# ID two (possibly) Australian TV youth shows

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 10, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-two-possibly-australian-tv-youth-shows/524345 "2010-01-10T01:48:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-two-possibly-australian-tv-youth-shows/524345/1 "2010-01-10T01:48:07Z")

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One had some sort of fiendish fellow, with a mustache, living with some sort of horrible creature in his basement. His chauffeur was sometimes asked to feed it, which was evidently an unpleasant affair. His schemes were constantly thwarted by a team of teenagers, as in all such shows, and in the end the creature was released upon him (all we saw was a claw of some sort appearing at the side of the screen.)

The other I remember little of except a very odd scene. It may not even be a kids show at all. Two men are chasing two teenagers, the teenagers escape by sliding down tunnels of some sorts. The two men pause to turn into some sort of hideous, green, slimey creatures, that then proceed to slide down the tubes after them.

Sounds strange, but such things that I’ve remembered in the past have [held to be true](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=379002).

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-two-possibly-australian-tv-youth-shows/524345/2 "2010-01-10T02:00:49Z")

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The first one certainly sounds familiar. But I can’t recall enough detail to help you.

However, the second one is [Under The Mountain](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Mountain), a New Zealand show from the early 80s. It has just right now immediately been remade into [a movie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_The_Mountain_%282009_film%29).

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-two-possibly-australian-tv-youth-shows/524345/3 "2010-01-10T19:46:15Z")

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Thanks for remembering more clearly than I did 🙂

Australia seemed to produce quite a few decent kids SF shows in the day, those two amongst them.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-two-possibly-australian-tv-youth-shows/524345/4 "2010-01-10T22:56:03Z")

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New Zealand and Australia are two different countries. But more interestingly, the kinds of TV shows each produced, especially for kids, have always been quite different to each other.

Nothing in NZ was quite like _The Lost Islands_ or _Secret Valley_, and nothing in AU was quite like _Children of the Dog Star_ or _The Kids From O.W.L_.

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-two-possibly-australian-tv-youth-shows/524345/5 "2010-01-10T22:58:25Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> New Zealand and Australia are two different countries

:smack:

Yes, _very_ different.