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The Henderson Kids was an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series made by Crawford Productions
Crawford Productions

Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford, and now owned by the WIN Corporation.The company generally had a reputation for higher quality productions than its nearest rival, the Reg Grundy Organisation....
 for Network Ten
Network Ten

Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial Television broadcasting in Australia. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Western Australia, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country....
 between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the second series.

The series centres around a teenage brother and sister, Steve (Paul Smith
Paul Smith (Australian actor)

Paul Smith is a former Australian actor, most known for his role as the original Simon in the TV sitcom Hey Dad...!, and as Steve in children's series The Henderson Kids....
) and Tamara (Nadine Garner
Nadine Garner

Nadine Lynette Garner is an Australian actress.Garner first came to public attention in 1985, as Tamara Henderson in the Australian TV series, The Henderson Kids, and then in her debut film The Still Point....
) forced to leave the city and move to the country to live with their uncle Mike (Nicholas Eadie
Nicholas Eadie

Nicholas Eadie is an Australian television actor.Born in Sydney, New South Wales to actor and Australian Broadcasting Commission radio announcer Mervyn Eadie, he attended Waverley College from 1968 to 1976, studied Arts at University of New England, Australia for one year in 1977, and studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art from...
), a police officer in the fictional town of Haven Bay, after their mother Alice (Diane Craig
Diane Craig

Diane Mary Craig is an actress born in County Down, Northern Ireland but who is best known for her performances on Australian television.She attended the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts NIDA but left after a year to star in the feature film Ned Kelly alongside Mick Jagger....
) is suddenly killed in a motoring accident (hit by a truck).

The remainder of the series deals with the Henderson kids making a new life in Haven Bay (Birregurra, Victoria
Birregurra, Victoria

Birregurra is a town in Victoria, Australia approximately 130 km south-west of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census in Australia, Birregurra had a population of 688....
) and making friends with the local gang - Ted Morgan (Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn is an Australian actor and musician....
), Colin "Cowboy" Clarke (Mark Hennessy
Mark Hennessy

Mark Hennessey is the vocalist for the Lawrence, Kansas band Paw , and a published poet.Mark moved to Lawrence when he was 17 years old. He went to Kansas University, but dropped out....
), Char Kernow (Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
) and Brian "Brains" Buchanan (Bradley Kilpatrick).






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The Henderson Kids was an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 series made by Crawford Productions
Crawford Productions

Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford, and now owned by the WIN Corporation.The company generally had a reputation for higher quality productions than its nearest rival, the Reg Grundy Organisation....
 for Network Ten
Network Ten

Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial Television broadcasting in Australia. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Western Australia, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country....
 between 1985 and 1987. It was created and storylined by Roger Moulton, who also wrote 5 episodes in the first series and 2 episodes in the second series.

The series centres around a teenage brother and sister, Steve (Paul Smith
Paul Smith (Australian actor)

Paul Smith is a former Australian actor, most known for his role as the original Simon in the TV sitcom Hey Dad...!, and as Steve in children's series The Henderson Kids....
) and Tamara (Nadine Garner
Nadine Garner

Nadine Lynette Garner is an Australian actress.Garner first came to public attention in 1985, as Tamara Henderson in the Australian TV series, The Henderson Kids, and then in her debut film The Still Point....
) forced to leave the city and move to the country to live with their uncle Mike (Nicholas Eadie
Nicholas Eadie

Nicholas Eadie is an Australian television actor.Born in Sydney, New South Wales to actor and Australian Broadcasting Commission radio announcer Mervyn Eadie, he attended Waverley College from 1968 to 1976, studied Arts at University of New England, Australia for one year in 1977, and studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art from...
), a police officer in the fictional town of Haven Bay, after their mother Alice (Diane Craig
Diane Craig

Diane Mary Craig is an actress born in County Down, Northern Ireland but who is best known for her performances on Australian television.She attended the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts NIDA but left after a year to star in the feature film Ned Kelly alongside Mick Jagger....
) is suddenly killed in a motoring accident (hit by a truck).

The remainder of the series deals with the Henderson kids making a new life in Haven Bay (Birregurra, Victoria
Birregurra, Victoria

Birregurra is a town in Victoria, Australia approximately 130 km south-west of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census in Australia, Birregurra had a population of 688....
) and making friends with the local gang - Ted Morgan (Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn is an Australian actor and musician....
), Colin "Cowboy" Clarke (Mark Hennessy
Mark Hennessy

Mark Hennessey is the vocalist for the Lawrence, Kansas band Paw , and a published poet.Mark moved to Lawrence when he was 17 years old. He went to Kansas University, but dropped out....
), Char Kernow (Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
) and Brian "Brains" Buchanan (Bradley Kilpatrick). Finally, they must defend the family land, Hendersons' Point, against the schemes of ruthless businessman Ashley Wheeler (Peter Whitford). Steve falls in love with Wheeler's gorgeous daughter Sylvia (Annie Jones
Annie Jones (actress)

Annie Jones is an Australian actress who is best known for her role of Jane Harris in the soap opera, Neighbours. She had previously appeared in The Henderson Kids and Sons and Daughters ....
), to compound matters. Other co-stars and bit-part characters were played by up-and-coming Australian actors of the time, including Tottie Goldsmith
Tottie Goldsmith

Tottie Goldsmith is an Australian actress and singer....
 (later in pop group Chantoozies), as well as Peter O'Brien
Peter O'Brien

Peter O'Brien , is an Australian actor.O'Brien began his career in the 1980s in Australian television drama series. He played a regular role in short-lived soap opera Starting Out , and had a guest role in Carson's Law followed by a brief appearance in Prisoner in 1994....
, Stefan Dennis
Stefan Dennis

Stefan Dennis is an Australian actor most famous for playing the role of Paul Robinson in the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1985?1993....
, and Jane Hall
Jane Hall (actress)

Jane Hall is an Australian actor and comedian....
 - who all appeared on Neighbours
Neighbours

Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
.

A second series followed in 1987, with Steve and Tamara now living in the city again with their father Walter Mullens (Michael Aitkens
Michael Aitkens

Michael Aitkens is a United Kingdom writer of drama scripts for movies, television, and the traditional stage. He is well known in the UK for the BAFTA nominated BBC situation comedy Waiting for God , first shown in 1990....
) and involved with a new gang of friends, including Vinnie Cerantonio (Alex Papps
Alex Papps

Alex Papps is an Australian actor and television host, who is best known for his role on soap opera Home and Away and as a host of The Factory....
) and brother and sister Carol (Anita Cerdic) and Marty Summers (Nathan Croft).

The Henderson Kids was screened in Gibraltar on GBC TV in the late 80s where it became a huge success in its Sunday 18:30 slot. In the UK, Channel 4
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
 screened the show in the same timeslot but on weekdays, repeating both series several times into the 90s.

Nadine Garner won a TV Week Logie Award
Logie Award

The TV Week Logie Awards are the Television in Australia industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award , the name 'Logie' awards honors John Logie Baird a Scotland who invented the television as a practical medium....
 in 1985, and a Television Society of Australia Penguin Award (1987) for her portrayal of Tamara ("Tam") Henderson.

Only 24 episodes (each series was 12 episodes) were ever filmed of the two series. In 2007, Madman Entertainment released 2 x 3 DVD sets of the series: The Henderson Kids (Series One) and The Henderson Kids II. The only DVD extras are a 13-minute TV promo for series 1 on the The Henderson Kids (Series One) DVD and a short "goof reel" from series two on the The Henderson Kids (Series Two) DVD.

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