Five Times Dizzy

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| author = Nadia Wheatley

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| country = Australia

| language = English

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| genre = Children's literature

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| pub_date = 1982

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Five Times Dizzy is a children's novel by Australian author Nadia Wheatley It was first published in 1982. In 1986 it became an Australian children's television series.

Plot summary

Five Times Dizzy is about the comedy and drama of a Greek Australian family in a multi-cultural neighbourhood of inner-city Sydney. To help her Greek grandmother feel more at home, Mareka comes up with a brilliant plan to give her a pet goat.

Television adaptation

The mini-series Five Times Dizzy first screened on the Nine Network in 1986. The series was filmed on location in the inner-city suburb of Newtown and is notable for an acting role by Mary Kostakidis, who went on to become a longtime newsreader on SBS. It was also where John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver first met, the pair going on to establish their longstanding Roy & HG partnership.[https://iview.abc.net.au/show/australian-story The Odd Couple] Australian Story 18 May 2020