''Adventures on Kythera'' is an Australian

children's television series Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television programs designed for children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run during the early evenin ...

about five children who have adventures on the

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

island of

Kythera Kythira (, ; el, Κύθηρα, , also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira) is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands, ...

. It premiered on 13 August 1991 on the

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and aired until 1992. There were 13 episodes filmed but it was screened as two series, consisting of seven and six episodes. The series was produced and directed by

John Tatoulis John Tatoulis is an Australian film and television producer and director. Tatoulis was the producer of such movies as ''Take Away'', ''Let's Get Skase'' and '' Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns''. Tatoulis produced and directed the film '' The Sil ...

and written by Deborah Parsons. The series also aired in the United Kingdom on the ITV network between summer 1991 and Easter 1992.

Cast

Amelia Frid Amelia Frid (born 30 July 1975 in Soviet Union) is an Australian former child actress who played Cody Willis in ''Neighbours''. She retired from acting to concentrate on studies and her current profession is forensic psychology. Frid's final a ...

as Molly Leeds *

Rebekah Elmaloglou Rebekah Sophie Elmaloglou (born 23 January 1974) is an Australian actress, known for her roles as teenage tearaway Sophie Simpson on ''Home and Away'' and Terese Willis on ''Neighbours''. She also made guest appearances in '' E Street'', ''A Co ...

as Tik * Zenton Chorny as Zenton * Garry Perazzo as Spike * George Lekkas as Johnny * Richard Aspel as Vincent * Tassos Ioannides as Philippas * Kerry Noonan as Pia * Michelle Royal as Annie

References

External links

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at Australian television Information Archive
Australian children's television series 1991 Australian television series debuts 1992 Australian television series endings Television shows set in Greece Kythira {{child-tv-prog-stub