| Tracey McBean | |
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| Format | Animated series |
| Created by | Mary Small Arthur Filloy |
| Starring | Roslyn Oades Anthony Hayes Alice Ley Lisa Bailey |
| Composer(s) | Nerida Tyson-Chow |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 38 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Noel Price Tom Van Waveren Claire Henderson Jin Guo Ping |
| Producer(s) | Noel Price Charlotte Damgaard |
| Running time | approx 0:30 (0.15 per segment) |
| Production company(s) | Southern Star Group Egmont Imagination (season 1) Shanghai Animation Studio |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | 31 December 2001 – 13 June 2006 |
Tracey McBean is a series of children's books drawn and written by Mary Small and Arthur Filloy about Tracey McBean, a young Australian female inventor who was the protagonist and main character in the series. It is also the name of an animated children's television series produced by Southern Star Entertainment, which aired from 31 December 2001 to 13 June 2006 on ABC Kids in Australia and was repeated numerous times on ABC1 and ABC3. It airs on Discovery Kids in the United States and airs on Pop in the United Kingdom.
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The protagonist, Tracey, is a young Australian girl who goes to school with her best friend Shamus. Together they use Tracey's inventions for all kinds of purposes, like school competitions or simply for fun. Tracey lives in a house and Shamus on the fifteenth floor of a tall apartment building. Shamus loves gardening organically and Tracey loves inventing devices and contraptions. Tracey uses a caravan in her backyard for inventing. The caravan, white with a horizontal thick red stripe, has an antenna, and a computer and many devices and parts within. Tracey's younger sister, Megan, often annoys Tracey to the extent that she will invent something to stop this annoyance. The antagonists are the McConnolly brothers, who go to Tracey's school. They often are rivals of McBean though lacking much intelligence and often are either culprits or annoy Tracey and Shamus is some manner. Jim McConnolly is the leader, and is characterized by his blue beanie and high collared sweater, only his nose, ears and long blonde hair showing. His sneakers have an extreme odour, even powerful enough to use as a weapon or tool to gain food or other items from fellow schoolchildren. Jake McConnolly is the obese and usually dimwitted brother who sometimes shows an odd amount of intelligence, but only briefly for an amusing value. He has brown hair. McBeans arch-rival, with equal or greater intelligence, though less morals, is Laszlo, a boy science club member. In most episodes Tracey invents a device to help her or her friends and family in a situation with good intention but this leads to a minor disaster or failure and she must work out a solution. Although based on her abilities in science and her technical knowledge the show rarely features any scientific basis for her inventions and many take on a fantastic amount of power or extremely exaggerated function.
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