Five Times Dizzy is a children's novel by Australian author Nadia Wheatley It was first published in 1982.

Five Times Dizzy is about the comedy and drama of a Greek Australian family in a multi-cultural neighbourhood of inner-city Sydney.

To help her Greek grandmother feel more at home, Mareka comes up with a brilliant plan to give her a pet goat.

The series was filmed on location in the inner-city suburb of Newtown and is notable for an acting role by Mary Kostakidis, who went on to become a longtime newsreader on SBS.

It was also where John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver first met, the pair going on to establish their longstanding Roy & HG partnership.