Sugar and Spice (Australian TV series)

Australia

The story

Sugar and Spice is an Australian children's television series that was broadcast on ABC TV between 1988 and 1989.

Starring Radha Mitchell as Pixie Robinson and Michelle Kearley as Molly Wilson, the series was set in the 1920s and revolved around two eleven-year-old girls from the Australian bush, who were sent to live with Pixie's grandmother to attend the same private high-school in the city.

The Complete Series was released on DVD in 2008 by Force Entertainment.

Starring

Radha Mitchell as Pixie Robertson
Michelle Kearley as Molly Wilson

Relatives

Howard Bell as Mr Robertson
Louise Siversen as Mrs Beatrice Robertson
Colwyn Roberts as Mr Wilson
Ruth Yaffe as Mrs Edna Wilson
Penelope Shelton as Grandma
Louise Hall as Aunt Vera
Susan Ellis as Anne
Eamonn Kelly as Jimmy
Matthew Newton as Freddo

Friends

Earl Francis as Captain Jack
Esme Melville as Mrs Watson

Teachers

Judith Graham as Mrs Meyer
Marijke Mann as Miss Orrick
Victor Kazan as Jacques Chevrier
Lindy McConchie (Davini Malcolm) as Miss Pittman

Students

Vivienne Walshe as Marguerite Chevrier
Rana Melville-Smith as Louise
Belinda Hutchinson as Lucy Forrest
Penelope MacGowan as Elsie
Georgia Falcke as Mary
Samantha Payne as Esmerelda
Bindi Edwards as Myrtle
Sarah Young as Edith
Nathalie Woolcock as Ruth
Kyra Opray as Meg
Emily Chen as Emily
Elizabeth Catherall as Edna
Kirsten Geary as Ruby
Sandra Willis as Sandra

Episode list

Going Ready or Not.
The Arrival
Froggy
The Best of Enemies
Guiding Hands
The Haunted House
A String of Pearls
The Picnic
To See or Not to See
The Barnstormer
What's Cooking
Birds, Bees and Rabiits
Money Troubles
The Camp Out
The Substitute
Creating a New Molly
Exam time
True or False
The Pageant
Ending or Beginnings

Book

Mary Wright: Sugar and Spice, Puffin Books, 1988, ISBN 978-0-14-032970-4