Foreign Exchange | |
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Also known as | Al otro lado Intercambio extranjero Correspondant express Tam i z powrotem Portal do Intercâmbio Cánh cửa bí mật Tur, retur och mera tur Таинственный портал |
Genre | Fantastic |
Created by | John Rapsey |
Written by | John Rapsey Richard Conroy Armin Prediger Tracey Defty Mark B. Hodkinson Marcus Fleming Annie Fox Bob Swain Marteinn Thorisson |
Directed by | Annie Murtagh-Monks Gillian Reynolos |
Starring |
Lynn Styles Zachary Garred |
Theme music composer | Braedy Neal |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Mary Callery Ralph Christians Jo Horsburgh |
Producer(s) | Susie Campbell Gerry McColgan Hermann Florin Noel Price |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Production company(s) | Southern Star Entertainment |
Release | |
Original network | Nine Network |
Original release | 5 November – 27 December 2004 |
Foreign Exchange is an Australian television programme broadcast by Southern Star from 5 November to 27 December 2004. It starred Lynn Styles as Hannah O'Flaherty, a feisty Irish girl, and Zachary Garred as Brett Miller, a sun-drenched Australian boy. The pair are brought together from opposite sides of the world, due to a transfer portal. The series of 26 episodes was created by the Australian John Rapsey and directed by Annie Murtagh-Monks and Gillian Reynolos.
Foreign Exchange had two major sets, one in Galway, Ireland, and the other in Perth, Western Australia. Brett Miller and his family live underneath their restaurant, only to find a rock that opens a portal into the basement level of O'Keefe's College, an Irish boarding school (which is in reality Castlehackett House, near Tuam, Co. Galway). There he unexpectedly bumps into Hannah O'Flaherty, a student from Galway, who is delighted to learn that when she turns a similar rock on her side of the portal, she can escape the grey and winter of Ireland to the sun and summer of Australia. The show revolves around these two characters, who are the only two to know and use the portal with the exception of Cormac MacNamara, who learns about the portal near the end of the season.