Up and Away (TV series)

Television series
German title	Up and away
Original title	Runaway Island
Country of production	Australia
original language	English
year	1981
length	25 minutes
Episodes	16 in 1 season
genre	Children's and youth series
music	Bob Young
First broadcast	January 1, 1981 (Australia)
German-language first broadcast	February 23, 1986 on ARD
occupation
Miles Buchanan : Jaime McLeod Simone Buchanan : Jemma McLeod John Hamblin : Lachalan McLeod Rodney Bell : Tom Julian Gillespie : Nipper Michael Aitkin : Joe Dunn Kerry McGuire : Miss Polly Hugh Keays-Byrne : Lucas Ric Hutton : Capt. Corkle Alain Doutey : Marceau Aldo Sambrell : Jose Rodriguez Claudia Gravy : Theresa Kamal Gallagher : Bindi Terry Bader : Lt. Dixon

Up and Away (Original title: Runaway Island ) is a 16-part Australian - French children's and youth television series. The book was provided by Paul Wheelahan , who told the story based on a true story. Directed by Frank Arnold.

action

The siblings Jaime and Jemma McLeod live with their father on a country estate near the harbor city of Sydney . At the beginning of the 19th century , Australia was still a British colony and is mainly used to ban offenders from the mother country there. The state of New South Wales is controlled by the corrupt and violent Captain Corkle, who tramples on the law and tries to intimidate the residents with his police units and accomplices. Lachalan McLeod, the children's father, is determined to put an end to the bustle of Corkle and his gang. He has meticulously collected incriminating material that he now wants to bring to England in order to obtain a dismissal and indictment against Corkle. But Corkle gets ahead of him and has him arrested.

Jaime and Jemma McLeod also fall into the hands of Corkle and his henchmen and end up in prison. There they get to know the street boys Tom and Nipper. They manage to escape. With the help of the landlady Polly, who runs a tavern at the harbor, and the farm worker Rodriguez, the children flee to an island near the city. In the meantime, more street children have joined them, driven by hunger and abject poverty, who have nothing more to lose. Then there is the tramp Joe Dunn, whom they can win over. They all swear to join forces against Corkle and do everything possible to free McLeod and obtain justice.

Episode list

1. Alone against everyone
2. The tobacco box
3. Go along - caught up
4. Race against time
5. The betrayal
6. A friend named JM
7. On the run
8. Long live freedom
9. The power of gold
10. The black hawk
11. The secret of Death Canyon
12. The gold mine
13. In the trap
14. A ship from Spain
15. The treasure of the Incas
16. The duel

literature

• Stefan Rabenschlag : Up and away after the English-language television series Runaway Island and a retelling by Eberhard Weiss. Cologne: vgs, 1989. ISBN 3-8025-5055-2

Web links

• Up and away in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Up and away on Fernsehserien.de
• Up and away ( memento from January 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in the Kabel Eins series lexicon