Lockie Leonard (TV series)

Lockie Leonard
Created by	Tim Winton
Starring	Sean Keenan Rhys Muldoon Briony Williams Corey McKernan Clarence Ryan Gracie Gilbert
Theme music composer	Jebediah
Opening theme	"Worlds Away"
Country of origin	Australia
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jo Horsburgh Rosemary Blight
Producer(s)	Kylie du Fresne Tony Tilse
Running time	24 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Nine Network (Australia) CBBC Channel (UK) Disney XD (USA) BBC Kids (Canada) Boomerang (Latin America)
Original airing	19 June 2007 (Australia) 27 September 2008 (UK) 22 June 2010 (USA)
External links
Website

Lockie Leonard is an Australian children's television series adapted from the Lockie Leonard books that first screened on the Nine Network Australia in 2007. The series was filmed in Albany, Western Australia. A second series was filmed in 2009 and screened in Summer 2010 in Australia and the UK.

Lockie Leonard was produced by Goalpost Pictures Australia and is distributed by the Australian Children's Television Foundation.^[1][2] The theme song "Worlds Away" is performed by Jebediah.

Lockie Leonard premiered in the UK on Saturday 27 September 2008, as part of the long running children's Saturday morning programme TMi which airs from 09:00 to 10:30 on BBC Two. It ran for the first 12 episodes then continued to air on CBBC Channel.

The show has won the 2008 TV Week Logie Award for Best Children's Series, and star Sean Keenan (Lockie) was nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent. It won the 2007 AFI award for Best Children's Drama Series. The series was also nominated for the 2007 BAFTA Awards for Best International Children's Drama Series.

Origin

The first TV series was adapted from the Lockie Leonard books, written by multi-award winning West Australian author, Tim Winton. The three books in the series are Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo; Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster; and Lockie Leonard, Legend. All books were distributed by Puffin International.

Overview

Series one

The premise of the series is the same as the book series from which it is derived. Lockie Leonard is a surf rat who moves with his family to Angelus, a small coastal town in Western Australia. Lockie has to deal with starting high school in a new town with no friends and a house that is in danger of sinking into a swamp. After nutting himself in the surf on his first day in town, Lockie meets a head banger named Egg, and the two eventually become best friends. After attending his first day at a new school, Lockie manages to fall in love for the first time with Vicki Streeton, the smartest and richest girl in the entire school, whose father also happens to be the mayor of Angelus. The first series is spread over Lockie's first year spent in Angelus with his family.^[3]

Series two

The second series follows Lockie Leonard's second year in Angelus, middle of nowhere, where Lockie must cope with new situations. Vicki leaves to go to boarding school, and Lockie makes friends with new girl Mel, to whom he is initially assigned "buddy duty". His best friend Egg decides to make a new best friend in school bully, Curtis, and begins dating Vicki's friend Sasha. Lockie's brother Philip enters Angelus High a year early owing to his impressive intelligence, and discovers a new friend or two along the way. Meanwhile, poetry-loving Sarge must deal with the new constable at the police station, and Joy decides to get out of the house and set up a new radio station, Radio Angelus.

Cast

Main

• Sean Keenan as Lachlan 'Lockie' Leonard
• Clarence Ryan as Geoffrey 'Egg' Eggleston
• Gracie Gilbert as Victoria 'Vicki' Streeton
• Briony Williams as Joy Leonard
• Rhys Muldoon as Sarge Leonard
• Corey McKernan as Philip Leonard
• Georgia Schober as Blob
• Ella Maddy as Blob

Recurring

• Mike Dorsey as Pop
• Alice Dale as Nan
• Tiarna Clarke as Dorothy 'Dot' Cook (Series 1)
• Trevor Jamieson as Rev. Eggleston
• Della Rae Morrison as Mrs. Eggleston (Series 1)
• Richard Mellick as Mayor Barry Streeton
• Christie Sistrunk as Mrs. Sally Streeton
• Mitchell Page as Colin 'Monster' Streeton (Series 1)
• James Beck as Josh Woodpond (Series 2)
• Laura Fairclough as Melanie 'Mel' Lamb (Series 2)
• Verity Gorman as Sasha
• Nicholas Rechichi as Joe Ramir (Series 2)
• Ewen Leslie as John East (Series 1)

Episodes

Series one

1. "The Human Torpedo"
2. "Stormy Mondays"
3. "Lockie Chickens Out"
4. "To Cheat or Not to Cheat"
5. "Cyril"
6. "A Water Feature"
7. "Match of the Day"
8. "The Details"
9. "Weird Genes"
10. "Miracles"
11. "X Marks the Dot"
12. "Dog Days"
13. "It's Not You, It's Me"
14. "Pure Poetry"
15. "The Ladder of Love"
16. "Brothers"
17. "Swamp Rat"
18. "Face the Fear"
19. "Lockie Takes the Cake"
20. "The Clock's Tickin'"
21. "Zig Zag Hill"
22. "Angels and Monsters"
23. "Boredom Busters"
24. "Barry Goes Pop"
25. "The Domino Effect"
26. "Joy... to the World"

Series two

1. "New and Improved"
2. "The X Factor"
3. "Bubble Trouble"
4. "Pick a Winner"
5. "Life Map"
6. "Total Eclipse"
7. "The Silence of the Frogs"
8. "The Information Age"
9. "Time and Tide"
10. "It Happens..."
11. "Snake Hide Oil"
12. "The Big Questions"
13. "The Party"
14. "Enter the Mermaid"
15. "A Head of the Team"
16. "Cure for Stings"
17. "A Musical Moment"
18. "Laugh with the Leonards"
19. "Aliens in Angelus"
20. "Buried Treasure"
21. "Second Best in Show"
22. "I, Monster"
23. "Trixie Wants to Party"
24. "Not So Perfect Storm"
25. "Crimes of the Heartless"
26. "Legend"

Second series

The second series of Lockie Leonard was filmed in 2009 and screened in Australia on the Nine Network and WIN in 2010. The cast list remained unchanged, with new and original stories formulated by the show's writers. The new series follows a more mature Lockie's adventures and is once again set in Albany, Western Australia.^[4] The episode guide was announced online on 6 December 2009, on the Australian Television website.^[5]

The second series first screened on 17 May 2010 on Nickelodeon New Zealand, and the Nine Network in Australia on 21 August 2010, continuing weekly.^[6] In the United States, the series began airing on 21 June 2010 on Disney XD at 9:30am. In Latin America, the series premiered on Wednesday, 2 June 2010 on Boomerang. In the United Kingdom, it began airing Monday 2 August 2010 and continued daily (except on Fridays) on the CBBC channel at 11:30am.

DVD release

A DVD box set of the first series of Lockie Leonard was released in Australia in mid-August 2008, and the UK on 19 July 2010, with the second series scheduled for release in Australia on 2 March 2011 by Universal Studios, and later in 2011 by Revelation Films for the UK.

DVD	Release date
Lockie Leonard: The Complete Series 1	August 2008 (Australia), July 2010 (United Kingdom)
Lockie Leonard: Series 2, Part 1	March 2011 (Australia), December 2011 (United Kingdom)
Lockie Leonard: Series 2, Part 2	December 2011 (Australia), March 2012 (United Kingdom)

See also

• List of Australian television series

References

1. ^ Live Action Series ACTF – Lockie Leonard[
2. ^ Goalpost Pictures * Independent Film Production - Lockie Leonard
3. ^ Australian Television – Lockie Leonard
4. ^ Surf's up for Lockie Leonard Series 2 in Albany. Lockie Leonard Season 2 Completion
5. ^ Australian Television : Lockie Leonard
6. ^ David knox (12 August). "Returning: Lockie Leonard". TV-Tonight.com.au. http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2010/08/returning-lockie-leonard.html. Retrieved 12 August 2010. 

External links

• Lockie Leonard website – official website
• Lockie Leonard Facebook – official Facebook page
• Lockie Leonard MySpace – official MySpace site
• Lockie Leonard Channel Nine – official Channel Nine site
• Lockie Leonard at the Internet Movie Database
• Lockie Leonard series 1 trailer on YouTube
• Lockie Leonard series 2 trailer on YouTube
• Lockie Leonard Series One from Revelation Films