Cybergirl
Entry updated 5 October 2023. Tagged: TV.
Australian tv series (2001-2002). Production companies include Jonathan M Shiff Productions. Melbourne Film Office for Network Ten. Created by Jonathan M Shiff. Executive producers include Kay Lawrence and Shiff. Produced by Daniel Scharf. Directors include Michael Carson and Mark Defriest. Writers include Barbara Bishop, Everett De Roche, Annie Fox and David Phillips. Cast includes Ric Anderson, Septimus Caton, Jennifer Congram, Ania Stepien, Craig Horner and Mark Owen-Taylor. 26 25-minute episodes. Color.
Juvenile Superhero mini-series about a blue-haired, bronze-skinned "prototype 6000 cybernetic human replicant" from a distant planet who crash-lands on Earth in the fictional Australian "River City", based on and filmed in Brisbane. Cybergirl (Stepien), who adopts the earthly disguise of Ashley Campbell, has the traditional Superpowers of super-speed and super-strength, and additionally can control Computer systems with her mind. Using a chameleon-like ability, she disguises herself as a normal-appearing teenager, and is informally adopted by Hugh Campbell (Owen-Taylor) and his teenage son, Jackson (Horner). She is continually pursued by two replicants from her own planet, Xanda (Congram) and Isaac (Anderson), who want to destroy her, and by Rhyss (Caton), a power-crazy human software tycoon who wants to achieve control of the entire City. Halfway through the series the three of these combine forces, but Cybergirl naturally wins in the end. [LW]
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