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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Pirate Islands : A Modern Girl in a Pirate World
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Fifteen-year-old Kate and her two younger siblings, Nicholas and Sarah, are accidentally zapped inside Kate's current video-gaming obsession: Pirate Islands, a swashbuckling action-adventure game. Now the children--and the island's existing population of castaway children, led by the fearless Mars--must battle the fearsome Captain Blackheart if they wish to get back to their own world.

The program is structured around the generic conventions of video gaming: the protagonists must find a powerful object (the Golden Idol) in order to exit the game; the islands contain 'power ups', namely a jet-pack and magic boots, that give the protagonists super-human powers; and the location is divided into several distinct environments that the protagonists can explore (Castaway Island, Haunted Island, Plant Island, Main Island, and Secret Island).

The program has never been released on DVD in its entirety, but was cut down and released as two films.

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  • Authorship details courtesy of Jonathan M. Shiff Productions.

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form y separately published work icon Pirate Islands : Treasure of the Golden Idol Pirate Islands Part II Jonathan M. Shiff Productions , ( dir. Richard Jasek et. al. )agent Kew : Umbrella Entertainment , 2003 Z1850359 2003 single work film/TV children's adventure fantasy young adult science fiction

The second of two telemovies constructed by cutting down episodes of the television program Pirate Islands.
form y separately published work icon Pirate Islands : A Modern Girl in a Pirate World Pirate Islands Part I Jonathan M. Shiff Productions , ( dir. Grant Brown et. al. )agent Kew : Umbrella Entertainment , 2003 Z1850354 2003 single work film/TV children's adventure young adult fantasy science fiction

The first of two telemovies constructed by cutting down episodes of the television program Pirate Islands.
form y separately published work icon Pirate Islands : The Lost Treasure of Fiji Chris Anastassiades , Simon Butters , Sam Carroll , Philip Dalkin , Max Dann , Kirsty Fisher , David Hannam , Joss King , Anthony Morris , Chris Roache , ( dir. Grant Brown ) Australia : Jonathan M. Shiff Productions , 2007 Z1856914 2007 series - publisher film/TV young adult children's fantasy science fiction

A sequel to Pirate Islands, The Lost Treasure of Fiji send three children--Tyler, Kirra, and Alison--from Fiji, where they are attending the launch of a new computer game, to the tropical Pirate Islands, where they face the swaggering Blackheart, his untrustworthy second-in-command Lily, and various other dangers. As in the first series, the protagonists must solve the game from within in order to exit back to the real world.

Like Pirate Islands, The Lost Treasure of Fiji was never released in its entirely on DVD in Australia, the US, or the UK. Unlike Pirate Islands, it was also never released as a cutdown film version.
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