Home to some twenty families, Circe Island is a paradise to some, and a prison to others. Follow the adventures of a group of kids who get into all sorts of mischief to compensate for their boring lives.
Julie establishes 'Fauna Watch' to guard against the intrusion of foreign species into the ecosystem of Circe Island. Her friendship with Ralph is strained when he attempts to transform Julie's club into a Sea Scout troop.
When Babe Keogh gets sent to the school on the mainland after a series of misdemeanours, the island kids discover that their own school will be closed due to falling enrolment numbers. How will they get Babe to come back?
The kids use wartime secret tunnels under their classroom as a means of getting past Hermes' new security measures so they can go to a concert on the mainland. Julie and Ralph join forces to make a political statement at the concert.
Kevin is accused of stealing money from Ralph and rigging the competition to win a ghetto blaster. His trial finds him and the other kids guilty of various deceits, but the theft itself is a tale of another kind.
Julie comes down with the measles and can't go to school camp on the mainland. Kelvin fakes illness to avoid going on the camp, planning to spend the week in the pinball parlours and fast food joints on the mainland.
Kelvin bugs Hermes' office. Hermes discovers the miniature transmitter under his desk and is led to believe that the kids are being brainwashed by a spy ring.
The good intentions of Circe Island adults to win the Tidy Town award are thwarted when the kids discover there is money to be made from recycling. Hermes searches for a spy within the communications base.
The island school is invited to take part in a pageant of maritime history presented on the mainland. Julie refuses to accept the orthodox historical view of a shipwreck incident off the coast in the 17th century.
When the annual sports carnival is announced, every kid except Ralph finds an excuse to pike. Nonetheless Charlie, aided by Hermes, coerces the kids into an exhausting fitness preparation routine.
The Maggot River team exceeds all the rumours of their ferocious competitive instincts at the sports carnival. Does Circe Island have a chance to win at all?
The rivalry between the base and the community, or more directly between the Knowles and the Crumps, comes to the forefront when Kelvin and Mrs Knowles start rival newspapers.
The kids sneak into the school to play a banned computer game called Iceman. Meanwhile, the island is put under quarantine while the health department determines the nature of a viral flu that two security guards have contracted.
The tensions within the Crump family are stretched when Kelvin decides he was born into the family as punishment for a past life. The school ball provides him with the opportunity to dance his way into a different genealogy.
The tensions within the Crump family are stretched when Kelvin decides he was born into the family as punishment for a past life. The school ball provides him with the opportunity to dance his way into a different genealogy.
Hermes' Greek heritage catches up with him when he learns his parents had betrothed him to a young girl while he was in the cradle. When the young woman turns up with her mother, the course of true love does not run smoothly.
Julie meets the new student teacher at the beach and falls head over heels in puppy love. All of the other kids in the class are equally bowled over by fun-loving Nick Coney - but for how long?
Julie suspects her aunt's old boyfriend of only being interested in her money while Hermes is on the look-out for foreign operatives posing as day trippers.
Guido is blackmailed by two street kids who have escaped onto the island after lighting a fire. Guido's secret life causes a number of unexpected developments, the most important of which is studying for his maths exam.
Gavin persuades his mother to take a holiday cottage on the island. When his return isn't welcomed with open arms, he takes revenge on the kids, convincing them that he knows the secret of a shipwreck off the coast.
Julie's ecological selflessness and Kelvin's profit motive makes them pretty equal rivals in the nature tours stakes. Kelvin resorts to a variety of dirty tricks to discredit Julie but she is always one step ahead of him.
The kids decide it's time to give Hermes the final shove. With him out of the way, life could be pleasant. They devise several schemes that fail to have him fired, and the schemes actually endear Hermes to Ms Selby.
