
She leaves the ship heading for England and it sets sail without her. At Mombasa, right before they are about to leave, Jackie realizes that she has lost the papers for her pet bushbaby, Murphy.

When her father loses his job, the family prepares to return to England where they came from. Murphy, Jackie, her family and their friends go on many adventures involving wild animals, poachers and more. Jackie finds an ill animal called a bushbaby, whereupon she adopts him, calls him Murphy, and nurses him back to health. In 1964, a thirteen-year-old British girl named Jackie Rhodes living in Kenya travels the savannah in the area of Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya, where her father is an Animal Protection / Wildlife Officer. The English dub for the series was handled by TVOntario from 1993-1995. It has also been broadcast internationally on networks such as TVO / Access Alberta (Canada), France 3 (France), Antena 3 (Spain), Italia 1 (Italy), Tele 5 / tm3 (Germany), ORF1 (Austria), ABS-CBN / GMA 7 / Quality TeleVision (Philippines), Various Arab Networks (Arab World), and RTM2 (Malaysia).

The series is part of Fuji Television and Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater, which consists of anime television series adaptations of classic children's books. It is based on the novel The Bushbabies (1965) by Canadian author William Stevenson. ( Daisougen no Chiisana Tenshi Busshubeibī)īush Baby, Little Angel of the Grasslands ( 大草原の小さな天使 ブッシュベイビー, Daisougen no Chiisana Tenshi Busshubeibī), shortened as The Bush Baby, is the title of a 1992 anime series consisting of forty 25-minute episodes. Screenshot of the opening logo from The Bush Baby
