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Coral Island (1983)

Coral Island poster
Original title
The Coral Island
Genre
action & adventure
Country
Australia
Length
1 season, 9 episodes
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three boys are shipwrecked on a tropical island and must survive together. They explore the island and encounter various challenges, including pirates and native conflicts.

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What happens

The Coral Island is a children's television series, adapted from the 19th-century novel The Coral Island by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. The series of 4 episodes was a joint production of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Thames Television. It was filmed on location in the western Samoan village of Salamumu and then on the Whitsunday Islands off the Queensland coast in 1981. The series was first broadcast in Australia on ABC-TV on 6 January 1983. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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