Catch Kandy

I remember this show from my childhood. If memory serves me correctly, the basic plot was that there were two children (Kandy and his sister) who may have been orphans living with relatives. There was an accident where Kandy thought he had killed one of his "parents" but he had only been knocked out. As a result the two children ran away from home and ended up living at the zoo with a homeless person.

Throughout the show, the "parents" were seen making some effort to locate the children to no avail. The children had some kinds of adventures with the homeless guy at the zoo but in the last episode, the two children returned to their home with no consequences of what had happened.

As far as the audience was concerned, the homeless guy remained living in the zoo.

thank god i found this here! i was starting to think this was a figment of my imagination because i am still yet to meet anyone else who remembers this show! i even asked my mate who is the same age as i am and grew up in Sydney and he didn't know it either....

okay, all i can recall about this obviously masterful piece of highly memorable TV, is that this kid who loved ball games (i even remember the theme song! "there once was an adventure boy, catch Kandy was his name, all ball games were his pride and joy, he dreamed of ball game fame..." - i wont go on...) had some older male friend he met, after running away from home or something, who seemed to live in the bush (its okay - he actually warned catch about talking to strangers other than him?!) and they had 'adventures' i suppose?!

kind of like 'skippy' but without an interesting lead?!!!

I remember seeing this as a kid, and I thought it was pretty good for its time. Australia didn't produce a lot of TV, so anything made in Australia that was half decent was watched by Aussies.

Like Skippy some of the unrealistic premises weren't challenged. The fact the kids hid in a bear cave in Taronga park Zoo didn't seem unreaonable... despite the fact the cleaners would have seen them and the kids would have been eaten by the bears!

The main characters visited Roselands shopping centre (in Sydney's south West) which at the time was a huge modern shopping centre, but these days is nothing too amazing.

Would be good to see it today to see some Sydney from the 1970s.

I still have the song lyrics 'and Catch Kandy was his name'. I loved this show; looked forward to it every Saturday evening, was always sorry when it finished. I also don't know anyone else who remembers it. Twas a great show, with great little actors and as a kid, I'm so glad I was able to watch it. I used to go to my best friend's house to watch it, and it has great memories. I particularly remember when the children were hiding in the Taronga Zoo. It was so 'real' to me at the time.

I hope our children of this generation are able to see shows like this in the future - just simple, entertaining, 'real' at the time, great songs put with the shows. Wonderful.