Jeopardy (BBC TV series)
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| Jeopardy | |
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| Format | Science fiction drama |
| Starring | see below |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 40 (List of episodes) |
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| Running time | approx. 24 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One |
| Original run | 26 April 2002 – 2 September 2004 |
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Jeopardy is a BAFTA award-winning British television series which ran for three series, from 2002 to 2004, on BBC One. The series was produced for CBBC Scotland and filmed on location in both Scotland and Australia. In 2002 the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awarded the first series Best Children's Drama.
The show is about a group of eight high-school students and their teacher who go from Falkirk, Scotland, to the Australian Outback to look for UFOs. They are given camcorders to record any sightings, and the series (much like the Blair Witch Project) makes extensive use of jerky footage supposedly from those handheld cameras.
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[edit] Characters
- Gerry Simmins (Steven Vidler)
- David (Gordon McCorkell)
- Sarah (Kari Corbett)
- Harry Hastings (Craig Moncur)
- Lucy Jeffers (Samantha Bowie)
- Shona (Shelley O'Neill)
- Simon (James Pearson)
- Chrissie (Charli Wilson)
- Leon (Stanley Smith)
- Melissa (Tammy Macintosh)
- Helen Stanich (Caroline Dunphy)
[edit] Plot
Jeopardy is about a group of eight senior school kids from Falkirk, Scotland, and their teacher, who go to Australia in search of aliens and UFOs. The school Ufology club has organised a trip to the outback to search for extraterrestrial activity.
[edit] Series 1 (2002)
The group go to the Australian outback to look for extraterrestrial activity. The eight teenagers, their teacher, and a park ranger, Melissa, stay in tents, with monitoring equipment set up around the area. Soon after arrival Leon is bitten by a deadly snake, and the antivenom is missing from the medical supplies. Melissa goes in search of medicine, but something stops her on the way. The teenagers find themselves alone, their teacher's control thwarted by rasher members of the group. The group see lights in the sky and radio signals fail. As the series ends they discover that the alien activity was faked by smugglers who were trying to recover a stash of stolen diamonds. However, as they leave to return to Falkirk, they are abducted by aliens...
[edit] Series 2 (2003)
The second series starts with the group on Paramundi ridge, where they are picked up by several helicopters. They are taken to a military complex where they realise that their camcorder tapes have been altered. Gerry, the teacher, has been taken to a mental institution due to him raving that they were abducted by aliens before being replaced and picked up by the military. The group also realise that their friends David and Sarah are missing. They escape from the facility and are pursued by an agent called Stanich. Later on they find out Simon has been betraying them and Harry tells the group he is suspicious, Chrissy soon finds out and tells the group. They plan to lock him in a wagon for one night to teach him a lesson but when the pick him up the next morning, soon realise that the wagon has gone. They travel around Australia in an old Kombi looking for David and Sarah. Their search leads them around Australia, meeting with weird UFO buffs and bizarre twin girls, as well as encountering Aboriginal prophecies and supernatural phenomena. At the end of the series, they arrive at the Glass Mountains where they link arms to bring the aliens down to return David and Sarah...
[edit] Series 3 (2004)
...however, this fails, and the group, minus Gerry, David and Sarah, find themselves in back home in Falkirk, Scotland. They quickly discover that they are only visible to two people - David and Sarah. David and Sarah were returned to Earth to witness the apparent suicide of the rest of the group. While David and Sarah stay in Scotland, the rest of the group return to Australia via a time travel portal. Back in Australia, they are visible again, and are continually pursued by Stanich. They realise that they must try to contact the aliens so that everything can be returned to normal. But things go terribly wrong when they discover that all their portal travel has given them a condition called "red-eye". Under this condition, when an individual gets stressed, their iris turns red and they "split", looking as if there are two separate people for a number of seconds, and then promptly disappearing. As more and more of them disappear, the remaining members must team up with Stanich. Eventually their search leads them to a top-secret base on Astrid Island. At this island, they find their friends who had disappeared - however, they now have the mentality of an eight year old, and the unusual symptom of appearing black on an infra-red camera. At the end of series 3, Harry and Lucy meet with two twin boys which are aliens. The aliens transport then back in time to Scotland and they must persuade the rest of the team not to go on the trip.
[edit] Ending
At the end of series 3, CBBC viewers were asked to vote for a way to end the series. The choices were spooky, happy, and surprising. On the premiere of the final episode, the spooky ending won the vote, and the series ended on a cliffhanger, as a past Harry and Lucy encountered the future versions of themselves, and due to the shock, the future Lucy was shown to have red-eye. In a future repeat of the episode, the vote was run again, however the happy ending was chosen. The only difference was that the episode ended before the alternate versions of Harry and Lucy entered. Ending on January 25th 2007, the series was run again, but this time the viewers were not asked to vote on an ending. The original, scary ending was played again leaving the viewers not knowing what happens in the surprising ending.
