Tracey McBean is a series of children's books drawn and written by Mary Small and Arthur Filloy about Tracey McBean, a young Australian female inventor who was the protagonist

Protagonist

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 and main character in the series. It is also the name of an animated

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 children's television series produced by Southern Star Entertainment, which aired from 31 December 2001 to 13 June 2006 on ABC Kids

ABC Kids (Australia)

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 in Australia

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 and was repeated numerous times on ABC1

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 and ABC3

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. It airs on Discovery Kids

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 in the United States and airs on Pop in the United Kingdom.

Overview

The protagonist, Tracey, is a young Australian girl who goes to school with her best friend Shamus. Together they use Tracey's inventions for all kinds of purposes, like school competitions or simply for fun. Tracey lives in a house and Shamus on the fifteenth floor of a tall apartment building. Shamus loves gardening organically and Tracey loves inventing devices and contraptions. Tracey uses a caravan

Travel trailer

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 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 Tracey 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, and is characterized by his blue beanie and high collared sweater, only his nose, ears and long blonde hair showing. His sneakers have an extreme odour, even powerful enough to use as a weapon or tool to gain food or other items from fellow schoolchildren. Jake McConnolly is the obese and usually dimwitted brother who sometimes shows an odd amount of intelligence, but only briefly for an amusing value. He has brown hair. McBeans arch-rival, with equal or greater 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

• Tracey McBean: The titular character Voice by Roslyn Oades
• Shamus Wong: Tracey's best friend
• The McConnolly Bros.: Antagonists
• Jim McConnolly: Voice by Akmal Saleh
  Akmal Saleh
  Akmal Saleh is an Australian comedian and actor. He was born in Egypt and arrived in Sydney, Australia with his family in 1975 at the age of 11. He has been performing stand-up comedy since the early 1990s and his live shows have toured comedy festivals both within Australia and internationally...
  
  
• Megan McBean: Tracey's little sister Voice by Meaghan Davies (final series)
• Mr. & Mrs. McBean: Tracey's parents
• Gordon McBean: Tracey's brother.
• Laszlo Tracey's rival.
• Maurice and Sandy Tracey's cat and dog.
• Mrs Carmody Tracey's teacher.
• Mr Longbottom The school principal.
• Shamus family He has three older brothers and a father. It is unknown if he has a mother.

Episode list

1. "Stretching Machine" & "Family Power"
2. "Gordon the King" & "Lost Thing Finder"
3. "Mom'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"