camping himself, and hijacks the students' own trip! <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Blinky Bill and the Earthquake || Continuing their camping trip from the previous episode, Blinky's gang slip away to explore a mountain mine, but soon get trapped inside! As they try to find a way out, they're chased through the mine by a goanna, and once they escape, they realise they're much further away from Greenpatch than they expected...<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky Bill Down on the Farm || Blinky and his gang, now lost, find an unusual farm, managed by two scientists, guarded by robotic dogs and inhabited by many animals, who don't want to leave their mechanical prison!<br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Blinky Bill Is Kidnapped || Trying to find their way back home, Blinky and Marcia are kidnapped, and meet a a smooth-talking possum named Slick.<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Blinky Bill and the Lost Puppy || Blinky's gang find a lost puppy, who, like them, is trying to find their way home! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Blinky Bill and The Winter's Tale || Still far from Greenpatch, Blinky's gang find shelter in a mountain cabin, and are soon thrust into taking care of a bunch of restless owl children! <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Blinky Bill and the Polar Bears || On an attempt to get back home, Blinky finds a family of Russian polar bears, who have escaped from a circus. Will the gang be successful in getting the visitors back to their homeland? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Blinky Bill and the Lighthouse || Blinky's gang approach a lighthouse, and become embroiled in a feud between a penguin and a family of sea birds.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Blinky Bill and the Apple Thieves || Shifty becomes the center of a controversy, as he is falsely accused of stealing apples from a farm! Will Blinky and his friends find the real culprit?<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Blinky and the Egg Rescue || Flap finds a cuckoo egg in a basket in the middle of the grasslands, and tries to find who laid it; but time is running out, as a bulldozer is approaching the trees where the birds have nested!<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Blinky Bill's Holiday || Blinky and his gang follow a bus, leading them to a holiday resort, which causes them to reunite with Ms. Pym and her budgie!<br />
|-<br />
| 19 || Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers || Blinky's gang plunge down a delta and meet a lizard named Hank whose parents were taken by poachers. Said poachers catch Flap, and the chase is on to get him back!<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Blinky Bill and the Crocodiles || On the trip back to Greenpatch, Blinky and his friends meet a crocodile called Sirol, who's neglected by his father for being too soft. What will Blinky do in order to make sure Sirol gets the attention he deserves?<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Blinky and Gretel || During a storm, Blinky calms Nutsy down by telling her a fairytale story.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Blinky Remembers Nutsy's Birthday || Nutsy thinks no-one remembers her birthday, so Blinky and his gang stage some circus performances for her, but things heat up when the real circus performers try to get their tent back!<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || Blinky Bill and the Real Estate Swindle || Blinky's gang meet two feral pigs, who intend to hijack a house owned by a family of numbats. Will Blinky stop the swindlers? <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill and the Feud || After a long and exhausting walk, Blinky and his friends find a river, but the inhabitants of the river are torn apart by their different sleeping habits! Will the gang manage to get the river animals to work together? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Blinky Bill and the Possum Cinema || Blinky's gang end up in a deserted town after fleeing a dust storm, and find none other than Blinky's old friend Slick, who has taken refuge in a cinema, and wants customers desperately!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || Blinky Bill and the Balloon || Blinky's gang find a hot-air balloon lodged in a tree. Once they get it free, they finally make their way back home to Greenpatch, but there's a problem; they can't land! Will the town's residents get the kids to safety? <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Season 3 ("Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures") ===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| 1 || The Great Escape || The circus has come to Greenpatch, but the captive circus animals are seeking freedom! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 2 || Bushwhacked || Using a makeshift balloon/caravan, Blinky and his friends land in another part of the bush, where he teaches the circus animals survival skills... but soon realise that they're being chased!<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Antarctic Adventure || The first stop on the journey is Antartica, where the group attempt to reunite Slippery Seal with his family, but the Circus Brothers have braved the cold as well, and will stop at nothing to get everyone in their hands!<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Polar Peril || After a rough landing on the ice, Blinky and Nutsy go their separate ways to a human village to get some gas for the balloon, while the others form a search party to rescue Ling-Ling the panda from an icy abyss.<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || Flap's New Family || A baby penguin who boarded the caravan thinks Flap is his mother, so Blinky heads back to Antarctica to set things right.<br />
|-<br />
| 6 || A Stitch in Time || On the way to Africa, Blinky becomes impatient and tries to get them there faster, but Nutsy reminds him of his recklessness in a mine back in Australia...<br />
|-<br />
| 7 || Leo Leads the Way || Arriving in the African Plains, Blinky takes Leo home, but Rex, the king of the Mumbada pride, and son of Leo, does not welcome his father due to his cowardice. Things get worse when the Circus Brothers capture Rex, his own son, and Blinky! Will Leo get over his own cowardly nature? <br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Monkey Business || Elsewhere in Africa, Blinky comes across a monkey tribe. Yoyo discovers that they are actually chimps. After feeling insulted by Blinky's gang, Yoyo wanders off. Tico sabotages the balloon and sets a trap for Blinky involving Yoyo and the Circus Bros. The Circus Bros. are driven away by the chimp tribe and Flap coaxes Yoyo to rejoin his friends and continue his search for home. <br />
|-<br />
| 9 || Diamonds Are Forever || Blinky tries to copy Ling-Ling's magic disappearing trick on Penelope's diamond necklace, but Tico gets a hold of it and takes it to the Circus Bros! The chase for Penelope's necklace is on!<br />
|-<br />
| 10 || Blinky's Birthday Surprise || In Africa, Blinky is angry that nobody cares about his birthday. Despite this, Tico gives Blinky a tracking device as a "birthday present" and the Circus Bros. use it to follow him. Meanwhile, back in Greenpatch, a birthday party for Blinky without the koala himself becomes disastrous! <br />
|-<br />
| 11 || Baby Elephant Walk || The gang tries to leave Africa and attempt to head to China, but an elephant has taken the caravan and is using it to transport her calf. To make matters worse, the Circus Brothers are right on the gang's trail!<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Operation Free Flap || Over China, Flap falls out of the balloon and Blinky has to make an emergency landing. A boy named Hugh takes Flap and cares for him at home, but when the Circus Bros. arrive in China and see Flap on the local news, Blinky starts a getaway plan in order to stop them! <br />
|-<br />
| 13 || Crouching Dragon, Hidden Koala || As Blinky's gang search a village for Ling-Ling's Master, most of them get caught by the Circus Bros., disguised as a dragon. Blinky and Ling-Ling find and release the Master Panda, but Ling-Ling ends up captured as well! What will Blinky do? <br />
|-<br />
| 14 || Panda Pandemonium || Blinky's gang finds the panda villagers and Ling-Ling is reunited with her parents, but the pandas are short of bamboo! With the Circus Bros. in pursuit of the gang, will Blinky make it out of China in time? <br />
|-<br />
| 15 || Jungle Bungles || Blinky and friends reach the Amazon Jungle, and meet an aquaphobic anaconda.<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Double Trouble || Nutsy writes a letter to Greenpatch, in which she tells the story of how Blinky met a monkey that reminded him of himself in more than one way.<br />
|-<br />
| 17 || Tico's Choice || Deeper in the Amazon jungle, Blinky meets a colony of toucans, who find Tico familiar. Tico directs Blinky's gang to the river and Blinky finally realises Tico's loyalty lies with Basil. Tico helps the Circus Bros. trap the toucans as well as Blinky's gang, but soon has a change of heart, as Tico rescues everyone and sends the Circus Bros. plummeting into the river. Having redeemed himself in the gang's eyes, Tico decides to stick with Blinky.<br />
|-<br />
| 18 || Poisoned Penelope || Penelope poisons herself, and Blinky finds out the cure lies in a human village, while Tico finds out his species. <br />
|-<br />
| 19 || All at Sea || Blinky's gang drift into a storm, and are forced to work together with the Circus Bros. if they want to live.<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Tico Takes Charge || The caravan arrives in India, with the Circus Brothers right behind them!<br />
|-<br />
| 21 || Tiger Taming || The Circus Brothers hijack the balloon, and the gang traces it into a tiger habitat.<br />
|-<br />
| 22 || Monkey See, Monkey Do || Blinky's gang reach Chandipur, however, Yoyo and Penelope are captured! Will they find a way out, will Yoyo find his habitat, and will Blinky, Nutsy and Flap get Penelope into France?<br />
|-<br />
| 23 || A Dog's Best Friend || Blinky's gang arrive in Paris in search of Penelope's mistress, which envelops them in a crisis when the Circus Brothers capture the mistress' cat! <br />
|-<br />
| 24 || Blinky Bill Superstar || Blinky becomes a superstar after being approached by a fashion designer, but Flap and Nutsy become fed up with his new lifestyle and attempt to head back to Australia without him! Will Blinky see the error of his ways? <br />
|-<br />
| 25 || Paris Au-Go-Go || With their balloon destroyed, Blinky's gang make their way to the airport. Blinky's gang give themselves up to the Circus Bros. in order to get a ride to Australia, but after Basil tells them of his plan to take them to New York, they catch a plane back to where they belong!<br />
|-<br />
| 26 || How Green Is My Greenpatch || Blinky's gang make it back to Greenpatch. The Circus Bros. have followed them, however, and invade the town, nearly catching Blinky and his mum for bait. Blinky decides he has to give himself up to the Circus Bros. to save his family, friends and neighbours, only to find that Basil has gone insane and has started a bushfire to capture all of Greenpatch regardless! Blinky is rescued by Nutsy, Cyril summons the fire brigade to put out the fire, and Basil is captured for his criminal activities. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== TV Movie ("Blinky Bill's White Christmas") ===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Episode !! Title !! Summary<br />
|-<br />
| TV Movie || Blinky Bill's White Christmas || Christmas is just around the corner, and while everyone in Greenpatch is decorating the town square, Blinky breaks Wombo's prized snowglobe. To make it up to him, Blinky promises that real snow will arrive in Greenpatch - Blinky and Flap just need to figure out how!<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
<br />
* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself. The third season added more voice actors on top of Keith and Robyn, such as Drew Forsythe and Sarah Aubrey.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country, as well as Israel.<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Australia]] <br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is the [[anthropomorphic]] [[koala]] protagonist of an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
<br />
The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
<br />
* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who often gets up to mischief, and is the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
<br />
=== The Dingo family ===<br />
<br />
* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
<br />
=== The adults ===<br />
<br />
* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
<br />
=== Misc. ===<br />
<br />
* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
<br />
* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country.<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Australia]] <br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is the [[anthropomorphic]] [[koala]] protagonist of an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
<br />
The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
<br />
* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who lives in Greenpatch, often getting up to mischief, and the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
<br />
=== The Dingo family ===<br />
<br />
* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and seductive charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
<br />
=== The adults ===<br />
<br />
* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
<br />
=== Misc. ===<br />
<br />
* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
<br />
* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country.<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is the [[anthropomorphic]] [[koala]] protagonist of an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
<br />
The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
<br />
* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who lives in Greenpatch, often getting up to mischief, and the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A strong [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
<br />
=== The Dingo family ===<br />
<br />
* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
<br />
=== The adults ===<br />
<br />
* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
<br />
=== Misc. ===<br />
<br />
* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
<br />
* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country.<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is the [[anthropomorphic]] [[koala]] protagonist of an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
<br />
The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
<br />
* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who lives in Greenpatch, often getting up to mischief, and the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
<br />
=== The Dingo family ===<br />
<br />
* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
<br />
=== The adults ===<br />
<br />
* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
<br />
=== Misc. ===<br />
<br />
* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
<br />
* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country.<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
<br />
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[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is the [[anthropomorphic]] [[koala]] protagonist of an Australian book series written by author [[W:Dorothy Wall|Dorothy Wall]] in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[W:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
<br />
The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
=== Blinky's gang ===<br />
<br />
* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who lives in Greenpatch, often getting up to mischief, and the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and a large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
<br />
=== The Dingo family ===<br />
<br />
* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
<br />
=== The adults ===<br />
<br />
* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-rowdy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favorite prank targets. <br />
<br />
=== Misc. ===<br />
<br />
* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
<br />
* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[W:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country.<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
* [[W:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]] on [[Wikipedia]]<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill] on [https://tvtropes.org/ TV Tropes]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Australia]] <br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is the [[anthropomorphic]] [[koala]] protagonist of an [[Wikipedia:Australia|Australian]] book series written by author Dorothy Wall in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[Wikipedia:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', which was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[Wikipedia:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
<br />
The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
===== Blinky's Gang: =====<br />
* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who lives in Greenpatch, often getting up to mischief, and the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
===== The Dingo Family: =====<br />
* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
===== The Adults: =====<br />
* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-roudy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
===== Misc.: =====<br />
* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[WIkipedia:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country.<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [[Wikipedia:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|Wikipedia page for the series]]<br />
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill TV Tropes page for the series]<br />
<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is the [[anthropomorphic]] [[koala]] protagonist of an [[Wikipedia:Australia|Australian]] book series written by author Dorothy Wall in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[Wikipedia:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', and was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[Wikipedia:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
<br />
The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
<br />
'''This page fully focuses on the 1993-2005 animated series.'''<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
===== Blinky's Gang: =====<br />
* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who lives in Greenpatch, often getting up to mischief, and the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
===== The Dingo Family: =====<br />
* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
===== The Adults: =====<br />
* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-roudy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
===== Misc.: =====<br />
* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[WIkipedia:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country.<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [[Wikipedia:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|Wikipedia page for the series]]<br />
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill TV Tropes page for the series]<br />
<br />
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<div>[[File:Blinky_bill_group_shot.png|right|thumb|300px|The main cast of the series, from left to right: Shifty, Daisy, Nutsy, Meatball, Blinky, Danny, Flap, Splodge and Marcia.]] <br />
'''''Blinky Bill''''' is the [[anthropomorphic]] [[koala]] protagonist of an [[Wikipedia:Australia|Australian]] book series written by author Dorothy Wall in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[Wikipedia:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', and was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[Wikipedia:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
<br />
The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
<br />
'''This page fully focuses on the 1993-2005 animated series.'''<br />
<br />
== Characters ==<br />
===== Blinky's Gang: =====<br />
* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who lives in Greenpatch, often getting up to mischief, and the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
===== The Dingo Family: =====<br />
* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
===== The Adults =====<br />
* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-roudy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
===== Misc. =====<br />
* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
<br />
== Trivia ==<br />
* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[WIkipedia:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [[Wikipedia:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|Wikipedia page for the series]]<br />
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill TV Tropes page for the series]<br />
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'''''Blinky Bill''''' is the anthropomorphic [[koala]] protagonist of an [[Wikipedia:Australia|Australian]] book series written by author Dorothy Wall in the 1930s. The books inspired an animated series beginning in 1993, titled ''[[Wikipedia:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', and was produced as a follow-up to the 1992 animated movie ''Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala''. The animated series, by far the most well-known version of the character internationally, was produced by [[Wikipedia:Flying Bark Productions|Yoram Gross]] and ran for two series from 1993-95 (the second series titled ''Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion''), with a third series (titled ''Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures'') airing in 2004. <br />
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The first season had the townspeople of Greenpatch (a fictional Australian bush town and the main setting of the series) trying to rebuild their home (after it was initially destroyed by loggers in the 1992 movie), while coping with a family of playful tricksters and con artists in the form of the town's family of [[dingo|dingoes]] (who redeemed themselves by the end of the season). In the second season, Greenpatch is fully rebuilt and a story arc formed in which Blinky and his gang get lost while on a school camping trip and have to find their way home. The third season had Blinky, Flap and Nutsy travel around the world in a hot air balloon/caravan, rescuing animals and returning them to their proper homes while being chased by two human brothers who run a circus.<br />
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'''This page fully focuses on the 1993-2005 animated series.'''<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
===== Blinky's Gang: =====<br />
* '''Blinky Bill''': The series' protagonist. A young koala who lives in Greenpatch, often getting up to mischief, and the leader of his gang of friends.<br />
* '''Nutsy''': A female koala with a kind heart, who by the end of season 1 becomes Blinky's step-sister.<br />
* '''Flap''': A [[platypus]], and Blinky's best friend, known for his intellect and large appetite.<br />
* '''Splodge''': A [[kangaroo]], implied to be the oldest member of Blinky's gang. <br />
* '''Marcia''': A bossy, hotblooded marsupial [[mouse]] with a tendency to rush into situations.<br />
===== The Dingo Family: =====<br />
* '''Danny''': A suave, smug dingo, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, with a scheming personality, usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople.<br />
* '''Daisy''': A vain, flirtatious dingo with aspirations of fame, who tends to use her good looks and charm to get her way.<br />
* '''Meatball''': A rather fat dingo; what he lacks in terms of intellect he makes up for in strength.<br />
* '''Shifty''': A kindhearted young dingo who became a member of Blinky's gang at the end of season 1.<br />
* '''Ma''': The matriarch of the dingo family with a short temper and a large appetite, even more so than Flap's.<br />
===== The Adults =====<br />
* '''Walter "Wombo" Wombat''': Blinky's mentor, who hates being called "Wombo"; most of the town does it anyways.<br />
* '''Ms. Koala''': Blinky's widowed mother, who's quick to discipline her son whenever he gets into trouble.<br />
* '''Ms. Magpie''': Blinky's teacher, who tends to struggle to teach her usually-roudy class.<br />
* '''Mayor Pelican''': The mayor of Greenpatch and one of Blinky's favourite prank targets. <br />
===== Misc. =====<br />
* '''Ruff''': A frill-necked lizard and Blinky's classmate. <br />
* '''Slick''': A smooth-talking possum who Blinky encounters twice in Season 2.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* The first two seasons of the series only featured '''two''' voice actors, being Keith Scott, who voiced the male characters, and Robyn Moore, who voiced the female characters as well as Blinky himself.<br />
* The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as ''Vili Vilperi'' in [[WIkipedia:Finland|Finland]], and is hugely popular in said country.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [[Wikipedia:The Adventures of Blinky Bill|Wikipedia page for the series]]<br />
* [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill TV Tropes page for the series]<br />
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[[File:Danny Dingo - professional photo 1.JPG|right|thumb|Danny Dingo at [[Anthrocon 2008]]]]<br />
'''Danny Dingo''' (real name: '''Erich Reinhardt''', born July 6, 1988) is a [[furry artist]], [[fursuiter]], musician, performer and occassional writer. He is an active member of the Ontario (Canada) Furs community and can be seen at various events throughout Toronto and surrounding areas. He also appears as Danny Dingo (not to be confused with the [[Blinky Bill]] character of the same name) at various events, festivals and parades throughout Southern Ontario. His 2007 music video for the Bobby Lewis hit, "Tossin' and Turnin'" as well as his other music videos of popular hits have been featured on both the [[Funday Pawpet Show]] and [[FursuitTV]].<br />
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==Outside of furry and joining the fandom==<br />
Erich has had a keen interest in the creative arts and cartoons, especially those with anthropomorphic animals since an early age. He first discovered the furry fandom in 2005 when he was searching for pictures of a white fox mascot head, but didn't really become involved in the fandom until late 2007. Even as a child he knew he wanted to work in audio and video, as well as in mascot performance. He was always interested in checking out how movies and recordings are made, how VCRs and tape players worked and was always looking to learn about his favorite movies, cartoons, songs, musical acts and the like, which led him to his somewhat trivial knowledge of movies, TV shows and music.<br />
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==Fursuiting==<br />
It wasn't until he was in high school when he got his first mascot gig ever: his high school's mascot, but his first real gig was at a local county fair in Simcoe, Ontario where the mascot was a horse. Since then, he had contacted numerous organizations in the area and had gotten various opportunities, including the mascot of the Toronto Lynx Soccer Club, where he got his first paid gig, as well as professional gigs for RBC, Canada Bread, General Mills and BlackBerry. He fabricated his first fursuit in 2006 when he was a freshman in college, which his classmates loved. He started making appearances as his character in 2007 at a local Family Fun Day. His current fursuit was completed in February of 2008 and has since appeared at numerous events throughout the Southwestern Ontario area as well as at various local fur meets and conventions. An introductory video of his current suit has been seen on YouTube, the Funday Pawpet Show and FursuitTV. His other character: Mac Cat, a homage to the original mascot of Canadian convenience store chain, [http://www.macs.ca Mac's] has been seen at conventions such as [[Anthrocon]], [[Furnal Equinox]], [[Furry Connection North]], [[Midwest FurFest]] and [http://www.animenorth.org Anime North]. Unlike Danny Dingo, who doesn't really speak and has a more mascot type appeal, Mac Cat's beatnik hipster-like personality and distinctive voice became a huge hit when he made his debut at [[Anthrocon 2009]].<br />
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In May of 2012, Roxy Raccoon appeared as a subservient on the [[Funday Pawpet Show]]. She made another appearance on the May 11, 2014 show.<br />
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===Fursuits===<br />
* '''Danny Dingo''' - A playful and friendly canine who is always looking to brighten anybody's day. This suit is a joint creation between himself, [[Noble Wolf]], Lynne Hassell and [[Arend Studios]].<br />
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* '''[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7145000/ Roxy Raccoon]''' - A sweet and lovable purple raccoon who can be quite shy at times, but she is very loving and caring to even her animal friends. She is also very curious. Built by [[Sophie Cabra]].<br />
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====Former fursuits====<br />
* '''Mac Cat''' - A red beatnik hipster cat from Brooklyn, but born in a back alley in Manhattan, who was pretty much trapped in 1971. Mac was built by [[Fun Fur All]].<br />
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==Music==<br />
Dingo's biggest passion is music. His father once fronted a German rock band called "Lady" in the mid to late 1970s, a band which helped launch the career of Matthias Jabs, the lead guitarist of the Scorpions, and was very popular in Europe. Dingo also shared his passion of music with his father as a child and had dreams of making a hit record. A prime example of this passion is his "Monster Mash" parody, aptly named "Aussie Mash", which like the original, tells the story of a ball. <br />
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==On the radio==<br />
In college he hosted a weekly one-hour show entitled "Jukebox Explosion", playing hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s and the 80s; genres of music he has listened to since he was very young. Dingo is also a master of impersonation and has put it to great use in his radio program.<br />
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==Cartooning==<br />
Dingo has been drawing since the age of four and has been creating his own cartoon characters ever since he was six. His earliest character was "Juppy the Crow", a grey crow who wore a yellow baseball cap. In 2003, he created Sean Seal, a character featured in his work-in-progress story, "The Pearl and the Diamond", and thus started the first whole universe of characters that he created. Danny Dingo, however, didn't come to light until mid 2006 when he saw a picture of [[Durango Dingo]]'s fursuit, and thought that a dingo would make a great character. Dingo's passion for toony art has grown and it shows in his [[Fur Affinity]] gallery.<br />
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==Selected pics==<br />
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Image:Mac Cat.jpg|Mac Cat fursuit<br />
Image:Mac Senior.JPG|Mac Senior aka MacTavish, father of Mac Cat and the original inspiration for the character<br />
Image:Discodingoes2.JPG|Disco Dingoes - Art Sample<br />
Image:Danny Dingo - self made mascot.jpg|Danny Dingo - fursuit circa 2006<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/dannydingo/ Danny Dingo] on [[Fur Affinity]]<br />
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/roxycoon/ Roxy Raccoon] on [[Fur Affinity]] (character account)<br />
* [http://www.twitter.com/DannyDingo88/ Danny Dingo] on [[Twitter]]<br />
* [http://dannydingo.livejournal.com/ Danny Dingo] on [[LiveJournal]]<br />
* [http://www.picturetrail.com/rykercomix Ryker and Roxy page] on PictureTrail (incarnation of Roxy Raccoon)<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02jUCVs0h5M Tossin' and Turnin' music video] on [[YouTube]]<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx9XAu_6GAI Introductory video (2008 suit)] on [[YouTube]]<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YAVFYIRXLI Roxy Raccoon on the Funday Pawpet Show] on [[YouTube]]<br />
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