Lockie Leonard (TV series)
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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
. 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.
. 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
.
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
. The episode guide was announced online on 6 December 2009, on the Australian Television website.
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. 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.
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
.
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
in 2007. The series was filmed in Albany, Western Australia
Albany, Western Australia
Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, some 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital. As of 2009, Albany's population was estimated at 33,600, making it the 6th-largest city in the state....
. 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
Australian Children's Television Foundation
The Australian Children's Television Foundation is a non-profit, government-funded organisation in Australia concerned with the development, production, dissemination and promotion of children's television and other audio-visual material for children....
. The theme song "Worlds Away" is performed by Jebediah
Jebediah
Jebediah is an Australian alternative rock band formed in 1994 in Perth, Western Australia. The group consists of vocalist and guitarist Kevin Mitchell, guitarist Chris Daymond, bassist Vanessa Thornton, and Kevin's brother Brett Mitchell on drums...
.
Lockie Leonard premiered in the UK on Saturday 27 September 2008, as part of the long running children's Saturday morning programme TMi
TMi
Sam & Mark's TMi Friday was a British children's television show that was presented by Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes . It originally aired on Saturday mornings on BBC Two from its launch on 16 September 2006, until the end of its fourth series on 19 December 2009. Sam & Mark were joined by Caroline...
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
CBBC Channel
CBBC is a BBC television channel aimed at 6 to 12 year olds. It complements the CBBC programming that continues to air on BBC One and BBC Two. Launched on 11 February 2002, it broadcasts from 7am to 7pm on Freeview, cable, IPTV and digital satellite, occupying the same bandwidth as, but a different...
.
The show has won the 2008 TV Week
TV Week
TV Week is a weekly television magazine in Australia, first published as a Melbourne-only publication in December 1957 , and bearing a strong affiliation to television station GTV.The publication is still publishing weekly...
Logie Award
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...
for Best Children's Series, and star Sean Keenan (Lockie) was nominated for the Graham Kennedy
Graham Kennedy
Graham Cyril Kennedy, AO was an Australian radio, television and film performer, often called Gra Gra and The King of Australian television.-Childhood:...
Award for Most Outstanding New Talent. It won the 2007 AFI award
Australian Film Institute Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,...
for Best Children's Drama Series. The series was also nominated for the 2007 BAFTA Awards
British Academy Television Awards
The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . They have been awarded annually since 1954, and are analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States.-Background:...
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 WintonTim Winton
Timothy John "Tim" Winton , is an Australian novelist and short story writer.-Life:Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the regional city of Albany....
. The three books in the series are Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo
Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo
Lockie Leonard is a fictional character in a series of children novels. The books were written by Booker Prize nominee, Tim Winton. Lockie Leonard is a teenage "surf rat" who moves from the city to Angelus, Western Australia, "the most remote town on Earth". Lockie has to deal with starting high...
; Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster; and Lockie Leonard, Legend. All books were distributed by Puffin International
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
.
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.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.Main
- Sean KeenanSean Keenan (actor)Sean Keenan is an Australian television actor best known for his leading role in two seasons of the Australian children's television series, Lockie Leonard in 2007 and 2010....
as Lachlan 'Lockie' Leonard - Clarence Ryan as Geoffrey 'Egg' Eggleston
- Gracie Gilbert as Victoria 'Vicki' Streeton
- Briony WilliamsBriony WilliamsBriony Williams is an actress. She is best known for her role as Joy, mother to Lockie and Phillip, in Lockie Leonard. She has appeared in the film "Struck by Lightning", and the TV Series All Saints. She has also appear in stage productions, including Macbeth.-Filmography:-External links:...
as Joy Leonard - Rhys MuldoonRhys MuldoonRhys Muldoon is an Australian actor, writer and director who has worked extensively in film, television, theatre and radio.-Television:...
as Sarge Leonard - Corey McKernan as Philip Leonard
- Georgia Schober as Blob
- Ella Maddy as Blob
Recurring
- Mike DorseyMike DorseyMike Dorsey was an English theatre and television actor. He rose to fame in Australia and is best known for his long-running role of Reginald "Daddy " MacDonald in the 1970s television soap opera Number 96....
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 PageMitchell PageMitchell Otis Page is a former Major League Baseball player. He finished second to Hall of Famer Eddie Murray in American League Rookie of the Year balloting when he came up with the Oakland Athletics in .-Early years:...
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 LeslieEwen LeslieEwen Leslie is an Australian actor.Born in Fremantle, Western Australia, he started appearing in various TV shows from the age of 12...
as John East (Series 1)
Series one
- "The Human Torpedo"
- "Stormy Mondays"
- "Lockie Chickens Out"
- "To Cheat or Not to Cheat"
- "Cyril"
- "A Water Feature"
- "Match of the Day"
- "The Details"
- "Weird Genes"
- "Miracles"
- "X Marks the Dot"
- "Dog Days"
- "It's Not You, It's Me"
- "Pure Poetry"
- "The Ladder of Love"
- "Brothers"
- "Swamp Rat"
- "Face the Fear"
- "Lockie Takes the Cake"
- "The Clock's Tickin'"
- "Zig Zag Hill"
- "Angels and Monsters"
- "Boredom Busters"
- "Barry Goes Pop"
- "The Domino Effect"
- "Joy... to the World"
Series two
- "New and Improved"
- "The X Factor"
- "Bubble Trouble"
- "Pick a Winner"
- "Life Map"
- "Total Eclipse"
- "The Silence of the Frogs"
- "The Information Age"
- "Time and Tide"
- "It Happens..."
- "Snake Hide Oil"
- "The Big Questions"
- "The Party"
- "Enter the Mermaid"
- "A Head of the Team"
- "Cure for Stings"
- "A Musical Moment"
- "Laugh with the Leonards"
- "Aliens in Angelus"
- "Buried Treasure"
- "Second Best in Show"
- "I, Monster"
- "Trixie Wants to Party"
- "Not So Perfect Storm"
- "Crimes of the Heartless"
- "Legend"
Second series
The second series of Lockie Leonard was filmed in 2009 and screened in Australia on the Nine NetworkNine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
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
Albany, Western Australia
Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, some 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital. As of 2009, Albany's population was estimated at 33,600, making it the 6th-largest city in the state....
. The episode guide was announced online on 6 December 2009, on the Australian Television website.
The second series first screened on 17 May 2010 on Nickelodeon New Zealand
Nickelodeon New Zealand
Nickelodeon was a 24 hour TV channel for kids aged 3–14 in New Zealand. The channel launched on 29 July 2006 and it was available on SKY Television Channel 041...
, and the Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
on 21 August 2010, continuing weekly. In the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, 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
Boomerang (Latin American TV channel)
Boomerang Latin America is a 24-hour cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a unit of Time Warner broadcasting in all Latin America. Initially it was focused on classical series and shows, as the Latin American version of Boomerang from the United States. In 2006, it...
. In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, it began airing Monday 2 August 2010 and continued daily (except on Fridays) on the CBBC
CBBC
CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...
channel at 11:30am.
DVD release
A DVD box set of the first series of Lockie Leonard was released in AustraliaAustralia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
in mid-August 2008, and the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
on 19 July 2010, with the second series scheduled for release in Australia on 2 March 2011 by Universal Studios
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
, and later in 2011 by Revelation Films
Revelation Films
Revelation Films is a British distributor of entertainment programmes on DVD.It was perhaps most well known as the company through which as of November 2006, the American anime company FUNimation Entertainment has launched its titles in the United Kingdom on region 2 DVD...
for the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
.
| 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) |
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 series 1 trailer on YouTube
- Lockie Leonard series 2 trailer on YouTube
- Lockie Leonard Series One from Revelation FilmsRevelation FilmsRevelation Films is a British distributor of entertainment programmes on DVD.It was perhaps most well known as the company through which as of November 2006, the American anime company FUNimation Entertainment has launched its titles in the United Kingdom on region 2 DVD...