Australian science fiction television

Australian science fiction television

Science fiction television has been produced in Australia since the 1960s, as a homegrown response to imported overseas US and British shows.

Artransa Park productions made a number of programmes in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on shoestring budgets, these generally running for one season and being aired on ABC TV. They included The Interparis (1968), Vega 4 (1967), and Phoenix Five (1970). Phoenix Five was the best known of these. It resembled US shows like Star Trek and Flash Gordon without the budget and effects, but with a pscychadaelic rock soundtrack.

More recently, Australia's most well known Science Fiction show was Farscape, made with American co-production. It ran from 1999 to 2003, and was filmed at Sydney's Fox Studios.

A significant proportion of Australian produced science fiction programmes are made for the teens/young Adults market, including The Girl from Tomorrow, Watch This Space, the long-running Mr. Squiggle, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, and the Jonathan M. Shiff Productions programmes Ocean Girl, Thunderstone, and Cybergirl.The Australian Children's Television Foundation, a government initiative, produces a number of Science Fiction children's shows, including Spellbinder (in collaboration with Poland), The Miraculous Mellops, and The Crash Zone. A number of these are adaptations of children's books.

The upcoming Television version of Star Wars, will be a Lucasfilm production shot in Sydney [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458291/ IMDB Star Wars Page]

Other shows like Time Trax, Roar, and were filmed in Australia, but used mostly US crew and actors. [ [http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/tv.html Tv Page Of Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide ] ]

Notes

References

* [http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/tv.html Magicdragon.com UltimateSF - Science Fiction Produced in Australia]

ee also

*
* Science fiction on television

Bibliography

*Juddery, Mark. The New Science Fictions: An Australian Perspective. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine; Issue 154; Oct 2007; 134-137.

External links

* [http://www.australiantelevision.net/phoenixfive_eps.html Phoenix Five Episode Guide]
* [http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/phx5.htm Classic Australian Television]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLV5lArrZ7c Phoenix five Opening Sequence]


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