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Mission Top Secret
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Mission Top Secret was an Australian TV series that aired between 1992 and 1995, featuring a secret international network of spy kids fighting evil businessman Neville Savage. The plot of the first season kicks off when 12 year old Jemma (who lives on a farm that doubles as a secret laboratory for her mother's boss, the brilliant electronics inventor Sir Joshua Cranberry) accidentally taps into a disused communications satellite with Sir Joshua's supercomputer. She uses the satellite to form Alpha Centauri, a network of children around the world, named after the constellation the satellite is in. Officially the kids help each other with schoolwork, unofficially they fight international crime.When recently orphaned Vicky and Albert Wiggings (Sir Joshua's niece and nephew) become the target of the nefarious crime lord Neville Savage (who is after technology their parents worked on), Alpha Centauri comes to their aid. After they thwart Savage, Sir Joshua becomes their caretaker, and together with their friend Spike they come to live at the farm. Vicky and Albert travel with Sir Joshua around the world and assist local Centauri agents to uncover Savage's evil plans with the help of Sir Joshua's inventions.In the second season, Jemma, Vicky and Albert no longer live on the farm. Sir Joshua is joined on his travels by the children of his new housekeeper, Kat and David Fowler, while Sandy (one of Savage's henchmen from the first season that turned good) joins Spike at the base. Von Steinforth, the villain-of-the-week from the arc in Germany returned as a recurring antagonist.The series featured missions foreign locales, and was made as a co-production with broadcasters in those countries. A prominent feature of the series was the use of the futuristic spy-gadgets that Sir Joshua invented, most notably the PCU: a high tech pocket computer/communicator/satnav/lock pick - basically a smartphone 15 years before the term was invented. | |
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Off-the-Shelf FX: The PCU is a modified Sharp Wizard IQ-7000 Electronic Organizer | |
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Multinational Team | |
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Multinational Team: Centauri has agents all over the world (at least in Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Poland, Japan, England, Ireland and South Africa) | |
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Magic Tool | |
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Magic Tool: Sir Joshua's communicators can be used for video calls, high resolution photography and GPS navigation (basically the same functionality of a modern day smartphone), but can also hack into nearby electronic devices and even pick (mechanical) locks. | |
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You Meddling Kids | |
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You Meddling Kids: How Savage views Centauri. | |
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Snooping Little Kid | |
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Snooping Little Kid: A whole bunch of them | |
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Kid Hero | |
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Kid Hero: A whole bunch of them | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: Sandy in season two. | |
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Hollywood Hacking | |
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Hollywood Hacking: Jemma removes a virus from the Computer using a Pac-Man style cleanup procedure. | |
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Interrogation by Vandalism | |
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Interrogation by Vandalism: Neville Savage uses this to interrogate a museum curator, although he was using fakes (which made stark contrast with his decision to execute the curator and his grandson - along with Sir Joshua - later in the same arc). | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Savage and his cronies have absolutely no problem with physically harming children or intentionally putting them in situations that would lead to their deaths. | |
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Technology Marches On | |
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Technology Marches On / Unintentional Period Piece: In an era where mobile phones were bulky and only used by a select few, devices like GPS trackers and pocket computers that could make international video calls were considered science fiction. Nowadays, smartphones can basically do the same as the PCU. Similarly, the concept of kids casually video calling each other around the globe was revolutionary in an decade where the Internet and e-mail were in their infancy and even international phone calls could be a hassle to set up (and very expensive). | |
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Multi-Part Episode | |
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Multi-Part Episode: The two seasons consist of several four episode story arcs ("chapters") | |
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Framed Clue | |
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Framed Clue: The floppy disk containing information on the Astrotel satellite is hidden behind a picture of Vicky, Albert and their parents. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Sandy | |
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VillainOfTheWeek | |
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Villain of the Week: In the first season, every chapter has different henchmen who assist Savage and inevitably end up arrested (or otherwise punished for their crimes) during the last episode, while Savage escapes. Von Steinforth returns as The Dragon in season 2. | |
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Trouble Follows You Home | |
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Trouble Follows You Home: In the last series of the first season, Savage decides he has enough of Alpha Centauri and places a spy at the base to infect the Computer with a virus and manipulates Centauri from within. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Neville 'Savage' | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Jemma, Andrew and Vicki disappear between seasons one and two. Sandy replaces Jenna to join Spike at the base, and Kat and David Fowler join Sir Joshua on his travels. | |
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Harmless Lady Disguise | |
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Harmless Lady Disguise: Neville Savage once disguised himself as an old lady with his accomplice pushing "her" wheelchair. It allowed him to pass under the protagonists' nose, but they later find the discarded costume. | |
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Cliff Hanger | |
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Cliffhanger: Usually there's one per episode. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Neville Savage. | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: After Centauri has thwarted one too many of his criminal schemes and got most of his henchmen arrested, Savage decides to take down the organisation itself. | |
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Jail Bake | |
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Jail Bake: At the start of the second season, the security of the prison Neville Savage is about to escape is demonstrated by having the guards screen all incoming mail with an X-ray machine. The lead guard then triumphantly pulls a file out of a cake. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: The adults aren't useless per se, but it's always the kids that manage to uncover the evil plots which the adults are oblivious to. And while certainly a competent scientist, Sir Joshua is of course also a bit of a Bungling Inventor. | |
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Mission Control | |
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Mission Control: Jemma and Spike in season one, Spike and Sandy in season two | |
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Voice Changeling | |
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Voice Changeling: On his first appearance, Von Steinforth uses a voice-changer to mimic the voice of one of the heroes, and lure Sir Joshua into a trap. In another, Savage wants to use a permanent one to steal a tenor's voice. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: During the Flight of the Golden Goose story arc, several kids leave Centauri, annoyed by the ruses sent by the infected Computer. They happily come back when the sabotage is revealed. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Brother and Sister duo Vicki and Albert are replaced by Brother and Sister duo Kat and David in season 2. | |
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