THE SPARTICLE MYSTERY

UK / CBBC – Sparticles Productions – Ingenious Broadcasting

RUNNING TIME: 30 Minutes | NUMBER OF EPISODES: 13 | AIRDATES: 14 February – 7 March 2011

CREATOR: Alison Hume | SCRIPT EDITOR: Carly Rich-Conway | MUSIC: Sheridan Tongue | PRODUCER: Stephen Smallwood | EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Sue Nott, Alison Hume, Stephen Smallwood

In The Sparticle Mystery the whole world is thrown into chaos when a bizarre scientific experiment sees every single human over the age of 15 disappear into thin air leaving only the children behind. As one group of kids begin to pull together they realise that the disappearance is linked to the sinister Sparticle Project and if they can track it down they could hopefully put things to rights.

The gang embark on a quest across the UK but soon realise that a world without adults is not all fun and games and danger is never far away.

Coming on like a junior Survivors but with the gruesome people dying from a plague. It’s fabulous stuff harking back to 1970′s classics such as The Changes and mixing in a major quest element as the kids realise what is going on and embark on a journey to try and revert things back to normal. This is definitely a welcome return to the kind of  thinking children’s tv that used to be a staple of our viewing but these days is something of a rarity.

cast

ABIGAIL HARDINGHAM as Kat

KARIM ZERQUAL as Sadiq

WESLEY NELSON as Jeffrey

MEGAN JONES as Tia

JEROME HOLDER as Callum

ZACHARY MIDDLETON as Ami

IESTYN DARMANIN as Jordan

EMILY SANDERSON as Reese

ABBIE HAYES as Frankie

OLIVER BELL as Liam

THE EPISODES

1. THE DISAPPEARANCE (14 Feb 2011)

2. THE INVASION (15 Feb 2011)

3. THE MESSAGE (16 Feb 2011)

4. THE QUEST (17 Feb 2011)

5. THE FUNFAIR (21 Feb 2011)

6. THE BIG FREEZE (22 Feb 2011)

7. THE WATER RATS (23 Feb 2011)

8. THE UNSUITABLES (24 Feb 2011)

9. THE HARVEST (28 Feb 2011)

10. THE FALLOUT (1 Mar 2011)

11. THE HOT ZONE (2 Mar 2011)

12. THE EMERGENCY (3 Mar 2011)

13. THE SPARTICLE PROJECT (7 Mar 2011)