Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestKeith and Tracy get trapped in the opal mine when it caves in. Keith vows to end his crazy schemes when he realises they make his friends unhappy — until they return to Orchid Cove.
Misery Guts was an Australian children's television series on the Nine Network Australia that first screened in 1998. Keith is the only son of Vin and Marge Shipley. They live above a fish 'n' chips shop in South London and things are tough. Keith's parents are misery gutses and he is convinced that the only way for the family to regain its former happiness is for him to make his parents smile again. Keith embarks on a mission to cheer his parents up. He buys a brilliantly coloured tropical fish from Australia, where the sun shines all the time, the sea is full of fish and coconuts just fall into your hands. When all his efforts to cheer his parents up fail spectacularly, Keith decides he must somehow get his parents to Australia. People couldn't be unhappy in a paradise where fish sparkle like rainbows and it's sunny and warm all the time. Or could they? Based on Morris Gleitzman's books 'Misery Guts', 'Worry Warts', and 'Puppy Fat'.
Production
Gleefully bonkers London-to-Australia culture clash production design.
Acting
Paul Giles commits HARD to Keith's desperate optimism.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from three Gleitzman novels smashed together; the show invented Wogga entirely.
Peak late-90s Australian children's TV boom—Nine Network rode 'Round the Twist' success into this weird British co-production gamble.
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