The Adventures of Blinky Bill

The Adventures of Blinky Bill
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GenreAnimation
Adventure
Comedy
Based onThe Complete Adventures of Blinky Bill by Dorothy Wall
Written by
  • Sally Farrell Odgers
  • Susan Beak
  • Geoff Beak
  • John Palmer
  • Yoram Gross
  • Carol Witt
  • David Witt
  • Hugh Stucky
  • Ray Nowland
  • Phil Sanders
  • Rhett Walton
  • Gina Roncoli
  • Maryam Master
  • Fiona Kelly
  • Stephen Davis
  • Fiona Bozic
  • Chris Phillips
  • Lisa Hoppe
  • Melanie Alexander
  • Andy Ryan
Directed by
  • Yoram Gross (Season 1–2)
  • David Evans (Season 3)
  • Guy Gross (TV movie)
Voices of
Theme music composerGuy Gross
Opening theme
  • "Hey, Hey, Blinky Bill" performed by Keith Scott (Season 1)
  • “Hey, Hey, Blinky Bill” performed by Ric Herbert (Season 2-3)
Ending theme
  • I’m Blinky Bill (Season 1)
  • Yahoo Didgeridoo (Season 2)
  • Instrumental version of “Hey, Hey, Blinky Bill” (Season 3)
Composers
  • Guy Gross
  • Clive Harrison (additional music, Season 3 only)
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes78 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Sandra Gross (Season 1–3 and TV movie)
  • Tim Brooke-Hunt (Season 1–2)
  • Siegmund Grewenig (Season 3)
  • Yoram Gross (Season 3 and TV movie)
  • Geoff Watson (Season 3 and TV movie)
Producers
  • Yoram Gross (Season 1–2)
  • Manuela Lumb (Season 3)
  • Rodney Whitham (Season 3)
  • Andre Kussmaul (Season 3)
  • Martina Mosner (Season 3)
  • Guy Gross (TV movie)
Running time
  • 26 minutes (Season 1–2)
  • 24 minutes (Season 3)
Production companies
Original release
Network
Release1 January 1993 (1993-01-01) –
5 July 2004 (2004-07-05)
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The Adventures of Blinky Bill is an Australian animated television series based on Dorothy Wall's books about Blinky Bill, and is a sequel series to the 1992 film Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala. The series is produced by the Yoram Gross[1] companies: Yoram Gross Film Studios (from 1993 to 1995) and Yoram Gross-EM.TV (from 2004 to 2005), with the main co-production of EM.TV and WDR. All three seasons of the series and the TV film were animated overseas by Colorland Animation Productions Co., Ltd. in Hong Kong. Set in Greenpatch, a fictional Australian bushland town, the series presents stories through the activities and misadventures of Blinky Bill, as well as his family and friends.[2]

  1. ^ "Marsupial Madness: The Success of Yoram Gross". Animation News Network. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
  2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 62. ISBN 978-1476665993.