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[[caption-width-right:222:Growing up can be a hairy business.]]

''Lockie Leonard'' is an Australian children's television series adapted from Tim Winton's ''Lockie Leonard'' books by the Creator/{{ACTF}}. It first screened on the Nine Network on 19 June 2007, and has subsequently aired in Creator/{{ABC3}}. The series was filmed in Albany, Western Australia. A second series was filmed in 2009 and screened in 2010 in Australia, the UK and Ireland.

Lockie Leonard was produced by Goalpost Pictures Australia and is distributed by the Australian Children's Television Foundation. The theme song "Worlds Away" is performed by Jebediah.

Lockie Leonard premiered in the UK on Saturday 27 September 2008, as part of the long running children's Saturday morning programme [=TMi=] which airs from 09:00 to 10:30 on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Two]]. It ran for the first 12 episodes then continued to air on Creator/{{CBBC}} Channel. In America, it has aired on the short-lived Family Room HD.

The show won the 2008 TV Week Logie Award for Best Children's Series, and star Sean Keenan (Lockie) was nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent. It won the 2007 AFI award for Best Children's Drama Series. The series was also nominated for the 2007 BAFTA Awards for Best International Children's Drama Series.

Lockie Leonard is a surf rat who moves with his family to Angelus, a small coastal town in Western Australia. Lockie has to deal with starting high school in a new town with no friends and a house that is in danger of sinking into a swamp. After nutting himself in the surf on his first day in town, Lockie meets a head banger named Egg, and the two eventually become best friends. After attending his first day at a new school, Lockie manages to fall in love for the first time with Vicki Streeton, the smartest and richest girl in the entire school, whose father also happens to be the mayor of Angelus. The first series is spread over Lockie's first year spent in Angelus with his family.

The second series follows Lockie Leonard's second year in Angelus, middle of nowhere, where Lockie must cope with new situations. Vicki leaves to go to boarding school, and Lockie makes friends with new girl Mel, to whom he is initially assigned "buddy duty". His best friend Egg decides to make a new best friend in school bully, Curtis, and begins dating Vicki's friend Sasha. Lockie's brother Phillip enters Angelus High a year early owing to his impressive intelligence, and discovers a new friend or two along the way. Meanwhile, poetry-loving Sarge must deal with the new constable at the police station, and Joy decides to get out of the house and set up a new radio station, Radio Angelus.

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!!This series contains examples of:
%% * AccidentalPervert: Lockie on occasion.
%% * BrilliantButLazy: Lockie when it comes to his schoolwork.
%% * BruiserWithASoftCenter: Vicki, Lockie's LoveInterest.
%% ** LittleMissBadass/ BadassAdorable
%% * BumblingDad: Sarge Leonard, Lockie's dad.
%% * ClassClown: Lockie unintentionally becomes this during his first day at a new school in an attempt to fit in.
%% * CluelessChickMagnet
%% * ComingOfAgeStory
%% * CousinOliver: "Blob", Lockie's new baby sister.
%% * GoodParents: Joy and Sarge Leonard.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Sarge. Even his ''sons'' call him that a lot of the time. And his wife.
%% * FirstKiss: Lockie receives one from Vicki at the beach.
%% * GibberishOfLove: Lockie occasionally develops this around Vicki.
* GradeSkipper: Lockie's brother [[InnocentProdigy Phillip]] gets enrolled in Angelus High School a year early due to his superior intellect.
%% * GroinAttack: How Lockie and Egg first meet, in the aftermath of an incident where Lockie fell off his surfboard and it... bounced ''up.''
%% * GrowingUpSucks
%% * HappilyMarried: Lockie's parents.
%% * {{Hormone Addled Teenager}}s
%% * HeterosexualLifePartners / VitriolicBestBuds: Lockie and Egg.
%% * HugeGirlTinyGuy: Vicki is the huge girl to Lockie's tiny guy in the first series.
%% * IJustWantToHaveFriends: Lockie's main motivation once he moves to Western Australia.
* JizzedInMyPants: Lockie has a wet dream involving Vicki at one point that puts him in a... sticky situation.
%% * JustFriends: Lockie and [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Mel]], in the second series.
%% * TheLadette: Vicki is a G-rated version of this trope.
%% * MetalHead: Egg, possibly the only Aboriginal Australian example on TV. His dad is the local preacher.
%% * NaiveNewcomer:
%% ** Lockie in the first series.
%% ** Mel, the NewTransferStudent introduced in the second series.
%% * OffToBoardingSchool: Vicki in the second series, much to Lockie's dismay.
%% * OfficialCouple: Vicki and Lockie in the first series.
%% * PuppyLove: Lockie and Vicki.
%% ** SickeninglySweethearts
* RaceLift: In the books, Egg wasn't just white, he was ''[[JustForFun/{{Egregious}} egregiously]]'' white (since he was from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan Bogan]] subculture). In the series, he was changed to an indigenous Australian.
* ShortRunner: In America, it only aired on Disney Channel briefly, and almost no one remembers it.
%% * SociallyAwkwardHero
%% * SurferDude: Lockie, described as a brilliant surfer by onlookers.
%% * {{Tsundere}}:
%% ** Vicki, type B toward Lockie.
%% ** Mel, Vicki's replacement, served as a type A {{Tsundere}} to Lockie.
%% * TookALevelInJerkass: Egg, once he befriend Curtis, TheBully of Angelus High School.
%% * UnluckyEverydude: Lockie.
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