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Jeopardy

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Jeopardy is a BAFTA award-winning British television series which ran for three seasons, from 2002 to 2004, on BBC One. It was created by Tim O'Mara who also directed, and all three series were produced by Andy Rowley, with Richard Langridge as executive producer for Wark Clements. It has aired numerous times on the ABC Kids segment, RollerCoaster. The series was produced for CBBC Scotland and filmed on location in both Scotland and Australia. CBBC currently have no plans for it to be re-aired, the last re-run being in 2008. In 2002, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awarded the first series Best Children's Drama. Jeopardy still airs in Australia on ABC3 and, as of 10 September 2010, ABC1.

Apr 26, 20023 seasons40 episodesEndedEN

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Tammy Macintosh

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Seasons

Season 1

13 episodes

Premiered Apr 26, 2002

Season 2

13 episodes

Premiered May 12, 2003

Season 3

14 episodes

Premiered Feb 9, 2005

Episodes

1–6 of 13

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Ep 1

Pilot

Apr 26, 2002

25m

A search and rescue team are in the Australian outback searching an abandon camp site, when they find a video cartridge and put into a video recorder. And shows us... Eight Scottish kids, Harry, Lucy, Simon, Chrissie, David, Sarah, Leon and Shona and their teacher, Gerry. Are part of a UFO club at their school in Falkirk. They are given a video diary before they leave on a trip to Australia to study a reported UFO sighting. When they arrive at Australia they meet the head ranger, Arnie and the park ranger who is going with them, Melissa. Melissa takes Arnie to one side and tells him that they have been having radio problems in the area they are camping at and she doesn't know the area that well. Chrissie gets jealous of Shona and sabotages the medical supplies. That night,after they set up. Sarah hears a noise outside, so she goes of to investigate and finds her self face to face with bright flashing lights. The camera stops (end of episode)

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Ep 2

Episode 2

May 3, 2002

25m

Sarah bursts into the tent and tells the others that she has seen a UFO. The others don't believe her, so she says she'll show them the recording she filmed. When she rewinds the video she discovers that she has accidentally taped over it. The next day they are split up into groups. Lucy and Sarah go and dig some toilet holes for the campers. Melissa, Leon and David go and try to find some water. They find a river and they notice an abandon canoe, which they find some backpacks and a newspaper dating ten years back,open to an article on a UFO sighting in the area. Meanwhile Simon and Chrissie go and set up the monitoring equipment. On their way back they notice a mound a believe it is an aboriginal tombstone. Back at the camp Gerry tells Shona and Harry what got him interested in UFOs. When the others come back Simon and Chrissie tells them about the tomb stone. The others want to see it. When they arrive Melissa tells them it only a magnetic termite mound. Later Simon leaves his boats

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Ep 3

Episode 3

May 10, 2002

25m

Melissa tells the group that they have three choices. 1.) Melissa goes back to the jeep and get the medical supplies and bring them back. 2.) They all carry Leon back to the jeep and treat him there 3.) They keep using the radio in hopes of getting contact and get Leon air lifted out. David tells the others that there is an option four, which is that they use a natural remedy, which the aboriginals used. Melissa decides that it would be best for her to go back to the jeeps alone. David and Harry go off to find leeches to suck out the poison out of Leon's blood. Meanwhile Gerry questions his role as a leader, Simon over hears Gerry and gets the others in for a meeting. Simon suggests that they elect someone to be the new leader. David and Harry find the leeches and head back to the camp sight, but end up getting lost, because their compass stop working. When they hear a rustling in the bushes and run and end back at the camp. Melissa arrives at the jeeps and discovers that

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Ep 4

Episode 4

May 17, 2002

25m

Melissa comes round and discovers the jeep is hanging over the edge of a cliff. Melissa manages to get out; while trying to get the radio the jeep ends up falling over. Melissa decides to head back to the camp. Meanwhile Gerry, David, Harry and Chrissie go off to set up the monitoring equipment. Back at the camp Sarah and Simon talk about there lucky items. David is upset to discovers that Harry has stopped taking his medicine for his epilepsy. That night Melissa sets off one of the flares. The rest of the group see the flares but think it is alien, which causes Chrissie to freak out. The next day Melissa is walking back when she believes that she is being followed and freaks out and breaks out into a run screaming, into the video camera that they where right, that they are being watched. Back at the camp Leon breaks out into fits saying Melissa is in danger, and that Gerry, David and Sarah know what the danger is. Melissa falls over and looks up and screams, and there is a blinding

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Ep 5

Episode 5

May 24, 2002

25m

Gerry begins to worry when Melissa doesn't return, so he decides they need to carry Leon back themselves. Meanwhile Simon and Lucy go off to check the monitoring equipment, when Lucy falls in a hole, which Simon says might be an animal trap. When they get to they find one tree burnt. David and Harry go fishing and return to discover that Chrissie had left the lid of the food and that ants infested the food, and bit Chrissie. After Shona treats Chrissie. Chrissie breaks down and tells them that she took some of the medicine out of the medical kit, as a joke. Gerry tells the others that they need to carry Leon back, nd the others agree. However the girls are upset to learn that they'll be left behind. While walking Leon gets up and says he is fine. A little while later he collapses and the guys put him back on to the stretcher. Simon, who is reading the map, gets the group lost. Which causes Gerry and the others to get upset, because the jeeps are one and a half miles away (the other sid

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Ep 6

Episode 6

May 31, 2002

25m

David and Simon go down to the gully to try and find Gerry, but all they find is Gerry's backpack and signs off some one being dragged. Back at the camp the girls get into an argument and Chrissie runs off. Sarah and Lucy go and look for Chrissie. Chrissie spots a plane and starts screaming and trying to wave it down. Sarah and Lucy find Chrissie and think she might be going crazy. Back at the gully Harry begins to get sick of waiting and decides to carry Leon to the jeeps himself. Harry finds the medical supplies scattered every where and the anti-venom in a ring of rocks. David and Simon arrive at the jeep and decide that Gerry might have gone back to the camp and decide to head back. They find Harry and Leon, being instructed by Shona, over the radio, David gives Leon the anti-venom. The boys get the jeep bogged and decide to walk, Leon says he feels much better and walks as well. David mistake's a Kola's mating call for Gerry. Leon needs to lie down so they decide to spend the

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