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Blinky Bill: The lead character, a young koala. He wears red knickerbocker dungarees with a yellow button.

his voice actress in Yoram Gross’s series, Robyn Moore based his voice on a student she taught in the 1970s. who loved bush walks and laughing.

Personality[]

Blinky Bill is typically portrayed as a trouble-maker, often pulling crazy stunts for a good laugh. This often leads to him being treated as a nuisance by some (like Mayor Pelican or Miss Magpie). Despite this he knows when enough is enough, although it's almost always temporary. Nevertheless he still has a heart and deeply cares about others. Blinky is also quite brave, willing to put himself in danger to help those in need if he has to. He's also cunning, able to strategize when the situation calls for it. Blinky is also impatient, which often lead him to recklessness. Blinky also very prejudiced toward humans, believing that all humans are cruel to animals, mostly due the destruction of the original Greenpatch caused by two humans. However, when Penelope's mistress defences him from the Circus Brothers, Blinky finally understand that some humans are good and want to protect innocent animals from bad humans.

Blinky Bill The Mischievous Koala[]

Greenpatch is destroyed by two humans and Blinky tries to find his mother, whose gone missing during the destruction of the old town. Blinky also suffers amnesia and first meets Nutsy and rescues her and together go to the Wood Chip Mill to rescue his mother. Nusty is trapped in the Wood Chip Mill and Blinky organized her rescue. Blinky rescues Nutsy and finds his mother and they leave the Wood Chip Mill.

Season 1[]

Blinky and his gang in season 1 are trying to rebuild Greenpatch. In the episode Blinky Bill's Favourite Café, he tries to rebuild Gloop's Cafe but the Dingoes persuade Mayor Pelican to build a Dingo room and Blinky says that a king will arrive. Wombat's friend actor plays the King and the Dingoes catch him in their trap. In the episode Blinky Bill's Fire Brigade, he founded a Fire Brigade. In the third episode Blinky rescues the budgie Cedric.

In the episode Blinky Bill the Teacher, Blinky Bill temporally become teacher of the school, after his mischief humiliated Miss Magpie in front of the school inspector, causing her to resign (she gets her job back in the end). When Blinky's friends started teasing him the same way they do with Miss Magpie in class, he came to understand how she feel when being made fun of, so he decided to give Miss Magpie her old job back, though she was reluctant at first but Miss Magpie happily agrees to be a teacher of the school again.

Blinky Bill saves Greenpatch again from the Cat gang in the episode Blinky Bill and 'Club Pet'.

In the episode Mayor Blinky Bill, Blinky becomes mayor at the moment after Mayor Pelican had many complaints from animals for not knowing how to build a river road to fire-department, so Mayor Pelican decided to let Blinky take his job for the time being. At the end, Blinky realized that he can't handle responsibilities of being a mayor so he decided to give Mayor Pelican his job back.

In Blinky Bill's Wedding Picnic, Blinky's mother married Nutsy's father and Blinky and Nutsy become step-siblings.

Season 2[]

At the end of the first season Blinky's mother gets married to Nutsy's father and Blinky gets a new father (At first, Blinky was a little annoyed at having so strong an authority figure living under the same roof but Mr. Koala earned Blinky's respect) and sister.

In the first episode Blinky the Hypnotist, Blinky hypnotizes all in Greenpatch and caused the problems, even worse when some Goannas came to rob Greenpatch without anyone stopping them, so Blinky saves the day by hypnotizing the Goannas into leaving the town without stolen items. However, Blinky soon gets a taste of his own medicate, when Wombo trick Blinky into demonstrating his hypnotism while looking into mirror and ends up hypnotizing himself into acting and sounding like Wombo.

In the episode Blinky Bill's Blue Mystery, Blinky is accused of stealing blue-coloured objects (in fact the thief is Mr. Bower Bird.) due to always being there at the scene of the crime, but Mr. Bower Bird confessed to everyone that it was him who was taking all blue-coloured items, clearing Blinky's name.

Miss Magpie gets the children a school excursion in the bush and Blinky, Nutsy, Flap, Splodge, Marcia, Shifty, become lost, and they try to find their way home. Blinky leads the group of the lost children. In the episode Blinky Bill and the Balloon Blinky finds a balloon and all children get to Greenpatch.

Season 3[]

Blinky, Nutsy, and Flap rescue the circus animals and Blinky leads this group. They visited Antarctica, Africa, China, South America, India and Paris. At first they didn't know the animals were being abused until they went backstage. When Blinky swung on the circus-swing by accident he ignited an obsession in Basil to add him into the circus (regardless if Basil would lose the rest of his circus-animals or not in the process) and since the following episodes after Blinky has become the primary target of the circus bros (mainly Basil) who were willing to do anything in their power to enslave him.

In the episode Bushwhacked, Blinky must free the inhabitants of Greenpatch, imprisoned by the Circus Brothers, after he freed them he was encouraged by his mother and friends to bring the circus-animals he freed back to where they belong. Only his step-sister Nutsy and Flap tag along in his mission to return the newly liberated animals back to their homelands (Splodge, Shifty and Marcia are in Greenpatch and didn't join with them).

Blinky and Nutsy still disagree as seen in the episode Polar Peril, since Blinky is the leader, but they learn to cooperate.

Nutsy rescues Blinky in the episode Leo Leads the Way, when he along with Rex and Claude are captured by the Circus Bros and two poachers. Leo even help by leading the Circus Brothers and the poachers into a trap.

In the episode Blinky's Birthday Surprise, he is depressed that nobody remembered his birthday and Tico gives Blinky a stolen tracking device as a "birthday present" the Circus Bros use to it follow him. Blinky became frighten upon meeting a giraffe named Twigger and runs away in terror, causing him to be caught in a snare set up by the Circus Brothers. Twigger came to freed Blinky and let him ride on her while escaping from the Circus Brothers. At the end, his friends revealed that they keep his birthday a surprise for him, making Blinky realized that his friends never forgot about his birthday at all.

In the episode Diamonds Are Forever, Blinky and Flaps met some ostriches while searching for more the caravan, the ostriches revealed that their feathers were pluck off humans (The Circus Brothers), though Blinky laugh for how silly they look without their feathers. As result, feeling the ostriches' feelings. After returning to the crew and watched Ling-Ling perform her magic disappear act with Penelope's ring, he was amaze of Ling-Ling making the ring disappear and reappear, he wanted to do the same magic trick as well. Without asking Penelope, he took her diamond necklace so he can make disappear and reappear like her ring. Ling Ling tries to tell Blinky that is not real magic but didn't listen to her.

In the episode Jungle Bungles, Tico inform Blinky and the crew about the dangers of the Amazon rainforest being full with dangerous animals, especially the Anaconda but Blinky didn't believe anything Tico said and choose to explore the rainforest for the some gum leaves. However, they soon noticed that the river is overflowing, so Blinky and his friends decided to go back inside the caravan for shelter form the rain and the flood. Much to everyone's horror, Blinky, Nutsy, Flaps, Yoyo and Penelope came face-to-face with a real anaconda named Anna, though she revealed to be friendly and suffered deep case of hydrophobic and for the reason of being in the caravan, Blinky didn't believe her until she help to stop the Circus Brothers from capturing them. At the end, Blinky nearly drowned but he is rescued by Anna and overcome her fear of water.

In A Dog's Best Friend, Penelope was the last remaining circus animal with them, as they arrive at Paris to return to her Mistress, not knowing that Circus Brothers had arrive in Paris before them, so they can captured Blinky his friends by surprise. When Penelope revealed that Paris is populated with humans and the fact that her Mistress is human as well, Blinky was reluctant to go along with plan, believing the humans would want catch them. When the Mistress protest Blinky from the Circus Brothers, he finally realized not all human are bad.

In Blinky Bill Superstar, some point after returning Penelope back to her mistress and the mission to return all the circus animals where they belong was complete, Blinky, Nutsy, and Flaps continue running to avoid being captured by the Circus Brothers. Blinky and friends hide in a clothing warehouse, he accidentally went on stage during a fashion show and was made into a fashion-model by Phoebe LaFoo (whose plan to manipulate him into a famous superstar for profit, thus making him forget about everyone in Greenpatch). Unfortunately also adopting her selfishness until he saw his friends in danger and eventually realize that Phoebe was only using him to make money for herself.

In the final episode Blinky, Nutsy and Flap return back to Greenpatch, but Basil Circus, who still wants Blinky even though he completed his mission, refused to admit defeat. Blinky even decided to runaway from his home and friends and family to protect them, as he felt he was endangering Greenpatch with his presence, eventually surrendering himself to Basil who was planning to flush him out with a wildfire. Nutsy rushes to his rescue. In their final stand off Blinky must rescue Nutsy within the burning Greenpatch, where he's confronted by Basil for the last time. Though upon realizing that his performance in the circus was a mistake Basil went insane and was taken to an ambulance, while Cyril apologized to Blinky and Nutsy for everything that happen and explains that he with join the bush firefighters to rescue animals instead of locking them in circus cages. Blinky and his friends happily lives ever after.

Blinky Bill's White Christmas[]

While everyone in Greenpatch was busily decorating the town square for the Christmas celebration, Blinky and Flap make a journey to the Wallaby Valley to get a pine to recreate Wombo's snow dome he accidentally break easier in the special, whilst evading a couple of forest poachers and eventually meeting the giant wallaby creatures. The wallaby animals reward Blinky with a small pine tree for helping to scare away the poachers and saving Wallaby Valley. In the end, Blinky represent the small pine tree to Wombo, whose was happy to have a real pine tree and the fact that Blinky and Flaps are back home just in time for Christmas EVE, finally making amends with Wombo for breaking his snowdrone.

Television Series:[]

The Adventures of Blinky Bill Season 1:[]

Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion Season 2:[]

Blinky Bill's Around the World Adventures Season 3:[]

Dorothy Wall's Blinky Bill
Books: Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian (1933) - Blinky Bill Grows Up (1934) - Blinky Bill and Nutsy (1937)

Films: Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala (1992) - Blinky Bill's White Christmas (2005) - Blinky Bill the Movie (2015)

Television: The New Adventures of Blinky Bill (1984-1987) The Adventures of Blinky Bill (1993-1994) Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion (1995-1996) - Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Balloon Adventure (2003-2004) - The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill (2016-2017)

Video Games: Blinky Bill's Ghost Cave (PC Game) - Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Balloon Adventure (PC Game) - Blinky Bill and the Magician (PC Game)

Soundtracks: Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala (Soundtrack) - Blinky Bill and Friends - Blinky Bill and his 'Extraordinary' Christmas Sing-Along! - Don and Blinky's Outback Adventure - The Lost Cooee

Characters: Blinky Bill - Nutsy - Jacko - Flap Platypus - Splodge Kangaroo - Marcia Marsupial Mouse - Wombo Wombat - Blinky's mother - Blinky's father - Miss Magpie - Mayor Pelican - Nurse Angelina - Ruff - Danny Dingo - Meatball Dingo - Shifty Dingo - Daisy Dingo - Ma Dingo - Mr. Gloop - Granny Grunty Koala - Mr. Platypus - Mrs. Platypus - Mr. Kangaroo - Mrs. Kangaroo - Bobbin Rabbit - Meryl Rabbit - Mrs. Spotty - Mr. Marsupial Mouse - Mrs. Marsupial Mouse - Miss Pym - Cedric - Nutsy's father - Dr. Spoonbill - Slippery - Leo - Ling-Ling - Tico - Yoyo - Princess Penelope - Basil Circus - Cyril Circus - Mayor Wilberforce Cranklepot - Sir Claude - Jorge - Robert - Sugar - Spike - Pablo - Bandi and Coot - Ms. Tibbins - Eddy - Beryl and Cheryl - Myrtle - Algernon - Mr. Possum - Curly Ringtail - Mrs. Ringtail - Twiggy - Mrs. Echidna - Mr. Echidna - Ms. Echidna - Queen's puppies - Boris - Slick - Hank - Wallace and George - The Plovers - Sirol - Possum - The King - Mimi - Madam Wu - Professor Arkwright - Mrs. Arkwright - Inspector Longnose Fox - Mrs. Skewer - Suki - Goanna - Arthur - The Cockatoo - Gwendelin - Mr. Numbat - Mrs. Numbat - Annie - The Puppy - Mr. Bower Bird - Ranger - Captain Possum - Chickens - Cows - Pigs - Sheep - Farmer - Farmer's son - Rat Gang - The Cat Trio - Mrs. Koala - Mrs. Owl - Mr. Owl - Octavia, Olanda & Juliana - Wendy - Hotel's director - The Sailor - The Ship's Captain - The Captain - Mistress - Fifi - Maurice - Phoebe - The Policeman - The Plane Stewardess - Angela - Rami - The Expert Game Trackers - The Temple Guardians - Kiku - Mrs. Elephant - Hugh - Coco Phil - Sophia - Miss Egret - Mayor Macaw - Mr. Arnold Armadillo - Macko - The Toucans - The Environmentalists - Sondeya - Tiger - The Jugglers - Mr. Rashid - Twigger - Nimi and Tobaccu - The Ostrich Pride - The Chimpanzees - Rex - Claude - The Poachers - Penguin baby - The Penguin Colony - Slippery's Family - Skipper the Scurvy - Anna - Ah-Phat - The Master - The Panda Colony - The Mountain Guardians - Goanna bandits - Dr. Beamstock and Mrs. Universe - Harry - Joe - Joan - Clea - Bruno and Hilda

Locations: Greenpatch - Koala Joe's Roadhouse - Croc Canyon - Zoo - Wood Chip Mill - Miss Pym's Shop - Antarctica - African Plains - Amazon Rainforest - Paris - India - China

Related: Yoram Gross

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