By the Bel: Blasts from the Past — Part 4

I would like to introduce you to a series that was shot in 1994. Yes, that was the last millennium.

Sky Trackers

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-BTs7BzliU

had us reaching for the stars. It was directed by Mario Andreacchio, Steve Jodrell and Julian Mcswiney. Writing credits go to Robert Greenberg, Cameron Clarke, Tony Morphett, Jeff Peck, Deborah Cox, Jutta Goetze, Mac Gudgeon, Peter Hepworth, Sue Hore, Rick Maier, Jan Sardi and Steve J Spears. It was shot in both New South Wales and Victoria.

IMDB is a great resource, and normally I would be giving you their synopsis of the plot, but they only have one line… LUCKILY I managed to find this series on DVD and will now give you the blurb from the back… Sky Trackers follows the lives of Maggie, Mike and Nikki – three kids thrown together in the heart of Kaputar NSW. Maggie and Nikki are sisters whose mother, Marie is a senior CSIRO scientist responsible for environmental projects. Mike lives with his Dad, Tony, who is a famous astro physicist. Together, the group encounter a number of issues, sometimes with each other, sometimes out of this world. The one certainty is that Sky Trackers always come out on top.

Casting was important with this series. It looks to me like they were trying to find fresh blood to start a new chapter in Aussie TV: Steve Jacobs, from East West 101; Anna Maria Monticelli, The Girl From Tomorrow, Home and Away and White Collar Blue; Paul Sonkkila from The Girl from Tomorrow. Tomorrow’s End look to be the skeleton that allowed the fleshing out to happen with the young new actors to grace our screen: Petra Yared, Zbych Trofimiuk and Emily-Jane Romig.

This series really let you know it was more than okay to be a girl and know without a doubt what you wanted to do with the rest of your life, even if it was something most ‘normal’ girls wouldn’t want to be doing. Boys are okay, but only if they don’t get in the way of your plans. Hormones be damned.

The book of the same name, based on the series sucked me in just as much as it did on the TV screen.

I’ll continue on with my nostalgia in future instalments. Hope you don’t mind.