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Plot Summary:
The Finder, also known as Finders Keepers, is an Australian children's television show, directed by Scott Hicks, that first aired on 28 October 1991, based on a book by Emily Rodda. The story revolves around a boy by called Patrick who, whilst playing on his computer, receives an invitation to take part on a TV game show called "Finders Keepers" through a store in a shopping arcade. He accepts the invitation and is sucked into another world where he is given clues to find missing treasures from his own world and take part in an interdimensional hunt. The show aired on ABC TV and lasted for two series, each consisting of five episodes. Most of the shopping centre scenes were filmed at Northpark Shopping Centre in Prospect, Adelaide, South Australia, which has been heavily renovated since the airing of the show. Some scenes were filmed at Sefton Plaza directly across the road which remains largely unchanged. The show simply pretends both shopping centres are the same place. Other locations include Botanic Park and the Dry Creek salt pans.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 10 min
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Enchanted Musical Playhouse: The Velveteen Rabbit (1984)
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A sick boy's toy rabbit comes to life. Part of the Enchanted Musical Playhouse series. Marie Osmond played the part of the Velveteen Rabbit. Songs were composed by the Sherman Brothers.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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The Demon Headmaster (1996)
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The Demon Headmaster is a British television series based on the children's books by Gillian Cross of the same name. Made for CBBC, the drama was first broadcast between 1996 and 1998. The first series contained six episodes, and aired twice weekly from 2 to 18 January 1996, the second series contained seven episodes, and aired once a week from 25 September to 6 November 1996, and the third series contained six episodes, and aired twice weekly from 6 to 22 January 1998. School location scenes in the first series were filmed at Hatch End High School, in Hatch End, Harrow, North West London and The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Other scenes were filmed around West London and the Vulcan Tower is in fact the Atrium building in Uxbridge. CGI was used to make this building appear on a traffic island close to Warwick Avenue tube station. Some scenes in the later series were filmed in the village of Sarratt, Hertfordshire and other locations in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2023)
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Diego and his friends spend the summer at the camp run by Pompilio Calderón, an eccentric explorer. There they find a medallion that belonged to Pola, Diego's grandmother. Following in her footsteps, they will experience incredible adventures in a parallel dimension as they try to save the planet from disaster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Colombia
Duration: 30 min
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Pig's Breakfast (1999)
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Pig's Breakfast is an Australian children's television series that was broadcast in 1999. The story involves two aliens, Meeba and Grob, who have crashed at a television studio on Earth in a galactic school bus. A producer at the station finds them and puts them in a TV show, thinking that the aliens are actors in costumes. Her two children, Rodney and Lucy, are the only ones who know that they are actually aliens.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
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The Changes (1975)
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When a strange noise is emitted from machinery and electricity pylons, previously placid and easy-going folk turn violent against the technology that surrounds them, ruthlessly attacking radios, TVs and other domestic appliances. In the devastating aftermath, young Nicky Gore (Victoria Williams) is separated from her parents and finds a surrogate home with a group of Sikhs. But they soon are dubbed ‘The Devil’s Children’ by superstitious locals and Nicky is accused of sorcery by a witch-finder. In grave danger, she is forced to find a way to escape, find her parents and uncover what caused the world to become so unbalanced. (BFI).
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
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The Magician's House (1999)
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The Magician's House is a quartet of children's fantasy books by William Corlett. Two mini-series were produced in 1999 for British television, which were directed by Paul Lynch. The series featured Jennifer Saunders and Stephen Fry voicing some of the animal characters. The books were published in the early 1990s, and named as follows: ⁕The Steps up the Chimney ⁕The Door in the Tree ⁕The Tunnel behind the Waterfall ⁕The Bridge in the Clouds Although in a rural setting, this series' focus on subjects such as industrial development and the combining of present-day and past settings in the plotline gives it a feeling tending more towards urban fantasy than simply contemporary fantasy. In addition, though there is no specific mention of Welsh myths and legends, the strong part nature plays in the stories and the settings bring to mind other British children's authors. Authors like Alan Garner, who is perhaps best known for The Owl Service and Elidor, and Susan Cooper, famous for The Dark Is Rising sequence of books, who allude more specifically to British myth and legend in their writings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 30 min
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Today's Special (1981)
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Today's Special was a Canadian children's television show produced by Clive VanderBurgh at TVOntario from 1981 to 1987. It also ran on Nickelodeon and the Faith and Values Channel/Odyssey as well as many PBS stations throughout the United States. It was set in a department store, based on the flagship location of the now defunct Simpson's in Toronto. Many sequences for it were shot at the Queen Street West and Yonge Street store after hours.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: educational
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Jackanory (1965)
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Jackanory is a long-running BBC children's television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show was first transmitted on 13 December 1965, the first story being the fairy-tale Cap-o'-Rushes read by Lee Montague. Jackanory continued to be broadcast until 1996, clocking up around 3,500 episodes in its 30-year run. The final story, The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, was read by Alan Bennett and broadcast on 24 March 1996. The show returned on 27 November 2006 for two one-off stories. The show's format, which varied little over the decades, involved an actor reading from children's novels or folk tales, usually while seated in an armchair. From time to time the scene being read would be illustrated by a specially commissioned still drawing, often by Quentin Blake. Usually a single book would occupy five daily fifteen-minute episodes, from Monday to Friday. A spin off series was Jackanory Playhouse which were a series of thirty minute dramatisations. These included a dramatisation by Philip Glassborow of the comical A. A. Milne story "The Princess Who Couldn't Laugh".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime, children's story
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Dark Season (1991)
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Dark Season is a British science-fiction television serial for adolescents, screened on BBC1 in late 1991. Comprising six twenty-five minute episodes, the two linked three-part stories tell the adventures of three teenagers and their battle to save their school and their classmates from the actions of the sinister Mr Eldritch. It was the first television drama to be written by Russell T Davies, and is also noteworthy for co-starring a young Kate Winslet in her first major television role.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
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Cybergirl (2001)
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Cybergirl is an Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in Australia. The 26 episode series was created by Jonathan M. Shiff, whose previous series include the BAFTA-award-winning Ocean Girl. Cybergirl has also screened on ABC on 6:00am, Thursday and on other networks outside Australia. In 2007 it aired as Cy-An 6000 on the Kabillion on-demand network but no reason is given for the name change.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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The Hoobs (2001)
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The Hoobs is a BAFTA-winning television programme created and produced by The Jim Henson Company and Sesame Workshop.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, UK, Canada, USA, British Virgin Islands
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Plot tags: educational, feel good, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
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Lightning Point (2012)
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When a spaceship carrying pretty, teen aliens Zoey and Kiki lands in the quiet Australian surf town of Lightning Point, the girls have to befriend local surfiegirl Amber and let her in on their secret. But while the duo learns about Earth, surf and falling in love, the girls soon realize that they aren't the first extraterrestrial visitors.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating
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The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)
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Four young children hope for anything to happen and, when they become owners of the Phoenix, their adventure begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
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Sky (1975)
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Sky is a mystically-oriented children's science fantasy television serial made for ITV by HTV and broadcast in seven parts from April 7 to May 14, 1975. A mysterious alien boy with strange solid blue eyes, the eponymous Sky, finds himself on Earth. He uses his psychic powers for achieve his goal of ensuring a way back home. Sky finds the very world soul of Earth in the form of nature, only to reject him the way an immune system might an infection. In his quest to return home, he joins his destiny with that of three human children. The serial was written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, also known for their scripts for Doctor Who and a fantasy television series for children, Into the Labyrinth. Although the series was kept on 2" videotape into the 1990s, during a transfer to film stock episodes 3 and 7 were damaged beyond repair. The series was finally released by Network DVD in May 2009, with the damaged segments replaced by inferior, but watchable, VHS copies of the episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
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Bernard's Watch (1997)
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Bernard's Watch is a British children's drama series about a young boy who can stop time with a magical pocket watch. The show was created by Andrew Norriss and was produced for seven series that aired on CITV from 14 November 1997 to 31 March 2005.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 20 min
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Thunderstone (1999)
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The year is 2020. Fifteen-year-old Noah lives with his family in the futuristic underground community of North Col. The world above is a frozen wasteland after a massive comet strike destroyed all other life in the world including the animals. One night, he accidentally time travels to the future and finds himself trapped in the year 2085 in a desolate desert place called Haven with a group of children, the Nomads, led by Arushka.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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K9 (2009)
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K-9 is a British/Australian comedy/adventure series focusing on the adventures of the robot dog K-9 from the television show Doctor Who, achieved by mixing computer animation and live action. The first episode aired as a sneak preview of the series on Halloween 2009 on satellite channel Disney XD in the UK & Ireland. As of October 2010, the full series has commenced airing on Network Ten in Australia, Disney XD in the UK & Ireland; Scandinavia, Poland, Italy and The Netherlands and Disney Channel CEE in Bulgaria, Romania, Moldava, Slovakia, Hungary and The Czech Republic. A second series is in development and the first season is due to be syndicated around the globe, with two confirmed networks, Channel 5 in the UK and Cartoon Network in New Zealand, other networks have yet to be announced. In the UK, Channel 5 broadcast the first season between December 2010 and April 2011. The US cable channel Syfy began airing the series on 25 December 2012, initially by broadcasting the entire first season in an all-day marathon.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, semi serious, captivating, apocalyptic, suspenseful
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The Genie From Down Under (1996)
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The Genie From Down Under is an Australian children's comedy television series. It was a co-production between the ACTF, the BBC and the ABC from 1995 to 1998. It was released on video in the 1990s, and is available for order via the ACTF website or Purchase on iTunes.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Family, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
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The Boy from Andromeda (1991)
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On a holiday to Mt Tarawera, teenager Jenny finds an odd shard of metal. In this third episode of the kids sci-fi series she meets its owner: 'Drom' — a survivor of an alien mission to deactivate a planet-annihilating space gun (aka Tarawera itself). They find themselves under siege from a Predator-like 'Guardian' of the gun. If Drom and Jenny and local kids Tessa and Lloyd can't defeat the mechanoid, catastrophe is imminent! The South Pacific Pictures series found international sales and cult repute.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 97 min
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Ocean Girl (1994)
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Ocean Girl is an Australian science fiction TV series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character. The show is set in the near future, and focuses on an unusual girl named Neri who lives alone on an island, and the friendships she develops with the inhabitants of an underwater research facility called ORCA. The show is an example of deep ecology science fiction. Ocean Girl inspired an animated series, The New Adventures of Ocean Girl, which ran from 2000 to 2001, and has since been released on DVD. The animated series is in a distinct reboot separate from the original live-action show.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, semi serious
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The Box of Delights (1984)
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Based on the classic children's novel by John Masefield, the story follows the exploits of a young boy, Kay Harker, who finds himself drawn into a world of magic and danger when he encounters an old Punch and Judy man.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min
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Land of the Lost (1974)
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Rick Marshall and his children Will and Holly were on a weekend expedition rafting trough a river when an enormous earthquake diverts them to an eclectic alien world inhabited by dinosaurs, chimpanzee-like cavemen called Pakuni, and aggressive, humanoid creatures called Sleestak.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, stylized, semi serious, epic fantasy, vintage, weird
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Dinotopia (2002)
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Carl and David, two boys flying a small aircraft over the ocean with their father, crash land near an uncharted island. The boys swim safely to shore, but their father unfortunately drowns in the crash. On their own, the brothers explore the island and soon discover it is not only inhabited by people, but by dinosaurs as well! While the place seems easy enough to get used to, the boys must find a way of returning to their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 250 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, feel good, captivating, colorful, epic, mockbuster, colourful
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Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989)
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Based on "Prince Caspian" and "Voyage of the Dawn Treader". Prince Caspian escapes his uncles assassination attempt and call for the aid of four young children from our world. Then, they go for a voyage over the sea to find six missing noblemen and a way to Aslan's kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, saga, stylized, semi serious
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The Odyssey (1992)
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The Odyssey is a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-94 on CBC Television. It starred Illya Woloshyn as Jay Ziegler, Ashleigh Aston Moore as Donna/Alpha, Tony Sampson as Keith/Flash, Andrea Nemeth as Medea/Sierra Jones, Mark Hildreth as Finger, Ryan Reynolds as Macro, Janet Hodgkinson as Val Ziegler, and Devon Sawa as Yudo.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, feel good, serious, captivating
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The Zack Files (2000)
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The Zack Files is a science fiction television program that revolves around a young boy, played by Robert Clark, who is a magnet for paranormal activity and attends Horace White High School for Boys along with his three friends Cam, Gwen, and Spencer. Zack manages to get himself into trouble with his paranormal adventures and it is up to his friends to help him set things straight. The series is based on a series of books with the same name, written by Dan Greenburg. In August 2004, Goldhill Home Media released the first season on DVD.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, offbeat, nostalgic
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The Girl from Tomorrow (1991)
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The Girl from Tomorrow is an Australian children's television series created by Film Australia. The series is based around Alana, a girl from the year 3000. At the start of the series, she is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500, and brought back in time to the year 1992. While in the year 1992, she befriends Jenny, who helps Alana adapt to life in a time unfamiliar to her, and later helps her to return to her own time. A sequel series, The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End aired in 1993.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, children's program, exciting, clever, serious, captivating, iconic, nostalgic
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The Lost Saucer (1975)
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The Lost Saucer is an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It first aired September 6, 1975.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Spellbinder (1995)
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Spellbinder is a fantasy teen drama/science fiction television series, produced by Film Australia & Telewizja Polska in association with the Australian Children's Television Foundation. The series is a 1995 serial of 26 episodes, co-produced between Australia and Poland. It was also novelized by the creators, Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson. The shots were taken both in Australia which represented the "modern" world and in Poland where most pictures that featured the parallel world were shot. Spellbinder was followed by, Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord, in which Heather Mitchell reprises her role as Ashka.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Poland
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, semi serious, captivating, humorous, nostalgic
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The Worst Witch (2017)
Plot Summary:
Join Mildred Hubble in CBBC's adaptation of The Worst Witch books, written by Jill Murphy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, feel good, light, captivating, spooky