Episode list

Ship to Shore

Horns of a Dilemma
Home to some twenty families, Circe Island is a paradise to some, and a prison to others. Follow the adventures of a group of kids who get into all sorts of mischief to compensate for their boring lives.
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Count Me Out

Tue, Nov 02, 1993
Julie establishes 'Fauna Watch' to guard against the intrusion of foreign species into the ecosystem of Circe Island. Her friendship with Ralph is strained when he attempts to transform Julie's club into a Sea Scout troop.
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Wild Child

Tue, Nov 02, 1993
When Babe Keogh gets sent to the school on the mainland after a series of misdemeanours, the island kids discover that their own school will be closed due to falling enrolment numbers. How will they get Babe to come back?
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Grate Escape

Wed, Nov 03, 1993
The kids use wartime secret tunnels under their classroom as a means of getting past Hermes' new security measures so they can go to a concert on the mainland. Julie and Ralph join forces to make a political statement at the concert.
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Presumed Guilty

Thu, Nov 04, 1993
Kevin is accused of stealing money from Ralph and rigging the competition to win a ghetto blaster. His trial finds him and the other kids guilty of various deceits, but the theft itself is a tale of another kind.
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Good Vibrations

Sun, Nov 07, 1993
Ralph and Julie's friendship continues to grow when Ralph agrees to help Julie stop whales beaching themselves on Circe Island.
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Missing in Action
Julie comes down with the measles and can't go to school camp on the mainland. Kelvin fakes illness to avoid going on the camp, planning to spend the week in the pinball parlours and fast food joints on the mainland.
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Backward Messages
Kelvin bugs Hermes' office. Hermes discovers the miniature transmitter under his desk and is led to believe that the kids are being brainwashed by a spy ring.
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Money for Jam Jars
The good intentions of Circe Island adults to win the Tidy Town award are thwarted when the kids discover there is money to be made from recycling. Hermes searches for a spy within the communications base.
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Rites of Salvage
Ralph's dreams of reviving the Sea Scout troop, and for being accepted by the local kids, are boosted when the kids find a mysterious deserted yacht.
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Herstory

Wed, Nov 17, 1993
The island school is invited to take part in a pageant of maritime history presented on the mainland. Julie refuses to accept the orthodox historical view of a shipwreck incident off the coast in the 17th century.
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Worthy Opponents: Part 1
When the annual sports carnival is announced, every kid except Ralph finds an excuse to pike. Nonetheless Charlie, aided by Hermes, coerces the kids into an exhausting fitness preparation routine.
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Worthy Opponents: Part 2
The Maggot River team exceeds all the rumours of their ferocious competitive instincts at the sports carnival. Does Circe Island have a chance to win at all?
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Read About It

Mon, Nov 22, 1993
The rivalry between the base and the community, or more directly between the Knowles and the Crumps, comes to the forefront when Kelvin and Mrs Knowles start rival newspapers.
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The Iceman Cometh
The kids sneak into the school to play a banned computer game called Iceman. Meanwhile, the island is put under quarantine while the health department determines the nature of a viral flu that two security guards have contracted.
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Wild One

Wed, Nov 24, 1993
The tensions within the Crump family are stretched when Kelvin decides he was born into the family as punishment for a past life. The school ball provides him with the opportunity to dance his way into a different genealogy.
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Full Speed Reverse
The tensions within the Crump family are stretched when Kelvin decides he was born into the family as punishment for a past life. The school ball provides him with the opportunity to dance his way into a different genealogy.
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Casanova the Second
Hermes' Greek heritage catches up with him when he learns his parents had betrothed him to a young girl while he was in the cradle. When the young woman turns up with her mother, the course of true love does not run smoothly.
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The Joker Is Wild
When old Mr. Brinkmann is carted off to a nursing home, two women on the island get Ralph and Sally to close in. They want their love letters back.
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Teacher's Pet

Thu, Dec 09, 1993
Julie meets the new student teacher at the beach and falls head over heels in puppy love. All of the other kids in the class are equally bowled over by fun-loving Nick Coney - but for how long?
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To Catch a Spy

Sun, Dec 12, 1993
Julie suspects her aunt's old boyfriend of only being interested in her money while Hermes is on the look-out for foreign operatives posing as day trippers.
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Nest Egg

Tue, Dec 14, 1993
When Geraldine finds a suspicious object on Seal Island, there is a race to claim a piece of what is thought to be a priceless dinosaur egg.
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Gone Crazy

Thu, Dec 16, 1993
Guido is blackmailed by two street kids who have escaped onto the island after lighting a fire. Guido's secret life causes a number of unexpected developments, the most important of which is studying for his maths exam.
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The Curse of the Carreo De Azia
Gavin persuades his mother to take a holiday cottage on the island. When his return isn't welcomed with open arms, he takes revenge on the kids, convincing them that he knows the secret of a shipwreck off the coast.
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Greed Rules, OK?
Julie's ecological selflessness and Kelvin's profit motive makes them pretty equal rivals in the nature tours stakes. Kelvin resorts to a variety of dirty tricks to discredit Julie but she is always one step ahead of him.
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The Devil You Know
The kids decide it's time to give Hermes the final shove. With him out of the way, life could be pleasant. They devise several schemes that fail to have him fired, and the schemes actually endear Hermes to Ms Selby.
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The Rug Maker's Daughter

The Rug Maker's Daughter

Bob Van Buren's rescue of an upper-class Turkish girl and her duenna in Constantinople when they are waylaid by robbers paves the way for a romance between them. The romance progresses rapidly despite the hullabaloo raised by Demetra's father and by the Turk fiancé he is trying to force upon her; but the very thought of a girl, so highly educated, so gifted with needle and loom, so famously graceful as a dancer ending up in a harem instead of a respectable home, drives Bob Van Buren to desperation. At length he persuades Demetra to elope with him to America, where Demetra could be married at his mother's in New York. Getting wind of it, the malicious Osman hires a band of ruffians who make away with Bob Van Buren on the very eve of departure. With her young American mysteriously vanished, and the day of her now-all-the-more-odious wedding to Osman drawing near, Demetra can stand it no longer, and taking her duenna, flees to a cousin's in New York on the P. and O. boat on which Bob had reserved sailings. Osman pursues the little refugee, corners her in New York, and with oriental cunning sets a trap into which Demetra walks blindly. Having her in his toils again Osman summons a second Turkish priest and is just forcing Demetra to her knees before him when the door bursts open and in rushes Bob Van Buren, who had finally escaped the dungeon in Constantinople to which he had been consigned. He routes Osman and takes Demetra to his mother's. Mrs. Van Buren suggested that the lovers wait until September, but their hearts were set on June. And so, as you may very well imagine, June it was.

Michael Kohlhaas

Michael Kohlhaas

Based on the short story by Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), this TV mini-series tells of a horse trader who is cheated out of a couple of black horses by crooked Junker Wenzel von Tronka (a small landlord) on the way to Dresden. When Kohlhaas puts his trust in the justice system and sues the Junker to return his horses, a relative of the Junker in Dresden uses his political influence to have the case thrown out. As a last attempt Kohlhaas' wife tries to convince the crooked Junker to pay retribution, but instead she is seriously injured and dies. The short story takes place in the time of Martin Luther, a time of serious social unrest among the country folks. So Kohlhaas has no great difficulties to incite some disgruntled locals to join him in a revenge attack on the Junker's castle. However, Tronka himself escapes. Excited by their success more farm hands join the search for Tronka's whereabouts, during which they commit several violent acts against innocent citizens. At last, the Kurfuerst (Elector) of Saxony sends troops to arrest Kohlhaas and his men, but they are defeated repeatedly. After a visit to Luther, Kohlhaas realizes that the acts of his group have gone out of proportion compared to the original injustice, many uninvolved people have lost property and even their lives. Though Luther condemns Kohlhaas' movement, he promises to intervene at the court of Saxony in his favor, and Kohlhaas agrees to appear in person if his men are given amnesty and he stays a free man until his case is tried. Even though Kohlhaas' case finds sympathies at the emperor's court, Tronka's friends in Dresden use some misunderstanding to subvert the amnesty agreement and have Kohlhaas arrested. The court finally sentences Tronka to make good Kohlhaas' damages, but on the other hand find Kohlhaas guilty of breaking the peace of the land and sentence him to death.

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