Season 1
The Kangaroo Gang: Thieves by Appointment is an Australian television docu-drama produced by The Full Box Productions which tells the true story of a brazen band of Australian thieves who moved to London in the 1960s and ran riot for more than a decade, pulling off the most daring heists that Scotland Yard had ever seen.
The documentary aired in the UK on UKTV on 28 October, 2011. It is 90 minutes long.
The Kangaroo Gang: Thieves by Appointment aired for the first time in South Africa on DStv's BBC Entertainment channel on Monday 11 June 2012, at 21h00.
Synopsis
Narrated by Barry Humphries, the dramatised documentary The Kangaroo Gang: Thieves by Appointment tells the true story of a brazen band of Australian thieves who moved to London in the 1960s and ran riot for more than a decade, pulling off the most daring heists that Scotland Yard had ever seen.
Led by five charismatic master thieves: "The King" Arthur Delaney, "Wee Jimmy" Lloyd, Jack "The Fibber" Warren, Billy "The General" Hill and "Gorgeous Georgie" Gardener, the team targeted the plush emporia of Knightsbridge, the fine jewellers of Mayfair and the luxury retailers of Paris, Rome and beyond.
Operating at a time before CCTV, they elevated shoplifting to an art form practised without guns or violence - and they always found a way to simply "disappear" with the loot.
In 1990, long after their heyday was over, one returned to London for the biggest heist of them all. Delaney had always dreamed of robbing the most famous jewellery store in London - Asprey of
Bond Street.
From the team behind successful series Tough Nuts: Australia's Hardest Criminals, this drama documentary is a mixture of heightened dramatised reconstructions, interviews and archive material based on the best-selling book: King of Thieves: The Adventures of Arthur Delaney and the Kangaroo Gang by Adam Shand.