Skippy and the Bird Smugglers

Skippy and the Bird Smugglers (1992) Post 288

Skippy and the Bird Smugglers is one of three longer novelisations I did in the 1990s. (The other two were Dangerous Ride and The Adventures of Blinky Bill. This particular version of Skippy was neither the Yoram Gross version (for which I also did some work) or the original 1960s version I watched as a child, but a sequel called The Adventures of Skippy made in 1992. In this version, Sonny, the child from the '60s series, is an adult, and his children are Skippy's friends. 

I think I wrote this story from a script rather than a video, and the major problem I recall was having a word count and finding insufficient material in the short episode to fill it. I solved that by using quite a bit of description, so whenever Skippy went somewhere, I made sure she took the scenic route...

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