Timmy from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Finally Found Down the Well

KU-RING-GAI NATIONAL PARK, PRNB — In a discovery experts are calling “medically impossible” and locals are calling “about time,” Timmy, the famously imperilled child from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo has been found alive and well after spending the last 56 years stuck in a well somewhere in the People’s Republic of the Northern Beaches area of Ku-Ring-Gai National Park.

Authorities confirmed Timmy went missing the episode before filming wrapped in the area in late 1969, when production crews reportedly assumed “someone else had dealt with the well situation” and went to lunch. “We always knew he was down there,” said PRNB Minister for Heritage Television Emergencies, Rupert Ashcroft from Oxford Falls. “We just didn’t realise he was still waiting.”

A Rescue Decades in the Making

The rescue occurred late Tuesday afternoon when a local bushwalker heard a faint voice calling, “Skippy! Skippy!” — a sound experts say has echoed through the park continuously since the anti-communist John Gorton PM administration.

Emergency services arrived to find Timmy unchanged, still wearing regulation 1960s short shorts and displaying the calm resignation of someone who has accepted his fate but remains deeply annoyed about it. “He asked if filming was running late,” said one rescuer. “Then he asked why everyone looked so old.”

How Did No One Notice?

Officials admitted the well had been overlooked for decades due to a combination of factors, including dense bushland, poor signage, and the widespread belief that “Timmy falling down a well” was more of a narrative device used to scare children than an ongoing reality.

“For years we thought Skippy was just being dramatic,” said a former park ranger who didn't want to be named because he should have found Timmy sooner. “In hindsight, the kangaroo was clearly trying to report an unresolved workplace safety incident.”

Locals confirmed the cries were largely ignored. “Mate, you hear a lot of strange noises in the park,” said one nearby resident. “Wind, birds, lost hikers, unresolved television plotlines. You just tune it out don’t you!”

Surviving on Nothing but Nostalgia

Medical professionals remain baffled by Timmy’s survival, noting he appeared to have subsisted entirely on rainwater, eucalyptus runoff and the residual cultural power of Australian television exports.

“He hasn’t aged,” said a stunned paramedic. “If anything, he looks exactly like someone who’s been waiting for help since 1969 and is now emotionally done.”

Timmy reportedly used the time to reflect, practice patience, and listen to Skippy repeatedly communicate his situation to uninterested adults using increasingly elaborate gestures.

Official Response Swift and Self-Congratulatory

PRNB officials moved quickly to praise themselves for the successful rescue. “This demonstrates our commitment to heritage preservation,” said the Minister. “We saved a nationally significant child using a rope and a vague sense of obligation.”

When asked why it took over half a century, the Minister cited “environmental assessments, jurisdictional complexity, climate change and the assumption that someone in the 1970s had already sorted it out.”

Timmy Speaks Out

Speaking briefly to the media, Timmy appeared calm but unimpressed. “I fell in. Skippy told everyone. Repeatedly,” he said. “People nodded. Then nothing happened.”

He added that the most upsetting part was realising he’d missed several decades of overdevelopment of the peninsula, hair style fashions and the invention of the internet.

“I’m mostly annoyed about the short shorts and crappy hair style,” he said. “They’re both back in style now so I’m stuck with them.”

What Happens Next

Timmy has been placed in a short-term reintegration program to help him adjust to modern Australia, including lessons on mobile phones, social media, stranger danger, common sense when it comes to getting into unnecessary mortal peril twice a week and why nobody under 40 knows who Skippy is.

Meanwhile, the well has been heritage-listed, fenced off, and fitted with a plaque reading:

“This is where we almost forgot a child for 56 years, the Kangaroo knew all along.”

As for Skippy, the kangaroo is understood to be unavailable for comment but sources close to the animal say he is “deeply vindicated.”

Authorities have urged the public to report any additional unresolved television emergencies immediately. News of the find has gone global and sparked urgent follow-up investigations to determine whether anyone is still trapped in a mineshaft on Lassie.