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Michael Wright Michael Wright i(A127166 works by)
Gender: Male
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form y separately published work icon The Poachers ( dir. Max Varnel ) 1968 Z1624879 1968 single work film/TV Sonny, Mark, and Jerry investigate an expensive game-fishing cruiser with three men aboard, after Skippy and Sonny come across men trapping animals in the bush at night. Swimming out to the cruiser, Jerry overhears a conversation that indicates the men are stealing koalas for Dr Stark's private zoo.
1968 winner AWGIE Awards Children's Award Awarded to Michael Wright
form y separately published work icon Skippy ( dir. Eric Fullilove et. al. )agent 1966 Australia : Nine Network Fauna Productions , 1968-1970 Z1624851 1966 series - publisher film/TV

Set in the fictional Waratah National Park (NSW), the Skippy series focuses largely on the adventures of a young boy, Sonny Hammond, and his intelligent pet kangaroo, Skippy. Sonny is the youngest child of Head Ranger Matt Hammond. Matt was left a widower in his early forties when his wife Mary died not long after Sonny was born. Other principal characters are Sonny's older brother Mark, Flight Ranger Jerry King (the park's helicopter pilot), and Ranger Clancy Merrick, the teenage daughter of another park ranger.

1969 winner Logie Awards Best Export Production
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