Fantasy sitcom Round The Twist was heavy on slapstick and had a fab theme tune. It followed the adventures of the Twist children who lived with their father in a lighthouse on the Victoria coast and found strangeness and fantastic things happening to them on a regular basis.
The first series of 13 was followed by a second almost 3 years later, this featured a largely different cast and relocated to the ABC, then five years later the series re-emerged for a further two seasons.
Round the twist was one of Australia’s most sucessful TV exports, sold to 78 different countries, each series took around 5 months to film and cost around $5 million to produce.
production details
Australia / 7 Network-ABC-Australian Children’s Television Foundation / 52×30 minute episodes / Broadcast 1990 1993 1998 and 2000
Creator: Paul Jennings
Producers: Antonia Barnard, Patricia Edgar
1990 (7 Network)
cast
TAMSIN WEST as Linda Twist
SAM VANDERBURGH as Pete Twist
RODNEY McLENNAN as Bronson Twist
JUDITH McGRATH as Matron Gribble
FRANKIE J. HOLDEN as Mr Gribble
1993 (ABC)
cast
JOELENE CRNOGNORAC as Linda Twist
BEN THOMAS as Pete Twist
JEFFREY WALKER as Bronson Twist
ROBYN GIBBES as Miss James
MARK MITCHELL as Mr Gribble
APPEARED IN BOTH THE ABOVE
RICHARD MOIR as Mr Twist
BUNNY BROOKE as Nell
ESBEN STORM as Mr Snapper
1998 Cast
EBONNIE MASINI
RAIN McLEAN
MATTHEW WATERS
ANDREW S. GILBERT
MARION HEATHFIELD
TRUDY HELLIER
KATIE BARNES
