South Seas Setting For TV Series

A Melbourne film company, Pacific Films, began producing a series of TV films in colour in Fiji recently for distribution in the US, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. The series, entitled “Adventures of the Seaspray”, will be mainly for young audiences. It will be in 26 episodes and will depict the adventures of a family aboard a yacht in the South Pacific. The yacht is the NZ vessel “Fitheach Ban” (above) which has been renamed “Seaspray” for the film-making. The family, all Australians, with Walter Brown playing the lead role of Father, is seen below at the mercy of a couple of “baddies”. Inspector Leone Lesi, the only Fiji policeman with a bushy halo of hair, adds a dash of local colour. Fifteen episodes will be made in Fiji, two in New Guinea, and the rest in New Zealand and Australia. The producer is Roger Mirams, of Pacific Films. Photos: Rob Wright.