Atlantis High | |
---|---|
Genre |
Drama Comedy |
Created by | Raymond Thompson |
Written by |
James Wyllie Raymond Thompson |
Directed by | Raymond Thompson Andrew Merrifield |
Starring |
Sally Martin Michael Wesley-Smith Elizabeth McGlinn Todd Emerson |
Theme music composer | Raymond Thompson |
Opening theme | "Sunset Cove" |
Country of origin |
New Zealand United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Raymond Thompson |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Production company(s) | Cloud 9 |
Release | |
Original network | Channel 5 (UK) |
Original release | 8 September 2001 – 2 March 2002 |
Atlantis High is a teen comedy TV show, shot in New Zealand in 2001.
The plot revolves around 16-year-old Giles Gordon (Michael Wesley-Smith), who has just moved to Sunset Cove, "a beautiful coastal surfing town where the sun is always shining, the people are all beautiful and everything is perfect... or so it seems." He enrolls in Atlantis High School, where he soon discovers that Sunset Cove is unlike any town he's ever seen: populated by double-agents, aliens and high school students with blue hair and pointy ears, its inhabitants are eccentric lunatics who at times turn into superheroes or other whimsical figures.
Atlantis High both parodies soap operas and pays homage to spoof television.