Sea Urchins

New Zealand TV series (1980–1984)

This article is about the TV series. For the animal, see Sea urchin. For other uses, see Sea Urchin (disambiguation).

Sea Urchins

Genre| Kidult drama
Starring| Rebecca Gibney
Robert Rakete
Country of origin| New Zealand
Original language| English
No. of series| 3
Original release
Network| Television One
Release| 1980 (1980) –
1984 (1984)

Sea Urchins was a kidult television series (in three series) produced by Television New Zealand from 1980 to 1984. It starred Rebecca Gibney in her first television role, Bruce Allpress, John Bach, Roy Billing and Robert Rakete.

Described as a saltwater Swallows and Amazons, it was shot on the Mahurangi Harbour near Puhoi in the Hauraki Gulf, where the plucky “urchins” stumble on villainous plots from missing treasure to wildlife smuggling while holidaying with their uncle.

## Cast

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* Rebecca Gibney as Karen
* Bruce Allpress
* John Bach
* Roy Billing as Sharky
* Robert Rakete

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## External links

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* Sea Urchins at NZonScreen (with video extracts)
* Sea Urchins at IMDb

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