Polkaroo skips down the porch steps of his house to the garden. It's nighttime. The lights are on inside the house and there is a cozy sofa
on the porch. Polkaroo looks at the night sky through his telescope.
He says OHH!
Polkaroo is a tall, green kangaroo, and wears a mended, yellow and multi-coloured polka-dot costume. He cups his hands over his long green
ears and says
OHHH!
His yellow hair moves as he jumps up and flies to outer space. He passes planet Earth and continues flying way up like a rocket!
He shouts POLKAROO!!

As the hot blazing sun and mercury appear a female voice says
IF YOU GO WAY UP PAST
THE CLOUDS INTO SPACE,
YOU'LL FIND EIGHT PLANETS,
EACH IN THEIR PLACE.

The planets appear on screen as the voice names them. Mercury is small and red.
THE FIRST IS MERCURY,
SECOND IS VENUS,
Venus is brownish with stripes.
THIRD IS THE EARTH WITH THE
MOON FLYING BETWEEN US.
The Earth is blue and brown, which shows the surface of the oceans and the land. The moon appears between Earth and Mars.
MARS IS FOURTH,
Mars is red.
JUPITER'S FIFTH.
Jupiter is enormous and red with off white stripes and a stain shaped like an eye.
SATURN'S THE SIXTH WITH
RINGS THAT GO SWISH.
Saturn is greyish and has rings around it.
SEVENTH IS URANUS,
THEN AT THE END,
NEPTUNE IS EIGHTH NEAR
PLUTO THEIR FRIEND.
Uranus and Neptune are blueish and about the same size. Pluto is the smallest and it?s off white.

Polkaroo flies around the planets and says
POLKAROO!

The female voice says OUT IN SPACE, WHICH
IS HOME TO THE STARS,
FLOATS A RED PLANET
WE LIKE TO CALL MARS.

A red planet appears. It?s got holes and mountains on the surface.
MARS HAS TALL MOUNTAINS
AND CRATERS AND DUST.
IT HAS A RED COLOUR.
IT LOOKS JUST LIKE RUST.

Polkaroo looks at Mars close up and says
OH!
He blows on it and red dust clouds appear. The stars shine brightly in space.

The female voice says THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PLANETS
THAT SPIN ROUND OUR SUN.
Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn appear. They're the gassy planets.
THE KIND THAT IS GASSY
AND THE ROCKY ONE.
Earth, Venus, Mercury, Pluto and Mars now appear. They're the rocky planets.

The voice says SORT OUT THE PLANETS.
WHO'S GASSY?
WHO'S ROCK?
Polkaroo stands in space. The planets float around him. He has two basket to sort them out.
He puts Neptune in the gassy basket. Earth in the rocky.
GASSY, ROCK.
Uranus in gassy. Pluto in rock.
GASSY, ROCK.
Jupiter and Saturn in gassy. Venus, Mars and Mercury in rock.
GASSY, GASSY.
ROCK, ROCK!

Polkaroo finds something else in the basket. It's a sock!

The voice says HEY, POLKAROO,
THAT ONE'S A SOCK!

He cleans up planet Mars in his hand. He then throws it up and it moves into its place.

The voice says NOW, POLKAROO,
SAY GOODBYE TO SPACE.
HELP PUT THE PLANETS
BACK INTO PLACE.
BYE-BYE, PLANETS.
BYE-BYE, POLKAROO.
Polkaroo opens his arms and floats in space waving goodbye!
POLKAROO SAYS BYE-BYE
TO YOU, TOO.