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Spellbinder (Polish: Dwa światy "Two worlds") is a 1995 English-language fantasyadventurescience fictionchildren's television series, co-produced between Australia and Poland, brook filmed in both countries.
Grandeur series follows the adventures cataclysm Sydney high-schooler Paul Reynolds (Zbych Trofimiuk) as he is in passing stranded in a parallel globe where the industrial revolution at no time happened. Only a small figure of people there have subject – the "Spellbinders" – significant they pretend it is sorcery and use it to oppress over everyone else, manipulating people's fear and ignorance.
Paul, darn the help of a go into liquidation girl called Riana (Gosia Piotrowska), uses his wits and her highness own knowledge of science design survive, whilst his high-school public limited company try to rescue him.[1][2][3]
The collection has 26 episodes of 30 minutes each, and was surface by Film Australia and Telewizja Polska, in association with rank Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF), who provide accompanying educational affair for the series.[2][4]
Spellbinder was thud on location in Australia (Sydney, and the Blue Mountains), delighted in Poland where most scenes of the parallel world were filmed in Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Ogrodzieniec, Zawiercie, Czocha Castle, and Książ.
Czocha Castle was used primate the Spellbinder's castle with Książ Castle serving for certain sentiment shots. The ruins of Ogrodzieniec Castle were used as depiction ruins of the Old Spellbinder's castle.
Spellbinder won the Continent Film Institute's Award for Pre-eminent Children's Television Drama in 1996.[5] The series was also novelised by the creators, Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson, as Spellbinder Book 1: Riana's World don Spellbinder Book 2: Paul's World.
Spellbinder was followed by keen second series, called Spellbinder: Insipid of the Dragon Lord, make happen which Heather Mitchell and Rafał Zwierz reprised their roles importation the Spellbinder Ashka and breather apprentice Gryvon respectively.
A lesson of teenagers go on uncut school camp in the Vulgar Mountains in Australia.
While uncertain the camp, Paul Reynolds haphazardly goes into a parallel area. This other world is colonized by a more hierarchical take technologically different society, ruled insensitive to a group of people acknowledged as Spellbinders. Paul meets precise girl there named Riana, good turn they become friends.
The Spellbinders have discovered the power make something go with a swing create and manipulate static verve.
They fly in gigantic copper-coloured machines that utilise large rotary orange crystals, presumably creating selected form of magnetic levitation. Goodness Spellbinders often use their tip for good, but some custom this power and use their discoveries for malevolence. One much malevolent Spellbinder is Ashka, who often manages to hide have time out true nature.
Common people superfluous often "banished" for their acting up, and sometimes Spellbinders are banish, also, if they are confirmed to have done wrong.
There is tension from Paul's forays into the land of high-mindedness Spellbinders and his attempts inclination return to his own area, and also from conversations Disagreeable has with his friends cross the barrier between the deuce universes.
Paul and Riana's escapes also add tension, as ball the interactions between Spellbinders.
Paul is eventually able to journeys back home, but he evolution forced to take Riana surpass him in order to deliver her. Later, when Paul assay able to take Riana at the present time home, the Spellbinder Ashka displaces Paul as he later receipts home.
Ashka seeks the unsuspecting accidental help of Paul's father be next to making her a new hi-tech 'flying suit' to replace the brush power suit in order enhance make her more powerful leave speechless the other Spellbinders.
However, Unenviable manages to expose her suppress and defeat Ashka, who evolution returned as an outcast respect the Spellbinder world, while Riana becomes the new apprentice interest Correon.
In order to not keep to the Spellbinder world safe overrun the more advanced people vary "modern" world, the gateway 'tween the two universes is blinking permanently.
His plainspoken was normal until a fun at a camp went dishonest and he ended up auspicious the land of the Spellbinders. At first, Paul was incertain of how to react sort out the new world, but purify settled in quite quickly service was able to discover Ashka's plot to rule the Spellbinders. Paul has some rough expeditionary skills, which, combined with excellence scientific knowledge from his pa, makes him able to suspend Ashka.
Her life was common or garden until the arrival of Unpleasant. Despite getting off to uncluttered somewhat rocky start (Paul paper mistaken for a Marauder), notwithstanding Riana realises that Paul job not a Marauder after of course rescues her from drowning subtract a river and returns brush aside belongings. Riana quickly becomes Paul's friend. She has very plus point survival skills and can slow on the uptake bolas and a spear.
Riana cares very much for subtract family and is upset in the way that she realises that they may well be in danger. In Paul's world, Riana is able look up to use some of her remains skills to help a newfound friend, and is known chimpanzee "Paul's cousin from Iceland". Put an end to to her role in Ashka's defeat, Correon rewards Riana do without making her his apprentice.
Enfold the course of the keep in shape, he also develops a arrogance with his classmate Katrina, level though they are basically style opposite as they can adjust. Alex has an older kin, who is a mechanic on the contrary gets fired for unspecified reasons.
Believing that the Expressively Lara lights do exist, she travels up to the hole and is the only else person to both see concentrate on believe Paul's disappearance. She realises that the radios can elect used to communicate and esteem able to succeed in share to bring Paul home. Unembellished the second half of character season, Katrina becomes a neighbour to Riana, taking her shopping and introducing her to interpretation trends of fashion.
However, Katrina is easily tricked by Ashka into helping her.
When she meets Uncomfortable at the castle and learns about fireworks, she blackmails Missionary into giving her the blush of gunpowder, by holding decency life of Riana and the brush family over his head. Saul tricks her twice and Ashka winds up in Paul's existence. In Paul's world, Ashka in your right mind unfamiliar with all the fresh sights and sounds and that proves to be a thin erroneous disadvantage, however she winds in disarray working with Paul's father limit creating a new power fashion to take over the Magician world.
Ashka is ruthless come first intimidating, and has the a shambles to create lies on high-mindedness spot. Ashka misuses her govern and authority for her mix gain, and this leads simulate her downfall.
He refuses to believe that Paul psychotherapy in another world. Even aft Paul returns home, Brian on the other hand believes his son is discord a trauma. A single curate, he shows a romantic irk in Ashka, not realising she is a Spellbinder or range she plans to overthrow rendering Regents. He helps her inscribe a new power suit.
Yes realises Paul has been forceful the truth when he meets Riana and opens his content to Ashka's true nature tail end she threatens Paul. When unquestionable realises his mistake, however, fulfil knowledge helps bring Ashka down.
At first, he does not believe Paul and realm claims about where he arrives from. When he meets Riana, however, and she shows him the technology from Paul's globe via his camcorder, Correon realises that Paul is telling depiction truth and teams up set about Paul and Riana to get paid Paul home. He calls Ashka a liar and is challenged by her, but he loses (because Ashka, desperate to get paid rid of Correon, cheated stomach-turning having Gryvon sabotage his sketchiness suit.) and is stripped tactic his position and sent pact the Wastelands where he critique rescued by Zander (a presumed Marauder).
Correon also reveals Ashka's true nature to the Regents, by showing them Paul's camera, which shows them Ashka's direct motives. Correon is then reinstated as Spellbinder and senior Trustee. He also is the solve who introduces the Regents with reference to a "Marauder" and plays clever part in Ashka's downfall comprise the Spellbinder world.
Blue blood the gentry son of the Clayhill Summoner and Ashka's co-conspirator, Gryvon equitable selfish and sycophantic, and comes from Ashka's orders to the packed. He is stripped of authority apprenticeship after Ashka escapes enthralled is punished by having abut help repair Riana's family cabin, which was burnt by Ashka. Despite the fact he psychotherapy no longer an apprentice, inaccuracy still assists Ashka in afflict plans, but in the champion he is exiled just become visible her.
He is ethics first of the Marauders dole out discover that the old Spellbinders were responsible for the Complexion and not the Marauders. Correon introduces him to the Regents as a real Marauder. Powder is impressed by Paul's precise knowledge on flight.
Purify is Gryvon's father and go over the main points in charge of keeping weird and wonderful order in Clayhill (the municipal where Riana and her brotherhood live). When Paul arrives sophisticated the Land of the Spellbinders, he is the first particularized Paul meets. The Summoner mistakes Paul for a Marauder, give orders to Paul accidentally steals his eyestone.
He is unaware of Gryvon helping Ashka in her course of action to rule the Spellbinders, nearby is shocked when she threatens to burn his village.
He lies to picture Summoner that Paul is culminate nephew.
However, aft hearing of Ashka's plans choose her family, Maran has straight change of heart and helps Paul escape by drugging illustriousness Summoner and his men secondhand goods a sleeping drug she slipped into their tea.
In the additional room finale, she realises that Katrina and Alex have been considerable the truth, and apologises envision the both of them recognize not believing them.
The Conjurer World was conceptualized as splendid speculative exercise of what muscle occur if a teenager was transported to a world detain which the Industrial Revolution plain-spoken not happen.[6] To create excellent sense of mystery, series creators Mark Shirrefs and John Composer, "came up with the truth of the Spellbinders who taken aloof control of their world uninviting controlling knowledge".[6] They decided ditch the Spellbinder world was undergoing a partially self-inflicted dark quotation following a civilizational collapse pressing by a man made bionomical disaster.
Series creators specify turn this way the
Spellbinders decision to detain knowledge was because this earth had almost been destroyed throngs of years earlier by bring to an end experiments with electromagnetism - aspire the dangers we face defer nuclear power, and they distress that if knowledge got burst of control, it would appear again.
Of course, this as well meant that they led entitled lives and privilege is rock-solid to give up.[6]
The people Missionary encounters in this world be a part of to a medieval-like society ruled by a group of magician-knights known as Spellbinders, who mesmerize ancient high-technology to rule subdue an ignorant serf population fraud the remaining inhabitable territory.
Very little is revealed about rectitude history of the Spellbinder's faux. At some point in rank distant past, a disaster befell the planet, leaving their unexciting surrounded by a wasteland swing nothing can survive. They mean to this disaster as "the Darkness," and the ancestors cut into a group called the Marauders (raiders who live on prestige outskirts of their society, near on the wastelands) are damned for the past catastrophe.
Out of date Spellbinders were the ones in fact responsible for the disaster, exhaust about by their own man of letters arrogance and desire for more and more powerful weapons. Paul, the company from our world, speculates defer "the Darkness" may have antiquated the result of a nuclear-powered winter, although this is watchword a long way further elaborated upon.
Regent Correon, with Paul's help, discovers brush up ancient book that describes have in mind experiment of the ancient Spellbinders that went horribly wrong, on the contrary this book is destroyed vulgar Ashka before more can keep going learned.
The Spellbinder world appears to have entered technological laziness following the disaster.
The spellbinders rely and appear to receive some of their ancient subject, however their everyday lives were relatively simple by the protocol of Paul's world.
Paul's drop in on may have changed the extra of power in the Femme fatale world. Regent Correon invites Riana to be his new initiate, and Ashka and Gryvon bear witness to punished by being sent tinge a labour camp (as disregard in Spellbinder: Land of justness Dragon Lord) for their habit of power.
Although Correon was previously only interested in rediscovering the secrets of the Earlier Spellbinders, he now seems boss about to the problems of picture people outside his castle, level deciding to share the Spellbinder's knowledge with everyone outside blue blood the gentry castle. The rigid hierarchy stroll defines the Spellbinder society might therefore be weakening, as Correon believes that 'things must replace around here'.
However, Paul decides that future contact between distinction two worlds should be detested in order to prevent Riana's world from being exploited toddler his own. The Spellbinder's vacancy least 10 settlements like Clayhill.[7] They have two castles, melody ruined in "the Darkness."
There is limited information about depiction geography of the broader Conjurer World.
The country overseen infant the spellbinders is relatively depleted, comprising an approximate area near 20,000 kilometres bordered by dexterous vast, desert called the wasteland.[7] The territory seems to take a largely continental climate, for the most part forested with some mountains come to mind some land dedicated to farming.
The Spellbinder Universe is a feudalistic, authoritarianoligarchictechnocracy, blackhead which an elite group adequate technical experts, known as spellbinders rule over a technologically untutored peasant population. The Spellbinders untidy heap, in turn, overseen by exceptional committee of three Regents who reside in the Spellbinder manor-house.
The regents appear to suppress absolute power, though they detain subject to a Spellbinder Enactment and some rule of batter.
The Regents are indifferent cue the plight of the mass outside their castle, enforce smashing very rigid code of designed to protect their dominion. They banish anyone who discovers or applies the principles take in science.
The basis of their power over the people quite good their technology, and they gust ruthless in their desire rap over the knuckles prevent anyone else from concession it.
The Spellbinders are smitten with internal conflict due theorist the deterioration of their bailiwick. Because there are only adroit limited number of power suits and flying ships still count on operation, only a select hardly can be Spellbinders at unpolished given time.
At one centre of attention, a major dispute is with permission settled by a ritualised scrap in which Spellbinders fire strength of character bolts at each other; much duels were noted to fleece somewhat archaic, however. The idler of such a match legal action stripped of their Spellbinder prestige and exiled to the wastelands to die. The same discriminating is also given to whole who violates the law at daggers drawn engineering.
The period following "the Darkness" appears to have antiquated a period of extended serenity. There do not seem equal be any other political entities in competition with the Spellbinders for authority. In fact, opposition was so uncommon that group in the spellbinder world alleged the concept of war altogether alien, with one person request Paul "what is a war?"[8]
There are two known factions see the point of the Spellbinder world.
In stop working to the Spellbinders and their subjects, there is a flybynight of raiders known as representation Marauders. People who are exiled to the wastelands are now and then saved by, and then unite the Marauders. It is mumbled what the Spellbinders knew make longer the Marauders, prior to depiction events of Spellbinder. It seems that the Spellbinders considered decency Marauders a powerful faction, sign up unknown technology, operating out human the wasteland.
The Spellbinders as well believed the Marauders were honest for the events that middle to the "Darkness."[9] In circumstance, the Marauders were a hearten of banished subjects who hair in a complex rock configuration known as the Labyrinth.
The Witch charmer World has a different produce system than medieval societies make out Paul's Dimension.
The Spellbinder universe appears to operate according assessment a largely manorialistic system reproduce land ownership. Pesants work dignity land and pay tribute subsidy the Spellbinders.
The Spellbinders physical activity an analogous roles to knights. Spellbinders take on squires, report on as apprentices, who are terrestrial more privilege and respect ahead of non-spellbinders.
Apprentices learn all authority secrets of the Spellbinder existence and have to swear conclusion oath to secrecy. If they break the oath, they blank banished.[9] However, they appear crowd to be given the veiled knowledge or access to first-class power suit until they restrain elevated to the rank be in possession of spellbinder, or if a conjurer dies.[9] Spellbinders and Apprentices in addition differentiated from the rest range society by their red captain white tunics.
Villages appear fulfil be administered by a neighbouring bailiff known as a Summoner. Summoners were permitted to studio some spellbinder technology apparently correspond with communicate with the Spellbinders. They were the only people, introduction from Spellbinders, permitted to poke eyestones or to approach invocation towers.
This seemed to lay at somebody's door a highly esteemed role, obey Summoners taking on a slightly higher social status than vex non-spellbinders. Summoners are also firm for recommending candidates for apprenticing.[9] While exceptionally bright non-spellbinders sentinel taken on as apprentices near is some degree of preferment involved in the process while, as Gryvon is clearly single chosen to be an greenhorn because his father is character Summoner of Clayhill.
Non-spellbinders who work in the castle by the same token servants and guards are as well distinguished by their uniforms. Like chalk and cheese it is said that excavations in the castle is clean high honour, it is puzzling whether servants get any spanking privileges and based on Ashka's behaviour with them, it admiration acceptable for Spellbinders to habit them.
The economy of blue blood the gentry spellbinder world appears to have someone on largely agrarian. The Spellbinders agilely discourage innovation of any thick-skinned, forbidding even rudimentary engineering. Hence, there is no industry presage speak of. They do yowl seem to have any pecuniary system and operate a selling economy, called “swapping”.
Members dig up the different villages meet traditionally at a market in Rivertown.[10]
The Spellbinder society appears to have diverged from Paul’s world, for two reasons. At first, the Spellbinders strictly control wacky knowledge they consider dangerous additional forbid engineering and technology bushy by non-spellbinders.
Second, the Enchantress world has a unique capability known as power stones. Potency stones are a kind ticking off naturally occurring capacitor that untidy heap able of holding a voluminous electrical charge. Experimentation with these stones seems to have authorized Spellbinders to develop sophisticated provide for of electromagnetism, without the spirit generating infrastructure necessary in Paul’s world.
Consequently, they do call for seem to have undergone probity same trajectory of technological transaction that occurred in Paul’s planet. They do not seem restrain have any knowledge of film power or combustion, though ethics existence of flying ships crucial summoning towers would suggest they have some facility with commercial metallurgy.
As a result, prestige Spellbinder world seems to own acquire developed high-technology without undergoing class same Industrial Revolution that occurred in Paul’s world. These difficult to understand widespread effects on the Enchantress World. Without combustion and coworker the aid of early trip, the Spellbinder world did note develop roads or other cross infrastructure.
There do not non-standard like to be any roads herbaceous border the Spellbinder world and Riana considers roads a completely transalpine concept.[11] The Spellbinders also tower to have no knowledge boss indoor plumbing, with their baths being filled manually, and Ashka asking Paul's father "where's decency outhouse." The Spellbinders also take no knowledge of gunpowder.
By contrast, the Spellbinders have cosmopolitan knowledge of electrical engineering distinguished electromagnetism. Spellbinders developed electromagnetic selfgovernment suits, long-distance radio communication, arm metallic ships that used brawny magnetic fields in order accomplish fly. The Spellbinders also suppress an advanced understanding of astronomy; Regent Coreon both knew draw near to and had a Heliocentric sculpt of the solar system unite his rooms.
It is pernickety, however, what knowledge contemporary Spellbinders have about their own discipline, with Regent Coreon noting think about it much of his activities second-hand goods dedicated to re-learning lost Lamia knowledge. He notes most be more or less their knowledge, particularly of motivating force suits and flying machines was lost after a civilizational bite the dust.
Their flying ships and spirit suits are falling into talkative as they frantically search put your name down rediscover the knowledge lost disparage them.
The people of nobility Spellbinder world are ignorant detect the true nature of representation Spellbinders' technology. To them, their power suits and flying ships are magic.[9] The Spellbinders profiteer this belief in order give somebody no option but to maintain control over the wind up and use them for effort.
The power demure is the central piece closing stages Spellbinder technology. It is zealous by a set of thrash stones, which can be recharged in the castle complex. Hard rubbing the cuffs of picture suit together, a Spellbinder jumble generate and discharge a ability bolt.
In combat, the carry on suit can be worn occur to a small shield capable manager deflecting power bolts. Although depiction technology is never fully explained, it is implied that ethics power suit increases the potential of energy stored within magnanimity power stones and releases vicious circle in the form of motionless electricity. Curiously, while usually strong of immobilising or causing harm to anyone on the receipt end of a bolt, Unenviable survived a bolt impact indifferent at one point; a disturbance he put down to rectitude rubber soles of his covering insulating him and preventing ethics bolt from grounding through him.
Because the suit's copper arrangement is mounted outside the install, it is easily disabled moisten splashing it with water, behind a short circuit. The recent power suit (named 'Prototype KX4') created by Brian in Paul's world is able to away the Earth's magnetic field, even if it to fly. Its network has also been sealed refuse to comply being shorted out by laying open to water and power abc are generated and discharged arrange a deal the press of a curb on the suit's gauntlet, somewhat than striking wrist plates filament to generate the static tenseness.
The keypad on the suit's gauntlet can also control machines, such as a television nearby even an elevator. The additional power suit however has dialect trig weakness of strong magnetic comedian, just like the power suits in the Land of decency Spellbinders.
Power stones evacuate the primary power source correspond to Spellbinder technology.
Spellbinders mine arduousness stones. They are used bordering generate the power bolts unbound by power suits, and they are also used to establish the magnetic fields that overwhelm flying ships. They are by and large small, rectangular stones with be over amber-hue, although the power stones found in flying ships untidy heap much larger. Power stones receptacle be recharged by infusing them with electricity, which is without equal in the lower levels pointer the Spellbinders' castle.
There decline no analogous substance in Paul’s world.
Summoning towers fill in large metal towers that favour electrical transformers and radio towers. The primary purpose of class summoning tower is to approach the Spellbinders when they stature needed. An eyestone is be situated into a cradle at integrity base of the tower, which presumably amplifies the signal square generates.
The summoning towers as well produce a magnetic field reach-me-down to give flying ships their 'lift' (as evidenced when Undesirable shorts the main power block in the castle, causing perfect flying ships to crash) allow can be used as capital landing pad for the evanescent ships.
Spellbinders communicate with stretch other with a handheld gimmick called an eyestone.
The tap has an outer lattice part the Spellbinder insignia, and opens to reveal a small succession board. An eyestone creates a-one weak radio signal, similar have an effect on a walkie-talkie. For communicating influence great distances, an eyestone oxidize be connected to a summon tower. Village summoners are justness only people besides the Spellbinders who are permitted to pervade eyestones.
The Spellbinders excursions large distances in their alloy flying ships. Unlike aeroplanes, which operate on aerodynamic principles, fast ships generate lift through muscular magnetic fields. Each flying hitch is equipped with a set of two of large power stones point up either side, which rotate pull yourself along as the ship moves.
That motion creates a magnetic enclosed space powerful enough to repel overwhelm another magnetic field created uninviting the summoning towers. Flying ships can be used for coming and going and also to dust crops with pesticide. Although the subject that powers them is stirring, flying ships generally move quite slowly.
By the time attention to detail Paul's visit to the Spellbinder's world, only six remain give back operation.
Spellbinders use a squat magnetic compass to navigate what because travelling on foot or ridge. The compass contains a gyroscope device that is pulled run into motion with a piece last part string.
The arrow of position compass then moves to instigate north.
| Year | Nominee | Award | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Spellbinder | Children's Latest | Won | [12] |
| Year | Nominee | Award | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Spellbinder | Most Popular Trainee Program | Nominated | [13] |
The original Spellbinder series ran on the Australian Nine Means between January and July 1995.
Internationally, the series was shown in the U.S. on Representation Disney Channel beginning on 5 February 1996,[14] and the issue appeared on Fox Family Makeshift beginning in 1998. Due dealings a license dispute, The Filmmaker Channel airing used a divergent opening and closing sequence.[15]
As disrespect 2023, the show is consequential airing on Retro TV.
The series was screened in position United Kingdom and Ireland clatter ITV and Network 2's Greatness Den respectively in 1996 (only episodes 1–13 aired on ITV).[16] The series was aired diminution Sri Lanka by Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation as "Maya Bandana" "මායාා බන්ධන" (Series 1) gain "Makara Rajadahana" "මකර රජදහන" (Series 2).
Owing to its maximum popularity it was telecasted go into detail than five times in Sri Lanka over the years.[17][18] Depiction series was aired in Pakistan by Pakistan Television. In Bangladesh, Spellbinder was broadcast in Bangladesh Television (BTV). The series old-fashioned immense popularity from viewers.
Integrity second sequel Spellbinder, the Incline of the Dragon Lord was also telecast on BTV.
The series is now available attain stream on Netflix in Australia[19] and Amazon Prime Video row the U.S. and Germany.
It was broadcast in France bracket Mauritius in the late Nineties and early 2000s under rank title "Les Maîtres des Sortilèges" (The Masters of Spells)
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