Half Moon Investigations (TV series)

Half Moon Investigations

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Genre Children's
Created by Eoin Colfer
Starring Rory Elrick
Sebastian Charles
Olivia Grant
Nicola Duffell
Marcus Nash
Theme music composer Iain Cook
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 13
Production
Executive producer(s) Josephine Ward
Producer(s) Johnathan Phillips
Running time 30 minutes
Release
Original network BBC
Original release 5 January (2009-01-05) – 30 March 2009 (2009-03-30)

Half Moon Investigations is a children's crime/comedy drama television series created by the BBC and based upon the novel of the same name by the author Eoin Colfer. It concerns a schoolboy, Fletcher Moon, who spends much of his spare time solving petty crimes around his school, St Jerome's. 13 episodes were first broadcast between January and March 2009. The series was filmed in and around a disused secondary school as well as a Centre for adults with special needs located in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire.

Background

Fletcher Moon (often referred to as Half Moon because of his height) is a schoolboy attending St. Jerome's school. Although it is not stated in the series where the school is situated, the novel upon which the TV series is based has St. Jerome's located in the town of Lock, Wexford, Ireland. Every week a crime is committed and it is up to Half Moon and his private detective business to find the culprit by analysing a series of clues and witnesses.

Characters

Eoin Colfer with the cast of Half Moon Investigations after touring the Scottish set

Reception

Similar to the novel, the TV series has received generally positive reviews both critically and from viewers, with the first three episodes scoring on average 7.7/10 on Internet Movie Database.[1]

References

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