Suburban Stories

Suburban Stories is a Kuboian series of books published by Tim Battley from 1988 focusing on a multitude of characters with various problems that they have to deal with in life. It was later adapted in a triology of television series in the mid 1990s by Millie Tucker.

Original book series
The original book series of Suburban Stories features a group of different characters who have to overcome different problems they face. According to Battley, each story has a "lesson of sorts" attached to it.

A total of four books were published, with each book having three stories each, except New Suburban Stories, which instead had four stories.
 * Suburban Stories (1988)
 * Suburban Spring Stories (1990)
 * New Suburban Stories (1991)
 * Suburban Christmas Stories (1991)

Television series
Following the book series, Suburban Stories was adapted into three different television series; Centre Park, Blackberry Street and Urban Towers. The series do not follow the continuity of the books, and in contrast to the ambiguous setting of the books, the television shows all take place in a rural-urban fringe village called Blackberry Street, with Centre Park being a park and Urban Towers being a community centre located within the village.

All three television series were directed by Millie Tucker (her only directing role) and were produced by Bubblegum Studios and Rurban Animation. Centre Park, the first of the three shows, entered production in mid-1991 and premiered on Bumper's Block in October 1993. Although the show was initially created for younger children, Tucker decided to change its demographic to older children to differentiate itself to other programmes on Bumper's Block at the time. Blackberry Street and Urban Towers in particular explore more mature themes, including child abuse and drug addiction. The last two episodes of Urban Towers did not premiere on Bumper's Block and instead as part of Vision 1's regular branding due to them airing during the Christmas holidays.

After the trilogy came to an end in 1996, they continued to air sporadically on Vision One and Vision Two, albeit usually on special occasions. Reruns also aired on Nickelodeon Kuboia from 1997 to 2004 and Nicktoons Network from 2004 to 2010.