Like Dog and Cat (TV Series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Like cat and dog |
| Original title | Sugar and Spice |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1988-1989 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 20 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Children's television |
| idea | Brian Wright , Alan Hopgood |
| production | John Gauci |
| music | Peter Moscos |
| First broadcast | 1988 on ABC TV |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 7, 1990 on Das Erste |
| occupation | |
|
Radha Mitchell : Pixie Robertson | |
Like cats and dogs ( Sugar and Spice ) was an Australian children's series that produced on the occasion of the 200 th anniversary of Australia and ABC TV aired between 1988 and 1989. The series was broadcast in Germany from March to September 1990 on ARD . It was alsorepeatedin 1991 on Bavarian TV , 1992 on ARD and 1997 to 1999 on KiKA and 1999 to 2000 on Bavarian TV.
The television series set in the 1920s and was about two eleven-year-old girls from the Australian bush, Pixie Robinson ( Radha Mitchell ) and Molly Wilson ( Michelle Kearley ), who had been sent to Melbourne to join Pixies Grandmother to live and attend private high school there.
The complete series was released in 2008 in the English version under the original title Sugar and Spice by Force Entertainment on DVD.
Episode list
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | Summary | First broadcast in Australia | German language first broadcast (D) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | With cunning and trickery | Going Ready or Not | Pixie and Molly have to move to high school. Although they have a marked dislike for each other, their parents decided that they should both live in the same house with Pixie's grandmother. | April 6, 1989 | March 3, 1990 |
| 2 | 2 | The Arrival | The alliance of convenience | The problem of being forced to live together welds Pixie and Molly together against their will. | April 13, 1989 | 1990 |
| 3 | 3 | Snails and frogs | Froggy | On the first day at the new school, Pixie quickly befriends Margherite ( Vivienne Walshe ), the daughter of French teacher Jacques Chevrier ( Victor Kazan ), while Molly stays to herself. | April 20, 1989 | 1990 |
| 4th | 4th | Hot words, cold water | The best of enemies | Molly is homesick and can't get along with Pixie at all, so she borrows Captain Jack's ( Earl Francis ) horse and rides home. | April 27, 1989 | 1990 |
| 5 | 5 | On new paths | Guiding hands | Since they are treated as outsiders by their classmates, Molly, Pixie and Marguerite decide to join Girl Scouts in order to meet new friends. | May 4th 1989 | 1990 |
| 6th | 6th | Witching hour | The Haunted House | Mrs. Watson fears her house is cursed. Pixie and Molly decide to spend the night there and get to the bottom of the mystery. | May 11, 1989 | 1990 |
| 7th | 7th | Clothes make the man | A string of pearls | Miss Orrick has entered the school choir in the local singing competition. Molly borrows one of Aunt Vera's ( Louise Hall ) blouses and her pearl necklace without permission . | May 18, 1989 | 1990 |
| 8th | 8th | The hero of the day | The picnic | Aunt Vera's car stops on a picnic outing with the girls. When she tries to start again, she falls down and injures her head. | May 25, 1989 | 1990 |
| 9 | 9 | Dizzy and caught | To see or not to see | The girls decide to skip school in the afternoon to see the latest Rudolph Valentino movie in a movie theater , but they are discovered by Aunt Vera and Jacques Chevrier, the French teacher. | June 1, 1989 | 1990 |
| 10 | 10 | Wild flights, lousy tricks | The Barnstormer | The arrival of a pilot and his mechanic in their small plane causes excitement and a near-disaster in Willsford. | June 8, 1989 | 1990 |
| 11 | 11 | The acid test | What's Cooking | Pixie and Molly have qualified for the Girl Scout Pilot's Band and are the envy of the other girls in their class. | June 15, 1989 | 1990 |
| 12 | 12 | Bees and rabbits | Birds, Bees and Rabbits | A note on rabbits and how they reproduce reveals Pixie's gaps in knowledge of sexuality. | June 22, 1989 | 1990 |
| 13 | 13 | Bake bake cake | Money troubles | Sometimes the 'best enemies' can become the 'best friends' when the right circumstances come together - and Myrtle makes sure what it takes to bring Pixie, Molly, Margherite and Louise together. | June 29, 1989 | 1990 |
| 14th | 14th | Help, blood | The Camp Out | When the Girl Scouts are together at the camp, they realize that Anne ( Susan Ellis ), their guide, has a problem with fainting at the sight of blood. | July 6, 1989 | 1990 |
| 15th | 15th | Boy or girl | The substitute | Molly's attempt to organize a cricket match between the school girls ends in disaster. | July 13, 1989 | 1990 |
| 16 | 16 | Heads up! | Creating a New Molly | She's upset about Molly's boy's haircut. Pixie and Margherite take a stroll through Melbourne's Chinatown . | July 20, 1989 | 1990 |
| 17th | 17th | The tutor | Exam time | Miss Orrick brings the news that the class is close to exams. Pixie is determined to be top of the class while Molly realizes that if she fails, she will have to repeat the year. | July 27, 1989 | 1990 |
| 18th | 18th | Itching powder and stage fright | True or False | The girls in Pixie's and Molly's class are excited when Miss Orrick tells them that there will be a tableaux vivants at the end of the school year . | 3rd August 1989 | 1990 |
| 19th | 19th | Grandmother is on strike | The pageant | While the rest of the family is enjoying the end-of-school celebration at Tableaux vivantes, grandmother is upset. The girls join forces to prevent Aunt Vera from marrying Jacques Chevrier, the French teacher. | August 10, 1989 | 1990 |
| 20th | 20th | Late love | Ending or Beginnings | When Jimmy ( Eamonn Kelly ) goes looking for mistletoe for the Christmas party, he and Freddo ( Matthew Newton ) stay away for a long time. Has something happened to them? | 17th August 1989 | 8/1990 |
DVD
- The Complete Series: Sugar and Spice, Force Entertainment, 2008
book
- Mary Wright: How Dog and Cat, Hoch Verlag , 1990, ISBN 978-3777904627 ; Thienemann Verlag , 1993, ISBN 978-3522170451 ,
- Original version: Mary Wright: Sugar and Spice , Penguin Books , 1988, ISBN 0140329706
Web links
- Sugar and Spice on australiantelevision.net (in English)
- Like cats and dogs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sugar and Spice on screenaustralie.gov.au