Sugar and Spice (Australian TV series)

Sugar and Spice
GenreChildren's television
Directed byJohn Gauci
StarringRadha Mitchell
Michelle Kearley
Penelope Shelton
Louise Hall
Eamon A. Kelly
Matthew Newton
Susan Ellis
ComposerPeter Moscos
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes20
Production
Executive producerJohn Gauci
ProducersFrank Brown, Louise Hall, John Gauci; Film Victoria, Revcom Television
EditorsAlan Ryan, John Gauci
Camera setupPhilip Gross
Running time25 minutes
Original release
NetworkABC TV
Release1988 (1988) –
1989 (1989)

Sugar and Spice is an Australian children's television series that was broadcast on ABC TV between 1988 and 1989.

Starring Radha Mitchell as Pixie Robinson and Michelle Kearley as Molly Wilson, the series was set in the 1920s and revolved around two eleven-year-old girls from the Australian bush, who were sent to live with Pixie's grandmother to attend the same private high-school in the city.

The Complete Series was released on DVD in 2008 by Force Entertainment.

Cast

Starring

Relatives

  • Howard Bell as Mr Robertson
  • Louise Siversen as Mrs Beatrice Robertson
  • Colwyn Roberts as Mr Wilson
  • Ruth Yaffe as Mrs Edna Wilson
  • Penelope Shelton as Grandma
  • Louise Hall as Aunt Vera
  • Susan Ellis as Anne
  • Eamonn Kelly as Jimmy
  • Matthew Newton as Freddo

Friends

Teachers

  • Judith Graham as Mrs Meyer
  • Marijke Mann as Miss Orrick
  • Victor Kazan as Jacques Chevrier
  • Lindy McConchie (Davini Malcolm) as Miss Pittman

Students

  • Vivienne Walshe as Marguerite Chevrier
  • Rana Melville-Smith as Louise
  • Belinda Hutchinson as Lucy Forrest
  • Penelope MacGowan as Elsie
  • Georgia Falcke as Mary
  • Samantha Payne as Esmerelda
  • Bindi Edwards as Myrtle
  • Sarah Young as Edith
  • Nathalie Woolcock as Ruth
  • Kyra Opray as Meg
  • Emily Chen as Emily
  • Elizabeth Catherall as Edna
  • Kirsten Geary as Ruby
  • Sandra Willis as Sandra

Episode list

  1. Going Ready or Not.
  2. The Arrival
  3. Froggy
  4. The Best of Enemies
  5. Guiding Hands
  6. The Haunted House
  7. A String of Pearls
  8. The Picnic
  9. To See or Not to See
  10. The Barnstormer
  11. What's Cooking
  12. Birds, Bees and Rabiits
  13. Money Troubles
  14. The Camp Out
  15. The Substitute
  16. Creating a New Molly
  17. Exam time
  18. True or False
  19. The Pageant
  20. Ending or Beginnings

Book

  • Mary Wright: Sugar and Spice, Puffin Books, 1988, ISBN 978-0-14-032970-4

See also

References

1. The Complete Series: Sugar and Spice, DVD, Force Entertainment, 2008