Five Times Dizzy

Five Times Dizzy

Five Times Dizzy is a novel by Nadia Wheatley, which became an Australian children's television series. The book is about the comedy and drama of a Greek Australian family in a multi-cultural neighbourhood in inner-city Sydney. To help her Greek grandmother feel more at home, Mareka comes up with a brilliant plan to give her a pet goat.

TV Series

Based on the 1982 novel by Nadia Wheatley, the series first screened on the Nine Network in 1986. The series was filmed on location in the inner-city suburb of Newtown and is notable for an acting role by Mary Kostakidis, who went on to become a longtime newsreader on SBS.

The cast featured:
* Rebekah Elmaloglou as Mareka Nikakis
* Mary Kostakidis as Roula Nikakis
* Stavros Economidis as Georgio Nikakis
* Dominic Elmaloglou as Costa
* Helen Kambos as Yaya (Grandma)
* Jane Clifton as Mrs Wilson
* Jim Holt as Brian Brooking
* Joanne Samuel as Chris Booking
* Ray Meagher

Awards and nominations

*1983: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Special Children's Book Award
*1983: Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers. Highly Commended
*1983: International Board on Books for Young People. Honorary Diploma
*1987: AWGIE Awards for Best Adaptation, Children's Television Drama (television mini-series)

ee also

* List of Australian television series

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309156/ Five Times Dizzy] at IMDB


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