Don't Blame Me (also known as Don't Blame the Koalas in the United Kingdom) is an Australian children's television program produced by Southern Star Group that premiered on October 14, 2002 and ended on March 30, 2003 originally on the Nine Network and is currently shown on ABC3 with a total of 26 episodes.
Premise Don't Blame the Koalas follows Gabrielle, Greg and Jemma King, an upper-crust family from London who, after learning they are bankrupt, travel to Sydney to live with their Australian relatives, Chris, Kate and Mark, with the belief they have inherited a large cattle ranch, only to discover upon arriving that what they really inherited was a largely unprofitable, slightly rundown wildlife park. For the role of Greg, actor Liam Hess received the Young Actor Award at the 2003 Australian Film Institute Awards. The show is set in Wallaby Park, an Australian wildlife park in the Ku-ring-gai National Park on the suburbs of Sydney. Most of the comedy in the series is slightly surreal in a Round the Twist/Driven Crazy-style way. Special effects and sounds are used to convey the characters' actions mixed in with slightly sped up footage when walking. Many of the characters frequently break the fourth wall. Having to do whatever means to keep the wildlife park up to building code standards for visitors, Vinnie has a dark past that he must call upon his old friends still involved in the Golden Triangle to save the day.
Cast Main Liam Hess as Gregory King Hollie Chapman as Jemma King Basia A'Hern as Kate King Shaun Loseby as Mark King Henry Nixon as Chris King Fiona Terry as Gabrielle King Anh Do as Vinnie
Recurring Wendy Playfair as Mrs. Smythe Rhys Wakefield as Brad Sophie Luck Celia Ireland as Schoolteacher Roy Billing as Principal Brittany Byrnes as Actress #3 Carole Skinner as Weird Wanda Laurie Foell as Miss Crowley
Episodes Series overview
Season 1 (2002)
Development and production Filming Don't Blame the Koalas was filmed in the Australian wildlife reserve in Waratah Park NSW, previously made famous as the home of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Like Malcolm in the Middle, hallmarks of the series' filming and structure, many of which heavily influenced later programs such as Mortified and In Your Dreams (both of those series also feature at least one character frequently breaking the fourth wall), included the following: A 1 1/2-second whip pan as a transition from one scene to another. Frequent pieces to camera delivered by the King family.
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