Series synopsis
Thunderstone is an Australian action & adventure family sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on 10 on February 12, 1999. It ended on September 8, 2000. It was created by Jonathan M. Shiff. It stars Jeffrey Walker, Mereoni Vuki, Gerard Kennedy and Kate Keltie.
Thunderstone is an Australian science fiction children's series broadcast on Network Ten from 12 February 1999 to 8 September 2000. Created by Jonathan M. Shiff, the show is set in a post-apocalyptic future where a comet has destroyed most life on Earth. The year is 2020. 15-year-old Noah Daniels lives with his family in the futuristic underground community of North Col. The world above is a frozen wasteland after the comet destroyed all other life including the animals. One night, Noah accident ...
Premise
Thunderstone is an Australian science fiction children's series broadcast on Network Ten from 12 February 1999 to 8 September 2000. Created by Jonathan M. Shiff, the show is set in a post-apocalyptic future where a comet has destroyed most life on Earth. The year is 2020. 15-year-old Noah Daniels lives with his family in the futuristic underground community of North Col. The world above is a frozen wasteland after the comet destroyed all other life including the animals. One night, Noah accidentally time travels to the future and finds himself trapped in 2085 in a desolate desert called Haven with a group of children, the Nomads, led by Arushka.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Jeffrey Walker as Noah Daniels
- Mereoni Vuki as Arushka
- Gerard Kennedy as Dr. Pretorius
- Kate Keltie as Becky Daniels
- Damien Fotiou as Sundance
- Nikki Coghill as Liz Daniels
- Daniel Daperis as Chip
- Jim Daly as Curly
Supporting cast
- Nathan Wentworth as Kwan
- Anna-Grace Hopkins as Geneva
- Kellie Jones as Apra
- Leeanna Walsman as Myah
- Stuart Halusz as Tao
- Wayne Hope as Rorden
- Fletcher Humphrys as Tod
- Brad Flynn as Lyal
- Emily Browning as Clio
- Andrew Larkins as Simon Daniels
- Elena Mandalis as Jett
- Paul Zebrowski as Drako
Episodes
This series spans 3 seasons with 52 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 26 | February 12, 1999 | August 6, 1999 |
| Season 2 | 13 | August 13, 1999 | November 5, 1999 |
| Season 3 | 13 | June 16, 2000 | September 8, 2000 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Comet Nemesis 2020 is the year in which Noah Daniels lives with his family. Back in 2002 a comet Nemesis destroyed the Earth's surface along with humans and animals. The few that survived live underground in a place called North Col. Noah is gifted in ways, but it is his fascination with the holodeck with proves to be costly. The holodeck with was once used is now left to gather dust, until Noah starts it up and lands in Haven. |
February 12, 1999 |
| 2 |
Tao's Secret Weapon After being captured by a group of Nomads, Noah is still trying to figure out how far back into the past he is. The Nomads are a small band of children who are pursued by another older group of youths called the Protectors who runs a mine. In this time, the most powerful substance is Thunderstone and this is what Tao of the Protectors is currently mining. A sensing device, provided by a mysterious man in a cloak is a new weapon for tracking down the Nomads. Back in North Col, Noah has been noticed as being missing. |
February 19, 1999 |
| 3 |
Twin Brothers Still a captive of the Nomads, Sundance and Noah come face-to-face with the protectors once again and we discover that Sundance has a twin brother Sutch who is a Protector. To prove he is no danger to the Nomads, Noah detroys the sentinel and then both he and Sundance return back to the Nomad camp. Back at North Col, Dr. Pretorius and Becky are trying to re-trace what Noah did in order to find him and bring him back. |
February 26, 1999 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Old Peddler In Haven of 2085, Arushka rides Moshi, her black mare, through the Riverlands. She's inspecting the contented Animals which she and Noah have transported to the future to avoid extinction. Dolly follows at a distance… But we see the faithful sheepdog distracted and lured away. Above the North Col of 2020, the Impact Winter produced by the Nemesis Comet still prevails. Noah discovers Dolly, terrified and half frozen in the blizzard. How had the dog travelled back through time and who sent her? Arushka returns to the compound, where the Nomads now live as a settled community. With their enemies vanquished and the contentious mineral Thunderstone wiped from the face of the Earth, Haven is a peaceful place. An eccentric old peddler, Monsoon, visits with gossip about the comings and goings of new settlers and about the weather, which in Haven has lately been extreme and unpredictable. Dolly is discovered in North Col by the authorities and is condemned to banishment in the snow. To save her, Noah breaks the new rules which ban time- travel. He breaks into the sealed Holodeck and used the PH-Ts to return again, with Dolly, to Haven. He arrives at the height of the storm and helps the Nomads save their hut from a lightning-felled tree. Then there's time for a reunion. But the Dolly mystery is unexplained and some unidentified figures are watching them through the trees. |
August 13, 1999 |
| 2 |
Driving Sand -Noah is quick to notice that there is dissent among the Nomads. Now that they're no longer on the run from a common enemy there's a restlessness. Old Monsoon visits with his wares and tall tales and wheedles an invitation to stay the night. In the morning, Noah discovers he's taken his PH-Ts and he and Arushka set off to the get the precious time travel device back. Meanwhile in North Col, Becky tries to cover for Noah's absence by producing the Noahgram, a hologrammatic version of himself which Noah has recently created. Its behaviour creates bizarre situationsand the ruse is quickly discovered. Chip, annoyed at being left behind, determined to catch Monsoon by himself. Against Kwan's warnings, he saddles up Moshi, Arushka's majestic black mare. Arushka and Noah catch up with Monsoon and demand the PH-Ts returned, but the crafty old man denies having seen them. Meanwhile, Chip is having trouble with Moshi—but he hears the rattle of Monsoons pots and pans in the distance and manages to spur the horse on … into the woods. All is silent and there is no sign of Monsoon, but something in the bushes frightens Moshi. She rears and Chip is thrown into a pit of quicksand. The frightened horse bolts, leaving Chip alone and helpless, sinking further into the quagmire. What could have frightened Moshi so much she'd leave a Nomad in Peril? Alerted to the danger by Moshi, bridled but riderless, Noah and Arushka race to Chip's rescue. But they're too late… as Chip disappears below the sand four strangers to Haven haul him out—Myah, a barbaric looking young woman and her three brothers, Rorden, Tod and Lyal. Not only have they saved Chip's life, they also have the PH-Ts, which Rorden reluctantly relinquishes. The Nomads and the new family pledge a wary friendship. With the PH-Ts returned, Noah must face the fact that there is no source of power for them in Haven. How will he get back to North Col? |
August 20, 1999 |
| 3 |
Broken Dreams -As dry electrical storms prevail in Haven there is growing concern about the changing climate. Noah devises a plan to harness the lightning, which strokes most often on Razorback Ridge, and so powers his PH-Ts. Monsoon wins back favour in the Nomads' compound by bringing in a wounded animal and half of a weathered amulet. Kwan produces the other half, given to him by his long-lost mother. With the prospect of reuniting with her, Kwan bids the Nomads farewell. Though his hopes are dashed, a heart-broken Kwan has too much pride to return to the compound. Monsoon, meanwhile is spooked by a visit to the family. It seems these people can communicate with each other telepathically. Up on Razorback Ridge, Arushka insists Noah test the PH-Ts before using them on himself. The stand-in scarecrow is burnt to cinders as lightening is channelled into the PH-Ts. Nevertheless Noah ignores all protests, reconfigures the equipment and successfully time-travels back to North Col. Noah's family are relieved to see him but the North Col authorities thrust him into the detention centre for breaking the time travel ban. Myah is lurking in the North Col sludge pipes. How and why has she accompanied Noah on his time travels? |
August 22, 1999 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 It is the year 2020 where Noah Daniels is famous for discovering time travel, saving the world, and making the colonisation of space possible. Noah's comfortable existence is shattered when a gang of vengeful kids travel back to Earth through space and time from the colony on E-Delta — using the wormhole technology Noah invented — and kidnap his best friend Arushka. |
June 16, 2000 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 Arushka is held captive on the planet E-Delta, where the Bioplex structure is the only thing that stands between the inhabitants and their hostile environment. You can't last long outside without an oxygen pack and during the time of the red giant sun, you can't last at all. Drako, the handsome leader of the E-Delta kids, advises Arushka to get used to her new home — she's sixty million light years from Earth and any hope of rescue. Noah and the Nomads have other ideas as Chip impulsively jumps through Noah's experimental wormhole. Noah pursues him and the two emerge on E-Delta and make their way inside the settlement after rescuing one of the young colonists. |
June 23, 2000 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 Noah meets Curly, a grizzly old hologram who tells him why the E-Delta kids want revenge against Earth and their mortal enemy… Noah Daniels himself! He and Chip must break Arushka out of the Bioplex and get back to Earth before anyone discovers his identity. Meanwhile, on Earth, the animals in the Wildlife Reserve are under threat with Arushka away. |
June 30, 2000 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | 10 |
|---|---|
| First aired | February 12, 1999 |
| Last aired | September 8, 2000 |
| Runtime | 25 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Friday |