A small group of children live on Io, one of Jupiter's moons, where their parents operate a research and mining outpost. When one of Io's volcanoes explodes, the outpost begins to break apart, and the group must flee. Finding a derelict space station in orbit around Jupiter, they convert it into a workable spaceship and begin the slow and dangerous journey back to Earth.
The program was followed by a sequel, Return to Jupiter. Escape from Jupiter was never released in its entirety on either VHS or DVD, but a two-hour 'film version' was released.
Escape from Jupiter
Sydney
:
ABC Books
,
1994
Z1181247
1994
single work
children's fiction
children's
Escape from Jupiter : Movie
( dir. Kate Woods
et. al. )agent
Australia
:
Australian Children's Television Foundation
,
1994
7251434
1994
single work
film/TV
children's
young adult
science fiction
A cut-down version of the television series Escape from Jupiter, designed for release on video and later DVD.
Return to Jupiter
( dir. Robert Klenner
)
Lindfield
:
Film Australia
,
1997
Z1844458
1997
series - publisher
film/TV
children's
science fiction
young adult
In this sequel to David Ogilvy's Escape from Jupiter, the colonists are preparing to return to a newly established mining colony on Ganymede, Jupiter's moon. The journey is rendered more dangerous by instability and tensions among the crew members, a malfunctioning computer, a stowaway, and the various dangers of space itself (such as asteroids).
As with Ogilvy's previous work, the focus is strongly on the child protagonists, rather than the adult characters.
