The Edison Twins

The Edison Twins was a Canadian youth series of CBC Television and was recorded between 1982 and 1986. A total of 78 episodes were made. The Belgian television channel (now A)BRT1, sent out at the time the program on Sunday afternoons.

The series is about the adventures of the fraternal twins Tom and Annie Edison (played respectively by Andrew Sabiston and Marnie McPhail), their naughty brother Paul (Sunny Besen Thrasher) and their best friend Lance Howard (Milan Cheylov). In each episode, they end up in a mysterious, supernatural situation: ghosts in a theatre, UFO's, beat spirits, unexplained abductions or disappearances, etc.. Tom and Annie go looking for the cause and use their extremely extensive knowledge of science and experiments to find the truth. Every time there appears to be in the game cheats: fraud, pyramid games, mafiapractices, extortion, ...

Each episode ends with an animation that explains the basic principle of the most important scientific experiment that came in the show.