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A small group of children live on Io, one of Jupiter's moons, where their parents operate a research and mining outpost. When one of Io's volcanoes explodes, the outpost begins to break apart, and the group must flee. Finding a derelict space station in orbit around Jupiter, they convert it into a workable spaceship and begin the slow and dangerous journey back to Earth.
The program was followed by a sequel, Return to Jupiter. Escape from Jupiter was never released in its entirety on either VHS or DVD, but a two-hour 'film version' was released.
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Screen Australia lists Ian Munro as an author on the film version of Escape from Jupiter, but not on the television series. Conversely, they list Martin Daley as an author for the television series but not for the film version.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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y
Escape from Jupiter
Sydney
:
ABC Books
,
1994
Z1181247
1994
single work
children's fiction
children's
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form
y
Escape from Jupiter : Movie
( dir. Kate Woods
et. al. )agent
Australia
:
Australian Children's Television Foundation
,
1994
7251434
1994
single work
film/TV
children's
young adult
science fiction
A cut-down version of the television series Escape from Jupiter, designed for release on video and later DVD.
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form
y
Return to Jupiter
( dir. Robert Klenner
)
Lindfield
:
Film Australia
,
1997
Z1844458
1997
series - publisher
film/TV
children's
science fiction
young adult
In this sequel to David Ogilvy's Escape from Jupiter, the colonists are preparing to return to a newly established mining colony on Ganymede, Jupiter's moon. The journey is rendered more dangerous by instability and tensions among the crew members, a malfunctioning computer, a stowaway, and the various dangers of space itself (such as asteroids).
As with Ogilvy's previous work, the focus is strongly on the child protagonists, rather than the adult characters.
