List of The Story of Tracy Beaker (franchise) spin-offs
The Story of Tracy Beaker is a British children's drama media franchise that focuses on the lives and experiences of young people and their care workers in care. This is a list of spin-off's to the trilogy of CBBC children's drama series The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground, which have spanned nineteen years between them.
Spin-offs overview
The Story of Tracy Beaker
Tracy Beaker: The Movie of Me
Tracy Beaker: The Movie of Me is a television movie and a spin-off to The Story of Tracy Beaker that broadcast on 22 February 2004 on BBC One, outside of the CBBC programming block. The film was shot in Cardiff, Wales, with scenes at Castell Coch, train journey and railway station scenes at the now closed Barry Tourist Railway and London, England including The London Eye and Paddington Station. The movie was released on DVD on 25 July 2005.Originally broadcast part-way through the release of Series 3, the exact placement of this story in the wider continuity of the series is debatable. The Dumping Ground is as it appears in Series 2, with the subtle additions introduced in the third series being absent. After The Movie of Me was finished in January 2004, production moved to Skomer Care Home in Penarth due to management changes. This suggests that the special was filmed prior to Series 3, despite featuring cast members that would only be introduced in the following episodes. The story presumably took place before Series 4, as Tracy appears to be living with Cam at the start of the fourth series. The story likely does not take place during the events of Series 3, however. A number of cast members from Series 3 are absent from the movie, suggesting that this story takes place some time after the events of that series. Despite being aired while the third season was still airing, the episode would have to take place in-between the third and fourth season, given that Tracy is still living at the DG at the end of series 3 and is now living with Cam at the start of series 4. This creates a continuity error as Justine is shown to be living at the Dumping Ground in the movie, even though she left to live with her dad after the episode Good as Gold.