| Naturally, Sadie | |
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 The main cast of Naturally, Sadie, (from left to right), Rain, Margaret, Sadie, Jean, Walter and Hal. |
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| Format | Teen drama Sitcom |
| Created by | Barbara Wiechmann |
| Developed by | John May Suzanne Bolch |
| Starring | Charlotte Arnold Jasmine Richards Michael D'Ascenzo Justin Bradley Collette Micks Jacob Kraemer Richard Clarkin |
| Opening theme | Performed by Angie Grant |
| Country of origin |  Canada |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 63 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | John May Suzanne Bolch (Season 1) Brent Piaskoski (Seasons 2-3) Steve DeNure Neil Court Beth Stevenson |
| Producer(s) | Kevin May |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Family Disney Channel (Seasons 1-2) Nickelodeon UK MBC 3 Family Room HD E-Junior popgirl |
| Original run | June 24, 2005 – August 26, 2007 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Naturally, Sadie was a Canadian teen drama sitcom that ran for three seasons from 2005 to 2007. It was produced in Canada and filmed in Whitby, Ontario. The Shows original name was Going Green, until Joey Brooks changed it to the current name, Naturally, Sadie.
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The plot centers on 14-year-old Sadie Hawthorne, who lives with her parents and brother Hal in Whitby, Ontario, a high school student and aspiring naturalist who loves to study and observe animal behaviour. Luckily for her, she's got two best friends, Margaret and Rain, to back her up until she figures it all out. The series was originally titled and broadcast as The Complete Freaks of Nature, the name being changed to Naturally, Sadie when Disney Channel picked up the series after its first season of production.
Season 2 deals with Sadie as a sophomore in high school, and sees her acting, feeling, and looking more like a typical teenager. She has a new crush, Benjamin Harrison, and her life is always turned upside down. From season 1 to season 2, the show's format changed greatly.
Season 3 deals with Sadie and Ben's relationship. Margaret is still really into fashion and gives even more advice. Rain's old friend Taylor comes back into his life and they get closer and become a couple.
| Actor | Character | Status | # Episodes |
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| Charlotte Arnold | Sadie Hawthorne | 2005 — 2007 | 63 |
| Jasmine Richards | Margaret Browning-Levesque | 2005 — 2007 | 57 |
| Michael D'Ascenzo | Rain Papadakis | 2005 — 2007 | 55 |
| Justin Bradley | Hal Hawthorne | 2005 — 2007 | 52 |
| Collette Micks | Jean Hawthorne | 2005 — 2007 | 44 |
| Jacob Kraemer | Ben Harrison | 2005 — 2007 | 27 |
| Richard Clarkin | Walter Hawthorne | 2005 — 2007 | 17 |
Portrayed by Charlotte Arnold, Sadie Hawthorne is an aspiring naturalist and student at R.B. Bennett High School, which is named after the 14th prime minister of Canada. She is the titular protagonist of the show. Sadie treats every day like one big experiment. She has a crush on Ben Harrison and is quick to try and apply her naturalist knowledge to her homeroom habitat. Sometimes Sadie's stubborn pursuit of knowledge lands her in a bit of trouble. She manages to scrape through somehow with help from her friends.
Portrayed by Jasmine Richards. She is Sadie's best friend, although sometimes she wants Sadie to behave more like her peers. Together with Rain Papadakis, the 3 are best friends. Margaret sometimes wishes for more average friends, she still supports Sadie's naturalist interests and Rain's crazy schemes. Much of her attention is usually focused on shopping, fashion, dancing, and boys. She dated Sadie's 1st crush Owen Anthony in the series finale.
Portrayed by Michael D'Ascenzo, Rain is a constant source of comedy. He is always working on one of his master plans-for-success, which usually end in failure. He has a gruelling part-time job at his family's restaurant, and parents who lecture at length in Greek about the virtues of being "more like his cousins". Luckily he has best friends Sadie and Margaret to support and accept him for his craziness. In season 3, he began dating Taylor Dedomanikdantonio. When she moved to Whitby, they hit it off like old times. Rain and Margaret kissed once on the way home from Sadie's house, and were both happy to discover they have no chemistry. In season 1 he was trying to impress Vivian because he liked her.
Ben (Jacob Kraemer) is Sadie's crush from season 2 onwards. He's the new kid whom everyone likes. Sadie finds him sweet, charming, smug, and cute. He always says "Chimo" with a little twist with his hand, to greet and says goodbye to people. He calls her "Red" because of her red hair. And she likes him because he has a naturally long nose like an anteater as Sadie would describe it. Ben and Sadie almost kiss on many occasions, but something always happens to get in the way.Yet Ben and Sadie do kiss, in the episode "The Hawthorne Identity" at the end of the episode, Sadie kisses Ben on the lips.
Hal (Justin Bradley) is Sadie's annoying, although sometimes helpful, older brother, who, unlike Sadie, does not do very well in school. He gets into trouble with the principal a lot, and, in one episode, ends up with Rain in detention as well. In another episode, Hal becomes Sadie's art tutor. Art happens to be Hal's best subject and Sadie's worst. At first, Hal tries to help her. But when he realizes that Sadie could become better than him, Hal makes her do silly things like paint with her butt. In the end, Sadie does become better at art, but turns in one of her worse pieces to make Hal feel better. Hal is also the leader of his own band called "Morning Breath".
Hal does not appear in the episode Quiz Show'
Jean (Collette Micks) is Sadie's mother and a novelist. When she is not on tour in some other city, she's locked in her office, working or lying on the couch with her eyes closed, thinking about work. Jean has always encouraged Sadie's fascination with animals and is the one who will stick up for her when she chooses digging up beetles over her family movie night. Jean understands focus, determination and fanciful exploration and is happy to see her daughter so full of them all. Jean's a little flighty and sometimes has her head way up in the clouds but Sadie appreciates her mother's artiness and the heartfelt - albeit abbreviated - talks that they have together.
Sadie's dad, (Richard Clarkin) is an engineer. He's a straight-shooting, exacting doer who can build things with tools and bake complicated cakes that require precise measurements, but who can't throw a meal together without a recipe. Walter is precise in everything he does and is, in many ways, the polar opposite of messy, think-outside-the-box Jean. Sadie ponders this "opposites attracting" thing a lot, wondering at nature's grand design, not because her parents' relationship doesn't work, but rather because somehow, miraculously, it does.
Naturally, Sadie currently airs in 12 countries:
   | David Winning (director) official web site - Groundstar Entertainment Presents David Winning - Filmmaker - Director |
| | IMDB - "Naturally, Sadie" (2005) |
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