Round the Twist – Series Two – Next Time Round (1992)

Television program, Children's, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Length: 24 mins 09 seconds

Taken from the drama series Round The Twist

Synopsis

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 so Pete gets into some serious trouble at school.

Curator’s notes

This is the first episode of the second series of Round the Twist, introducing new actors in many key roles. All the young actors changed as the original child actors were now too old to play their characters. The actors playing the roles of Mr Gribble and Matron Gribble also changed with Mark Mitchell taking on the role of Mr Gribble with his customary gusto. Mitchell created a larger than life Mr Gribble and remained a constant throughout the following series. This change of cast didn’t appear to impact on the popularity of Round the Twist.

Round the Twist Series Two first went to air on the ABC on 20 March 1993.

Original aspect ratio: 4 x 3 (TV)
Original censorship rating: G

Production company The Australian Children's Television Foundation
Producer Antonia Barnard
Patricia Edgar
Executive producer Patricia Edgar
Director Esben Storm
Based on the short stories by Paul Jennings
Written by Paul Jennings
Esben Storm
Composer Andrew Duffield
Cast Zeta Briggs
Bunney Brooke
Drew Campbell
Joelene Crnogorac
Jan Friedl
Robyn Gibbes
Mark Mitchell
Nick Mitchell
Richard Moir
Esben Storm
Ben Thomas
Jeffrey Walker
Richard Young

Acknowledgements

Made with the participation of the Australian Film Finance Corporation.

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