Half Moon Investigations (TV series)
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| Genre | Children's |
| Created by | Eoin Colfer |
| Starring | Rory Elrick Sebastian Charles Olivia Grant Nicola Duffell Marcus Nash |
| Theme music composer | Iain Cook |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Josephine Ward |
| Producer(s) | Johnathan Phillips |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original channel | BBC |
| Original run | 5 January 2009 – 30 March 2009 |
Half Moon Investigations is a children's crime/comedy drama television series created by the BBC and based upon the novel of the same name by the author Eoin Colfer. It concerns a schoolboy, Fletcher Moon, who spends much of his spare time solving petty crimes around his school, St. Jerome's. 13 episodes were first broadcast between January and March 2009. The series was filmed in and around a disused secondary school, located in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire.
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[edit] Background
Fletcher Moon (often referred to as Half Moon because of his height) is a schoolboy attending St. Jerome's school. Although it is not stated in the series where the school is situated, the novel upon which the TV series is based has St. Jerome's located in the town of Lock Wexford, Ireland. Every week a crime is committed and it is up to Half Moon and his private detective business to find the culprit by analysing a series of clues and witnesses.
[edit] Characters
- Fletcher "Half" Moon portrayed by Rory Elrick is the main character of the series. Most of the show is shown through his eyes. He has the nickname "Half Moon" because of his small height.
- Red Sharkey portrayed by Sebastian Charles is one of the main characters of the show. It is shown in many episodes that he has romantic feelings towards Mia Stone. He goes with Mia to the End-of-term school dance in the last episode.
- Mia Stone portrayed by Olivia Grant is one of the main characters of the series. It is shown in many of the episodes that Red Sharkey has romantic feelings for her. She goes to the End-of-term school dance with him in the last episode.
- April Devereux portrayed by Nicola Duffell is the leader of the 'Pinks' girl gang and hates boys. However, she may like Fletcher Moon as she dances with him at the End-of-term school dance in the last episode.
- Herod Sharkey portrayed by Marcus Nash is the youngest of the Sharkey children.
[edit] Reception
Similar to the novel, the TV series has received generally positive reviews both critically and from viewers, with the first 3 episodes of the series scoring on average 7.7/10 on Internet Movie Database [1]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Half Moon Investigations at BBC Programmes
- Half Moon Investigations at the Internet Movie Database
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