Country of origin United Kingdom Original network CBBC
CBBC HD (repeats) | No. of episodes 22 | |
Original release 7 October 2004 (2004-10-07) – 5 April 2005 (2005-04-05) | ||
The fourth series of the British children's television series The Story of Tracy Beaker aired from 7 October 2004 until 4 April 2005 on CBBC and continued to air repeats on CBBC and CBBC HD. The series follows the lives of the children in care the fictional children's care home of Cliffside House, and is the only series to feature this house. It consists of twenty-two fifteen-minute episodes, which is four episodes less from the previous series, and is the fourth series in the Tracy Beaker franchise.
Contents
Cast
Dani Harmer (Tracy Beaker), Nisha Nayar (Elaine Boyack), Clive Rowe (Duke Ellington), Lisa Coleman (Cam Lawson), Ciaran Joyce (Lol Plakova), Ben Hanson (Bouncer Plakova), Jack Edwards (Marco Maloney), Kristal Lau (Hayley), Darragh Mortell (Liam "Crash" Daniels), Abby Rakic-Platt (Jackie Hopper) and Cara Readle (Layla) all returned to their main cast roles. Howell Evans returned to his guest starring role as Jackie's grandfather, Jack. Montanna Thompson (Justine Littlewood), who left the main cast last series, made a guest appearance in episode 12 and will return to the main cast in the final series. Vincenzo Pellegrino, Sophie Boraj, Craig Roberts, Deepal Parmar and Felix Drake all made their debuts as main characters, Sid Rooney, Roxy Wellard, Rio Wellard, Chantal Wellard and Sean "Wolfie" Lynch respectively. This was the last series to feature Lau and Rowe and the only series to feature Pellegrino. Evans also left his guest starring role. Rakic-Platt also briefly left the series, returning in the sixth episode of the final series.
Production
Jane Dauncey returned to her role as executive producer for her second and final series. Mia Jupp did not return as producer for this series, but did return in series 5. Instead, she was replaced by Jane Steventon. Filming began shortly after the end of the previous series, in 2004. Delyth Thomas returned for his third series, directing seven episodes alone and three episodes with Keith Washington, who joined the directing team (replacing Laurence Wilson). Replacing Joss Agnew and directing twelve episodes is Jill Robertson.
Mary Morris returned to her head writer position for a fourth series. Holly Lyons, Marvin Close, Ariane Sherine and Abigal Abben-Mensah did not return to write for series 4. They were replaced by Emma Reeves (who would later become head writer), Emma Kennedy, Aileen Gonsalves, Sheila Hyde, Roger Williams, Marianne Levy and writing duo - Gary Lawson & John Phelps. Returning from writing the previous three series are Morris, Laura Summers, Othniel Smith and Andy Walker. Returning from writing the previous two series are Gary Parker and Tracy Brabin while returning from writing series 3 are Simon Nicholson and Dan Anthony. Morris and Summers wrote four episodes each; Reeves wrote two episodes; and Nicholson, Kennedy, Gonsalves, Anthony, Brabin, Hyde, Smith, Williams, Walker, Levy, Parker and writing duo - Gary Lawson & John Phelps wrote one episodes each.