The Coral Island (TV series)

The Coral Island
Genreadventure
Written byJames Andrew Hall
Directed byChris Thomson
Ray Brown
Ray Alchin
StarringNicholas Bond-Owen
Gerard Kennedy
ComposerBruce Smeaton
Country of originAustralia
United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes4
Production
Running time40 mins
Original release
NetworkABC
Release1983 (1983)
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The Coral Island is a children's television series, adapted from the 19th-century novel The Coral Island by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne.[1] The series of 4 episodes was a joint production of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Thames Television.[2] It was filmed on location in the western Samoan village of Salamumu and then on the Whitsunday Islands off the Queensland coast in 1981.[3][4]

The series was first broadcast in Australia on ABC-TV on 6 January 1983.[5]

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