Ocean Girl
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| Ocean Girl / Ocean Odyssey(UK) | |
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| Genre | Sci-fi / Drama / Aliens |
| Creator(s) | Jonathan M. Shiff |
| Starring | Marzena Godecki David Hoflin Jeffrey Walker Kerry Armstrong Lauren Hewett |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
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| Running time | 24 min. |
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| Original channel | Network Ten |
| Original run | August 29, 1994 – 1998 |
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Ocean Girl, also known as Ocean Odyssey in the UK, is an Australian science fiction television series. It revolves around the character of Neri, an alien girl from the Planet of the Oceans.
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[edit] History
The original Ocean Girl series ran on Australia's Network Ten between 1994 and 1998. It was broadcast by the Disney Channel in the United States, Discovery Kids in the United Kingdom, YTV in Canada, ZDF and KI.KA in Germany and on RTÉ Two in Ireland. The Disney Channel only aired the first three seasons, the last was not broadcast. Discovery Kids regularly broadcast all four seasons in continuous loops, up until 2003.
It was also broadcast as Ocean Odyssey on BBC Two in the UK. Only half of the fourth season was broadcast in 2002, before it was then shown in full in the autumn of 2004.
The show has recently been repeated on the ABC in Australia, as part of their ABC Kids afternoon block of children's programs.
The first season was released on DVD in Australia on November 7, 2005, followed by the second season on March 3, 2007.
An animated series, The New Adventures Of Ocean Girl ran from 2000 to 2001, and has since been released on DVD. Story and characters are entirely unrelated to the live action series. It has never been aired in the UK. RTÉ Two aired it in 2003.
[edit] Plot
Ocean Girl is the story of a girl named Neri who lives alone on an island. As explained by the show, she had travelled to the planet Earth on a spaceship with her father when she was young. Her father died of an unspecified sickness soon after. Neri then held his responsibility of protecting the Earth's oceans. A humpback whale (who she names Jali and later Charley) had saved Neri after she fell off a cliff, and they became friends soon after.
Most of the other main characters live on and work for a fictional underwater research and environmental protection facility and organization called ORCA(Oceanic Research Centre of Australia), located off the coast of Australia. This organization is one of the major focuses of the story. Nearly every episode involves the underwater research facility. The main characters on the station are:
- Jason and Brett Bates, teenage brothers whose mother Diane is a scientist at ORCA,
- Diane Bates, a scientist who happens to be studying the songs of Charley
- Dr. Winston Seth, Diane's research partner
Throughout the four seasons of Ocean Girl, Neri, Jason, and Brett meet many new friends and they all have many adventures together.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Ocean Girl at the Internet Movie Database
- Ocean Girl at TV.com
- Jonathan M. Shiff Productions - the official website for Jonathon M. Shiff productions, has an Ocean Girl section
- rattacresh's ultimate OCEAN GIRL web site - fan website and home of the font Oceania, which is a remake of the series' main logo typeface
