Lock, Stock...
| 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
- Ralph Brown as Miami Vice, the foul-mouthed local gang lord.
- Daniel Caltagirone as Moon, a chef and electronics expert.
- Del Synnott as Lee, a ladies man, with sex on his mind.
- Scott Maslen as Jamie, the fast talker.
- Shaun Parkes as Bacon, who makes sure things run smoothly, or at least tries to.
- Christopher Adamson as Three Feet, an enforcer working for Miami Vice.
- Nick Brimble as Uncle Derek
- Lisa Rogers as Tanya, a dancer at Lapland.
- George Yiasoumi as Nefarious, a Cypriot who deals in anything shady from the back of the Trojan Kebab House.
- Mario Kalli as Kouros, who runs the Trojan Kebab House. Loyal to Nefarious.
- Martin Rutherford as Anarchist (Anti-Christ), a punk working for a fairground.
- Bradley Walsh as Larry Harmless, gangster.
- Martin Freeman as Jaap, Dutch drug taker and general idiot.
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.