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Sugar and Spice (1988)

Sugar and Spice poster
Genre
children's television
Country
Australia
Length
1 season, 20 episodes
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two eleven-year-old girls from the Australian bush are sent to live with one of their grandmothers in the city so they can attend a private high school together in the 1920s.

lightheartednostalgicgentlesimplechildhoodperiod piecewhimsicaleverydayearnest

What happens

Sugar and Spice is an Australian children's television series that was broadcast on ABC TV between 1988 and 1989. Starring Radha Mitchell as Pixie Robinson and Michelle Kearley as Molly Wilson, the series was set in the 1920s and revolved around two eleven-year-old girls from the Australian bush, who were sent to live with Pixie's grandmother to attend the same private high-school in the city. The Complete Series was released on DVD in 2008 by Force Entertainment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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