Crocadoo is an Australian animated series produced by Energee Entertainment and the Nine Network from 1996 to 1998. It follows the adventures of a group of blue crocodiles trying to protect their riverbank from a mad developer. CROCADOO was Energee Entertainment's first original series, its first season being digitally colored and composited with Apple computers running Adobe, Linker Systems and COSA software. First season's 3D backgrounds were created using SGI Power Animator. Halfway through the first series, beginning with "Watch out for the Wonglebacks", some character animation was outsourced to Vietnam. CROCADOO's second season utilized Energee Entertainment's own CECAPS computer paint software.
Characters
Main
Jazz : A blue, skinny, male croc who is the leader of the crocodiles. He has all the plans and ideas to encourage all the other crocs to do whatever it takes to protect the riverbank. He was born as "Jeremy", but he changed his name.
Brian : A purple, muscular, male croc who is Jazz's brother. He is usually hungry and lazy and easily gets confused, but is nice and friendly most of the time, unless if Jazz messes around with him.
Rufus B. Hardacre : The main antagonist of the show. A greedy hotel manager who hates crocodiles and plans to get rid of them to pave way for his new hotel development. He even hates his guests and only cares about his money.
Ajax : A cockatoo who is Hardacre's sidekick despite the fact that they hate each other. He will tease and belittle Hardacre any way he can and is not afraid to fight back against his abuse.
Secondary
Melba : A blue female croc who wears glasses, a red necklace, and an orange dress. She is the babysitter of the baby crocs and often tries to put all the other crocs on track.
Gina : A blue, red haired, female croc that Brian has a crush on and often tries to get her attention.
Waldo : A big, fat, dark blue croc who loves to eat anything.
Ol' Vern : The elder of the crocodiles. He is a storyteller and the keeper of Crocadoo.
Kelly : A teenage girl genius who wears green glasses that appeared in Season 1. She is the niece of Hardacre. Unlike her uncle, she is friends with the crocs and helps protect their home against him.
Billy : An aboriginal teenage boy who appeared in Season 1. He is friends with all the crocodiles and works as a tour guide out in the riverbank showing tourists the Crocs. He loves playing reckless with his vehicles and also often helps out the crocs alongside Kelly.
Other Characters
Big Boss: Hardacre's boss who is in charge of all hotel development. He often orders Hardacre around and warns him that he'll be fired otherwise. His face was never revealed.
Kevin: A little troublemaking boy who lives in Hardacre's Hotel. He often calls Hardacare, "Mr. Hardbottom".
Anna: A 20 ft tall fish who swam all the way from Sweden. Hardacre had put up an advertisement for a large fish to eat up crocs, but she only came for an affair.
Barrymundi: Small brown fish with a mustache who loves Anna and convinces her to marry him.
Slim and Scanty: Two gangsters that have been informed by Hardacre to measure plans for his building resort. Slim is a short stubby man that hypnotizes Crocs with his big, ugly, and very strange eye. Scanty is a tall skinny woman who had doubts with Slim thinking that they're gangsters, until Slim proves that he can do something powerful and harmful.
Mitchelle: A hotheaded chef who formally worked at a cafe called Tucker Box. She has a Swedish accent and puts on a Viking helmet when she's mad.
Bloodnuts: A pair of two hooligans named Audrey and Hillis, they hunt crocodiles and then skin them for boots. Don't mess with them or else.
Wrestling Alligator: He is a gigantic alligator who wrestles crocs in a tournament one time he visited Crocadoo.
Boxing Ant: The Ant who puts on boxing gloves to fight bigger enemies. He has a wife who always scolds him to put things right. Later he was told by his wife sternly to get up and stop the noise above their house, he then fights the Wrestling Alligator where they both shed their disguises.
"Crocadoo Gone Troppo" is a Windows 95/98 and Macintosh game created by Dataworks Australia. You have to help Jazz and the other Crocs save their friend Brian from Hardacare, Ajax and the Mad Professor before they change his attitude in the Troppo Controller.
Along the way there are activities that involve solving, puzzling and creative skills. The game was released in 1998 at the same time when season 2 was aired.
