TV series
Runaway Island
1984–1985 · 1 season
A gentle colonial-era adventure serial that keeps kids engaged with chases, secrets and a brother-sister team facing grown-up injustice.
- Created by
- Roger Mirams
- Genres
- Kids, Action & adventure
- Starring
- Miles Buchanan, Simone Buchanan, Rodney Bell
- Overview
- Australia 1830. Jemma and Jamie McCloud are left behind on their father's farm with their aunt Agatha. Lachlan McCloud sails to England to ask attention from the government to do something about the corruption in New South Wales. While he's away aunt Agatha sells the farm and the two children are left homeless. Jemma and Jamie are told that their father drowned at sea. They meet Red Tom and Nipper and are determined to find their father's will.
- How it feels
- Earnest, warm, tense and melancholic. Brisk and easy to follow.
- About
- Family, justice, corruption, survival
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Roger Mirams
- Genres
- Kids, Action & adventure
- Starring
- Miles Buchanan, Simone Buchanan, Rodney Bell
