Kidnapped
- Studio
- Australian Children's Television Foundation, Viskatoons, France Animation.
In Association With: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, France 2, Canal J, Ravensburger Film + Television GmbH
Synopsis
WC Moore hires a pair of incompetent Slumbagen Marines to kidnap Li'l Elvis, so that WC can save him and become a hero in the boy's eyes. But while WC Moore is busy grandstanding for the media, his plans are quickly unravelling, as Lionel and Janet go looking for clues and Li'l Elvis proves himself more than a handful for his abductors.
Characters
Li'l Elvis Jones, Lionel Dexter, Lillian Dexter, Len Jones, Dick Collingwood, Grace Jones, WC Moore, Janet Rig, Eileen Inyaface, Dex Dexter, Duncan, Goondianna Jones, Old Man Viska, Hector, Scotty, Sea Monkey King, Victor, Mama Rig
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Peter Viska, Robbert Smit
- Co-Director
- Jan Van Rijsselberge
Producing
- Producer
- Susie Campbell, Patricia Edgar
- Executive Producers
- Patricia Edgar, Christian Davin, Giovanni Milano
Writing
- Writer
- Ray Boseley, Robert Greenberg
Voices
- Voice
- Stig Wemyss (Li'l Elvis Jones), Stig Wemyss (Li'l Elvis Jones [Singing Voice]), Kylie Belling (Lionel Dexter, Lillian Dexter), David Cotter (Len Jones, Dick Collingwood), Lynda Gibson (Grace Jones), William Ten Eyck (as Bill Ten Eyck) (WC Moore), Marg Downey (Janet Rig, Eileen Inyaface), Tommy Lewis (Dex Dexter), Michael Veitch (Duncan), Matthew Yang King (as Matthew King) (Goondianna Jones, Old Man Viska), Nick Giannopoulos (Hector), Hamish Hughes (Scotty), Paul Flaherty (Sea Monkey King), Chris Anastassiades (Victor), Wendy Stapleton (Mama Rig)
Editing
- Editor
- Ralph Strasser
Crew
- Post-Production Director
- Ralph Strasser
- Animators
- Russell Ladewig, Bill Mezzetti
- Animation Director
- Robbert Smit
- Assistant Animator
- Clint Cure
- Inbetween Artist
- Mark Sheard
- Sound Supervisor
- Doron Kipen
- Sound
- Craig Carter, Keith Thomas
- Script Supervisors
- Chris Anastassiades, Christophe Izard
- Production Managers
- Vicki Joyce, Jean Gaillard
Companies and other credits
- Completion Guarantor: Film Finances
Production notes
This series is geared toward children in Grades 2 to 5.
Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers is an animated television series set in a small Australian outback town, about a young Australian Elvis impersonator.
Li'l Elvis has a gift for music, a talent for trouble and a desire for only two things -- to find out who he really is and be a normal kid again. He spends his days entertaining truck drivers at his parents' roadhouse by playing Elvis Presley songs, but he is sick of the music and of his mom's insistence that he is "the King" reborn.
He's determined to establish his own identity and so, with his friends Lionel and Janet, creates a sound uniquely his own- Didgibilli Rock. But when greedy millionaire WC Moore hears the band play, he sees an opportunity to make a fortune by transforming Li'l Elvis' town into a 1950s-style theme park. Now it's up to Li'l Elvis to foil the evil WC, or his town will be lost forever.
Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers is an animated television series set in a small Australian outback town, about a young Australian Elvis impersonator.
Li'l Elvis has a gift for music, a talent for trouble and a desire for only two things -- to find out who he really is and be a normal kid again. He spends his days entertaining truck drivers at his parents' roadhouse by playing Elvis Presley songs, but he is sick of the music and of his mom's insistence that he is "the King" reborn.
He's determined to establish his own identity and so, with his friends Lionel and Janet, creates a sound uniquely his own- Didgibilli Rock. But when greedy millionaire WC Moore hears the band play, he sees an opportunity to make a fortune by transforming Li'l Elvis' town into a 1950s-style theme park. Now it's up to Li'l Elvis to foil the evil WC, or his town will be lost forever.
Awards
Winner, Annecy International Animation Festival; Winner, Itheme 99, France; Winner, Chiarra D'Assisi Children's Television Prize, Italy