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| The Sparticle Mystery | |
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| Genre | Science fiction Drama Teen drama Adventure |
| Starring | Abigail Hardingham Karim Zeroual Emily Sanderson Grace Mandeville Karene Peter (Series 2–3) Abbie Hayes Gerran Howell Oliver Bell (Series 1–2) Gia Lodge O'Meally (Series 3) Adam Scotland (Series 3) Stephanie Dale (Series 3) Oliver Dillon |
| Composer | Sheridan Tongue |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 36 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Alison Hume Stephen Smallwood |
| Running time | 28 minutes |
| Production companies | Sparticles Productions Ingenious Broadcasting |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBBC BBC HD |
| Release | 14 February 2011 – 30 March 2015 |
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The Sparticle Mystery is a British science fiction television series written and created by Alison Hume and produced by Sparticles Productions[1] for CBBC. The series follows a group of ten children in modern Britain, where an experiment at a Large Hadron Collider-like facility, the Sparticle Project, goes wrong, sending anybody aged 15 and over into a parallel dimension at exactly 11:11 am. The children travel to the Sparticle Project in an attempt to bring back the adults and re-align the two dimensions.
The series, which had a budget of £3 million,[2] was filmed in and around Bristol,[3] with the final episode filmed at the ISIS neutron source particle accelerators, near Didcot. Series 2 was extremely popular, with over 2 million hits on BBC iPlayer.[4] Series 3 regularly topped the BARB top ten children's shows during transmission.[5] In general, the series has received mixed to positive reception, with a score of 7.3 on IMDb.
The programme, which stars Annette Badland as Doomsday Dora/Holodora, has similar themes to both the 1975 TV series The Changes and the Gone series, and has many similarities to The Tribe; however, it is noted for its difference in that the children desire to bring back the adults. The second series of The Sparticle Mystery was filmed across Yorkshire in July- September 2012 and broadcast in 2013.[6] A third series was filmed in 2014 in and around Belfast, Northern Ireland with the support of Northern Ireland Screen, and the first episode was broadcast on 5 January 2015. The third and final series ended on 30 March 2015. Video-on-demand rights to The Sparticle Mystery were acquired by Amazon UK Prime in 2015 and Series 1 & 2 were available to watch until 2017. In the US, Seasons 1 and 2 are available from Netflix. Series 3 is available on the BBC Store.
From 2019, The Sparticle Mystery Series 1 was available to watch on BBC iPlayer in the UK, but as of 2023 it is not.
- ^ "Sparticles Productions". Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
- ^ "NEW BLOG! ALISON HUME \ The Sparticle Mystery interview". script-consultant.co.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
We had the license fee plus a bit more from our distributor Cake – about three million pounds.
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- ^ "The Sparticle Mystery Series 2 Reaches 2 Million iPlayer Views". facebook.com. 16 April 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
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- ^ ScreenTerrier: CBBC returning series