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Australian children's comedy television series

Round the Twist is an Australian children's comedy drama television series which follows the supernatural adventures of the Twist family, who leave their conventional residence to live in a lighthouse, in the fictional coastal town of Port Niranda. as a show that both children and parents could watch. Early episodes were based on stories by author Paul Jennings.

Patricia Edgar agreed to have Jennings write the series on the condition he would be mentored by and collaborate with the director, actor, and writer Esben Storm. Edgar previously worked with Storm on the children's show Winners and the TV film series Touch the Sun. The partnership between Edgar, Storm and Jennings was an efficient team for the development of the first series, whose characters and community were set around a lighthouse on a coastline. Storm and Jennings drew from the plots in the latter's existing short stories and created new ideas, sometimes using two stories in an episode to fill out the plots. was to balance the stories around a family with three leading child characters. The children (Pete, Linda, and Bronson) were given equal time throughout the episodes' stories. Each episode finds the Twist kids involved in surreal, supernatural adventures. There were four series of Round the Twist made during the show's 11 year run. The first 13 half hour episodes were part of a three program package the ACTF sold to the Seven Network in September 1988, which also included Kaboodle and The Greatest Tune on Earth.

The second series reintroduces the Twist family and the local identities from the coastal town of Port Niranda.

The first series of Round The Twist went into pre production in March 1989 and production began on 4 April and ran for 13 weeks. Filming took place at Melbourne Film Studios and the lighthouse on the Victorian coast. Throughout the series, several locations in Victoria, Australia, were used for external shots. Exterior scenes of the Twist family's lighthouse home were shot at the Split Point Lighthouse in Aireys Inlet. The school and some town scenes were shot in Williamstown, Point Lonsdale, and Queenscliff. The seventh episode of series one was supposed to be "Frozen Stiff", but that had to be changed as it was too expensive to freeze a house and thirty animals inside large ice blocks. Nell was supposed to die in "Lighthouse Blues", but Storm told Jennings, "it's too depressing after thirteen weeks. We can't finish the series by killing off a well loved character." The second series was in pre production in April 1992. Filming took place from 23 March to 19 June 1992 and finished on 23 June 1992. Edgar continued as executive director, and Jennings and Storm wrote the scripts. It was pre purchased by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Ravensburger Film, and TV Gmbh (for German speaking territories), and Tri Star Gmbh (for Italy). It was produced by Edgar with Bernadette O’Mahony and written by Storm, Chris Anastassiades, and Ray Boseley. The series was directed by Boseley, Storm, and Pino Amenta. The series was pre sold to the ABC, BBC, Nickelodeon UK, and Disney European channels, and financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation. The scripts were completed by November 1997, and official pre production of the series commenced in November 1998. Filming took place on location at Aireys Inlet and Crawford Productions' studio in Melbourne in early 1999. In 2000, the ACTF completed the development of the fourth series of Round the Twist, which was written by Storm, Boseley, Louise Fox, Christine Madafferi, and Robert Greenberg. The pre production of the fourth series commenced in November 1999, with principal photography starting in February 2000 and ending in May 2000. Production was planned for 1997–98, but funding for the project was not granted. It was so popular that TV4 contacted the ACTF to acquire the second series so that it be immediately aired. The acquisition of Round the Twist by FOX Network coincided with the repeat of series one on BBC1 in the UK.

To launch the program, the ACTF and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) transformed one of the ABC's Elsternwick studios into a Round the Twist set. Four Foundation staff members attended the MIPCOM market in Cannes, France, in October 1992 to launch the second series of Round the Twist and Lift Off on the international market. The second series of Round the Twist was a major success when it was screened on BBC1 in the United Kingdom in early 1993. It was rated the first most popular children's program in the United Kingdom by the time it had finished airing. BBC Enterprises entered into a contract with the ACTF for the release of Round the Twist in the United Kingdom.

A stage musical based on the television series is in development, with book, music and lyrics by Paul Hodge incorporating the original theme song. It is scheduled to open in Brisbane at the Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre in November 2024 directed by Simon Phillips for Queensland Theatre.