African Skies

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This installment in David and Diane Arkenstone's Adventure Cargo series travels to the plains of Africa for inspiration. Inspiration is an important word. African Skies only uses the continent as a guide, accentuating the typical contemporary instrumental palette of surging synths and vaguely ethnic electronic percussion with African vocalists and minor nods to indigenous instrumentation. This approach posits the four pieces here somewhere between the Arkenstones' usual name-brand output and soundtrack music for the next globe-hopping Tomb Raider film. Cuts like "Safari on the Serengeti" and "Voices in the Jungle" are evocative, to be sure. But their African influence should be taken at face value. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi

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African Skies
Format Drama
Starring Catherine Bach
Country of origin Canada Canada
No. of episodes 52
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Family
Original run 19911994

African Skies was a Canadian television series which aired from 1991-1994. It starred Catherine Bach.

Plot summary

An adventure series about two teenagers, one black and one white, living in post-Apartheid South Africa. Rory lives with his mother on a large range out in the countryside, while Jam lives with his mother while his father runs a medical clinic far away. Together, the two friends get into various adventures, often having to rely on each other to get out of trouble.

Cast

Actor Role
Catherine Bach Margo Dutton
Simon James as Rory Dutton
Rouxnet Brown Jam Mathiba
Robert Mitchum Sam Dutton

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