Tracey McBean

Tracey McBean
Title card
Genre	Adventure Comedy Science fiction
Created by	Mary Small Arthur Filloy
Starring	Roslyn Oades Anthony Hayes Akmal Saleh Daniel Wyllie Tracy Mann Stephen Shanahan Lisa Bailey (Series 1-2) Meaghan Davies (Series 3)
Composer	Nerida Tyson-Chew
Country of origin	Australia China Denmark (Series 1)
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	78
Production
Executive producers	Noel Price Tom Van Waveren Claire Henderson Jin Guo Ping
Producers	Noel Price Charlotte Damgaard
Running time	11 minutes
Production companies	Southern Star Group Shanghai Animation Film Studio Egmont Imagination (Series 1) Film Australia
Original release
Network	ABC Kids
Release	December 31, 2001 (2001-12-31) – June 20, 2006 (2006-06-20)

Tracey McBean is an Australian animated children's television series produced by Southern Star Entertainment and Film Australia. The show was aired from 2001 until 2006 on ABC Kids.

Premise

Tracey McBean is a 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 her 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 Roslyn Oades): Tracey makes inventions for all kinds of purposes.
• Shamus Wong (voiced by Anthony Hayes): Tracey's best friend.
• Jim and Jake McConnolly (voiced by Akmal Saleh and Daniel Wyllie respectively): The two brothers who bully Tracey.

Minor

• Megan McBean (voiced by Lisa Bailey; Series 1-2 and Meaghan Davies; Series 3): Tracey's younger sister.
• Mr. and Mrs. McBean (voiced by Stephen Shanahan and Eliza Logan respectively): Tracey's parents.
• Gordon McBean (voiced by Daniel Wyllie): Tracey's brother.
• Laszlo (voiced by Akmal Saleh): Tracey's rival.
• Morris and Sandy: Tracey's pets. Sandy is a black-and-white dog, whilst Morris is an orange tabby cat.
• Mrs. Carmody (voiced by Eliza Logan): Tracey's teacher.
• Mr Longbottom (voiced by Stephen Shanahan): The school principal.
• Shamus' family: He has three older brothers with a father and mother.
• Lee (voiced by Teo Gebert): The boy who is rejected as bad luck but Tracey tries to help him. 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 McConnolly: Jim and Jack's cousin. She appears in "The McConnelly Cousin".
• Robot Tracey (voiced by Roslyn Oades): The robot was invented by herself.
• The Robot family: The robot family was invented by Tracey herself.
• Mr. Arther (voiced by Stephen Shanahan): Tracey's uncle and the inventor.
• Harvey: Shamus' friend.

Episodes

Series 1

1. "Stretching Machine"
2. "Family Power"
3. "Gordon the King"
4. "Lost Thing Finder"
5. "Mum's Birthday"
6. "Multiplication"
7. "Pocket Money"
8. "School Camp"
9. "Brain Machine"
10. "Local Weather"
11. "Stage Fright"
12. "Park Monster"
13. "Invisible Megan"
14. "The Great Race"
15. "Fancy Dress"
16. "Rainbow"
17. "Robo Tracey"
18. "Horsing Around"
19. "Zoom Boots"
20. "Bugs"
21. "Finding the Beat"
22. "Gordon's Bed"
23. "Gordon's Makeover"
24. "Ultimate Jungle Gym"
25. "Fallout"
26. "Freckle Frenzy"

Series 2

1. "Sherlock Tracey"
2. "Bad Luck Lee"
3. "Bald Bob"
4. "Marble Mania"
5. "Election"
6. "Veggie That Cried Wolf"
7. "World Record"
8. "Gentleman Jim"
9. "Big Things"
10. "The McConnelly Cousin"
11. "13"
12. "Anti-Shamus"
13. "Teddies"
14. "Galaxy Blazers"
15. "Party On"
16. "Dirt Magnet"
17. "Time Skip"
18. "Lights, Camera, Action"
19. "Surfbuster"
20. "Zoo Story"
21. "Fairy Tales"
22. "Swap"
23. "A Trifling Master"
24. "On Ice"
25. "Go, Gordon, Go!"
26. "Lost Muse"

Series 3

1. "Jim In Charge"
2. "Come Back Cat"
3. "Someone Else's Shoes"
4. "Overdue"
5. "Inner Beauty"
6. "Stuck On You"
7. "Jurassic Tracey"
8. "Away"
9. "Jim's Curse"
10. "Clowning Around"
11. "Big Nick"
12. "Socks"
13. "To The Top"
14. "Boss Tracey"
15. "Where The Tracey Blows"
16. "Rubbish"
17. "Wild Times"
18. "Remote Control"
19. "Quiz Show"
20. "Radio Jim"
21. "Happy-Sad Birthday"
22. "Mystery Girl"
23. "Of Lice and Tracey"
24. "Escape"
25. "Game On"
26. "Makeover"

Broadcast

The series originally aired on ABC Kids in Australia. Internationally, the show also aired on Pop in the United Kingdom and Discovery Kids in the United States.

Awards

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

External links

• Tracey McBean at IMDb
• Tracey McBean | australianscreen | National Film and Sound Archive | Australia