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Screen cap from opening credits
Adaptation of
Tracey McBean's Stretching Machine
1989
single work
children's fiction
Issue Details:
First known date:
2001-2006...
2001-2006
Tracey McBean
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Film Details - Southern Star Entertainment ; Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2001-2006
Producers:
Noel Price (executive producer).
Production Companies:
Southern Star Entertainment.
The program also had the input of the Shanghai Animation Studio and, in season one, Danish company Egmont Imagination (a subsidiary of Egmont).
Editors:
Adam Hicks.
Music:
Nerida Tyson-Chew.
Cast:
Including Lisa Bailey (Megan McBean), Meaghan Davies (Megan McBean), Teo Gebert (Lee), Roslyn Oades (Tracey McBean), Akmal Saleh (Jim McConnolly), Anthony Hayes (Shamus Wong), and Alice Ley (Tracey McBean).
Release Dates:
31 December 2001 (Australia).
Awards:
- AWGIE Award, Children's - Screen and Radio - Adaptation ('Freckle Frenzy'), 2002.
- Logie Award, Most Outstanding Children's Program, 2003.
- AFI Award, Best Children's Television Drama (nomination), 2002.
Notes:
List of episodes:
1. Stretching Machine / Family Power
2. Gordon the King / Lost Thing Finder
3. Mum's Birthday / Multiplication
4. Pocket Money / School Camp
5. Brain Machine / Local Weather
6. Stage Fright / Pink Monster
7. Invisible Megan / The Great Race
8. Fancy Dress / Rainbow
9. Robo Tracey / Horsing Around
10. Zoom Boots / Bugs
11. Finding the Beat / Gordon's Bed
12. Gordon's Makeover / Ultimate Jungle Gym
13. Fallout / Freckle Frenzy
14. Sherlock Tracey / Bad Luck Lee
15. Bald Bob / Marble Mania
16. Election / The Vegetable That Cried Wolf
17. World Record / Gentleman Jim
18. Big Things / The McConnelly Cousin
19. 13 / Anti-Shamus
20. Teddys / Galaxy Blazers
21. Party On / Dirt Magnet
22. Time Skip / Lights, Camera, Action
23. Surfbuster / Zoo Story
24. Fairy Tales / Swap
25. A Trifling Master / On Ice
26. Go!, Gordon!, Go! / Lost Muse
27. Overdue / Jim In Charge
28. Stuck On You / Jurassic Tracey
29. Jim's Curse / Away
30. Clowning Around / Big Nick
31. Socks / To The Top
32. Boss Tracey / Where The Wind Blows Tracey
33. Rubbish / Wild Times
34. Come Back Kitty / Remote Control
35. Quiz Show / Radio Jim
36. Mystery Girl / Of Lice And Tracey
37. Escape / Game On
38. The Makeover / Inner Beauty
1. Stretching Machine / Family Power
2. Gordon the King / Lost Thing Finder
3. Mum's Birthday / Multiplication
4. Pocket Money / School Camp
5. Brain Machine / Local Weather
6. Stage Fright / Pink Monster
7. Invisible Megan / The Great Race
8. Fancy Dress / Rainbow
9. Robo Tracey / Horsing Around
10. Zoom Boots / Bugs
11. Finding the Beat / Gordon's Bed
12. Gordon's Makeover / Ultimate Jungle Gym
13. Fallout / Freckle Frenzy
14. Sherlock Tracey / Bad Luck Lee
15. Bald Bob / Marble Mania
16. Election / The Vegetable That Cried Wolf
17. World Record / Gentleman Jim
18. Big Things / The McConnelly Cousin
19. 13 / Anti-Shamus
20. Teddys / Galaxy Blazers
21. Party On / Dirt Magnet
22. Time Skip / Lights, Camera, Action
23. Surfbuster / Zoo Story
24. Fairy Tales / Swap
25. A Trifling Master / On Ice
26. Go!, Gordon!, Go! / Lost Muse
27. Overdue / Jim In Charge
28. Stuck On You / Jurassic Tracey
29. Jim's Curse / Away
30. Clowning Around / Big Nick
31. Socks / To The Top
32. Boss Tracey / Where The Wind Blows Tracey
33. Rubbish / Wild Times
34. Come Back Kitty / Remote Control
35. Quiz Show / Radio Jim
36. Mystery Girl / Of Lice And Tracey
37. Escape / Game On
38. The Makeover / Inner Beauty
