Lockie Leonard (TV series)

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Lockie Leonard
Starring Sean Keenan as Lockie Leonard
Rhys Muldoon as Sarge Leonard
Briony Williams as Joy Leonard
Corey McKernan as Philip Leonard
Clarence Ryan as Egg
Gracie Gilbert as Vicki
Country of origin Flag of Australia Australia
No. of episodes 26
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 Jo Horsburgh
Rosemary Blight
Producer(s) Kylie du Fresne
Tony Tilse
Running time 24 min(10 hr 24 min duration of all episodes)
Broadcast
Original channel Nine Network
Original run June 19, 2007 – August 15, 2007
External links
Aus TV Official website
IMDb profile

Lockie Leonard is an Australian children's television series, produced by Goalpost Pictures Australia (formally Essential Viewing) for the Nine Network Australia. The series was shot in Albany, Western Australia and originally screened in 2007. Lockie Leonard is distributed worldwide and to the Australian education sector by the Australian Children's Television Foundation. It recently 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".

In Australia, 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.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] Synopsis

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.

[edit] Cast

  • Sean Keenan as Lockie Leonard
  • Clarence 'Cowdy' Ryan as Geoffrey 'Egg' Eggleston
  • Gracie Gilbert as 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
  • Mike Dorsey as Pop
  • Alice Dale as Nan
  • Tiarna Clarke as Dot
  • Trevor Jamieson as Rev. Eggleston
  • Della Rae Morrison as Mrs. Eggleston
  • Richard Mellick as Mr. Streeton
  • Christie Sistrunk as Mrs. Streeton
  • Mitchell Page as Colin 'Monster' Streeton
  • Geoffrey Waldeck as Boof's Dad
  • Robyne Nottle as Boof's Mum
  • Cameron Findlay as Boof
  • Luke Tulloch as Flea
  • Blake Fruet as Handle
  • Joe Amato as Wack
  • Verity Gorman as Sasha
  • Igor Sas as Mr. Squasher
  • Monica Main as Ms. Twaddle
  • Ewen Leslie as John East
  • Melanie Munt as Lisa
  • Allan Girod as Snowy
  • Kyle Morrison as Wingnut
  • Rachel Gorman as Sally
  • Douglas Walker as Wally Norton
  • Lachlan McSevich as Sean Keenan's Stunt Double
  • Christopher Morris as Security Guard

[edit] Episode List

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"

[edit] Second Series

Goalpost Pictures, the company responsible for producing the Lockie Leonard TV series, has confirmed a second series will be filmed. This series is to be shot in Albany, WA, during the later half of 2009, and will screen is Australia in either the third quarter of 2009, or early in 2010. The series will also screen in the UK, Canada and America. The cast list is expected to remain unchanged, with new and original stories formulated by the show's writers.

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