本剧讲述了1850年代淘金热期间，华裔澳大利亚人不为人知的经历。故事以真实事件为灵感，发生在1957年澳大利亚维多利亚州的巴拉瑞特。在那里，欧洲人、中国人和澳洲原住民（包含澳大利亚土著人和托雷斯海峡岛民）共同生活在一个西部边陲的小镇上，他们试图通过淘金致富。一名白人女性在此地遭 到谋杀，对凶手的追捕在不同群体间掀起了轩然大波。

Lockie Leonard is an Australian children's television series adapted from the Lockie Leonard books that first screened on the Nine Network on 19 June 2007. The series was filmed in Albany, Western Australia. A second series was filmed in 2009 and screened in 2010 in Australia, the UK and Ireland.

Lockie Leonard was produced by Goalpost Pictures Australia and is distributed by the Australian Children's Television Foundation. The theme song "Worlds Away" is performed by Jebediah.

Lockie Leonard premiered in the UK on Saturday 27 September 2008, as part of the long running children's Saturday morning programme TMi which airs from 09:00 to 10:30 on BBC Two. It ran for the first 12 episodes then continued to air on CBBC Channel.

The show won the 2008 TV Week Logie Award for Best Children's Series, and star Sean Keenan was nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent. It won the 2007 AFI award for Best Children's Drama Series. The series was also nominated for the 2007 BAFTA Awards for Best International Children's Drama Series.