The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End
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| Genre | sci-fi/time travel |
| Creator(s) | Mark Shirrefs & John Thomson |
| Starring | Katharine Cullen Melissa Marshall John Howard Helen O'Connor Andrew Clarke James Findlay Miles Buchanan Jeremy Scrivener Marshall Napier Catherine McClements |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
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| Running time | 24 minutes |
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| Original channel | Nine Network |
| Original run | July 13, 1993 – September 29, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | The Girl from Tomorrow |
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The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End is an Australian children's television series created by Film Australia. The series is a sequel series to The Girl from Tomorrow.
The story follows on from the first series with new dangers and adventures, primarily focusing around the events in year 2500.
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[edit] Premise
At the end of the previous series Jenny Kelly was badly wounded in the final struggle with Silverthorn for the Time Capsule, and must be taken to the year 3000, to be healed there. The story picks up a month after Jenny and Alana arrive back to the year 3000. The scientists soon realise that their time travel experiments have gone wrong and that they have altered the course of history. They must send Jenny and Silverthorn back to their own time, in order to restore the timeline. With Silverthorn and Jenny back in their own time, Alana and Lorien (Catherine McClements) return to the year 3000, only to discover that it is a radioactive wasteland: The Great Disaster has destroyed the Southern Hemisphere as well as the Northern Hemisphere. They go back to 2500 and find that that era has not been altered, so they realise that it must be something Silverthorn does in 2500 that changes history and leads to The Great Disaster. In order to restore the timeline, Alana and Lorien must discover the cause of The Great Disaster, and prevent it.
The year 2500 is a polluted, miserable dystopia, where GlobeCorp owns everything, and the majority of people live in relative squalor. Clean water and uncontamintated food are hard to come by, although the elite enjoy life in comfortable skyscrapers, and the top leaders live in a colony on the moon.
With the help of Jenny and Nik, Alana must search for the cause of The Great Disaster, while evading capture by the GlobeCops and new villain Draco. They must also find a way to stop Silverthorn's plan to transport water from 1990 to the year 2500.
[edit] Character profiles
[edit] Alana
Alana is a fourteen year old girl from the year 3000. Alana's parents live on Titan, Saturn's moon. They sent her to Earth to be educated. On earth she has guardians who teach her the techniques of how to use the Transducer. Alana has three distinctive dots on the side of her face in the temple area. These dots signify that she is mature enough to use a Transducer.
[edit] Silverthorn
Silverthorn is a villain from the year 2500. Silverthorn's most noticeable traits are his deviousness, and violent tendencies. Contrary to these though, he can be very charming, but this is all a front so he can double-cross people. He kidnaps Alana and flees to 1990, where he hopes he can rule the world.
[edit] Jenny Kelly
Jenny is from 1990. She is a typical teenager going through her rebellious phase. She has dyed her hair purple and plays the drums, she has aspirations of joining a band. When she's not at school she helps out in her mum's deli. Jenny hated living in Sydney, but when Alana arrives things started getting interesting.
[edit] Petey Kelly
Petey is like any other ten year old boy from 1990. He is the brother of Jenny. He enjoys dressing up in his home-made superhero outfit, and calls himself "Captain Zero". Petey also has a great love of Science Fiction, which comes in handy when things get tough.
[edit] Irene Kelly
Irene is Jenny and Petey's mother. She is the owner of the Kelly Deli. Like most mum's she is very protective of her children, so much so that she is more than willing to stand up to Silverthorn alone in order to protect them.
[edit] James Rooney
James is the science teacher at Jenny's high school. Irene fell for him when she met him after enrolling Alana in Jenny's school. James helped all the others in their efforts to retrieve the Capsule so Alana could return home.
[edit] Draco
Draco is a director of GlobeCorp Australia, a company that runs the entire planet. He wants to get rid of Paradise and the other GlobeCorp leaders, so he could run GlobeCorp all by himself.
[edit] Nik
Nik is a fifteen years old boy from the year 2500. Nik helps out Jenny and Alana when they are both captured by GlobeCorp. Nik's grandmother, Maeve is the inventor of the first Transducer.
[edit] Lorien
Lorien is one of Alana's guardians while she is living on Earth. She is also Bruno's assistant on the Time Travel Project.
[edit] Technology in the year 2500
In the year 2500, technology is more advanced than in 1990. Some of the technology is described below.
[edit] Laser pistols
The most often used weapon in use in the year 2500 is the laser pistol. When the pistol is used the trigger is held allowing energy to build up within the object and once the trigger is released the energy within the object causes it to explode.
[edit] The Modification Chamber
This is where the process of "Modification" takes place, a euphemism for brainwashing. This process is used on anybody who has been arrested. The person is placed in the chamber and when the machine is activated they are bathed in white light; this process freezes the subject's mind. This essentially removes the person's free will. After the process the person will obey simple commands and they are then put to work doing menial tasks.
[edit] Technology in the year 3000
In the year 3000, all scientific experiments and technological advancements are carried out within the Science Dome. One area within the Science Dome is the Time Laboratory. This is where all time travel experiments are performed. Technology used in the laboratory includes the Time Capsule, and the temporal flux generators, as well as other diagnostic tools. Below follows a short list of significant technology used in the future.
Only the new technology of the Time Gate and the Sentinel is described in this article, for other technology from the year 3000 click here
[edit] The Time Gate
The Time Gate is another of Bruno's inventions. It is another time-travel device. It is an energy doorway which can be used to travel through time as easily as stepping through a door. Temporal co-ordinates are entered into the Time Gate via a numerical keypad. When the co-ordinates have been input into the Time Gate, beams of energy begin to flash within the confines of the Gate getting faster until a wormhole-like portal appears. The user can then step from one time to another by walking through the Gate.
[edit] Sentinel
The sentinel is a device from the year 3000. When programmed, it will follow a person who may wish to cause harm to others, and will prevent them from causing harm. If somebody feels threatened and calls for help the sentinel will activate and fire an energy beam and the person will freeze, thus preventing them from causing possible harm. Once activated it can only be deactivated via the use of a Transducer.
[edit] Episode list
- 201 - A Time Without Vegemite
- 202 - The End Of Everything
- 203 - The Other Alana
- 204 - The Time Gate
- 205 - Sucked Into The Future
- 206 - The Grandmother Of Invention
- 207 - Escape From GlobeCorp
- 208 - A Chase Through Time
- 209 - Showdown At 'Eddie's Pools'
- 210 - In The Nik Of Time
- 211 - The Great Disaster Begins
- 212 - Kings Of The Dinosaurs
[edit] DVD Releases
Both The Girl from Tomorrow and The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End are available on DVD, albeit in an edited "Telemovie" version (the whole series trimmed to movie length, halving the running time at least) and not in their original, episodic format.
A 4-disc set containing all 12 episodes of The Girl from Tomorrow was released on 18 September 2006 (Region 0) around Australia into various retail outlets via Shock Exports. The entire series of The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End is not currently available, though it is scheduled for release in 2007.
All DVDs released so far have been in PAL format, and Region 0 encoded.
