THE GENIE FROM DOWN UNDER 1

Your own personal Genie to grant your wishes? Sounds great!

Two Genies? Even better!

In decaying Townes Hall, where Lady Diana Townes is forced to take in wealthy paying guests, her 13 year old daughter Penelope comes across a dazzling opal in an old trunk. She discovers it holds a Genie who has the power to save the ancestral home and improve the family's fortunes.

Bruce is the Genie of the Black Opal, brought to England from Australia 130 years ago by Penelope's great, great, grandfather, Sir Claude.

Bruce and his son Baz live in the opal, waiting to be summoned, and longing to get away from wet and cold Wiltshire and back to paradise - Australia. So when Penelope - in an unguarded moment - wishes she were somewhere else, Bruce whisks her overseas, to her inheritance, Townes Downs, a run down farmhouse in the middle of the Australian outback.

Penelope hates Australia and is constantly trying to get back to Wiltshire. Bruce thinks Australia is heaven on earth.

It's a battle of wills between them - a clash of class and cultures. Penelope has the power. Bruce has the magic. He can't be free, but Penelope can't quite control him.

 

Wishing and Hoping.
When upper class English girl Penelope Townes finds a magic opal which contains two Australian genies, Bruce and his son Baz, she thinks all her problems are over, and that she can have anything she wants. Bruce, however, has other ideas.

It's my Opal...(and I'll cry if I want to)
Tour operator, Otto von Meister, and his nephew, Conrad, arrive at Townes Downs with a load of tourists. When he learns about the opal Otto recalls that it belonged to their family years before and he and Conrad are desperate to get it back.

Where it's at
Bruce wants to become human but to do this he must take the opal to the cave where it was mined over a hundred years before. He sets out to trick Penelope into visiting the cave.

Good Cop, Bad Genie
Penelope is desperate to win the Cross Country and she does - without any help from the genies. Penelope wishes that Conrad could see her success. He does - but not quite how Penelope would have liked.

Customs
Penelope, Lady Diana and Miss Mossop are arrested by a Customs Officer when they return to England with 20 million pounds provided by the genies. That exact amount has just gone missing from the Royal Mint.

Larceny
Bruce helps Otto and Conrad get the opal because he thinks they will help him return to Australia. Instead, the von Meisters sell it for 25,000 pounds. It's now up to the genies to sort the mess out.

The Eternal Quadrangle
Penelope is furious when Lady Diana's wish for a holiday in Australia is granted and they are once again at Townes Downs. To punish Lady Diana and Bruce, Penelope wishes her mother and Otto would fall madly in love.

Nobody's Perfect
In an effort to stop Bruce continually misinterpreting her wishes, Penelope writes down her perfect wish. All goes well - Penelope is perfect, Lady Diana is rich and Marcia is ugly. However, the genies have the last laugh.

The Triple Agent
Conrad is convinced that there is something strange about Bruce and tries to catch him out. In the meantime everyone else becomes convinced that Conrad is the strange one.

A Tale of Two Cities
Conrad realises that Bruce and Baz are genies and decides to work on Baz by taking him to an amusement park. When Conrad steals the opal, Baz helps Penelope to get it back. Her first wish is for Conrad to forget the whole incident.

School Daze
Penelope wishes herself back in England to attend Marcia's party but she finds that she has to sit a 'catch-up' exam. Nonetheless, she heads off to Marcia's party convinced that, with the help of the magic opal, she will pass her exam the next day.

Triple Treat
Identical twins give Otto and Conrad the idea to make a copy of the opal and swap it with Penelope's opal. With a real opal and two replicas, there is a lot of opal rubbing, but not much magic.

It's still Magic
Bruce gets the opal back to the cave and is about to free himself and Baz but Penelope convinces him not to leave his human friends in the lurch. Later, when Bruce and Diana kiss, it's some other form of magic entirely.