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==Popularity and awards==
Skippy was the first Australian series to be heavily merchandised. The Skippy Club boasted over 67,000 members. In Japan, short 8mm colour films were on sale. In Australia and many overseas countries,  one could buy Skippy pyjamas, ice-creams, toys, jewellery, soap, comics, jelly-beans, rulers, pencils, puzzles, toothpaste, shampoo, T-shirts, towels, and soft drinks. The [[Commercial Banking Company of Sydney|Commercial Banking Company]] had Skippy moneyboxes, the contents of which could be banked with the details entered into a Skippy passbook. There were LP and EP records, an adventure story narrated by John McCallum, and several books, and in 2009, one could still buy Skippy Corn Flakes. The popularity of Skippy was summed up by Fauna's marketing and merchandising manager, [[Kevin Gleeson]]: 'Skippy is clean, non-violent fun with no sex. It's wholesome, family-type entertainment. . . most importantly, any necessary violence is innocuous and insignificant, with the old Skippy coming to the rescue at the end of each episode.'.<ref name="Skippy" /><ref name="nswshr-1944" />

Skippy won a number of awards: 
*A 1968 Logie Special Award for Best Export Production and a Logie for [[Michael Wright (Australian footballer)|Michael Wright]], writer of episode four, "The Poachers"
*A 1968 Penguin for Best Live Show
*A 1969 Charlie Award for Best Promotion and Contribution to the Australian entertainment industry. 

All three series of Skippy plus ''The Intruders'' have been released on DVD.<ref name=Skippy/><ref name="nswshr-1944" /> The series sold around the world, reportedly shown in 128 countries. It is still being shown in some countries, some 51 years after it was made.<ref>Warringah Council SHR nomination, 2011</ref><ref name="nswshr-1944" /> Lee Robinson says the series only recovered its costs in 1976.<ref>{{Cite interview |last=Robinson |first=Lee |interviewer=Graham Shirley |title=Lee Robinson |type=Oral history |url=http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;page=0;query=lee%20robinson%20graham%20shirley;rec=4;resCount=10 |publisher=[[National Film and Sound Archive]] |date=15 August 1976}}</ref>