Music Composed & Conducted by Guy Gross

Original Songs Composer/Lyrics

Dot & The Kangaroo Circus Bob Young/John Palmer

Don't Go Out Tonight Best Friends Birdie Birdie Chris Harriot/John Palmer Submarine

Animals Guy Gross/John Palmer

Poachers Guy Gross/Rod Hay

Performed by Robyn Moore Keith Scott Barbera Frawley Ross Higgins

Lyrics:

A song, Best Friends, which is done first in the body of the film, returns to run over the tail credits, using the same footage of Dot and the animals as seen in the film.

After the bunyip has expressed its gratitude and sinks back into the lagoon with a growled "thanks", the villains are on their way to Singapore, thanks to being hooked up to the fast rising fake balloon bunyip, and attached submarine:

Sprag's sidekick, Scarface, as the bunyip disappears beneath the water: "Where's he going?" Sprag: "More's the point, where are we going?" Sprag's sidekick, Scarface: "Up, I think… Sprag: "You idiot … I'm telling you for the last time get that …" (his voice fades away, the best guess for his last audible word is "bunyip", with the rest of Sprag's rant fading into the wind).

(As the balloon and submarine disappears into the clouds, end credits roll, and Dot and the animals begin to dance and sing. Lyrics as heard in the film):

Dot: Best friends… Animals and me we're friends. Animal chorus: Best friends! Dot: Best friends Anyone can see we're friends A possum or a bat An emu or a cat A great big kangaroo ... (pointing at her big 'roo friend) A squirrel or a bear Or a rabbit or a hare Would never do anything mean to you. Best friends Animals and me we're friends Do they ever tell a lie?

(Dot looks at the animal chorus as they shake their heads to say not)

Animal chorus: Never never no… Dot: Do they like to make you cry? Animal chorus: Never never no … Ha, I love them, and they love me … I know we will always be … (with animal chorus): … the very best of friends Dot: Best friends Animals and me we're friends. Animal chorus: Best friends! Dot: Best friends Anyone can see we're friends When an elephant screams It probably seems its best to run away But it's only the noise that an elephant makes When an elephant calls you out to play Best friends Animals and me we're friends Do they ever tell a lie? Animal chorus (shaking heads to say no): Never never no Dot: Do they like to make you cry? Animal chorus: Never never no Dot: I love them, and they love me I know we will always be... (with chorus): …the very best of friends. Sandwiches and tea with a wallaby… (Platypus in lagoon): … or a hippopotamus … Dot: Is a marvellous way to spend the day They're talkative creatures just like us. Best friends Animals and me we're friends Do they ever tell a lie? (animal chorus): Never never, no. Dot: Do they like to make you cry? (animal chorus): Never never, no. Dot: I love them, and they love me I know we will always be (Dot with animal chorus): …the very best ... of friends …

(The song ends with Dot, kangaroo and koala on a fallen log in the bush, reaching out to hold hands. The koala lurches and grabs the 'roo's tail)

Best friends!!

(As the music comes to an upbeat end, the final company credit is on the villains still fizzing off into the clouds, with the sound of a large balloon popping as image fades to black).

'Best Friends' song composer Chris Harriott: Chris Harriott did many children's shows, including the animated The Magic Pudding. He was in the ABC music publishing stable, and they had a CV for him at their site (link no longer working): Chris is a self taught Composer and Musician who dropped out of Art School in 1977 to pursue a “career” in rock and roll. Forming the Adelaide band ‘Scandal’ with like minded students and friends, he basically learned how to play keyboards after deciding to form a band. Not the ideal way to do things, but why let mere technicalities get in the way. Six months after their first gig ‘Scandal’ signed with Mushroom records,released several singles and an album. They toured constantly, appearing regularly on Countdown and supporting 10cc and E.L.O. on their national tours. After ‘Scandal’ and various post ‘Scandal’ bands finally bit the dust, Chris found himself in Sydney - and with a new musical direction. Theatre! During the 1980’s Chris , along with lyricist Dennis Watkins wrote four musicals - Dingo Girl, Beach Blanket Tempest, Pearls Before Swine (directed by Geoffrey Rush), and Burger Brain (Toni Collette’s debut). During this period Chris became the first Mr. Music for Theatresports, improvising music scores on stage every Sunday at Belvoir St Theatre. He also was international Mr Music for Theatresports at Expo 86 in Canada, playing for all the teams - not just Australia. Theatresports led to TV, where he became composer for several Network Ten childrens’ shows, before immersing himself in the world of Comedy at the ABC. Blah, Blah, Blah, Money or the Gun (yes, he was responsible for all those Stairways to Heaven) Live and Sweaty, McFeast and more. At the same time however, were major documentary series such as Nobody’s Children, the Big House and Without Consent - going back to back with several series of Bananas in Pyjamas and Bananas CD’s. Near the end of the 90’s, Posie Graeme - Evans - for whom he had scored Elly & Jools, Miraculous Mellops and Mirror Mirror - and Helena Harris - from Bananas in Pyjamas - asked him if he could write Top Ten pop songs for the 2-6 age group. With that simple challenge Hi-5 was born. Twelve series later the show is as popular as ever, with American and British versions on, and more countries to follow. In the midst of the Hi5 frenzy, the prime time Channel 9 series McLeod’s Daughters got the go ahead. A long time ambition of Chris was to write original songs for a drama series. With Posie the producer morphing into Posie the lyricist, this became a reality. The songs were written to forward the plot, or to give emotional background to the characters, and were woven in and out of the score. So popular in fact that the first Soundtrack album has sold over 75,000 copies - achieving Platinum, and the second has gone Gold. On top of all this he composed the songs and score for the feature film “The Magic Pudding” which reunited him with his old theatre friend Geoffrey Rush, and gave him the opportunity to work with a lifelong idol - John Cleese. And now full circle, with the new Bananas in Pyjamas series going global, and a New Musical "100 Feats of Strength" in development.

Aria Awards - Best Comedy Album, Stairways to Heaven - Best Childrens’ Album - Hi5 - 2000 , 2001 , 2002, 2004, 2005 Multiple Gold & Platinum albums (Hi5, Bananas, McLeods, Stairways ) APRA music awards - Most performed childrens work

Chris has Produced over 30 Albums. He has his own recording studios in Sydney’s inner-west, and The Blue Mountains

(Below: Chris Harriott) Composer Guy Gross:

Guy Gross worked on Stephan Elliott’s The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and subsequently did the score for Elliott’s Welcome to Woop Woop.

Guy Gross began as a composer doing scores for his father’s animated feature films, including Epic, Dot and the Whale, Dot Goes to Hollywood, Dot and the Smugglers, The Magic Riddle and Blinky Bill, before moving on to scoring the first 26 episodes of the TV series The Adventures of Blinky Bill.

In the VHS ‘Blinky Bill making of’ Gross was shown at work on the score, which like the music for his first collaboration with director Stephan Elliott - Frauds - was an orchestrated piece, using some of the players from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

In the case of Frauds, the players were dressed up as the “Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra”.

Frauds was Gross’s first feature outside the family farm, so to speak, and he thereafter became a very active composer, on both Gross company projects and for others, with Welcome to Woop Woop his third association with Elliott.

(Below: Gross in the Blinky Bill VHS ‘making of’)

At time of writing, composer Guy Gross had his own website here. At time of writing, it contained this CV and these credits, and could also be found on the WM here:

Guy Gross is one of Australia's leading film and television composers and recipient of the APRA/AGSC International Achievement Award. In 2012 he was elected president of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers.

From his British Academy Award (BAFTA) nominated score to the international hit "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to the US SCI-FI series "Farscape", his film scores cover a huge variety of styles.

Testament to this diversity, Guy has received numerous peer awards including Best Music for a Documentary, Children's Series, Short film, Animation, Promotional Video, Advertisement, TV Theme and twice for Best Music for a TV Series.

Over his 30 year career, Guy has composed music for hundreds of hours of television, including dramatic mini series, children's animation, documentaries, commercials and also a number of Australian feature films. His film music has underscored the acting performances of Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Garry McDonald, Molly Ringwald, Kylie Minogue, Phil Collins, Guy Pearce and Olivia Newton John and his scores have been performed in concert by the Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland Symphony Orchestras.

Guy began film scoring while still studying composition at the Conservatorium High School in Sydney, Australia. Son of film producers Yoram and Sandra Gross, he began scoring many of the family companies' feature and television projects. Following in his father's footsteps, Guy directed and scored the animated TV series "Old Tom and wrote, scored, produced, and directed the animated television special "Blinky Bill's White Christmas".

At the age of 26, Guy scored his first feature film, "Frauds" directed by Stephan Elliott and went on to score four features with Stephan including the 1994 international hit "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and more recently, "A Few Best Men". In '95, Guy composed his award winning score to the ABC TV series "Bordertown" for Knapman Wyld Television for whom he has also scored all three seasons of the internationally award winning TV Series "East West 101".

In 1999 Guy received the (shared) award for Best Music at the Tropicana Film Festival (Tropfest) for his score to that year's winning short film "Uno Amore". That year Guy also composed the score to the horror feature film "Cut" for Mushroom Pictures and soon after that began scoring the hit Sci-Fi series "Farscape" produced by The Jim Henson Company.

"Farscape" has been a monumental project for Guy keeping him busy for over three years culminating in a big budget, 2 part television mini series "Farscape - Peacekeeper Wars" which enabled him to enlist the services of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and conduct the 140 strong orchestra and choir to create one of his largest film scores to-date. Farscape has spun off five Soundtrack Albums.

In recent years Guy has scored the tele-movies: "Dangerous Remedy", "A Model Daughter - The Killing of Caroline Byrne", "Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback", "Scorched", documentaries: "The Howard Years", "The Prime Minister is Missing" and "Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?".

Guy owns a recording studio complex in Camperdown, Sydney which houses a number of studios and composing suites.

CHILDRENS' - ANIMATED FEATURES

2005 Blinky Bill’s White Christmas Telemovie Composer of Original Score and Theme (performed by Christine Anu) Production Company: Yoram Gross–EM.TV

2003 Tabaluga and Leo: A Christmas Adventure Production Company: Yoram Gross–EM.TV

1993 Blinky Bill Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios

1990 The Magic Riddle Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios

1986 Dot and the Whale Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios

1986 Dot Goes to Hollywood Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios

1984 Dot and Keeto Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios 1984 Dot and the Smugglers Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios

1980 Sarah Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios

CHILDRENS' - ANIMATED TV

2008 Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist 26 x 1/2 hour episodes Production Company: March Entertainment + SLR Productions 2005 Flipper & Lopaka Series 3 26 x 1/2 hour episodes Production Company: Yoram Gross – EM.TV. 2004 Blinky Bill’s Around the World Adventures 26 x 1/2 hour episodes Production Company: Yoram Gross – EM.TV. 2003 Art Alive 79 x 4 minute episodes Production Company: Yoram Gross – EM.TV. 2001 Old Tom 52 x 1/4 hour episodes Production Company: Yoram Gross – EM.TV. / Millimages 1999 Flipper and Lopaka 26 x 1/2 hour episodes Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios 1998 Dumb Bunnies 26 x 1/2 hour episodes Production Company: Nelvana / Yoram Gross Film Studios 1998 Skippy 26 x 1/2 hour episodes Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios 1995 Samuel & Nina 13 x 15 min episodes Production Company: Children's Television Workshop / Yoram Gross Film Studios 1993 The Adventures of Blinky Bill 52 x 1/2 hour episodes Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios 1987 Candy Claus 1 hour TV Special Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios

FEATURES

2011 A Few Best Men Production Company: Arclight Film Producer: Antonia Barnard, Share Stallings Director: Stephan Elliott 2010 A Heart Beat Away Production Company: Pictures in Paradise Producer: Chris Fitchett, Chris Brown Director: Gale Edwards 2007 Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger Production Company: Tama Films & EB Productions Producer: Miriam Stein Director: Cathy Randall 1999 Cut Production Company: Mushroom Pictures Dist: Beyond International Producer: Martin Fabini 1998 Forever Fever (aka That's the way I lIke it) Production Company: Tiger Tiger Productions Dist: Miramax Producer/Director: Glen Goei 1997 Welcome to Woop Woop Production Company: Scala Productions Dist: Village Roadshow Producers: Finola Dwyer (UK) Antonia Barnard (Aust) 1994 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Production Company: Latent Image Director: Stephan Elliott Starring: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce (Official selection in Directors fortnight Cannes '94 - Winner Priz du Public) 1992 Frauds Production Company: Latent Image Director: Stephan Elliott Starring: Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Josephine Byrnes (Official selection in Main Competition Cannes '93)

DOCUMENTARIES

2014 Village Vets Theme for Foxtel Series Production Company: Screentime Producer: Simon Steel Executive Producer: Bob Campbell 2013 Shark Girl 1 hr TV Documentary Production Company: Kaufman Productions Producer ∓ Director: Gisela Kaufmann Associate Producer: Carsten Orlt 2013 Taking on the Chocolate Frog 3 x 1 hr series- Foxtel Production Company: Screentime Producer: Simon Steel Executive Producer: Bob Campbell 2013 Once upon a time in Redfern 1 hr TV Documentary - Foxtel Production Company: Samson Productions Producer: Sue Millican Director: Darlene Johnson 2013 Outback Coroner 8 x 1 hr series Production Company: Evershine / Screentime Producer: Helen Barrow Director: Hugh Piper 2012 Raising the Curtain 3 x 1 hr series Production Company: Essential Media Series Producer: Aline Jacques Executive Producer: Julia Peters 2012 Larrikin Lad Production Company: Rebelstudio Producer/Director: Rebel Penfold Russell & Pat Fiske Executive Producer: Rebel Penfold-Russell & Adam Bayliss 2012 First Fagin 1 hour TV Documentary Production Company: Fury Production Producer: Veronica Fury Directors: Helen Gaynor and Alan Rosenthal 2011 Dancing Down Under 10 Part TV Doco Series - ABC Production Company: Fury Production Director: Susan Lambert 2011 Dancing with Dictators Production Company: Evershine Writer, Director, Producer: Hugh Piper, Helen Barrow 2010 I Spry Production Company: Blackwattle Films Writer, Director, Producer: Peter Butt 2009 Family Fortunes (6-part Series) Production Company: Australian Documentaries Producers: Laurie Critchley 2008 The Howard Years 4x1 hour series Production Company: ABC Producer: Deborah Masters 2008 Lost in Flanders Production Company: Film Australia in association with Intomedia Director: Geoff Burton Producer: Stuart Scowcroft 2008 Infamous Victory - Ben Chifley's Battle for Coal Production Company: Film Australia Director: Geoff Burton EP: Penny Robins Producer: Perry Stapleton 2008 The Prime Minister is Missing Production Company: Film Australia Writer, Director, Producer: Peter Butt Co-Producer: Sally Regan 2008 Ian Fairweather Fury Productions Pty Ltd Writer/Director: Aviva Ziegler Producer: Veronica Fury Associate Producer: Debra Beattie 2008 Family Fortunes (4-part Series) Production Company: ABC Directors/Producers: Geraldine McKenna, Tracey Spring, Simon Target, Laurie Critchley Series Producer: Laurie Critchley Executive Producer: David Jowsey 2007 Fat Chance Production Company: Fat Productions Pty Ltd Writer, Director, Producer: Yuka Sekiguchi Producer: Nicki Roller 2006 Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? Production Company: Film Australia Writer, Director, Producer: Peter Butt 2004 The Airships Production Company: Ch 4 UK / ABC Writer, Director, Producer: Peter Butt 2003 Silent Storm Production Company: Film Australia / SBS Writer, Director, Producer: Peter Butt 1999 Uncle Chatzkel Production Company: Film Australia/ Robe Productions Writer, Director, Producer: Rod Freedman Producers: Emile Sherman, Brian Sherman, Franco Di Chiera 1988 The Last Great Cattle Drive A Film Australia National Interest Program Producers: Tristram Miall, Don Murray; Director: Paul Hawker

TV DRAMAS

2013 Sam Fox - Extreme Adventures 26 x 1/2 hr Series Producers: SLR / ZDF Producers: Suzanne Ryan, Michael Bourchier 2012 Dangerous Remedy Telemovie Production Company: Eclipse Films Producer: Ned Lander Director: Ken Cameron 2011 East West 101 Season 3 7x1 hour Mini Series Production Company: Knapman Wyld Television Producers: Steve Knapman, Kris Wyld 2009 A Model Daughter - The Killing of Caroline Byrne Telemovie Production Company: Screentime Producer: Des Monaghan, Karl Zwicky Director: Tony Tilse 2009 East West 101 Season 2 7x1 hour Mini Series Production Company: Knapman Wyld Television Producers: Steve Knapman, Kris Wyld 2008 Scorched Telemovie Production Company: Essential Viewing Productions Producers: Kylie Du Fresne Director: Tony Tilse 2007 East West 101 6x1 hour Mini Series Production Company: Knapman Wyld Television Producers: Steve Knapman, Kris Wyld 2007 Make or Break 1 hour Telemovie Production Company: Fox World Australia Writer & Director: Mike Bullen Producers: David Taylor and David Maher 2006 Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback Telemovie Production Company: Granada Productions, Matt Carroll Films Pty Ltd Producer: Matt Carroll 2004 Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars 4hr TV SCI FI Mini Series Production Company: Jim Henson Productions Producer: Andrew Prowse, Martin Baker 2002 Farscape, Series 4 22 x 1hr TV Science Fiction Series Production Company: Jim Henson Productions Producer: Sue Miliken, Andrew Prowse 2001 Farscape, Series 3 22 x 1hr TV Science Fiction Series Composer of Original Score Production Company: Jim Henson Productions Producer: Anthony Winley 2001 Seconds to Spare Telemovie; aka Operation Wolverine Production Company: Channel 9 Film and TV/ Carlton America / Tele Munchen Producer: Matt Carroll 2000 Farscape, Series 2 22 x 1hr TV Science Fiction Series Composer of Original Score (Episodes 6 to 22) Production Company: Jim Henson Productions Producer: Sue Miliken 1996 Fallen Angels 20 x 1hr TV Drama Series Production Company: ABC Producer: Geoffry Nottage 1996 McLeod's Daughters Telemovie Production Company: Millennium Pictures / Channel 9 Director: Michael Offer Producers: Posie Graeme-Evans, Andrew Blaxland 1995 Bordertown 10 x 1hr Drama Mini Series Production Company: ABC Director: Ken Cameron Producers: Steve Knapman & Jo Rooney 1990 Reach Out to the Children TV Special Production Company: Pilgrim International (World Vision)

SHORT FILMS

2014 Flat Daddy Producer: Annie Kinnane Executive Producer: Al Clark Director: Matt Holcomb 2013 Tango Underpants Producers: Feisty Dame Productions Executive Producers: Tanya Chambers & Stephen Van Mil Directors: Miranda Edmonds & Khrob Edmonds 2013 The Landing Producers: Perception Pictures Producer: Jade van der Lei Director: Josh Tanner 2013 Sand (part of The Turning) Producers: Robert Connely Producer: John Harvey Director: Stephen Page 2006 Final Call Tropfest Film Festival 2006 (screened out of competition) Producer: Philip Wade, Director: Gary Eck 1999 Uno Amore Winner 1999 Tropfest Film Festival Winner 1999 Sydney Comedy Festival Short Film and Animation Competition Original Score (7 min Operetta) Producers:Anton Perry, Jasmin Forbes-Watson 1992 The Resting Place Production Company: Latent Image Starring: Peter Mochrie, Gia Carides Director: Rebel Penfold Russell 1992 When Ships Draw Near Production Company: Bring a Plate Productions Director: Paul Middleditch 1990 7 Colours 30 min Dance Film Production Company: Film Australia Producer: Paul Humfress Director: John Michael Rogowski Dancers: Stephen Page & Victoria Taylor

TV THEMES AND STATION ID'S

2010 The Naked Scientist Themes for BBC Radio Programe Producer and Presenter: Dr Christopher Smith 1996 Front Up TV current affairs series Production Company: SBS 1995 TNC - The News Channel ABC Cable News Channel (Unreleased) Production Company: Australian Information Media (AIM) Producer: Kim Williams 1995 True Stories TV Documentary Series Production Company: ABC 1995 The Big Picture TV Documentary Production Company: ABC 1991 Hotline TV Talk Back Series Production Company: SBS 1991 The Bookshow TV Arts Series Arranger/Producer of Theme Production Company: SBS 1990 Face the Press TV Current Affairs Series Production Company: SBS

OTHER PROJECTS

2013 Sydney Moderns - Snapshots Original music for Video Installation Producers: NSW Art Gallery Producer: Aviva Zeigler 2006 The Priscilla Suite Symphonic Suite for the Queensland Symphonic Orchestra with 100 strong choir, soprano solo and didgeridoo. Performed live in the Queensland Performing Arts Center in May 2006. 1998 Crown Casino Laser, fountain, lighting installation Composer of 20 min. Orchestral Score "Spring", performed by M.S.O. One of 4 seasons played 24 hours a day in the main Atrium Production Company: Crown Casino Limited Producer: Chong Lim 1987 First State '88 Showscan Exhibition Film Arranged/Produced: Additional music Producers: Heileograph John Weiley 1985 Cakes and Custard Choral Symphony Composed and Conducted - Commissioned by NSW Education Dept. Performed at Sydney Town Hall. For 200 voice children’s Choir & Orchestra

(Below: Guy Gross, and at work)