The Coral Island (TV series)
| The Coral Island | |
|---|---|
| Genre | adventure |
| Written by | James Andrew Hall |
| Directed by | Chris Thomson Ray Brown Ray Alchin |
| Starring | Nicholas Bond-Owen Gerard Kennedy |
| Composer | Bruce Smeaton |
| Country of origin | Australia United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 40 mins |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | 1983 |
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.