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{{Infobox:Episode
|image = Tracybeakersuperstar.jpg
|series = 1
|number = 1
|airdate = 8th January 2010
|writer = Elly Brewer & Ben Ward
|director = Neasa Hardiman
|previous = "[[The Wedding]]"
|next = "[[New Life's Eve]]" 
}}'''"Tracy Beaker Superstar"''' is the 1st episode in [[Tracy Beaker Returns: Series 1|Series 1]] of ''[[Tracy Beaker Returns]]'' and the 1st episode overall. It aired on 8th January 2010. It is the premiere of Series 1 and ''Tracy Beaker Returns''.

==Synopsis==
With a published [[Who Cares Tracy Beaker?|book]] and TV appearance, [[Tracy Beaker|Tracy]]'s grown-up life is going well - until she gets arrested.

==Characters==
* [[Tracy Beaker]]
* [[Mike Milligan]]
* [[Cam Lawson]]
* [[Harry Jones]] (debut)
* [[Lily Kettle]] (debut)
* [[Poppy Kettle]] (debut)
* [[Rosie Kettle]] (debut)
* [[Carmen Howle]] (debut)
* [[Sapphire Fox]] (debut)
* [[Gus Carmichael]] (debut)
* [[Tee Taylor]] (debut)
* [[Johnny Taylor]] (debut)
* [[Frank Matthews]] (debut)
* [[Toby Coleman]] (debut)
* [[Liam O'Donovan]] (debut)
* [[Gina Conway]] (debut)
* [[Gary (TSOTB: S5)|Gary]] (mentioned)

==Plot==
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==Cast==

===Main===
* [[Dani Harmer]] as [[Tracy Beaker]]
* [[Connor Byrne]] as [[Mike Milligan]]
* [[Lisa Coleman]] as [[Cam Lawson]]
* [[Kay Purcell]] as [[Gina Conway]]
* Katie Anderson as [[Poppy Kettle]]
* [[John Bell]] as [[Toby Coleman]]
* Claudia Colling as [[Rosie Kettle]]
* [[Amy-Leigh Hickman]] as [[Carmen Howle]]
* [[Noah Marullo]] as [[Gus Carmichael]]
* [[Mia McKenna-Bruce]] as [[Tee Taylor]]
* [[Joe Maw]] as [[Johnny Taylor]]
* [[Philip Graham Scott]] as [[Harry Jones]]
* [[Christopher-John Slater|Chris Slater]] as [[Frank Matthews]]
* [[Jessie Williams]] as [[Lily Kettle]]
* [[Richard Wisker]] as [[Liam O'Donovan]]
* [[Saffron Coomber]] as [[Sapphire Fox]]

===Recurring===
* Jim Kitson as [[Sergeant Nelson]]

==Trivia==
* When the kids are watching the TV at the start and briefly change channels, the opening titles of CBBC gameshow [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_100 Get 100] are seen.
* Unique to this episode, the opening titles stop when we see the "Tracy Beaker Returns" title at the the end of the opening titles and cut to black. Later episodes will show the page of the book turning over leading into the scene after the titles.
* Unique to this episode, the opening theme plays over the opening scenes as opposed to stopping when the opening titles end.
* The rendition of the theme over the closing credits is different in this and the following episode to the rest of the series.
* Tracy mentions to Mike that she and Cam do not talk about [[Gary (TSOTB: S5)|Gary]].
* Mike tells Liam to be less "Artful Dodger". The [[wikipedia:Artful_Dodger|Artful Dodger]] was a member of a gang of pickpockets from the [[wikipedia:Charles_Dickens|Charles Dickens]] novel [[wikipedia:Oliver_Twist|''Oliver Twist'']] .
* In the compilation version, when Tracy returns home and finds the seven messages Cam left on the answering machine, four of the messages were featured. In the individual episode version, six of them were featured.
* Tracy left school without qualifications.

===Cultural References===
* When [[Liam O'Donovan|Liam]] is running away from the police, "I Fought the Law" by Sonny Curtis is heard.
* "A Message to You Rudy" by Dandy Livingstone is played when a policewoman takes [[Tracy Beaker|Tracy]] into a cell.

===Errors===
* There are a number of errors caused by cutting between different camera angles:
* At the start when Harry messes with the TV set, the position of his head and shoulders are different when the camera cuts between him in long shot and close up.
* When Mike gets the others around the TV to show Tracy's interview to them, Harry goes from being on the floor, to already being stood up, to then getting up from the floor, to kneeling and then to being stood up when the camera cuts between angles.
* When Tracy falls over, the position of the jogger goes from grabbing her arm to not yet touching her when the camera cuts angles.
* When Mike goes to switch the TV back to Tracy's interview, it is already on the TV before we hear him press the button to change channels.
* [[Sapphire Fox|Sapphire]] and the guest cast go uncredited.
* For the duration of Series 1, Tee is absent from the opening titles.

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