Touch the Sun was a television series commissioned by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in 1988 as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. It may have been intended that seven feature-length episodes were produced, one for each State, plus the Northern Territory, but only six were completed. Executive producer was Patricia Edgar in association with the ABC and production company Revcom.
This Friday afternoon series from Thames Television presented six standalone half-hour situation comedies for children, with each episode considered as the pilot for a possible new comedy series.
Follows the adventures of a baby gorilla and his friends: a fish out of water, a baby lion who can't wait to grow up, a pretty pink ostrich and an ever-hungry elephant.
The boy Javi has moved with his family to a house with a garden, and that same night he sees light in the tree that overlooks his window; he investigates, climbing a branch, and thus meets a group of funny and curious animals that come together to chat every night about natural sciences.