Silversun
| Silversun | |
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| Created by | Roger Simpson |
| Written by |
Graeme Farmer Glen Dolman Meg Mappin Kirsty Fisher Andrew Muir Rob George Fiona Wood Ray Boseley Jo Martino Chris Roache |
| Directed by |
Paul Moloney Mandy Smith Pino Amenta |
| Starring |
Ryan Corr Cherise Donovan Angus McLaren Sarah Walker Eloise Mignon |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Mikael Borglund Claire Henderson |
| Producer(s) |
Chris Roache Roger Simpson Roger Le Mesurier Andy Walker |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | 28 June – 1 September 2004 |
Silversun is a science fiction children's television series made in Australia by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
The show features the adventures of the adolescent members of the crew of the Star Runner, an interstellar spaceship carrying a cargo of 550 cryonically suspended colonists to their new home, Silversun.
In the year 2052, the Star Runner and its crew are two years into their 90-year journey to a livable planet 45 light years from Earth. The crew's goal is to get the "New Settlers" safely to the Silversun and begin a colony there. Because of the 90-year-length of the journey, the crew are mostly teenagers who will take over command of the Star Runner as the adults get older.
The ABC began showing Silversun on 11 October 2004 at 5:00pm daily as part of its "ABC Kids" lineup. The final episode of the first season was broadcast on 3 December. Forty episodes of the program were produced, each at twenty-two minutes. The program was originally aired on the Seven Network in two groups of twenty episodes, and then shown again without a mid-way break on the ABC.
Silversun was re-run on Sunday mornings beginning 3 April 2005, until 1 January 2006. It was re-run again in 2009 each weekday at 5:00pm, finishing on 17 September 2009. The ABC has no plans to create another series of the program.
Many Silversun episodes revolved around the relationships and issues experienced by the young crew as part of adolescence. Some episodes dealt with issues of ethics and choices unique to science fiction, such as the question of whether the commander's clone should be treated as human or not, the unique human problems encountered by a crew on a lifelong voyage to the stars, and an encounter with a pulsar whose pulse cycle is in phase with the brainwaves of the crewmember Pancha, to her detriment.
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