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Screen cap from promotional trailer
form y separately published work icon Kaboodle series - publisher   film/TV   children's   fantasy   science fiction   humour   adventure   horror  
Adaptation of Marty Moves to the Country Kate Walker , 1980 single work picture book and Penny Pollard's Diary Robin Klein , 1983 single work diary and A Cast of Thousands : Five Comic Plays Jan Sardi , 1985 selected work drama and There's a Sea in My Bedroom Margaret Wild , 1984 single work picture book and Thing Robin Klein , 1982 single work children's fiction and The Steam Train Crew Janet McLean , Andrew McLean , 1981 single work picture book
Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Kaboodle
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An anthology series of children's stories, mixing live-action episodes with animation, clay animation, and puppetry. The stories, aimed specifically at the under 10s, are drawn from a variety of sources, including children's books, fairy tales, myths, and original ideas. Some of the episodes have involved, for example, Snow White as a punk bikie and the seven dwarves as a motorcycle gang; a pet stegosaurus; a boy with wheels instead of toes; and Trevor the glider-plane-catching cat.

According to Patricia Edgar,

Thirty separate self-contained dramas of differing lengths were to be packaged into half-hour episodes. The project was designed to showcase new, creative talent in the television industry. Competitions were run at the Australian Film and Television School and Swinburne Institute of Technology for the best concepts suitable for inclusion in the Kaboodle package, with prizes of $1000 awarded. The Foundation sought promising but inexperienced writers, would-be producers, directors and even accountants who wanted to earn their first credit to enable them to find a future in the industry.

Source: Patricia Edgar, Bloodbath: A Memoir of Australian Television, Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2006, pp.175-76.

Kaboodle was produced in two series, the first of which included some live-action segements, but the second of which was entirely animated.

For a full list of episodes, see Film Details.

Episode listing for Kaboodle series two courtesy of the Australian Children's Television Foundation.

Notes

  • The promotional trailer for series one of Kaboodle is available to view via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPF391RC2f8&feature=plcp (Sighted: 8/8/2012)

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