Liam's Story

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Liam's Story
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Genre Children
Comedy drama
Theme music composerJeremy Howlland-Smith
Composer Simon Rogers
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of series1
No. of episodes10
Production
ProducerSimon Nelson
Running time2-3 minutes (Individual webisodes)
28 minutes (TV version)
Original release
Network CBBC
Release23 March 2014 (2014-03-23)
Related
The Story of Tracy Beaker
Tracy Beaker Returns
The Dumping Ground

Liam's Story is a television spin-off of the children television series The Dumping Ground . It is a 10 part web-series that was made available on The Dumping Ground website after series 2, episode 3 had aired and continued being released up to episode 12. The webisodes were also aired on CBBC Channel as a 28-minute story on 23 March 2014. [1]

Contents

Cast

Episodes

Webisodes (2014)

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
1"Webisode 1"Jermain JulienMatt Evans17 January 2014 (2014-01-17)
2"Webisode 2"Jermain JulienMatt Evans23 January 2014 (2014-01-23)
3"Webisode 3"Jermain JulienMatt Evans31 January 2014 (2014-01-31)
4"Webisode 4"Jermain JulienMatt Evans7 February 2014 (2014-02-07)
5"Webisode 5"Jermain JulienMatt Evans14 February 2014 (2014-02-14)
6"Webisode 6"Jermain JulienMatt Evans17 February 2014 (2014-02-17)
7"Webisode 7"Jermain JulienMatt Evans21 February 2014 (2014-02-21)
8"Webisode 8"Jermain JulienMatt Evans28 February 2014 (2014-02-28)
9"Webisode 9"Jermain JulienMatt Evans7 March 2014 (2014-03-07)
10"Webisode 10"Jermain JulienMatt Evans14 March 2014 (2014-03-14)

Television (2014)

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date
1"Liam's Story"Jermain JulienMatt Evans23 March 2014 (2014-03-23)

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References

  1. "CBBC Schedule 23 March 2014". BBC. Retrieved 11 April 2014.