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'The 10 x 12-minute comedy series follows eight-year-old Eddie and his two best friends Lottie and Tal as they navigate the complex and often fantastical waters of childhood. Their friends are their family and the playground is their universe, one where anything and everything is possible, where imaginary friends can be real, games of rock paper scissors can take on stupendous importance and kindness, empathy and a good rap can help put anything right.'

Source: South Australian Film Corporation.

'Insanely talented and passionate, pop act HJ5 have never finished a concert. G, LOVE, ANGEL, MUSIC and BABY adore their well-meaning, hip manager RUDIE, but he books them in some crazy places. Aliens, giant spiders, squids and dictators interrupt their concerts, but the girls struggle against all odds to bring the spirit of Harajuku to the world through music and dance. KUUKUU HARAJUKU is a collision of cultures, a grab bag of music, fashion and style. It’s a ping-pong match between East and West.'

Source: Screen Australia.

'Based on the original seventies Penguin books our series tells the story of our three Gumble heroes Tink, Bounce and Willi. Gumbles can squash and stretch into any imaginable shape without being hurt. They love nothing more than to 'gumble' all day long, which means crazy, stretchy, jack-ass style capers around their junk valley. They just have to avoid capture by the Bottersnikes - the stinkiest, ugliest, laziest and most mean spirited of creatures. They eat mattress stuffing and rusty nails and like to put the gumbles to work whenever they can lay their claws on them.'

Source: Screen Australia.

A second series of the adventures of phobia-wracked Figaro Pho.

Animated series about the Nekton family, deep-sea explorers.

For a full list of episodes and authors, see Film Details.

'Meet Ace McDougal... just your average, everyday nerdy school kid... Well he was, until he happened to be in the wrong dentist’s chair at the wrong time and accidentally said the secret codeword. Next thing he knew he’d been fitted with a set of top-secret, ultra high-tech experimental braces. From that moment on he’s catapulted - teeth first - into one oddball adventure after another! Now he’s the kid proving you’re never too nerdy to be cool!'

Source: Screen Australia.

'A pair of unlikely friends - a dog and a flea - escape the dog pound for hair-raising and hilarious adventures in the big city and beyond. Flea-bitten! is cartoon comedy in the grand old tradition, with frantic chases, slapstick hilarity and the nuttiest cast of recurring guest characters ever assembled – colourful canines, feral felines and bizarre bugs that inhabit this animal-centric world'.

Source: Australian Children's Television Foundation. (Sighted: 26/9/2012)

When Yama's uncle is kidnapped by the most powerful cat in Catropolis, Yama transforms himself into Sumo-Mouse, with the help of an ancient o-icho with mystical powers.

Although Sumo Mouse was made for Australian television network Network 10 by Australian production company Moody Street Kids, it made extensive use of Canadian script-writers, in addition to Australian script-writers.

Australian-Canadian co-production.

'Follows 11-year-old Madison Marples-Macintosh AKA Maddie, who writes the 'Dear Abby' column for her school newspaper. While her eccentric parents and attention-seeking friends perform centre stage, Maddie prefers to take notes from the sidelines.'

Source: Screen Australia.

'Do you see it? Beyond the golden mists and waterfalls of light! Its Faireezia ruled by King Farley the Fair, a magical, fantastical, enchanted world like no other. A land of floating castles, shivering timbers, gotcha streams and of course, Faireez! Faireez is a beautiful and entertaining series that follows the adventures of Gabby, Polly, Tucker and Tim as they attempt to protect Faireezia from the evils of Jumpalina. Jumpalina is the bad tempered, big footed baddie who wants to take over Faireezia. Its up to the Faireez to outwit Jumpalina and her snivelling underlings, Jumphrey and the crazy Spyballs (Ogle, Blink and Squint). Thankfully the Faireez magical mentor Fairee Master Higgeldy is also never far away. What would they do without him Can the Faireez defeat Jumpalina on their own?' (Source: DVD cover blurb.)

Faireez was a co-production (for Channel Ten and Nickoldeon) between the Australian animation studio Moody Street Kids and the (now defunct) Canadian animation studio Funbag Animation Studios.

After stumbling on a secret super-computer, clumsy pizza delivery boy Scooter transforms himself into Secret Agent X-19, undertaking a double life of international intrigue.

The program draws its inspiration from straightforward spy films, such as the James Bond franchise, as well as their parodic counterparts, such as Get Smart, from which Scooter: Secret Agent draws its comedic tone. Simultaneously, the program makes extensive use of both stuntwork (including wire work) and special effects in order to provide Scooter with a a range of science-fiction gadgets.

Silversun follows the journey of the titular spacecraft, two years into a ninety-year journey to a distant, Earth-like planet, intended for colonisation. The colonists are in cryogenic status, and the ship's crew is largely teenagers, who will take over the primary roles as the adult crew ages.

The program's focus was a combination of the coming-of-age/interpersonal relationship storylines typical of a teenage show and the type of ethical dilemmas common to science-fiction story-telling. Among the latter were such issues as whether or not a crew member's clone was human, and what effect long-distance interstellar travel would have on the human mind and emotions.

Season two of the program ended on a cliffhanger, and no plans have been made to revive the program.

A series of short dramas from children, adapted from the works of Australian and New Zealand authors. Not all of the episodes contain speculative-fiction content, though the majority do.

In 'The Giant's Tooth', two children assist a young giant who has lost his tooth.

In 'Pumped Up', a young boy's grandfather designs a pair of basketball boots that enable the wearer to perform feats of great physical strength and dexterity.

In 'Ben and the Alien Invasion', a young boy and his talking wart save the world from an alien invasion.

In 'Bull Harris and the Purple Ooze', a group of friends outsmart the class bully with the help of a mysterious miniature brain.

In 'The Mystery of the Talking Tail', a young boy helps a demanding talking tail find a new home.

In 'Rose Meets Mr Wintergarden', a young girl helps a reclusive old man re-enter life.

In 'Skating on Sand', a young girl overcomes rocky terrain and sibling rivalry to teach herself how to roller blade.

'The comic story of Danny, who thinks he's the world's best actor–but has never had a speaking part–and Marcus, who thinks he's the world's best heist man–but has never had a score.'

Source: Australian Film Commission (http://afcarchive.screenaustralia.gov.au/filmsandawards/recentfilms/0304/feature_87.aspx). (Sighted: 12/2/2014)

Four children stumble into the secret underground lair of a long-dead super-hero, the Silver Shadow. Defeated (and killed) by his arch-nemesis, The Crab, in the 1950s, the Silver Shadow lives on as a digital recording in his base's computer. Just as he convinces the four to take up his role as the city's defender, The Crab, now an old man in a retirement village, trains his grand-daughter to be his own successor.

As with other programs produced by the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF), Legacy of the Silver Shadow concentrated strongly on questions of self-identity, peer pressure and conformity, and individualism.

Australian Screen includes some clips from Legacy of the Silver Shadow: http://aso.gov.au/titles/tv/legacy-silver-shadow-feral/clip1/ (Sighted: 23/2/2012). The program is also available on DVD via the ACTF.

A live-action puppet show, Li'l Horrors followed the misadventures of the students at a school run by Morbidda Bates, a retired horror-film actress. The students included examples of key monsters from horror films: vampires, Frankenstein's monster, gorgons, mummies, zombies, werewolves, and swamp creatures.

According to December Films' press release for the series:

Li'l Horrors is a children's puppet sitcom specifically produced for the 5-8 year old age group. This is an age group who are currently not well catered for. Much programming is made for pre-schoolers and for 9 year olds and above. Li'l Horrors is created for this in between age group. It does not talk down to its audience or aim over its head. It is, however, infused with enough wit and off-the-wall humour to engage an even wider audience. Aimed well at [its] target audience, it is modern, slick, sly, funny and irreverent.

The program also focuses strongly on difference, with each of the characters quite strongly physically different from one another, as well as widely different in behavious and characteristics.