Secret Valley

Secret Valley is a children's television adventure series created by Terry Bourke and Roger Mirams.

It was produced by the Grundy Organisation from Australia in association with Telecip from France and Televisión Española (TVE) from Spain.

Secret Valley is a fictitious children's holiday camp in Bildarra which has been transformed from a run-down ghost town into a resort.

These battles usually feature flour bombs and other food-related missiles and everyone inevitably ends up in a big mess.

Secret Valley is also under threat of closure by the local council, and property developer William Whopper (also known as 'WW') played by Hugh Keays-Byrne.

[2] The series was aired in New Zealand, Greece, Italy, the UK on ITV in the 1980s, and the Netherlands in 1982/1983 by KRO television.

The series was a co-production between the Grundy Organisation from Australia, Telecip from France, and Televisión Española from Spain.

The series was at Smokey Dawson's ranch[3] in the Sydney suburb of Terrey Hills and also at the theme park El Caballo Blanco.

Roger Mirams originally intended to make a series called The Ghost Town Gang at Smoky Dawson's ranch at Ingleside, which had been used to film Luke's Kingdom and Lost Islands.

[5] The theme song "My Secret Valley" was sung to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda" and composed by Bob Young, with lyrics by series producer Roger Mirams (credited as David Phillips).