Spellbinder (TV series)
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Spellbinder intertitle
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| Genre | Fantasy, Teen drama, Science fiction |
| Created by | Mark Shirrefs
John Thomson
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| Written by | Mark Shirrefs
John Thomson
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| Directed by | Noel Price |
| Starring |
Zbych Trofimiuk
Gosia Piotrowska
Brian Rooney
Michela Noonan
Heather Mitchell
Andrew McFarlane
Krzysztof Kumor
Rafal Zwierz
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| Composer(s) | Ian Davidson |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Ron Saunders
Kris Noble
Andrzej Stempowski
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| Producer(s) | Noel Price |
| Cinematography | Mieczyslaw Anweiler |
| Running time | 24–25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Telewizja Polska, Film Australia |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nine Network |
| Original release | 9 January – 4 July 1995 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord (1997) |
Spellbinder (Polish: Dwa światy (Two worlds)) is a fantasy teen drama/science fiction television series, produced by Film Australia and 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 novelised by the creators, Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson.
The shots were taken both in Australia which represented the "modern" world (Sydney, Blue Mountains) and in Poland where most pictures that featured the parallel world were shot (, Ogrodzieniec, Zawiercie, Czocha Castle).
Spellbinder was followed by, Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord, in which Heather Mitchell reprises her role as Ashka.
A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders. Paul meets a girl there named Riana, and they become friends.
The Spellbinders have discovered the power to create and manipulate static electricity. They fly in gigantic copper-coloured machines that utilise large rotating orange crystals, presumably creating some form of magnetic levitation. The Spellbinders often use their power for good, but some abuse this power and use their discoveries for malevolence. One such malevolent Spellbinder is Ashka, who often manages to hide her true nature. Common people are often "banished" for their misdeeds, and sometimes Spellbinders are banished, also, if they are proven to have done wrong.
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