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OK, let's face it: there is little quality entertainment for preteens. Most of what the preteens get is geared towards scatological humour and general insanity, making the few shows that aren't such something truly special. Lift-Off is one of those truly special shows. Created in Australia in the 1990s, it was envisioned as a way to bring quality entertainment to children thanks to the Australian Children's Television Foundation (the group that gave us Round the Twist, Kaboodle and Ocean Girl). It ran for three separate series in 1992, 1994 and 1996.

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OK, let's face it: there is little quality entertainment for preteens. Most of what the preteens get is geared towards scatological humour and general insanity, making the few shows that aren't such something truly special. Lift-Off is one of those truly special shows. Created in Australia in the 1990s, it was envisioned as a way to bring quality entertainment to children thanks to the Australian Children's Television Foundation (the group that gave us Round the Twist, Kaboodle and Ocean Girl). It ran for three separate series in 1992, 1994 and 1996. In a unique move for a TV show, each episode was formatted to run either as an hour-long block or as two half-hour episodes (each self-contained, bridged only by a song). The series focused on a bunch of kids living in a low-rise apartment block that was staffed by an eccentric Sadist Teacher-type administrator and a talking lift named Lotis. Other characters that would make appearances were EC, a faceless ragdoll that was capable of limited independent movement, and Beverly, a one-eyed pot-plant that would pop up just about anywhere. Each episode would feature the kids dealing with an everyday problem, ranging from dealing with their friends' carelessness to learning An Aesop about teamwork. Once an Episode, we would get each of the following: * A song that provided the episode title--each episode got half a song, although some of these songs would appear fully in the actual show. In cases where the episodes were strung together, the song would simply be the bridge. Each of these songs would be accompanied by an Opening Montage detailing the events of the episode in question. * A segment at the Wakadoo Café, which would always be cued by a kid saying "Wakadoo". * A segment featuring a plant called Beverly, a potplant with variable contents and a single eye on a stalk that would appear at any given location in the show. Each segment (which was cued randomly) would feature a zoom in to the eye, revealing a Stock Footage montage around a given theme. * Appearances by a frill-necked lizard named Rocky, who would film the "two-footers" for films to show his "fellow frill-seekers" about some aspect of human society. Usually, his interpretation (which would be themed around a random aspect of the episode, coupled with more Stock Footage) would be humorously wrong, in a sort of subversion of Play School's "through the windows". The formula was such: He appeared with a camera at a random moment of the show, then a more conventional appearance (with the fellow frill-seekers) displaying a film relevant to his interpretation of what he filmed. * A random appearance from the "Backsaks", animate backpacks that belonged to the kids (who they knew as "crammers"0 * And finally, a story would appear in some sort of animated format. There was also a Game Show Spin-Off, EC Plays Lift-Off, hosted by Mark Mitchell in his character of Seymour Fish.