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Tamara Jones as Queen Guinevere and Chris Hemsworth as King Arthur in Guinevere Jones (screen cap from opening credits)
form y separately published work icon Guinevere Jones series - publisher   film/TV   children's   young adult   fantasy  
Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Guinevere Jones
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Guinevere Jones is a Canadian/Australian fantasy television series that revolves around the adventures of the title character. Gwen Jones and her mother flee from Canada to Melbourne, where Gwen's mother is committed to an asylum, Gwen enters foster care, and Merlin turns up to teach Gwen her destiny (to fight evil).

Although the program is billed as a co-production between Australia and Canada, the involvement of Australian script-writers is relatively minimal (though other crew members, including the directors, were also Australian). Only four episodes in season one were written by Australians, and all thirteen episodes of season two were written by Canadian script-writers. However, the Australian writers did invest the essentially European Arthurian legends on which the program is based with something of an Australian flavour: Piers Hobson's episode 'Warwe and Mineer', for example, involves mysterious Indigenous Australian rock paintings.

Guinevere Jones has never been released on DVD.

Notes

  • With the exception of (Canadian) show creator Elizabeth Stewart, the list of authors above includes only those Australian script-writers who contributed to the program. For a full list of authors (including the Canadian script-writers), please see the full episode listing below.

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