Airdate: The Jungle Bunch: Back To The Ice Floe

This Good Friday, ABC3 is screening the animated special, The Jungle Bunch, which follows the adventures of Maurice (John Lithgow), the legendary ‘Great Tiger Warrior’ and his friends as they set out to defeat a group of terrifying walruses.

Maurice, the Penguin-Tiger, is peacefully living his life with his adopted son, Junior and their friends when two penguins arrive unexpectedly from the Antarctic ice floe. The penguins have been guided directly to Maurice by a legend proclaiming that the ‘Great Tiger Warrior’ will save their village from oppression by a terrifying group of walruses.

Maurice decides he’ll help the penguins and forms a ‘strike force’ made up of his friends, the animals from the jungle, and they all travel to the Antarctic. However they begin an attack on the evil walruses without any preparation and promptly find themselves having to beat a hasty retreat.

Meanwhile, the walruses continue to steal the penguins’ eggs and terrorise the villagers. Our heroes are not to be discouraged though as they rally together on a mission to rescue the eggs and train the penguins to defend themselves.

5:35pm Friday, 29 March ABC3.