Mirror, Mirror | |
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Genre |
Teen drama Adventure Time travel |
Created by | Posie Graeme-Evans |
Starring |
Petra Jared Michala Banas Nicholas Hooper Jeffrey Walker James Ashcroft Nicholas Hammond |
Country of origin | Australia New Zealand |
Original language(s) | English Māori |
No. of episodes | 20 |
Production | |
Running time | 24 min. |
Production company(s) |
Millennium Pictures New Zealand on Air |
Release | |
Original network | Network Ten |
Original release | 30 September – 23 December 1995 |
Chronology | |
Followed by | Mirror, Mirror II |
Mirror, Mirror is a television programme co-produced by Australia and New Zealand. Presented as a single complete story given in a serial with 20 episodes, there are cliffhangers between some of the episodes.
Posie Graeme-Evans created the series, as well as being one of the executive producers. The other executive producers were Dorothee Pinfold and Ian Fairweather.
John Banas, one of the directors of the series, is the father of Michala Banas (who plays the role of "Louisa" in the series). The other director was Sophie Turkiewicz.
Co-writers for the series were Ray Harding, Greg Haddrick, Tony Morphett, Greg Millin, Katherine Thomson, Hilary Bell, Anthony Ellis, Ian Fairweather, Posie Graeme-Evans. The theme song, which was co-written by Chris Harriott (music) and Dennis Watkins (lyrics), was sung by Nadine Weinberger.
When fourteen-year-old Jo Tiegan is shopping with her father in 1995, she notices an antique shop which she feels a compulsion to go to. There she sees a beautiful oval mirror, which she is given as a gift by the elderly owner of the shop — who comments that the mirror is meant for her. Jo is delighted, and the mirror is placed in her bedroom. That night, Jo is stunned to see the image of another girl in the mirror, instead of her own reflection, and it is obvious that the other girl, Louisa Iredale (also fourteen years old), can see her just as clearly. Louisa is able to 'introduce' herself to Jo by writing her name on a book for Jo to read. However, when Jo tries to write her name on the mirror to introduce herself to Louisa, she is startled when the pen begins to disappear into the mirror. After Louisa is called away to dinner, Jo investigates the mystery and is accidentally pulled through the mirror into Louisa's bedroom in 1919. This leads to the discovery, by Jo and Louisa, that they can visit each other's times, through the mirror, any time they want to do so — provided that the mirror is situated in exactly the same place and that the mirror's alignment and orientation are identical within the mirror's frame, at corresponding moments in 1919 and 1995.