Australian ABC TV children's educational program shows how a TV show actor is cast and works to create an episode of a TV program.

During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the way, and in the end Archer competes in the Melbourne Cup race.

A scientist on a secluded island uses revolutionary brain surgery to revive his dead wife.