Alphablocks

Alphablocks
Genre Learning, Pre-School
Format Animation
Written by Max Allen, Joe Elliot, Neil Richards, Maurice Suckling
Voices of Teresa Gallagher, David Holt, Lizzie Waterworth
Composer(s) Ben Lee-Delisle
Country of origin United Kingdom
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 26 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Rebecca Shallcross, Joe Elliot
Producer(s) Sioned Wyn Roberts
Running time 3 min
Production company(s) Magic Lantern
Distributor Wildword Entertainment
Broadcast
Original channel CBeebies
Picture format Widescreen
Original airing 25 January 2010
External links
Website
Production website

Alphablocks is a children's educational television program that attempts to teach children how to spell with the use of animated blocks representing each letter. It is animated by Blue-Zoo and produced by Wildword Entertainment [1]

Contents

Aired Episodes

  1. Alphablocks
  2. Bee
  3. Top
  4. Why
  5. Key
  6. Glow
  7. Sing
  8. Band
  9. Party
  10. Cha Cha Cha
  11. Race
  12. Moon
  13. Alphalympics
  14. Sail
  15. UFO
  16. Fox
  17. Surprise
  18. Bus
  19. Space
  20. Hide
  21. Quiet
  22. Map
  23. Jaybird
  24. Note
  25. Zzzzz
  26. Magic

The episode UFO has some short amusing reflections of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Characters

letter colour gender characteristics
A green female She likes to sing and help the other vowels.
B bright blue female has gentle eyelashes. She plays the bass.
C pinkish-red male the only male with stunts. He makes cracks.
D purple male He is a proper cube shape and he plays the drums.
E red orange male He is the busiest letter in the Alphabet
silent (magic) E black male E can change into him
F lilac female She is into floating and blowing. She is designed somewhat like an astronaut with a small life-support backpack. She can fly about in air or in space. Her 'ffff' sound is used to represent the sound of a spacesuit propulsor rocket motor.
G green female She Looks like a Plant with flowers on her sides and grassy hair and sometimes she drinks water (Episode 1)
H bright gold female She can get tired when running: her 'hhhh' sound is the resulting panting.
I purple female Her singing can be too loud sometimes but the Alphablocks really like her singing.
J blue and white male He looks like a Blue Jay.
K yellow male He likes to kick his ball.
L lilac female She loves to sing songs with her L sound.
M white male He likes to eat things that makes him quite greedy.
N red-orange male He is quite stubborn and says 'No' even when it's yes.
O orange male He can't talk but is smiling and happy.
P bright green, blue and purple female She can teleport (making a popping noise) and it can scare the others when they are busy. She has very bushy eyelashes.
Q blue female She wants to be quite quarreling in love with U but U runs away.
R red female She looks like a pirate.
S all different colours female She looks like a beach ball. She can inflate and deflate and fly about.
T very dark turquoise male He Sometimes like to drink tea.
U blue male He wears square glasses and is quite moody.
V red male He is very very fast and has feathers on his arms.
W dark blue male He wails when he gets hurt or when he is upset.
X blue and yellow male He is all the other Alphablocks' hero.
Y yellow male He is the youngest male Alphablock.
Z green male He is the oldest Alphablock and Sometimes he always sleep.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.magiclantern.co.uk/news/recent.aspx

External links