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''Tracey McBean'' is an Australian
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children's television series Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television show, television programs designed for children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run during ...
produced by
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and
Film Australia Film Australia was a company established by the Government of Australia to produce films about Australia in 1973. Its predecessors were the Cinema and Photographic Branch (1913–38), the Australian National Film Board (1939–1955, under diff ...
. The show was aired from 2001 until 2006 on ABC Kids.


Overview

The main protagonist, Tracey, is a young nine-year-old girl who goes to school with her best friend Shamus. Together they use Tracey's inventions for all kinds of purposes, such as school competitions or simply for fun. Tracey lives in a house and Shamus on the 15th floor of a tall apartment building. Shamus loves gardening organically and Tracey likes 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, who is even powerful enough to use as a weapon or tool to add food or other items from fellow students. Jake McConnolly is the obese and usually dim-witted brother who sometimes displays an odd amount of intelligence, but only briefly for an amusing value. McBeans' arch-rival, with equal or lower 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.


Characters


Main

*Tracey McBean: (voiced by
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) is the titular character * Shamus Wong: Tracey's best friend * Jim and Jake: The two brothers who bully Tracey.


Minor

*Megan McBean: Tracey's younger sister * Mr. & Mrs. McBean: Tracey's parents * Gordon McBean: Tracey's brother. * Laszlo: Tracey's rival. * Morris and Sandy: Tracey's pets. * Mrs Carmody: Tracey's teacher. * Mr Longbottom: The school principal. * Shamus family: He has three older brothers with a father and mother. *Lee: The boy who is rejected as bad luck but Tracey tries to help Lee. He appears in "Bad Luck Lee". *Linda: The well-known player when Tracey tries to get her to join the pane. Linda appears in some episodes. *Jimmy McConnelly: Jim and Jack's cousin. She appears in "The McConnelly Cousin". *Robot Tracey: the robot was invented by herself. *The robot family: the robot family was invented by herself. *Mr. Arther: Tracey's uncle and the inventor. *Harvey: Shamus's friend *Jackson: He was Tracey's grandson in the future. He appears in "Tracey in 2060" Episode.


Episodes


Season 1

# "Stretching Machine" & "Family Power" # "Gordon the King" & "Lost Thing Finder" # "Mom's Birthday" & "Multiplication" # "Pocket Money" & "School Camp" # "Brain Machine" & "Local Weather" # "Stage Fright" & "Park Monster" # "Invisible Megan" & "The Great Race" # "Fancy Dress" & "Rainbow" # "Robo Tracey" & "Horsing Around" # "Zoom Boots" & "Bugs" # "Finding the Beat" & "Gordon's Bed" # "Gordon's Makeover" & "Ultimate Jungle Gym" # "Fallout" & "Freckle Frenzy"


Season 2

# "Sherlock Tracey" & "Bad Luck Lee" # "Bald Bob" & "Marble Mania" # "Election" & "The Vegetable That Cried Wolf" # "World Record" & "Gentleman Jim" # "Big Things" & "The McConnelly Cousin" # "13" & "Anti-Shamus" # "Teddys" & "Galaxy Blazers" # "Party On" & "Dirt Magnet" # "Time Skip" & "Lights, Camera, Action" # "Surfbuster" & "Zoo Story" # "Fairy Tales" & "Swap" # "A Trifling Master" & "On Ice" # "Overdue" & "Jim In Charge" # "Go!, Gordon!, Go!" & "Lost Muse"


Season 3

# "Stuck On You" & "Jurassic Tracey" # "Jim's Curse" & "Away" # "Clowning Around" & "Big Nick" # "Socks" & "To The Top" # "Boss Tracey" & "Where The Wind Blows Tracey" # "Rubbish" & "Wild Times" # "Come Back Kitty" & "Remote Control" # "Quiz Show" & "Radio Jim" # "Mystery Girl" & "Of Lice And Tracey" # "Escape" & "Game On" # "The Makeover" & "Inner Beauty" # "The Snow" & "Tracey and the flying submarine" # "The Stone Age" & "The Power Downland machine" # "The evil Toothbrush" & "Giant Mosquitos" # "Anti Shamus Again" & "everyone become babies?" # "Tracey's washing machine"& "The Superhero Gordon" # "Tracey's birthday" (15 minutes special episode)


Telecast

The show originally aired on ABC Kids in Australia. Internationally, the show is also aired on Pop in the United Kingdom and
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in the U.S.


Awards

*2003 Australian Writers' Guild
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, Children's Television category - winner. *2004 Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Children's Program - winner. *2006 Australian Writers' Guild Awgie Award - winner.


References


External links

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