| The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End | |
|---|---|
| Genre | sci-fi/time travel |
| Created by | Mark Shirrefs & John Thomson |
| Directed by | Noel Price |
| 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 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 23 to 24 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nine Network |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original run | 13 July 1993 – 29 September 1993 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Girl from Tomorrow |
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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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 respective times, in order to restore the timeline. Silverthorn, having faked remorse for his crimes, has surreptitiously stolen instructions for building a time gate. 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 uncontaminated 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 Nick, 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, which he does by using the Year 3000 information he has stolen to construct a time gate.
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.
Draco is a director of GlobeCorp, 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.
Nick is a fifteen years old boy from the year 2500. Nick helps out Jenny and Alana when they are both captured by GlobeCorp. Nick's grandmother, Maeve is the inventor of the first Transducer.
Lorien is one of Alana's guardians while she is living on Earth. She is also Bruno's assistant on the Time Travel Project.
In the year 2500, technology is more advanced than in 1990. Some of the technology is described below.
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.
Molecular Level Music Storage Unit. A device in the year 2500 which is used to play and store music. The sphere glows different colors as it plays. Seen once in episode '202 - The End Of Everything,' the second episode of this series.
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.
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
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.
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.
| Episode | Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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. A 4-disc set containing all 12 episodes of The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End is also available, released in May 2007.
All DVDs released so far have been in PAL format, and Region 0 encoded.