Episode 68

Episode: Season 2 Episode 68 The Best Man
Year: 1968
Location: Mona Vale & Waratah Park
Description: Greg Haines, from station 'Green', is getting married. So it's all hands on deck. Matt will be giving the bride away, Mark and Sonny are ushers, Jerry is the best man. A call comes in over the radio, Jerry is dispatched  to sort out the trouble. After apprehending two youths in a boat causing havoc on the parks waterways Jerry receives another call, he must rescue a man caught on a ledge at Mt Simpson. When Jerry returns to headquarters he is confronted with the problem of no transport. So Clancy saddles up a horse for him, Jerry only just makes it to the church on time. Below are a collection of photos showing where the church was, surrounding shops and a couple of other buildings. The only objects to remain after 44 years that I could see were two norfolk pines, Mona Vale memorial hall and the heritage house, Dungarvon.  
Additional Notes: Local store keeper and boat builder James Booth was involved in the construction of St Johns church and Dungarvon. Dungarvon was constructed between the years 1906-1907. The church in the Skippy episode is not St Johns church. St Johns is located a few doors up from Dungarvon.

          

Episode 91

Episode: Season 3 Episode 91 Fred
Year: 1969
Location: McMahons Point,  Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
Description: A flower seller offers to sell Sir Adrian some native wild flowers fresh from Waratah National Park. Unbeknown to the lady she has just sold stolen property to the chairman of the National Parks Trust. After a meeting with Matt and Mark, Sir Adrian decides Mark and himself should go under cover as a couple of anglers. This way they can patrol the rivers without arousing suspicion. They spot a couple of suspect blokes in a boat who claim their machete is used for scaling fish. This prompts the decision to follow at a discrete distance. With a little help from Matt and Skippy they bust the operation wide open. Below are a collection of photos showing Sir Adrian purchasing the flowers, Sir Adrian and Mark at the jetty and Mark checking out the suspect fisherman.

Episode 58

Episode: Season 2 Episode 58 Surprise Surprise
Year: 1968
Location: Narrabeen Lakes, Wahroonga, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
Description: It is the 14th and nobody seems to have noticed that it's Clancy's birthday. The boys are secretly arranging a surprise party. To get Clancy out of the way for the day, it has been arranged she will go with Matt to Gavin's Weir to help with the depth survey.While caring out the depth survey, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Back at headquarters, Mark and Sonny are struggling to find girls to invite  to the party. After a quick trip to town, six girls are plucked out of thin air just in time for the shindig. A broken propeller shaft forces Matt and Clancy to walk back to headquarters, they take a chance and head towards Cullen Creek Road hoping someone will pass by. In a few minutes they hear a car approaching, it's Lucky Johnson and he offers to gives them a lift back to headquarters. They arrive just in time for the party. Now how lucky was that? Below are a collection of photos showing Gavin's Weir, the local shops and Cullen Creek Road. 

 

Episode 26

Episode: Season 1 Episode 26 The Runaway
Year: 1967
Location: Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
Description: Tom, a troubled youth has escaped from Broughton Reform School. After breaking into a sports' store and stealing a gun, he heads towards Waratah National Park where he randomly takes potshots at the wildlife. Tom carelessly discards a cigarette butt that starts a brush fire. Jerry and Mark arrive in the chopper and extinguish the fire. They are then confronted by Tom and his rifle. After a little help from Skippy and a brief struggle, Jerry takes possession of the rifle. Tom escapes and Mark chases him. Unknowingly he is running towards Cooper's Ravine. Below are a collection of photographs showing Cooper's Ravine and the rescue.

Episode 23/24

Episode: Season 1 Episode 23/24 - Tara
Year: 1967
Location: Darlinghurst, Mascot & Cammeray
Description: Sonny and Skippy discover a cave which leads to a valley that was thought to be inaccessible by foot. While they are there they meet an old Aboriginal man named Tara who shows Sonny how to find food and water in the bush. Jerry takes the chopper out on a routine survey flight. Tara sees the helicopter and thinks it is an evil spirit of death and starts to will him self to die. Fifty years earlier, Tara saved the life of a young boy named Robert Jefferson Judd. Matt Hammond organises a meeting with Mr Judd who arranges to have Tara's tribe flown to Sydney to perform a ceremony that will save Tara's life. Below are a collection of photos showing a Sydney street, the building where Matt and Mr Judd have their meeting, the domestic terminal and a bridge the tribe cross on their way to Waratah Park. 
Additional Notes: The suspension bridge was privately built and opened in 1892 as a tram link to middle harbour. The tramway terminus opened in1909. However, it wasn't until 1914 that the first tram crossed the bridge. Work began in 1937on converting the bridge to a concrete arch structure officially opened in 1939. The surrounding area was known as Suspension Bridge until the name was changed to Cammeray in the 1920's.

Episode 41

Episode: Season 2 Episode 41- The Perfect Host
Year: 1968
Location: Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
Description: A severe thunder storm has hit the park and is showing no signs of stopping. Greg Haines, from station 'Red', radios headquarters for assistance because his car battery is flat. So Matt and Mark drive to Iron Stone Gorge to assist him by rigging up a flying fox. Back at Ranger Headquarters, Sonny and Clancy mistake Mr Lucas as an armed bank robber who has been reported to be in the area. Bellow are three photos of Iron Stone Gorge and their flying fox.

Episode 83

Episode: Season 3 Episode 83 - El Toro
Year: 1969
Location: Manly Reservoir
Description: It's a long weekend and the park is full of picnickers. Gus and his bull, Brutus have just stopped by the river for a quick cuppa. While Brutus is grazing on some grass, he is compelled to look a little to closely at a passing echidna and receives a sharp spine to his nose. Before Gus has a chance to stop him, Brutus breaks free from his bindings and causes havoc in the park. Bellow are a collection of photos showing Gus, Brutus, Sonny,Skippy and some picnickers.