Total twist - an Australian family gets started

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Television series
German title Twist Total
An Australian family get started
Original title Round the twist
Country of production Australia
original language English
year 1989/1992/1999/2000
length 25 minutes
Episodes 52 in 4 seasons
Theme music Tamsin West - Round The Twist theme (MP3; 1.6 MB)
idea Esben Storm
production Patricia Edgar
First broadcast April 4, 1989 (Australia) on ABC
German-language
first broadcast		 September 1992 (S1)
October 1993 (S2)
March 2000 (S3)
September 2001 (S4) on SWR (S1 + 2) and Disney Channel (S3 + 4)
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Twist Total was an Australian family series.

The series' first and second season stories are based on the short stories by Paul Jennings . For the third and fourth seasons, the collaboration was not continued.

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Shortly after the death of his wife, the widower Tony Twist moves with his three children, the 13-year-old twins Pete and Linda and the 7-year-old Bronson, from the city on the coast of Australia to Port Niranda in a lighthouse. They want to start a new life there, but not only human opponents like the real estate shark Mr. Gribble, who wants to turn the small town of Port Niranda into a tourist resort, and his son James make this project difficult. They quickly notice that the lighthouse and the surrounding area are haunted. Paranormal phenomena: ghosts, the ghost of Mr. Chomper, strange seagulls or even vampires and tree girls stir up the life of the family.

Each episode tells its own story, but the main storylines run through an entire season.

Characters

Twist family :

  • Tony Twist - widower with a good heart, sculptor, interested in Bronson's teacher, Faye James
  • Pete Twist - Linda's twin brother, girl type, temporarily dating Fiona
  • Linda Twist - Pete's twin sister, feminist, environmentalist, judoka
  • Bronson Twist - the younger brother, obsessed with food and smells

Other characters :

  • Helen 'Nell' Richards - the old woman who lives in the hut next to the lighthouse, her brother Tom was previously the lighthouse keeper
  • Harold Gribble - Real estate agent who frequently tries to disgust the twists from the lighthouse
  • Matron Gribble - Nurse and Gribbles supportive wife
  • James Gribble - Gribble's good-for-nothing son, a bully at school who messes with Pete a lot
  • 'Rabbit' - a friend of James Gribble, is often suppressed by him
  • 'Tiger' - another friend of James Gribble, comments on various events in the first and second seasons
  • Faye James - Bronson's teacher; Love of Tony Twist, in the third and fourth season she lives with the Twists in the lighthouse
  • Ralph Snapper - Pete and Linda's teacher, a strict man who shows no indulgence for being cheeky
  • Fiona - Linda's girlfriend and at times Pete's boyfriend.

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The individual seasons were produced at a considerable distance from one another, so that almost the entire line-up was changed for each season.

role 1989
Season 1
(episodes 1 to 13) 		1992
Season 2
(episodes 14 to 26) 		1999
Season 3
(episodes 27 to 39) 		2000
Season 4
(episodes 40 to 52)
Linda Twist Tamsin West Joelene Crnogorac Ebonnie Masini
Pete Twist Sam Vandenberg Ben Thomas Rian McLean
Bronson twist Rodney McLennan Jeffrey Walker Mathew Waters
Tony twist Richard Moir Andrew S. Gilbert
Fay James / Twist Robyn Gibbes Trudy Hellier Susanne Chapman
Nell Bunney Brooke Marion Heathfield
Harold Gribble Frankie J. Holden Mark Mitchell
Matron Gribble Judith McGrath Jan Friedl Christine Keogh
James Gribble Lachlan Jeffrey Richard E. Young Brook Sykes
Tiger Gleeson Cameron Nugent Nick Mitchell Tom Budge
Fiona Daisy Cameron Zeta Briggs Katie Barnes
Rabbit Stuart Atkin Drew Campbell Richard Marsland
Snapper Esben Storm Ernie Gray
Anthony - - Rueben Liversidge

Awards

The series won a Rockie Award in the Best Children's Program category at the Banff World Television Festival in Canada in 2000 . In 2002 she received an Australian Logie Award in the Outstanding Children's Program category .

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