Jeopardy (BBC TV series)
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| Created by | Tim O'Mara |
| Directed by | Paul Wroblewski |
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| Composer(s) | Garry Hardman |
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| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 40 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Andy Rowley |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
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| Distributor | BBC |
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| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | PAL (576i) |
| Audio format | Stereophonic |
| First shown in | United Kingdom |
| Original release | 26 April 2002 – 11 May 2004 |
Jeopardy is a British–Australian children's science fiction drama programme that ran for three series, from 26 April 2002 to 11 May 2004, on BBC One. It was created Tim O'Mara, Paul Wroblewski directed and Andy Rowley produced, with executive production by Richard Langridge for Wark Clements and Claire Mundell for CBBC Scotland. The series was produced for CBBC Scotland and was filmed on location in both Scotland and Australia. It also aired on ABC in Australia. In 2002, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awarded the first series Best Children's Drama.
Jeopardy is about a group of eight secondary-school students and their teacher from Falkirk, Scotland, who travel to the Australian bush to look for UFOs. They are given camcorders to record any sightings, and the series (much like the Blair Witch Project) makes extensive use of jerky footage supposedly from the handheld cameras.
The group travel to the Australian outback to look for extraterrestrial activity, which has seen an increase in reported activity. The eight teenagers, their teacher, and a park ranger, Melissa, stay in tents, with monitoring equipment set up around the area. On the first night Sarah sees strange lights and is convinced that they were visited by aliens, but not everyone believes her. Soon after Leon is bitten by a deadly snake, and the anti-venom is missing from the medical supplies. Melissa goes in search of medicine, but something stops her on the way, and when Gerry goes missing after falling over a waterfall, the teenagers find themselves alone.
The group see strange lights in the sky and radio signals are weakened by continual interference. David is thwarted by Simon and Chrissie who do their best to save themselves. Later, the group members find both Gerry and Melissa, and discover that the alien activity was faked by smugglers who were trying to recover a stash of stolen diamonds. With the mysterious events seemingly solved and Melissa standing guard over the smugglers until the police arrive, the teenagers and Gerry return to the ridge to await the helicopters, only to be abducted from the ridge by the aliens they had come to find.
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