Country of origin United Kingdom Original network CBBC | No. of episodes 26 | |
Original release 8 January (2002-01-08) – 4 April 2002 (2002-04-04) | ||
The first series of the British children's television series The Story of Tracy Beaker aired in 2002 on CBBC and continued to air repeats on CBBC. The series follows the lives of the children in care the fictional children's care home of Stowey House. It consists of twenty-six fifteen-minute episodes and is the first series in the Tracy Beaker franchise. It began on 8 January 2002 and finished nearly three months later on 4 April. In this series, the title character, Tracy Beaker (Dani Harmer), lives at the carehome and the stories revolve around her desire to leave the home, nicknamed 'The Dumping Ground' by its residents.
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Cast
Dani Harmer plays the title character, Tracy Beaker, while Montanna Thompson plays her arch-emeny Justine Littlewood. Justine's best friend, Louise Govern, is played by Chelsie Padley and a young boy that looks up to Tracy, Peter Ingham, is played by Joe Starrs. The eldest resident, Adele Azupadi, is played by Rochelle Gadd and the youngest resident, Maxy, is played by Jerome Holder. Sonny Muslim and Jay Haher play twin brothers Ryan and Zac Matthews. Nisha Nayar plays the residents' social worker, Elaine Boyack - nicknamed 'Elaine the Pain' by the children - and Clive Rowe plays Stowey House's chef, Duke Ellington. Sharlene Whyte and Connor Byrne play careworkers, Jenny Edwards and Mike Milligan, with Jenny being head care worker. Lisa Coleman plays Tracy's potential foster parent, Cam Lawson and Luke Youngblood plays Tracy's friend, Ben Batambuze, whom she befriends in the series premiere. Stephen Crossley guest stars as Justine's father, Steve.
Production
Cas Lester was the executive producer and Jane Dauncey was the producer for this series. Filming took place in 2001. Susan Tully and David Skynner directed an equal thirteen episodes each. Elly Brewer wrote nine episodes, Mary Morris wrote five episodes and Laura Summers wrote four episodes. Andy Walker and Arnold Evans wrote two episodes each and Carol Russell, Roger Griffiths, Othniel Smith and Graham Alborough all wrote one episode each. Brewer continued to write for Tracy Beaker franchise for another nine series, until the second series of The Dumping Ground, which is the second spin-off of The Story of Tracy Beaker.