''Sugar and Spice'' is an Australian children's television series that was broadcast on ABC TV between 1988 and 1989. Starring

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as Pixie Robinson and

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as Molly Wilson, the series was set in the 1920s and revolved around two eleven-year-old girls from the Australian bush, who were sent to live with Pixie's grandmother to attend the same private high-school in the city. The Complete Series was released on DVD in 2008 by Force Entertainment.

Cast

starring

as Pixie Robertson *

as Molly Wilson

Relatives

* Howard Bell as Mr Robertson *

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as Mrs Beatrice Robertson * Colwyn Roberts as Mr Wilson * Ruth Yaffe as Mrs Edna Wilson * Penelope Shelton as Grandma * Louise Hall as Aunt Vera * Susan Ellis as Anne * Eamonn Kelly as Jimmy *

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as Freddo

Friends

* Earl Francis as Captain Jack *

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as Mrs Watson

Teachers

* Judith Graham as Mrs Meyer * Marijke Mann as Miss Orrick * Victor Kazan as Jacques Chevrier * Lindy McConchie (Davini Malcolm) as Miss Pittman

Students

* Vivienne Walshe as Marguerite Chevrier * Rana Melville-Smith as Louise * Belinda Hutchinson as Lucy Forrest * Penelope MacGowan as Elsie * Georgia Falcke as Mary * Samantha Payne as Esmerelda * Bindi Edwards as Myrtle * Sarah Young as Edith * Nathalie Woolcock as Ruth * Kyra Opray as Meg * Emily Chen as Emily * Elizabeth Catherall as Edna * Kirsten Geary as Ruby * Sandra Willis as Sandra

Episode list

# ''Going Ready or Not''. # ''The Arrival'' # ''Froggy'' #'' The Best of Enemies'' #'' Guiding Hands'' #''The Haunted House'' #'' A String of Pearls'' #'' The Picnic'' #'' To See or Not to See'' #'' The Barnstormer'' # '' What's Cooking'' # '' Birds, Bees and Rabiits'' #'' Money Troubles'' #'' The Camp Out'' # '' The Substitute'' # ''Creating a New Molly'' # '' Exam time'' # '' True or False'' # '' The Pageant'' # '' Ending or Beginnings''

Book

* Mary Wright: Sugar and Spice,

Puffin Books Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. The imprint now belongs t ...

, 1988,

References

1. The Complete Series: Sugar and Spice, DVD, Force Entertainment, 2008

External links

*
Sugar and Spice
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