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The Search For Treasure Island

An Australia/Spain/Germany co-production

Producers: Roger Mirams, Andrew Brooke
Directors: Howard Rubie, Robert Klenner, Chris Martin-Jones
Writers: Jenny Sharp, Robert Loader, Hugh Stuckey, Judith Colquhoun, Jo Horsburgh, David Phillips, Karen Petersen

Aired: 1998, 2000 (Seven)

A group of mismatched voyagers join forces to sail into uncharted waters in search of the legend of Treasure Island. When our modern castaways are flung ashore they discover that the island is populated by a number of warring tribes, the result of shipwrecks throughout the centuries. Stranded in a hostile tropical environment our modern children have only one thing in their favour: their knowledge of the twentieth century. (26 x 30 min)