Lock, Stock...

"Lock, Stock" redirects here. For the film, see Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Lock, Stock...
Starring Ralph Brown
Daniel Caltagirone
Scott Maslen
Shaun Parkes
Del Synnott
Bradley Walsh
No. of series 1
No. of episodes Pilot + 6 episodes
Production company(s) Ginger Productions, SKA
Release
Original network Channel 4
Picture format 16:9
Original release 29 May – 11 July 2000

Lock, Stock... was a 2000 television series offshoot from the 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The series was shown on Channel 4 and starred Ralph Brown, Daniel Caltagirone, Del Synnott, Scott Maslen and Shaun Parkes. Lock, Stock... was Ginger Productions' first commission. The show prominently featured the rhyming slang of London's East End, making it harder for some viewers to comprehend.

Storyline

A group of four friends (Bacon, Moon, Jamie and Lee) in London run The Lock, a pub. Each episode focuses on them attempting a different business venture and the comedy of errors that ensues. Ralph Brown appears as the local gangland boss "Miami Vice" (a reference to the TV show Miami Vice) and is normally caught up in the trouble the four lads cause.

Episodes

All episode titles begin with "Lock, Stock... and", followed by a title phrase to describe the content of the episode. This is a play on the title of the movie Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. The pilot is 87 minutes long. The six remaining episodes are 50 minutes long.

Episode Number Title Original Air Date
1 ...and Four Stolen Hooves (pilot episode) 29 May 2000
2 ...and Two Hundred Smoking Kalashnikovs 6 June 2000
3 ...and a Fistful of Jack and Jills 13 June 2000
4 ...and Spaghetti Sauce 20 June 2000
5 ...and Two Sips 27 June 2000
6 ...and One Big Bullock 4 July 2000
7 ...and a Good Slopping Out 11 July 2000

Cast

Overseas broadcast

In Australia, the Lock, Stock... series was first aired in 2001, on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, late Tuesday nights. In Portugal it airs on the cable channel SIC Radical from 2005 to the present. In Germany the series is shown on Pay-TV RTL Crime since 2011, under title Bube, Dame, König, grAS (The German title of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels movie), but wrongly advertised as a Guy Ritchie production.

DVD release

It was released on DVD by Siren Visual Entertainment for Region 4, and Universal Studios for Region 2.

External links


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