All titles in the ‘Children's’ genre
70 titles - sorted alphabetically / by year
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Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table - Episode 35 (television program – 1972)
Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table is a comical, Australian-made animation series based on the English legend of King Arthur. Episode 35 ...
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Babe (feature film – 1995)
A little pig called Babe (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) is born in a battery farming shed. His whole family is sent away to be butchered ...
Bambaloo – Bird in a Boat (television program – 2002)
Bambaloo is a mixed live-action, puppetry and animation narrative based show for preschoolers. Characters in the world of Bambaloo include the imaginative and playful host ...
Bananas in Pyjamas – Banana Breakfast (television program – 1999)
In this story, narrated by Karina Kelly, Bananas in Pyjamas B1 (Ken Radley) and B2 (Nicholas Opolski) decide to make a surprise breakfast for the ...
Black Beauty (television program – 1978)
In his own words, Black Beauty tells his tragic story, the tale of a working horse’s life in Victorian England. It starts happily but, as ...
Blinky Bill’s Fire Brigade (television program – 1992)
This is episode two of the first series of Blinky Bill. When lightning starts a fire in Greenpatch, Blinky (Robyn Moore) decides to set up ...
Blue Water High – Winners and Losers (television program – 2005)
Six lucky Australian teenage surfers have fought hard to win a place in an intensive, 12-month residential surfing and schooling program at Solar Blue Surf ...
Bush Christmas (feature film – 1947)
In the beautiful Mara Mara valley, the three Thompson children – Helen (Helen Grieve), John (Morris Unicomb) and Snow (Nicky Yardley) and their English friend ...
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Commonwealth Bank – The School Bank (sponsored film – 1951)
Produced for the Commonwealth Savings Bank by the Australian National Film Board, the film, aimed at primary school children, explains the place of the School ...
Commonwealth Bank – Willie Wombat: Waste Not Want Not (sponsored film – c1939)
In this Eric Porter animation of ‘the grasshopper and the ant’ fable, Willie Wombat lazes and plays all summer. He laughs at his animal mates ...
Crash Zone – The Dream Team (television program – 1998)
Five very different Melbourne kids, Mike (Nikolai Nikolaeff), Pi (Cassandra Magrath), Bec (Frances Wang), Marcello (Paul Pantano) and Ram (Damien Bodie) independently discover a coded ...
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Don’t Blame the Koalas - Episode 1, Fate Steps In (television program – 2002)
When Mrs Medlow (Eileen McEwan) dies, Kate King (Basia A’Hern) and her brothers Mark (Shaun Loseby) and Chris (Henry Nixon) discover that some unknown English ...
Dot and the Kangaroo (feature film – 1977)
Dot, a small child, becomes lost in the Australian bush after she wanders away from her parents’ farm. She falls down a gully and wakes ...
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Faireez – A Chilling Plot (television program – 2005)
Quincy Questholler, Faireezia’s flying security guard, panics again! This time the weather has gone mad in sunny Faireezia, and it is snowing. Of course it ...
The Fairytale Police Department – Black Day for Snow White (television program – 2002)
Intrepid real-world Detective Chris Anderson and her bumbling partner Detective Johnny Legend have been transferred to Fairytale land, and it seems like a dream job. ...
Fergus McPhail – Double Trouble (television program – 2004)
Fergus McPhail (Sean Ohlendorf) and his family have just arrived in Melbourne. Fergus catches the attention of the attractive Angela (Heli Simpson) and Sophie (Megan ...
Flipper and Lopaka – The Secrets of Quetzo (television program – 1999)
Flipper the dolphin’s best friend is Lopaka, a young Polynesian boy, and they have many adventures in Quetzo, an ancient sunken city. One day, Lopaka ...
Foreign Exchange - Episode 2, Shark Attack (television program – 2004)
Fourteen-year-old Brett Miller (Zachary Garred) has discovered an amazing portal In the old Perth beach house where he lives, which takes him to Ireland. When ...
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The Genie From Down Under – It’s my Opal … (and I’ll cry if I want to) (television program – 1995)
Posh English schoolgirl The Hon Penelope Townes (Alexandra Milman), possessor of the magical opal, is magically whisked away by her Australian genies, Bruce (Rhys Muldoon) ...
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Holly’s Heroes – Crunch Time (television program – 2005)
This is episode seven of a 26-part series about basketball mad Holly who, on moving from New Zealand to Australia, decides to start her own ...
Horace and Tina – Settling In (television program – 2000)
This is episode 2 of the 26 part series. Lauren’s (Jasmine Ellis) life is a total mess. A Canadian, she misses her friends and hates ...
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I Can Jump Puddles (television program – 1981)
This is the inspirational boyhood story of the author Alan Marshall, a victim of polio. Born in rural Victoria in the early 1900s, young Alan ...
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Legacy of the Silver Shadow – The Feral Element (television program – 2002)
Four kids’ lives are changed forever when they discover the secret lair of The Silver Shadow (Tayler Kane). The Silver Shadow is a long-forgotten superhero ...
Li’l Elvis and the Truckstoppers – Caught in a Trap (television program – 1997)
Li’l Elvis (Stig Wemyss) is sick of performing Elvis music everyday in his parent’s roadhouse, but his parents Grace (Lynda Gibson) and Len (David Cotter) ...
Lift Off – A Load of Old Rubbish (television program – 1992)
The theme of this episode is rubbish. It is in two separate 24-minute parts and has the usual Lift Off mix of live action, animation, ...
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part A (television program – 1992)
This is Part A of the episode, That’s Not Fair, following the Lift Off format that mixes live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. ...
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part B (television program – 1992)
This is part B of the episode That’s Not Fair, and has the usual Lift Off mix of live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and ...
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More Winners – Boy Soldiers (television program – 1990)
In 1910, the Australian government passed a law requiring all boys aged between 14 and 17 years to register for compulsory military training. Between 1911 ...
More Winners – His Master’s Ghost (television program – 1990)
A group of kids are on a music camp in a spooky old mansion. Some of them are more interested in the stories about a ...
More Winners – Mr Edmund (television program – 1990)
Cherry Williams (Rebecca Smart) and her little brother Sam (Steven Scott-Young) live almost under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, where their mum Margaret (Rhondda Findleton) runs ...
More Winners – The Big Wish (television program – 1990)
The faeries in the Enchanted Realm are in trouble. The Charter of the Grand Master states that they must give seven wishes to humans every ...
More Winners – The Journey (television program – 1990)
On an isolated Tasmanian mountain plateau, 12-year-old Ada Zuckermann (Christen Cornell) lives with her wealthy miner father Justus (Owen Weingott). They are cared for by ...
Mortified – Taylor’s DNA (television program – 2006)
This is the first episode of the series. Self conscious eleven-year-old Taylor Fry (Marny Kennedy) finds her crazy parents Don (Andrew Blackman) and Glenda (Rachel ...
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The New Adventures of Ocean Girl – Hearing The Call (television program – 1999)
Back on Oceana, after a three-year visit to Earth, Princess Neri (Marnie Reece-Wilmore), the ‘promised one’, has released her mysterious new friend Jobah from her ...
Noah and Saskia – Tomorrow Never Knows (television program – 2004)
Feisty Saskia (Hannah Greenwood) seeks revenge when a faceless geek somewhere in cyber world steals her music. This opening episode of a 13-part series shows ...
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Ocean Girl – Series 2, Episode 3 (television program – 1995)
Able to swim like a fish and telepathically communicate with a humpback whale called Charley, ocean girl Neri (Marzena Godecki) is searching for the secret ...
Orphan of the Wilderness (feature film – 1936)
When hunters kill his mother, a young kangaroo becomes a family pet at the farm of Tom Henton (Brian Abbott). Tom’s mother (Ethel Saker) names ...
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Pugwall – Hollow Drums (television program – 1989)
Thirteen-year-old Pugwall (Jason Torrens) is trying to get a band together. The first task is to find Orfo (Jay McCormack) a drum set. Eventually, and ...
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Raggs - Episode 32 (television program – 2005)
B Max finds a lost white rabbit and brings it home. Raggs, Trilby, Pido, B Max and Razzles are delighted to have a new pet ...
Round the Twist – Series One – Skeleton on the Dunny (television program – 1989)
Eccentric sculptor Tony Twist (Richard Moir), and his three children – thirteen-year-old twins Linda (Tamsin West) and Pete (Sam Vandenberg), and eight-year-old Bronson (Rodney McLennan) ...
Round the Twist – Series One – Spaghetti Pig Out (television program – 1989)
Chaos reigns after a bolt of lightning hits the Twist family’s video remote control – it now works on people! Unfortunately Gribble Junior (Lachlan Jeffrey) ...
Round the Twist – Series Two – Nails (television program – 1992)
Linda (Joelene Crnogorac) is attracted to Andrew (Eamonn Kelly), a mysterious new boy at school who never removes his gloves. Andrew lives on an island ...
Round the Twist – Series Two – Next Time Round (television program – 1992)
Pete has been hypnotised by Linda and every time someone says the word 'now’ he behaves like a chicken for ten seconds. Unfortunately, Linda can’t ...
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Seven Little Australians (television program – 1973)
This is the story of the Woolcot family – Captain John Woolcot (Leonard Teale) from the NSW Regiment, his young second wife Esther (Elizabeth Alexander), ...
Short Cuts – Wheels on Fire (television program – 2001)
This is episode two and the students are thinking about their three minute films. Straight 'A’ student Anna (Lucia Smyrk) is concerned that she will ...
The Silver Brumby – Friends of the High Country (television program – 1996)
In this, the first episode of 39 in The Silver Brumby series, Thowra (John Higginson) meets the beautiful Boon Boon (Rebecca Gibney) who is greatly ...
Skippy Adventures in Bushtown – Trouble in Bushtown (television program – 1997)
Skippy the kangaroo is a capable, trustworthy, ‘copter flying park ranger who is the unofficial leader and resident good guy in idyllic Bushtown. In this, ...
Sky Trackers – Is There Life On Earth? (television program – 1994)
In this eighth episode of the series, Shane (Che Broadbent), a visiting student at the Wright Foundation, is doing a project on SETI using the ...
Snobs – Episode 8 (television program – 2003)
When snobbish Rachael Oakley (Nathy Gaffney) reports the travellers to the council for having ‘rubbish’ everywhere, their recycling business is placed in jeopardy. Marian (Ross ...
Staines Down Drains – Once More Unto the Drains (television program – 2005)
Slipping down a plughole portal and shrinking as they go, germ-phobic Stanley Staines and his adventurous sister Mary Jane have discovered a yucky, germy and ...
