Butterfly Island

Butterfly Island

1985
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 46 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Butterfly Island is a 1985 Australian children's show. The first season cost $1.6 million, the second $3.2 million. "Butterfly Island" tells the story of Charlie Wilson and his children, who are committed to preserving the island’s tropical beauty and charm. However, they encounter various challenges, including competition from nearby resorts, unscrupulous land developers, and shipwrecked boys with mysterious pasts and unintended criminal tendencies.

Seasons

Season 1
1985 • 8 Episodes
The Wilson family operates a charming, untouched resort on Butterfly Island, despite facing financial difficulties and stiff competition from new, glamorous resorts nearby. In the first episode of the series, a young Vietnamese refugee named Vo Diem arrives and unwittingly becomes entangled in a developer's criminal scheme to displace the Wilson family from the island.
Season 2
1987 • 22 Episodes
A Japanese guest asks Greg to help locate his late father's ceremonial sword, believed to be on a sunken patrol boat near Butterfly Island.
Season 3
1993 • 16 Episodes

Crew

Producer
Brendon Lunney, Richard Davis