Coral Island (TV series)

Coral Island
Genre	adventure
Written by	James Andrew Hall
Directed by	Chris Thomson Ray Brown Ray Alchin
Starring	Nicholas Bond-Owen Gerard Kennedy
Composer(s)	Bruce Smeaton
Country of origin	Australia UK
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	9
Production
Running time	30 mins
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	1983

Coral Island is a children's television series, adapted from the 19th-century novel The Coral Island by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. The series of 9 episodes was a joint production of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Thames Television. It was filmed on location in the western Samoan village of Salamumu and then on the Whitsunday Islands off the Queensland coast in 1981.

The series was first broadcast in Australia on ABC-TV on 6 January 1983.

The story, set in 1840, centers on 3 boys from England and their struggle for survival when they are shipwrecked on a remote Pacific island. Jack (played by Scott McGregor), Peterkin (played by Nicholas Bond-Owen) and Ralph (played by Richard Gibson) must learn to survive on their own on the island, despite their very different characters and backgrounds. After befriending two natives on the island, they are rescued by an English missionary team, and both the boys and the two natives return to England.

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