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  Show Name The Sleepover Club
  Caption The Sleepover Club Logo
  Format Family <br /> Childrens
  Runtime 24 mins (approx)
  Starring ''See Cast And Characters below''
  Network Nickelodeon
  First Aired November 12 , 2003
  Num Seasons 2
  Num Episodes 52
  Imdb Id 0382482
  Tv Com Id 22831


''The Sleepover Club'' is a series of children’s books by author Rose Impey, and a Children’s Television programme based on the series. Whereas the book is set in England , the television show is set in the Australian beachside suburb of Crescent Bay (a fictional place). The programme revolves around five young girls who are part of a club in which they sleepover at each others' houses at least once a week.

Along with the everyday issues that plague preteen girls such as school projects, makeovers and boys the members of the club also have to worry about their arch-rivals the M&Ms, Matthew, Michael and Marco, intent on spoiling the girls' fun.
The series is based on the books by Rose Impey. In the books the girls are 10 years old and live in Cuddington, Leicester , and the M&Ms are two girls named Emma Hughes and Emily Berryman.

The television show was produced by Wark Clements Burberry Production , in association with Rialto Films , with the assistance of the Pacific Film and Television Commission for ITV Network United Kingdom, Nickelodeon United Kingdom and Nine Network Australia. It is distributed internationally by Southern Star Sales .
Two of the actors are now in Neighbours .

CAST SERIES ONE


The Sleepover Club


Francesca (Frankie) Thomas

Francesca Thomas ( Caitlin Stasey ) is the self-appointed leader of the sleepover club. Although a great friend to the girls, her bossiness becomes an issue on more than one occasion. She is best friends with kenny.

Rosie Cartwright

Rosie Cartwright ( Eliza Taylor-Cotter ) is a young English girl and the newest member of the sleepover club. She and her family (dad and her brother) moved to Australia after the death of her mother. A prank pulled on the M&Ms sees her inducted into the club.

Felicity (Fliss) Sidebotham

Felicity Sidebotham ( Ashleigh Chisholm ), a young fashion purist, is in love with the cutest boy in school, Ryan Scott. She is the ditsy blonde in the club who often tends to speak before thinking. In the show it is revealed that her father left the Sidebotham family three years ago.

Kendra (Kenny) Tam

Kendra Tam ( Hannah Wang ) is the sporty member of the club. She takes part in all sorts of physical activities from soccer to athletics and displays her affection for Manchester United FC . In the book series, the character is White and her name is Laura Mackenzie and she supports Leicester city football team. She shares a room with her older sister Molly, and has a fear of heights.

Lyndsey (Lyndz) Collins

Lyndsey Collins ( Basia A'Hern ) is the one that is the softest, especially with animals. She is best friends with Rosie. Her twin brother Michael is one of the M&Ms in the TV series. In the books she has four brothers.

Frankie: leader, owner of the group, she has to make all the decisions,Best friend of Kenny

Rosie: the new member, intelligent, good writer,Good friend of Lyndz

Fliss: Girly Girl , not a fashion statement, fashion victim,likes Ryan Scott

Kenny: loves sports, best friends with Frankie,
supporter of Manchester United

Lyndz: loves animals, came from England like Rosie (4 years ago), loves horses and horse riding,sister of Mitchael


The M & Ms

The group that the girls consider their sworn enemies consist of leader Matthew McDougal ( Ryan Corr ), Marco de Pieri ( Stefan La Rosa ) and Michael Collins ( Blake Hampson ), who is also Lyndsey's twin brother. They are always trying to destroy the girl's sleepovers. Matthew is the leader. In the book the M&Ms are actually 2 girls Emma Hughes and Emily Berryman.


The Enemies


Sara Tiara and Alana Banana

Sara Tiara ( Annalise Woods ) and Alana Banana ( Ashleigh Brewer ) are two girls who love to mock the sleepover club and their affairs. Throughout the course of the show it is discovered that Sara Tiara is in fact jealous that she was never allowed to join the club. This results in her trying everything in her power to be accepted.


THE BEACH HUT CAFE OWNER


Mr. Stefanopolis (Mr. S)

Mr. Stefanopolis played by Vince D'Amico is the Greek owner of the Beach Hut Cafe in which the girls spend most of their time. He frequently jokes with the girls and they are kind of friends. He even hosts one of their sleepovers when his Greek niece comes to stay with him.


THE TEACHERS


Ms. Nickels

Ms. Nickels ( Emma Skelton ) is the girls’ clumsy class teacher. During the show she shows interest in Rosie’s father.

Mr. Biceps

Mr. Biceps ( Peter Rasmussen ) is the P.E. teacher at the girls’ schools. Due to his physical fitness the girls have dubbed him Mr. Biceps.


THE CRUSH


Ryan Scott

Ryan Scott ( Craig Marriott ) is Fliss's longtime crush and, according to her, the cutest guy at school.


THE SIBLINGS


Callum Sidebotham

Callum Sidebotham ( Trent Sullivan ) is the younger brother of Fliss. He's always eating and thinks the sleepover club is silly.

Molly Tam

Molly Tam ( Hannah Ling ) is the mean older sister of Kenny. She wants to spoil every sleepover held at Kenny's house.


CAST SERIES TWO

The Sleepover Club===

Charlie Anderson
Charlie ( Morgan Griffin ) is the leader of the new sleepover club, and got the idea for the club from her cousin, Frankie ( Caitlin Stasey ). Charlie is particularly good friends with Tayla Hayes and Maddy Lee. She is a writer for the school newspaper and loves to have fun.

Tayla Hayes

Tayla Hayes ( Rachel Watson ) has a brainbox of a younger sister to whom she is very close. Tayla is fashion obsessed and always likes to look good wherever she is because "You are what you wear". She also likes to hear her horoscope from physic phone pal, Zodiac Zoe. She is the girly one.

Maddy Lee Smith

Maddy ( Emanulle Bains ) is the sporty one of the group and likes nothing more than to ride the surf, and to hang with her best friends. Maddy loves all exercise. Her best friends in the sleepover club is Charlie and Tayla. She has known Charlie since kindergarten. She is the sporty one. Her middle name is Lee, she hates it when she was in 2nd grade she got picked on. Because of her middle name Lee (Its spelt the boy way)

Brooke Webster

Brooke ( Katie Nazer-Hennings ) enjoys photography and is a shy and nice girl. Her step-brother is block head Simon. Her main best friend is Jess. She is the smart one.

Jess

Jess ( Monique Williams ) is the artist of the club who loves to watch her favorite show, "The Beach of Hearts". She's is also a pro at her favorite game, "cheesey" which involves stuffing as many cheese puffs as you can into your mouth. She is the artistic one.


The Enemies


Krystal

Krystal ( Julia O'Connor ) is a self-centred and bossy person that dreams of becoming a TV news anchorwoman. She is forever bossing around her only "friend" Caitlin. She appears to have everything but in fact is neglected by her parents. She always goes crying to "daddy" but seeing as her dad is always busy she only has Caitlin to push around.

Caitlin

Caitlin ( Ruby Hall ) is always being walked all over by bossy best friend Krystal. Caitlin is a push over, but a VERY nice one at that. She only listens to Krystal since she too doesn't have many friends. The sleepover club think that she is really nice but she lets Krystal push her around to much they even considered letting her into their club.


The Blockheads


Jason

Jason Block is the brains of the blockheads, he is always thinking of a plan to benefit himself. Jason is played by James Bell

Simon

Simon is the main deceiver out of the three as he always goes with her sisters mind other than Jasons. Simon is played By Nathan Coenen

Declan

Declan is basically a normal guy, with a smaller IQ and often doesn't know whats going on during Jason's schemes but he still tags along for no apparent reason. Declan is played By Shannon Lively .


CHARACTER COMPARISON


  • Charlie is the leaderish one like Frankie was.

  • Tayla is the girly one like Fliss was.

  • Maddy is the sporty one like Kenny was.

  • Jess is the artistic one like Lyndz was.

  • Brooke is the smart one like Rosie was.

  • The Blockheads are like the M&Ms.



SERIES ONE

The following is a list of episodes from series one of The Sleepover Club. The series consisted of 26 episodes, airing almost daily. The series debuted on November 12 2003 and finished its run on January 1 2004 . A DVD of this series was released in January 2007 .

  Title Scary Movie
  OriginalAirDate November 13 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 02
  ShortSummary Frankie still needs convincing that Rosie can show them what she's got to be sleepover club material and decides that lyndz's birthday scary movie is the best place to do it
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  Title Beach Hut
  OriginalAirDate November 14 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 03
  ShortSummary When Mr Stephanopolous, the owner of the girls favourite hangout The Beach Hut Cafe, decides it's time to retire early, Frankie sets out to show him how important he is to the whole community
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  Title Fearlotto
  OriginalAirDate November 17 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 04
  ShortSummary Rosie creates this week's Sleepover challenge—Fearlotto, with the objective of the game being to confess your worse fears
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  Title The Great Debate
  OriginalAirDate November 18 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 05
  ShortSummary The year 7's have to debate that men are the stronger sex, but the teams are mixed—not only does Frankie have to argue that men are stronger, but she's in a team with Marco
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  Title Happy Birthday Rosie
  OriginalAirDate November 19 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 06
  ShortSummary It's Rosie's birthday and she has asked everyone to keep it low key, but now her older brother Will's basketball match threatens to eclipse her day
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  Title Starring
  OriginalAirDate November 20 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 07
  ShortSummary Fliss is not thrilled that her mother's new boyfriend Andy is taking up so much of their time together especially when he tries to make a "Sleepover Club Video"
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  Title Makeover
  OriginalAirDate November 21 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 08
  ShortSummary Lyndz is suddenly worried about her appearance after Michael calls her 'butch' so she thinks she needs to bring some spark into what she looks like, but the other girls are worried she's gone to far
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  Title Changing Rooms
  OriginalAirDate November 24 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 09
  ShortSummary Rosie doesn't want to host a Sleepover but won't tell the others why not When they devise a plan to go into her room, they find out why!
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  Title Swim Carnival
  OriginalAirDate November 25 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 10
  ShortSummary It's the Crescent Bay swim carnival and the Sleepover girls have convinced Rosie that her father's sudden health kick is due to a new love interest in his life
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  Title Car Wash
  OriginalAirDate November 26 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 11
  ShortSummary The Sleepover Club set up a car wash to raise money to make their sleepovers more exciting, but the M&Ms find a way to ruin the girls plan
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  Title Outdoor Trip
  OriginalAirDate November 27 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 12
  ShortSummary The year 7s go on a camping trip and a navigational exercise goes haywire, thanks to the M&Ms
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  Title Fight For Kenny
  OriginalAirDate November 28 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 13
  ShortSummary Kenny is told that her family are moving to Sydney The Sleepover Club is on a mission to do everything in their power to stop letting it happen, but will they succeed
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  Title Third Time Unlucky
  OriginalAirDate December 1 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 14
  ShortSummary Frankie is really upset about Kenny living in Sydney, however, Rosie thinks that the Sleepover Club is too valuable to let go just because the girls are missing Kenny
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  Title Election
  OriginalAirDate December 2 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 15
  ShortSummary Frankie is running for year 7 student council representative, but the M&Ms and Kenny's sister Molly conspire together to ruin Frankie's chances Will this be enough to stop her though
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  Title Shoot To Win
  OriginalAirDate December 3 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 16
  ShortSummary Ms Nickels is coaching the Crescent Bay netball team and because the numbers are low due to an outbreak of chicken pox, Sara and Alana have been made members, even though they cannot play
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  Title Horseback
  OriginalAirDate December 9 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 17
  ShortSummary Lyndz has a horse riding competition and Fliss offers to help her on the day Meanwhile, Frankie finally gets the chance to prove herself as a big sister - or does she
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  Title Family Ties
  OriginalAirDate December 10 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 18
  ShortSummary Kenny's Gran is bored and looking to add some spice to her life, but Kenny is worried she's going to do herself some damage! Lyndz and Rosie have an argument that could result in the Sleepover Club disbanding
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  Title Agony Aunt
  OriginalAirDate December 11 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 19
  ShortSummary Kenny becomes the Crescent Bay High style guru for the school paper and influences some weird and wonderful fashion ideas
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  Title The Winning Ticket
  OriginalAirDate December 17 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 20
  ShortSummary The local theme park will be handing out a years worth of free passes to the one millionth guest and every cool kid in the area will be there - including the M&Ms and the Sleepover Club
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  Title Blind Date
  OriginalAirDate December 18 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 21
  ShortSummary Matthew is busy and no one knows why Secretly he is helping his cousin, Sam, teach salsa lessons for the up coming rugby fundraising dance
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  Title Greek Sleepover
  OriginalAirDate December 22 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 22
  ShortSummary Nina, Mr Stephanopolous' niece from Greece, comes to stay and hosts a Greek Sleepover for the girls
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  Title Price Of Success
  OriginalAirDate December 23 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 23
  ShortSummary Frankie and Fliss are upset because Kenny thinks training with Ryan Scott is more important to her than her best friends Frankie needs help on the science exam, which the M&Ms have found a way to cheat on
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  Title Trapped
  OriginalAirDate December 24 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 24
  ShortSummary The M&Ms finally win a prize from entering mobile phone competitions, but the only place they can uncover it is in the garage of Michael's house, to whom no one can enter
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  Title Graffiti
  OriginalAirDate December 25 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 25
  ShortSummary The trials are on, but Crescent Bay isn't allowed to participate unless the graffiti artists who are vandalising the school are exposed
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  Title End Of An Era
  OriginalAirDate January 1 , 2004
  EpisodeNumber 26
  ShortSummary Fliss is forced to stay at Matthew's house while her mother is on her honeymoon, causing the boys to instigate a turf war Rosie and Kenny also start to take more of an interest in boys
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  Title Tickets for Two
  OriginalAirDate November 12 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 02
  ShortSummary Tayla wins two tickets to Spectaculand and she can't decide who she'd pick The blockheads hatch a plan so that she'll go with Jason, but it all backfires and she takes two other people a little closer to home
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  Title Cringe City
  OriginalAirDate November 12 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 03
  ShortSummary When Brooke has her first sleepover she will do anything to avoid embarrassment, the girls think that Lisa is pregnant But, when the girls want to decide things about the sleepover, the girls think that they should turn it into a baby shower for Lisa When Brooke hears her parents talk about the baby, it turns out that Lisa was pregnant
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  Title And the Winner Is
  OriginalAirDate November 12 , 2003
  EpisodeNumber 04
  ShortSummary When Tayla is upset about every one winning compositions except her she makes a front cover for the new girl star magazine she is one of three lucky finalists but she starts neglecting the SOC girls but it turns out that she didn't do it on her own, Jess helped her by making the cover better than what it was, but when she doesn't win she realizes her mistake and goes back to the SOC girls
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