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Dot in Space

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Dot in Space
Directed byYoram Gross
Screenplay byJohn Palmer
Based onDot and the Kangaroo by Ethel Pedley
Produced byYoram Gross
StarringRobyn Moore
Keith Scott
Edited byY. Jerzy, John Hill
Music byGuy Gross
Production
company
Release date
  • 19 June 1994 (1994-06-19)
Running time
63 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Dot in Space is a 1994 Australian animated film, featuring Dot from Dot and the Kangaroo animated film series.[1] While the previous films in the series were screened in the United States, Dot in Space seldom makes any releases outside its home country.

Plot

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Dot decides to rescue Whyka, the Russian space dog, who is circling the earth trapped in a broken down satellite. After making her way into the space lab's complex, Dot trades with the space monkey Buster, then pilots an American rocket and sets a course to rescue Whyka. After the successful rescue, they both end up stranded on an alien planet, where a dictator named Papa Drop rules over people who are perfectly round in shape (called the Roundies) and ostracises people who do not have this perfection. Dot makes her escape and helps 'The Party' (in fact Papa's defective son Rolly) to turn the Roundies army against Papa and enable everyone, no matter their shape, to live a peaceful coexistence once more. With this business finished, Dot and Whyka get back in their rocket and return to Earth.

Cast

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  • Robyn Moore - Dot, Dosey Face, Poley, Misc.
  • Keith Scott - Grumblebones, Buster, Papa Drop, Roley, Professor Globus, Inflato, Sergeant, Soldiers, Misc.

Cancelled U.S. release

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Unlike the previous Dot films, many American distributors declined distribution rights of Dot in Space for the North American release on any format, nor was it even released anywhere outside its home country.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p44
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