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Kaitangata Twitch

Kaitangata Twitch

2010 · 1 season · 13 eps · ★ 6.0 · Family, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

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Kaitangata Twitch is a children's adventure/fantasy series that aired on Maori TV in New Zealand in 2010. Based on the children's book of the same name, written by renouned New Zealand children's author, Margaret Mahy, it follows the adventures of thirteen year old Meredith, who can hear voices calling to her from a nearby island, Kaitangata, in the bay of her small hometown. A legend of pre-European New Zealand, the frequent rumblings of small earthquakes and the disappearance of a young Pakeha girl, fifty years earlier, all shroud the mystery surrounding the island.

Directed by Yvonne Mackay · Written by Michael Bennett

Network: ABC TV

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