All titles in the ‘Children's’ genre

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Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table - Episode 35 (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 contains three main ...

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Babe (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 but he is ...

Bambaloo – Bird in a Boat (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 Sam (Angela Kelly) ...

Bananas in Pyjamas – Banana Breakfast (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 Teddies, Morgan (Jeremy ...

Black Beauty (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 his feisty stablemate ...

Blinky Bill’s Fire Brigade (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 a fire brigade ...

Blue Water High – Winners and Losers (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 Academy on Sydney’s ...

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Commonwealth Bank – The School Bank (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 Banking program in ...

Commonwealth Bank – Willie Wombat: Waste Not Want Not (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 devoting time to ...

Crash Zone – The Dream Team (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 message while playing ...

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Don’t Blame the Koalas - Episode 1, Fate Steps In (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 relatives have inherited ...

Dot and the Kangaroo (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 up to find ...

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Faireez – A Chilling Plot (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 is Jumpalina, the ...

The Fairytale Police Department – Black Day for Snow White (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. There is certainly ...

Fergus McPhail – Double Trouble (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 Harrington) when they ...

Flipper and Lopaka – The Secrets of Quetzo (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 finds an ancient ...

Foreign Exchange - Episode 2, Shark Attack (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 Irish girl Hannah ...

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The Genie From Down Under – It’s my Opal … (and I’ll cry if I want to) (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) and his young ...

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Holly’s Heroes – Crunch Time (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 team after getting ...

Horace and Tina – Settling In (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 living in Australia. ...

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I Can Jump Puddles (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 Marshall contracted the ...

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Legacy of the Silver Shadow – The Feral Element (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 from the 1950s ...

Li’l Elvis and the Truckstoppers – Caught in a Trap (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) rely on him ...

Lift Off – A Load of Old Rubbish (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, puppetry music, documentary ...

Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part A (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. The main storyline ...

Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part B (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 fantasy. The main ...

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More Winners – Boy Soldiers (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 and 1915 more ...

More Winners – His Master’s Ghost (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 resident ghost than ...

More Winners – Mr Edmund (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 a boarding house ...

More Winners – The Big Wish (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 100 years or ...

More Winners – The Journey (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 housekeeper Martha (Judith ...

Mortified – Taylor’s DNA (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 Blakely) so embarrassing ...

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The New Adventures of Ocean Girl – Hearing The Call (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 uncle King Nemon’s ...

Noah and Saskia – Tomorrow Never Knows (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 the start of ...

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Ocean Girl – Series 2, Episode 3 (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 of her past. ...

Orphan of the Wilderness (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 him Chut and ...

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Pugwall – Hollow Drums (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 by luck, Pugwall ...

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Raggs - Episode 32 (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 but despite all ...

Round the Twist – Series One – Skeleton on the Dunny (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) – move from ...

Round the Twist – Series One – Spaghetti Pig Out (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) gets hold of ...

Round the Twist – Series Two – Nails (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 with his grumpy ...

Round the Twist – Series Two – Next Time Round (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 undo the hypnosis ...

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Seven Little Australians (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), and his seven ...

Short Cuts – Wheels on Fire (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 have to make ...

The Silver Brumby – Friends of the High Country (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 taken by him. ...

Skippy Adventures in Bushtown – Trouble in Bushtown (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, the first episode ...

Sky Trackers – Is There Life On Earth? (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 radio telescope. Nikki ...

Snobs – Episode 8 (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 Pirrelli) has plans ...

Staines Down Drains – Once More Unto the Drains (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 weirdly wonderful world ...

Storm Boy (1976)

A 10-year-old boy (Greg Rowe), living with his father in the wild Coorong wetlands of South Australia, rescues a baby pelican orphaned by hunters. With the help of ...

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Tabaluga – The Last One of His Kind (1997)

Born at a time when he is needed most, the tiny, naïve but brave Tabaluga is the last dragon on earth. A delightful hero, Tabaluga uses courage and ...

Thunderstone – Episode Three (1999)

Fifteen-year-old Noah (Jeffrey Walker) is from the futuristic underground community of North Col. Attempting to time travel to the past, he is trapped in a desert, where he ...

Touch the Sun – Captain Johnno (1988)

Captain Johnno (Damien Walters) is a ten-year-old with a hearing impairment, and always in trouble. Living in a small fishing town in South Australia in the 1950s, his ...

Touch the Sun – Devil’s Hill (c1988)

It is 1950. Badge (Alexander ‘Mathew’ Jacobs) lives on a remote farm in Tasmania’s rugged southwest, with his parents Dave (Peter Hehir) and Jessie (Mary Haire). It is ...

Touch the Sun – Peter & Pompey (1988)

In a cave, near a small coastal town in Queensland, Peter (Clayton Williamson) finds the manuscript of Pompey (Aaron Ferguson), a young Roman boy from the past. Peter ...

Touch the Sun – Princess Kate (c1988)

Fourteen-year-old Kate (Justine Clarke) is on top of the world. Popular, talented, much loved and spoilt by her wealthy Sydney family, she receives a seven-metre yacht, christened Princess ...

Touch the Sun – The Gift (c1988)

Sophia (Vicki Serbos) and Nikos (Nicholas Hatjiandreou), two Greek-Australian kids living with their family in inner Melbourne, win a plot of land in Western Australia as a prize ...

Touch the Sun – Top Enders (1988)

Alice (Bennendine Woods) and her mother Sue (Madeleine Blackwell) live in Darwin in the Northern Territory. Alice, about eleven years old, is a tough and independent kid. She ...

Tracey McBean - Episode 6, Series One, Multiplication (2001)

Child inventor Tracey McBean (voiced by Roslyn Oades) loves a challenge, and when her friend Shamus (voiced by Anthony Hayes) needs to be in two different places at ...

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Wicked Science – Episode 1, The Gift (2003)

On their first day back at Sandy Bay High School, Toby (André de Vanny) and Elizabeth (Bridget Neval) are zapped by a strange ray and become instant scientific ...

Winners – Just Friends (1985)

Thirteen-year-old Susan (Sherie Graham) has just moved to a new part of town. She’s practising her skills at the local roller skating rink when Buzz (Mitch Ambrose), the ...

Winners – On Loan (1985)

Lindy Baker (Marillac Johnston) believes she is a Vietnamese orphan, adopted by Marj (Belinda Giblin) and Geoff Baker (John Walton) when she was three years old. Only occasionally ...

Winners – Quest Beyond Time (1985)

One day, while hang gliding, Mike (Daniel Cordeaux) is transported 500 years into the future. There, he is asked to help a primitive pagan community to cure thteir ...

Winners – Room to Move (1985)

This is the story about the unlikely friendship between two girls – one a sporting champion, the other a dancer and an outsider. Carol (Nicole Kidman) is a ...

Winners – The Other Facts of Life (1985)

Twelve-year-old Ben Guthrie (Ken Talbot) has a good life. His family are well off and his father Ron Guthrie (Dennis Miller), is a successful and ambitious butcher with ...

Winners – The Paper Boy (1985)

It is 1932 and Joe (Christopher Schlusser) is 11 years old. When his father John Riordan (Tony Llewellyn Jones) loses his factory job, Joe gets a job as ...

Winners – Top Kid (1985)

It’s 1947 and times are tough for ten-year-old Gary Doyle (Emil Minty), the third child of a large, poor Catholic family. Bright, and with a photographic memory, Gary ...

Wirriya: Small Boy (2004)

An observational documentary about Ricco Japaljarri Martin, an eight-year-old boy who lives in Hidden Valley with his foster mother. Wirriya, Small Boy is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe ...

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Yolngu Boy (2000)

Botj, Lorrpu and Milika are three Yolngu teenagers from northeast Arnhem Land, who are about to become men. Botj (Sean Mununggurr) is estranged from his parents and prone ...

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