Hannah Montana

Hannah Montana is a Disney Channel Original Series produced in part with Sony Pictures which made its debut on Friday, March 24, 2006. Miley Cyrus stars as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana, who lives a double life as a normal girl at school during the day and a famous pop star (Hannah Montana) at night. However, no one knows about her secret except for her widowed father, who is also her manager (played by Miley Cyrus' father Billy Ray Cyrus), her brother, her grandmother, her two best friends, and a revolving guest cast of costumers, security guards, and the like. The show is co-created by Michael Poryes who also co-created another hit Disney Channel show That's So Raven.

The series premiere scored record ratings for Disney Channel: 5.4 million viewers, an unbelievable response — "beyond our wildest expectations," according to the president of Disney Channel Entertainment Gary Marsh, most likely due to its lead-in from the DCOM Cow Belles, starring Aly and AJ Michalka. The show averaged 3.5 million viewers an episode in the month following its debut.Jacques Steinburg, "A Tale of Two Tweens: One Real and One Disney", The New York Times, April 20, 2006.

Characters

Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana

Pop Star played by Miley Cyrus
Miley Stewart is a regular teenage girl leading a normal life with the problems of zits, boyfriends, friends, parents, etc. But under the alias Hannah Montana, she's a pop superstar singing sensation. Only her two best friends, Oliver and Lilly, her brother, and her dad/Manager/Producer know about her double life as a singer and she tries to keep it that way. In the tri-show episode, we learn that Hannah also enjoys vanilla flavored cake; apart from singing and hanging out with her family and friends. Miley's mom died 3 years ago and her dad is now a single parent of two kids. In one episode, Miley is going out with a boy who hates Hannah Montana, but decides to give her a chance anyway. So he takes Miley to a Hannah Montana concert. Miley has to say she's getting a pretzel when she's really morphing into Hannah. She tries to impress this guy by doing strange things. It shows how hard living a double life can be.

Lilly Truscott/Lola Luftnangle/Lola Lafonda

Hannah Montana and Miley Stewart's Best Friend played by Emily Osment
Lilly Truscott is Miley's best friend and is a huge Hannah Montana fan. She found that Miley was Hannah while sneaking into her dressing room after a concert. She loves skateboarding,cheerleading, her hair, hats, parties, jackets, the beach, shopping, boys and loves Miley's 2nd closet. Lilly also leads a double life when she's with Hannah - she's either Lola Luftnangle or Lola LaFonda. As the Lola Luftangle alter ego she wears bright blue cyberpunk clothes and a light purple wig. When she's Lola LaFonda she wears a red wig and heavy make-up. As Lola Luftnangle, she embarrasses Hannah Montana very often. Lilly's identity changes along with her disguises, but her first name Lola never changes.

Oliver Oken

Hannah Montana and Miley Stewart's Friend which is played by Mitchel Musso
Oliver Oken is Miley and Lilly's friend. He was in love with Hannah Montana until he found out that his friend, Miley, was Hannah Montana. He was so shocked he fainted. He first saw Hannah Montana after helping Lilly get into Miley's/Hannah's Dressing room. His crush on Hannah Montana ended after he realized he just loved Hannah, not Miley. From then on, they decided to be just friends. Oliver's self-proclaimed nickname is "Smokin' Oken" or Olly trolly.He thinks the ladies are all over him. In one episode he gets makeup put on his face by Amber and Ashley. He definitely makes an "ugly woman". He is not very smart and often does stupid things. He has had a great fear of gum chewing ever since he was a little baby because of this scary woman who accidentally dropped chewed gum onto him while babysitting. He really likes to impress the ladies!Oliver also has girlfriend mamed Becca starting in Oops I meddled again.

Robby Stewart

Hannah Montana's producer and Hannah Montana/Miley Stewart's dad played by Billy Ray Cyrus
Robby Stewart is the dad of Miley and Jackson. He is also Hannah Montana's Manager/Producer. He's very proud of Miley and comes up with all her songs. He is a pretty cool dad until he tries to shop for her. Her dad is always there to give her helpful advice, like the time Miley's date took her to a Hannah Montana concert and when Miley and Lily did cheerleading together.

Jackson Stewart

Miley Stewart's annoying brother played by Jason Earles
Jackson Stewart is the older brother of Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana. He cares about 4 things in life: food, girls, his image, and money. He was once found wearing his younger sister's clothes, as he was paid to model them by Hannah's costumist. He has a best friend named Cooper. Jackson works at Rico's surf shop on the beach. His boss has a son named Rico, who Jackson is forced to be nice to, no matter how mean Rico is.

Cast

Photo	Cast Member	Character
	Miley Cyrus	Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana
	Billy Ray Cyrus	Robby Stewart
	Jason Earles	Jackson Stewart
	Emily Osment	Lilly Truscott/Lola Luftnagle/Lola LaFonda
	Mitchel Musso	Oliver Oken

Unaired Episodes

"You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Zit Is About You"

(This episode is refering to Carly Simon's song "You're So Vain".)

"On the Road Again"

Miley finds out that her dad may have given up his dream to sing. (Part of the That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana episode)

"Money for Nothing, Guilt for Free"

Miley, Lilly, Amber, and Ashley's teacher sends them off to raise money for a local fundraising company. Miley and Lilly want to win really badly so they can win the prize and brag about it in front of Amber and Ashley's face. Jackson thinks that he is better then his dad at Ping Pong. Cooper tells him that his dad is letting him win so he gives Jackson lessons.

"New Kid in School"

Kid Star, Jake Ryan, comes to Miley's school.
Guest Starring: Cody Linley (Jake Ryan), Nicole Friend (Sally Crossix)

"More Than a Zombie To Me"

Miley learns she is going to have a kissing scene in the school play with Jake. Guest Starring: Cody Linley (Jake Ryan), Nicole Friend (Sally Crossix)

"The Idol Side of Me"

Amber and Ashley pass out a "cool" list and Oliver makes it in the top hundred and Miley and Lily are last tied with/Danriff/Danny. There is a contest for someone to be able to sing with Hannah Montana, and Amber tries out, but things get out of hand when Miley hears someone singing horribly. She thinks it is Amber, so she makes her win the contest, but that horrible singer was Ashley; Amber is really a great singer and she gets to sing with Hannah Montana. Miley and Lily (as Hannah and Lola) plan to do this awful thing to her and embarass her on live TV, but Amber freaks out before she performs and spills her guts to Hannah. Miley tells her to be nice, and Amber says she will be so at school. Amber ends up being nice to Danny by putting him before Miley and Lily.

"Good Golly, Miss Dolly"

Miley and Lilly get voodoo dolls of Amber and Ashley. Jackson thinks he found his girl.

"Debt It Be"

Robbie gives Miley and Jackson credit cards, but trouble ensues.Title based on The Beatles song Let It Be.

"Bad Moose Rising"

"Smells Like Teen Sellout"

Oliver, Miley, and Lilly are on a game show against Amber and Ashley. Jackson has money problems.

"School Bully"

Episodes

Season 1 (2006) (Aired)

|| "Lilly, Do You Want to Know A Secret? (Pilot)" ||March 24, 2006||align="center"| 101 ||align="center"| 1 Miley has to confront her best friend about her true identity as a pop star, but worries about how she'll react. Jackson uses Hannah Montana's popularity to score a date, then begs his dad for money.
For a more detailed summary, go here. || "Miley, Get Your Gum" ||March 31, 2006||align="center"| 103 ||align="center"| 2 || "She's a Super Sneak" || April 7, 2006 ||align="center"| 105 ||align="center"| 3 || "I Can't Make You Love Hannah If You Don't" || April 14, 2006 ||align="center"| 107 ||align="center"| 4 || "It's My Party and I Can Lie if I Want To" || April 21, 2006 ||align="center"| 109 ||align="center"| 5 || "Grandmas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Favorites" || April 28, 2006 ||align="center"| 111 ||align="center"| 6 Miley's "Maeh-Ma" (played by Vicki Lawrence) visits.
For a more detailed summary, go here. || "It's a Mannequin's world" ||May 12, 2006 ||align="center"| 113 ||align="center"| 7 || "Mascot Love" ||May 26, 2006 ||align="center"| 115 ||align="center"| 8 || "Ooh, Ooh, Itchy Woman" ||June 10, 2006 ||align="center"| 117 ||align="center"| 9 || "O Say Can You Remember The Words" ||June 30, 2006 ||align="center"| 117 ||align="center"| 9

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At the end of the concert, Oliver sneaks onto Hannah's limo and tries to get his hand kissed by Hannah. Lola/Lilly's dog licks his hand instead, but he still thinks Hannah did it. For a more detailed summary, go here.
Miley and Jackson sneak out of their house to check out the latest Ashton Kutcher film and spot their dad at the same theatre on a date. For a more detailed summary, go here.
Miley has a crush on a cute boy and everything is just perfect... that is until she discovers his hate for Hannah Montana. For a more detailed summary, go here.
At a concert Lilly pretends to be Lola Luftnagle, a friend of Hannah's. Because she is star-struck, Lilly embarrasses Hannah. For a more detailed summary, go here.

Miley's birthday's coming up and she doesn't want her dad to get her another dorky present. For a more detailed summary, go here.
Miley wants to spend more time with Lilly so they both tryout for the cheerleading squad. For a more detailed summary, go here.
Miley attends a class camp out, gets poison oak, and has to deal with the itchiness during an interview. For a more detailed summary, go here.

Recurring Cast

Star	Character	Episode Appearances
Andre Jamal Kinney	Cooper	5
Maria Perez de Tagle	Ashley Dewitt	4
Shanica Knowles	Amber Addison	4
Moises Arias	Rico	4
Kyle Kaplan	Chad the Chomper	2
Shanel Pelayo	Martha Larthrost	2
Creagen Dow	Donny	2
Kirby Bliss Blanton	Becca Weller	2
Cody Linley	Jake Ryan	2

Guest Stars

Episode	Star	Character
Lilly, Do You Want To Know A Secret?	Matt Winston	Fermine
Lilly, Do You Want To Know A Secret?	Shahril Alfian	Lucas Fermand
Lilly, Do You Want To Know A Secret?	Corbin Bleu	Johnny Collins
Miley Get Your Gum	Nathan Norman	Kid #1
Miley Get Your Gum	Paul Vogt	Mr. Dontzig
Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Favorites	Vicki Lawrence	MA-ma Ruthie
I Can't Make You Love Hannah If You Don't	Daniel Samonas	Josh
She's a Super Sneak	Lindsey Stoddart	Margo Diamond

Theme Song

Best of Both Worlds is the theme tune from Hannah Montana, a TV Series about a girl who has two identities, a rockstar and a normal girl. The song's chorus talks about having the Best of Both Worlds, hence the title. It is sung by Miley Cyrus, along with the all the other Hannah Montana songs. The song can be purchased on iTunes

News

Premiered on March 24,2006 at 9:30/8:30 Central
It will premier August 4 on Family Channel at 5:35 Pacific Time.
The Soundtrack will be released on October 3, 2006.
Hannah Montana scored an incredible 5.4 million viewers for the premiere episode, a record for any series premiere on Disney Channel ever. The last Disney Channel show to hold that record was The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
As a result of the show's early popularity, Disney has ordered an additional six episodes, bringing the first season total up to 26.
Buena Vista Games has created a game to be released in October for the Nintendo DS
A scene from the real Hannah Montana concert aired on July 7, 2006 as a music video and also in Disney 365.

Continuity Errors and Goofs

In Miley Get Your Gum, Oliver is hanging upside down on Hannah's limo's sky window. Hannah quickly puts on her wig, and you can see her face perfectly. However, when they go to the scene when the dog licks Oliver the second time, and go back to Hananh, you see that Hannah's face is covered by wig, and is all messy while Lily tries to rearrange them. Either, Lilly being her own self, or the wig decided to mess itself up.
In Mascot Love where Miley tries out for the cheerleading squad, Oliver mentions his phone number in the microphone, the first time he mentions 555-0121, but the second time he mentions 555-0127.
In Ooh, Ooh, Itchy Woman, the tent Miley built was red first, then blue the second time.
In She's a Supersneak, when they are behind the cutout while the guy is looking at it, it's beside the poster for "The Mystery", then in the next shot it's beside the poster for "Heartbreakers", then it's back beside the "The Mystery" poster.
In Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret? Miley is so nervous in front of her crush Johnny Collins that she pours ketchup onto her hand instead of her burger. After Johnny leaves, one can see that Miley's hand is stained with ketchup, but in the next shot it's clean, and in the shot after that it's stained. Her hand is clean for the remainder of the scene.
In Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret? Miley comes home with a french fry in her hair, and sits down. She talks with her dad while taking off one shoe. Then, in the next scene, she stands up with both shoes off. The second shoe disappeared.
In Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Favorites, Lilly and Robbie always have to change their names and wear disguises so there will be no connections drawn between them and Miley, but Jackson and Mamaw attend the command performance for the queen (as guests of Hannah Montana) without disguising who they are. (Jackson is wearing a security guard suit, and Mamaw is almost never seen with Miley)
In She's a Supersneak, Miley and Jackson hide in a closet, and they complain that it is cramped. But then Miley walks away and Jackson says, "Ooh, thats embarrassing". Then, Jackson steps into the closet, like there is plenty of room, even the background shows that there is enough room for 2 people.
In Ooh, Ooh, Itchy Woman, Oliver gets dressed in girl's stuff, lipsitck and a scarf. Then, when the teacher walks in and asks why "today is the worst day of my life", Oliver raises his hand, but the scarf is gone, not around his neck or on the desk.
In Miley, Get your Gum, Hannah Montana blows a huge black bubble onto Oliver's face. Oliver peels it off and throws it on the ground, but in the scene when Hannah tells Oliver who she really is, the black gum isn't on the ground anymore.
In Oops! I Meddled Again Miley says, "Eww. Now I have to burn it.", meaning her bra that Jackson touched, but instead she throws it in the trash can. {probably because she was joking about burning it}
In Disney 365 Miley Cyrus said that they filmed the show on the beach. In the episode It's My Party and I'll Lie if I Want To, part of the episode was Miley and Lilly at the beach. If you look carefully at the back, you see people but they aren't moving, which tells us they use a different beach background for the beach episodes.
In "Oops, I meddled again," after Oliver tells Miley and Lilly about his date, he closes his locker during a close up and didn't lock it. Then, when he leaves his locker, you an see that there is a lock on his locker.
In "Oops, I meddled again," Miley's father says that he just made a song for Hannah Montana with the lyrics "The other side, the other side, the other side of me", but in Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Favorites she practices a song to sing to the Queen of England with the same lyrics even though it was never completed in any episode.

Trivia

During the beginning of this project Miley's name was "Zoe Stewart" instead of "Miley Stewart" this was changed however after Miley Cyrus was cast as the lead.
Every musical segment Miley performs on the set is somewhat goofy and odd. But in concerts, she does it flawlessly.
In the episode "It's A Mannequin's World", when Miley's dad threw out his back, and he said "Oh My Achy Breaky Back", which is a reference to his hit song "Achy Breaky Heart".
In "Ooh, Ooh, Itchy Woman", after Billy Ray Cyrus told Jackson that he shouldn't kill a mouse with musical talent, he asked the mouse if it could play the song "Achy Breaky Heart", which, like the post above, that is his hit song.
In the episode "I Can't Make You Love Hannah If You Don't", the outside of the movie theater shows the fictitious ad of the big play (The Importance Of Being Earnest) that Mary Jane stars in Spider-Man 2 on the side, as also shown in a clip of Spider-Man 2.
The two stars (Miley Cyrus and Emily Osment) of the show's first names have all the same letters and the same amount. Emily can be rearranged into Miley, and vice versa. All you have to do is move the E.
High School Musical is parodied in the episode "It's a Mannequin's World" when Jackson's friend offers to bake Miley's birthday cake. Then he makes a big speech parodying Zeke's "I Love to Bake" speech in High School Musical.
In this show there is a character named Ashley Dewitt, in Billy Ray Cyrus' show Doc there is a character with the last name Dewitt.
The episode "Oh Say Can You Remember the Words" was showed at the Hannah Montana concert at Typhoon Lagoon water park in Disney World.
In Billy Ray Cyrus's show, Doc, he was a doctor from Montana. In this show, Miley Stewart's stage name is Hannah Montana.
Miley's friend Paige helped with the production money of Hannah Montana along side with Billy Ray Cyrus and the producer.
Miley is known for having an excited personality in the public. On the show, she is extremely deadpan.

Episode Title References

1.01 ("Lilly, Do You Want To Know A Secret? (Pilot)"): The Beatles - "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (Track 11 from the 1963 album Please Please Me)
1.02 ("Miley, Get Your Gum"): Squeeze - "Annie Get Your Gun" (Track 12 from the 1982 album Singles 45's and Under; also a famous musical called Annie Get Your Gun) Also refering to a M*A*S*H epsiode called Hawkeye Get your gun

1.03 ("She's a Supersneak"):Rick James - "Super Freak" (Track 5 from the 1981 album Street Songs)
1.04 ("I Can't Make You Love Hannah If You Don't"): Bonnie Raitt - "I Can't Make You Love Me" (Track 3 from the 1991 album Luck of the Draw)
1.05 ("It's My Party, And I'll Lie If I Want To"): Lesley Gore - "It's My Party" (1965 single)
1.06 ("You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Zit Is About You"): Carly Simon - "You're So Vain" (Track 3 from the 1972 album No Secrets)
1.07 ("Ooh, Ooh, Itchy Woman"): The Eagles - "Witchy Woman" (Track 2 from the 1972 self-titled album)
1.08 ("Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Favorites"): Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson - "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys" (Track 1 from the 1978 album Waylon & Willie)
1.09 ("It's A Mannequin's World"): James Brown - "It's a Man's World"
1.10 ("On the Road Again"): Willie Nelson - "On the Road Again" (Track 1 from the soundtrack album of the 1980 movie Honeysuckle Rose)
1.11 ("Bionic Boy"): The Village People - "Macho Man" (Track 1 from The Village People's album Macho Man.)
1.12 ("Oh Say Can You Remember the Words..."): "The Star-Spangled Banner," the United States national anthem
1.13 ("Money For Nothing, Guilt for Free"): Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing" (Track 2 from the 1985 album Brothers in Arms)
1.14 ("New Kid in School"): The Eagles - "New Kid in Town" (Track 2 from the The Eagles album Hotel California)
1.15 ("Oops, I Meddled Again!"): Britney Spears - "Oops, I Did it Again"
1.16 ("More Than A Zombie To Me"): Tavares - "More Than A Woman" (1977 single)

Notes

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