Best friends Tomias and Dahlia deal with the dreams and challenges that come with their childhood in a remote community in the Northern Territory.
Barrumbi Kids (Season 1)
The Burn Off (Episode 1)
Writer: Danielle MacLean
Air date: 2022-11-18
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: Best friends Tomias and Dahlia decide to skip school and find themselves with no choice but to fight fire with fire.
Gordon's Boat (Episode 2)
Writer: Fin Edquist
Air date: 2022-11-25
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: Three turns out to be a crowd when the new kid in town, Gordon, comes between best friends Tomias and Dahlia.
Big Barra Bonanza (Episode 3)
Writer: Fin Edquist
Air date: 2022-12-02
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: Best friends Tomias and Dahlia leave Lizzie and set out to catch prize barramundi, but trouble arises with a crocodile who has other ideas.
Actual Reality (Episode 4)
Writer: David Woodhead
Air date: 2022-12-09
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: Tomias, Dahlia, and Gordon are out on country doing a VR film shoot when they find reality colliding with virtual reality as things don't go to plan and they find themselves stranded.
The Festival (Episode 5)
Writer: Julia Moriarty
Air date: 2022-12-16
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: The Mandjarkkorl Festival is fast approaching, and the friends want to practice their new dance routine, but their responsibilities pull them in different directions.
Cracker Night (Episode 6)
Writer: Stephen Abbott
Air date: 2022-12-23
Runtime: 22 min
Overview: Tomias and Dahlia find a box of fire crackers and decide not to hand them, but things get out of hand.
Speech Comp (Episode 7)
Writer: Stephen Abbott
Air date: 2022-12-30
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Dahlia and Tomias select the same subject for a school speech competition, and their research leads them on a quest for treasure that reveals Dahlia's connections to Mandjakkorl and danger.
Transitions (Episode 8)
Writer: Julia Moriarty
Air date: 2023-01-06
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: Tomias loses his cousin after he arrives home for initiation ceremony, and it fuels his own anxieties around boarding school; Dahlia confronts her own purpose in Mandjakkorl.
Free Range (Episode 9)
Writer: Shontell Ketchell
Air date: 2023-01-13
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: Tomias is offered a place in a Melbourne Boarding School, but he doesn't know how to tell Dahlia, and instead opts to hide it from her.
Barrumbi (Episode 10)
Writer: Danielle MacLean
Air date: 2023-01-20
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: Tomias and Dahlia's friendship lies in tatters, but a trip to a special place may heal them and country.
