Escape from Jupiter is an Australian children's science fiction drama which aired from 26 November 1994 to 11 March 1995 on ABC.
Concerning a small group of children on Jupiter's moon Io, the series ran for 13 episodes.
When one of Io's volcanoes erupts, the surviving colonists must flee the moon and try to reach the safety of Earth.
She's rarely been away from Earth and getting "thrown into the deep end" presents it with a hostile young lady.
The introduction to the show is through the experience of the kids as they meet the newest additions to the colony, a team of seismologists sent to examine the continuance of the highly profitable mining of resources on Io.
Upon arrival, in an attempt to show off, both Michael and Jarrod take Kumiko into the mines asking Kingston and Anna to "cover for them".
After being covered in debris in the Jupiter bar whilst playing a computer game, Kingston and Anna watch as the adults go over the maps to the tunnels and how to best get to the children.
With the adults gone, Kingston works out that the trio would have gone away from the main shaft and through another subsidiary tunnel to get back.
It isn't long before both groups meet up coming out of a ventilation shaft much to the relief of all parents.
Michael talks his dad into taking up professor Ingosol to check out the station after hearing his and Duffy's exchange.
Due to the security system designed to monitor the colony and surrounding space, Duffy is alerted to an unauthorised tug takeoff.
As they descend the stairs into the station, warning lights come on indicating that they only have 1 minute of air left.
The station's magnificent solar sails open up to absorb the sunlight from the sun and to also restart the power and life systems.
Kumiko, who was put in charge of Kingston and Anna realises they are missing and asks Michael and Jarrod for help.
With the majority of people now loaded onto KL-5, Michael and Kumiko move to the old abandoned landing platform originally used when the colony was being first set up.
Meanwhile, Michael's father is upset at the prospect of leaving his son on the colony and attempts to go through the now collapsed main hallway tunnel.
Over in KL-5's control room, Professor Ingosol begins getting an errant signal and alerts the team on the ground.
At Kingston's exclamation that it must be them, the group set off and recover the last two evacuees just before the entire colony explodes and is engulfed into Io's lava flows.
In order to break Jupiter's massive gravitational pull, they couple the space tug up to KL-5.
As the systems begin to countdown for launch, an error appears in the space station control room.
Escape from Jupiter (ISBN 0563404302) was 240 pages long and was published by Penguin Character Books Ltd and was licensed by the BBC; it is not currently in print.