

Before Bluey, Australian kids TV was THIS unhinged puppet fever dream.
Season 2 • Episode 26
LatestMagic Mountain is an live-action Australian children’s television programme broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1998. It was released on video, but there has been no DVD release yet. It is a full-body puppet series aimed at 2-5 year olds. The series was last repeated on ABC1 in January and February 2004. The ABC's Magic Mountain website was removed during September 2010 when the new ABC Kids website was introduced.
Practical Effects
Full-body puppet suits that walk the line of charming and cursed.
Acting
Cornelia Frances (Tortoise) brings soap opera drama to preschool TV.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 90s Australian children's TV that embraced practical effects over CGI, now lost media for many.
Creator Claire Henderson also developed Bananas in Pyjamas, meaning she shaped two generations of Australian childhood fever dreams.