Secret Valley
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Secret Valley was an Australian children's television adventure series from 1984 made by the Grundy Organisation and first shown on the Australian Broadcasting Commision. The concept was developed from a television movie of the same name which was produced in 1984 by the same company.
Secret Valley was a fictitious children's holiday camp which had been transformed from a run down ghost town into a resort. The children who worked and visited the camp often found themselves in battle against a gang of "bad" kids - Spider Maglurk and his gang from "Spider Cave". These battles usually featured flour bombs and other food related missiles and everyone inevitably ended up in a big mess.
Spider Maglurk and his gang were not the biggest threat to the peace at Secret Valley. Secret Valley was also under threat of closure by the local council, and property developer William Whopper (also known as 'WW').
Produced by the late Roger Mirams who also produced Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin amongst other programs and series.
[edit] Trivia
- Some of the child actors in this show were actually real-life siblings - Beth, Miles and Simone Buchanan.
- The series was at Smokey Dawson's ranch [1] in Terry Hills, New South Wales and also at El Cabalo Blanco.
- The theme song was sung to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda". "I had a dream I could ride across the mountain tops..."
