Pirate Islands
| Pirate Islands | |
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Pirate Islands Title Screen
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| Genre |
Sci-Fi Children's Adventure |
| Created by |
Jonathan M. Shiff Greg Millin |
| Directed by | Richard Jasek |
| Starring |
Brooke Harman Eliza Taylor-Cotter Nicholas Donaldson Oliver Ackland Collin Moody Darcy Bonser Lucia Smyrk Madeleine Jay |
| Composer(s) | Danny Beckerman Rik Formona |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jonathan M. Shiff Kay Ben M'Rad |
| Producer(s) | Daniel Scharf Jonathan M. Shiff |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Jonathan M. Shiff Productions Banana Media |
| Distributor | ZDF Enterprises |
| Release | |
| Original network | Network Ten |
| Original release | 3 March – 30 June 2003 |
Pirate Islands is an Australian children's television program screened on Network Ten in 2003. The show was re-broadcast on 4Kids TV in 2003, which was called the FoxBox at the time. It has also screened on Nickelodeon UK in early 2008. A sequel called Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji screened on Network Ten in 2007. It has also screened on the Disney Channel Australia and on the CITV Channel in the United Kingdom. In Vietnam, it is aired on VTC9 - Let's Viet (Aug, Sept-2009), and also screened in Spain and Portugal by the Disney Channel.
Kate Redding, a sister of Nicholas and Sarah, is playing a new computer game called Pirate Islands, which has been created by her father. After Sarah tampers with the computer scanner, lightning strikes the house, and the scanner goes wild, zapping the three siblings inside the computer game. After teleporting inside the game, Kate meets Mars, the main character of the video game. Blackheart, the pirate captain, takes the siblings aboard the pirate ship and threatens to walk them off the plank, Mars climbs aboard and cuts the rope, causes the sails to fall against the pirates, the siblings escape and attempt to find their scanner, only to be cornered by the pirates and drop it into Blackheart's grasp, who uses it unknowingly to zap his crew-mate, causing him to pixelate and melt.
Kate discovers that users are transported between islands in the game through icons, after jumping inside, she ends up on castaway island only to find that Carmen, the second in command, has stolen all the items from Kate's bedroom. The pirates arrive and chase the gang off the island, causing Sarah to trip against a tree trunk which triggers a secret entrance inside the tree, which contains stairways up towards a hidden treehouse, the gang store their few belongings and decide to call this place their new home.
A hidden cabinet inside the tree house stores wet boots, which are found by Kate, who discovers they are power-ups in the game which allows the characters to walk on water, after raiding the pirate ship and discovering a treasure map, Blackheart reappears and threatens them with the scanner, but Mars knocks it out of his hand and they escape from the ship. Kate, furious, returns the next day with the power-up boots and takes control of the ship, stealing the scanner and escaping, she discovers back at the treehouse the batteries are dead as Blackheart has used it multiple times, saddened by this outcome, Kate announces they will have to stay here, 'A little bit longer.'
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