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
Production companies	Ginger Productions, SKA
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	29 May – 11 July 2000

Lock, Stock... was a 2000 television series off-shoot 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 Fist Full 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 (actor) as Three Feet, an enforcer working for Miami Vice.
• 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.

DVD release

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

External links

• Lock, Stock... at IMDb
• Lock, Stock... at epguides.com