''Chuck Finn'' is an Australian children's fantasy television series created by Paul Barron and Peter Hepworth. It was produced by Barron Television and aired on the

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from 18 October 1999 to 25 December 2000, running for three series and 32 episodes.

Synopsis

Charles "Chuck" Finn is a 13-year-old

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boy who had just moved to the fictional town of Tingalla,

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situated next to the

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. At first, Chuck struggles to cope with having a new life and desires going back to his hometown in

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, but he then comes across a run down paddle steamer known as ''The Tingalla Rose''. The vessel is occupied by two ghosts named Elvira "Fingers" Fitzpatrick, a

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woman and Buddy Berry, a 1950s

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singer who were both passengers on board when they died. He also befriends a group of locals; Hamish, Becky, Linda and Sarah McDonald, the latter who is the daughter of the current captain of ''The Tingalla Rose''. These events lead to Chuck accepting Tingalla as his new home. The course of the series has the group trying to get the vessel back in business as it was in the previous century while competing with a rival vessel, ''The River Queen''. They also come to terms with resident bully, Theodore "Tiny" Maloney and his friends, Davo and Spider.

Cast

* Luke O'Loughlin as Charles "Chuck" Finn * Cassandra Kane as Sarah McDonald * Johnny Nicolaidis as Hamish * Larena Charlesworth as Linda * Amelia Knight as Becky *

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as Theodore "Tiny" Maloney * Thomas Lambert as Davo * Jonathan Tabaka as Spider *

Andy Seymour Andy may refer to: People * Andy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Horace Andy (born 1951), Jamaican roots reggae songwriter and singer born Horace Hinds *Katja Andy (1907–2013), German-American pianist and pian ...

as Buddy Berry * Holly Myers as Elvira "Fingers" Fitzpatrick *

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as Edna Littlemore *

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as Herman Littlemore * Carmel Johnson as Mrs Bonaface

Production

The series was edited by

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, who went on to win several awards.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=0218753 1999 Australian television series debuts 2000 Australian television series endings Australian children's fantasy television series Seven Network original programming Television series about ghosts Television series about teenagers Television shows set in South Australia Finn, Chuck