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The Girl From Tomorrow and its sequel, Tomorrow's
End, were Australian children's drama productions about Alana, a girl
from the year AD 3000. In the first series, she gets trapped in 1990 when
a trip in a time capsule goes horribly wrong. She meets Jenny and Petey,
but, confused and bewildered by the primitive age, she is duped by the
latter and rescued by the former. She and Jenny begin the search for the
time capsule, stolen by a criminal from the future. Alana's trials include
a visit to school, a mystery man in a white car, Petey stealing the
transducer from her, and a brush with the Media. She is also arrested and
released into the custody of the man she is trying to avoid, the evil
Silverthorn. Luckily, she has made a few friends, including James, Jenny's
science teacher, and they come to her rescue, freeing her and retrieving
the time capsule.
The sequel, shown at the rate of two episodes per week in
Britain, finds Alana back in her own time before she dashes off in the
time capsule to wind up in a derelict warehouse in Silverthorn's time, AD
2500. After various and sinister adventures with the Globecorp corporation
and nuclear weapons, Alana finally gets back home.
Both series were fairly low-budget affairs, which
nevertheless managed to look very smooth and professional, and although
the shots of Alana's home in AD 3000 were sparse, by the look of the sets,
this was where much of the budget was spent. It's a shame the stories
weren't really up to much.
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Creators: Mark Shirreffs, John
Thomson, and Kathy Mueller
Exec Producer: Ron Saunders
Producer: Noel Price
Associate Producer: Dennis Kiely
Director: Noel Price
Music: Ian Davidson
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A Film Australia Production for ABC Television
13 colour 25-minute episodes
First Shown: 13th July - 17th August 1993
(BBC1)
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