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Australian audiences are about to meet their new favourite comedy caper with the 10 part series Caper Crew premiering on ABC iview from Friday 10 April. 

Featuring heists, hijinks and hilarity, Caper Crew draws inspiration from the incredible true stories of the Kangaroo Gang, a notorious group of Australian crims who pulled off daring jewellery heists around Europe in the 1960s. 

Life for siblings Amelia and Kai Delaney is pretty quiet in boring Woodspring – until their glamorous con-artist grandmother Queenie mysteriously appears on their doorstep and introduces them to the ‘Ten Con-mandments’ – her personal playbook of mischief, mayhem and the art of the grift. 

Queenie’s arrival sparks a hunt for Woodspring’s greatest mystery: the missing Woodspring Nug, a priceless meteorite stolen nearly 30 years ago by Queenie’s infamous Kangaroo Gang, then somehow lost. With a $100,000 reward on offer, the race to find it is on!  

Amelia and Kai recruit thespian extraordinaire Penelope and gentle giant Ophelbert to form their own gang, ‘the Joeys’. Together they must outsmart Queenie’s old crew and Amelia’s all-powerful nemesis, Emilia Katinkatonk. But as the search for the Nug heats up, the Joeys and Queenie discover the real treasure might just be family and bringing down the Katinkatonk dynasty once and for all. 

Caper Crew is the first children’s series from production company Easy Tiger (Colin from Accounts, The Twelve), produced by Yingna Lu (The PM’s Daughter Series 2) with set up director Guy Edmonds (Hardball) and a talented team of writers, script producers, directors, cast and crew. The series stars Tina Bursill (Strife) as Queenie, along with Annie Maynard (Colin from Accounts) and Michael Theo (Austin).  

Caper Crew premieres at 6am Friday 10 April on ABC iview. 

 Caper Crew is an Easy Tiger Production for the ABC. Major production investment from Screen Australia, the ABC and the Australian Children's Television Foundation. Financed with support from Screen NSW.  Executive Producers: Ian Collie, Rob Gibson, Mary Ellen Mullane and Bernadette O’Mahony.  Series Producer: Yingna Lu. Directors: Guy Edmonds, Stef Smith and Shelly Lauman; Written by Keith Thompson, Matthew Whittet, Amy Stewart, Jack Yabsley and Erica Harrison. Distribution by the Australian Children’s Television Foundation.