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Return to Jupiter

Produced by Film Australia, NHK-Japanese Broadcasting Corporation

Executive Producer: Ron Saunders, Kagari Tajima
Producer: Terry Jennings
Directors: Paul Faint, Robert Klenner
Writer: David Ogilvy

Aired: 1997 (13 x 25min)

A follow-up to the series Escape From Jupiter. Reuniting on Eath Station Two, a large space platform hovering above Earth, five children—Gerard, Michael, Kumiko, Abraham and Anna—are preparing to return to a newly established mining colony on Ganymede, another of Jupiter's moons. With jealousy among the crew, a disaster-predicting stowaways and a malfunctioning computer system that has sent them spiralling towards a crash landing on Mars—it is easy to see they face many dangers on their voyage through space.