Alphablocks
Alphablocks | |
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Genre |
Learning Pre-School |
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 |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 91 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Rebecca Shallcross Joe Elliot |
Producer(s) | Sioned Wyn Roberts |
Running time |
3 minutes (series 1) 5 minutes (series 2–5) |
Production company(s) | Alphablocks Ltd |
Release | |
Original network | CBeebies |
Picture format | Widescreen |
Original release | 25 January 2010 – 5 July 2013 |
External links | |
Website | |
Production website |
Alphablocks is a British CGI-animated children's educational television programme that tries to teach children how to spell with the use of animated blocks representing each letter. It is animated by Blue-Zoo and produced by Alphablocks Ltd.[1] Once the Alphablocks discover that whenever they make a word it comes to life, lots of adventures in Alphaland can be made. These adventures with these animated blocks are what make learning how to read and spell more fun. January 1-June 30 and July 1-December 31.
Characters
Name | Information | |
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A | Green | She likes to sing and help the other vowels. She has a bandage on her cheek and apples keep falling on her head. In "Prank" she discovered a red clown nose and played jokes on all of the other Alphablocks.
She appear in "Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus and Mario Kart 7. She likes go Summer Stone Castle She wears her yellow swimming costume. |
B | Light blue | She plays the bass guitar and is D's older sister. |
C | Magenta | The only letter C who performs stunts. She wears goggles and makes cracks and is K's younger sister. |
D | Purple | He is a proper cube shape and he plays the drums. He is the younger brother to B. |
E | Red | He is the busiest letter in the alphabet. His 'eh's echo from the loudhailer he uses. He also becomes Magic E who is red with a top hat and a black ninja outfit to make the other vowels say their names. There is also Silent E. He has the same look as Magic E, but he doesn't have a top hat. In "Sleep" all he wanted to do is to rest his sleepy head, but the other Alphablocks had other plans in mind.
He appear in "Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus and Mario Kart 7 He decide to look for Summer Stone Castle and mountain The rock be scary. He wears his yellow swimming costume. |
F | Purple | She is into floating and blowing. She is designed 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 rocket-pack attached to her. |
G | Green | She Looks like a plant with flowers on her sides and grassy hair and sometimes she drinks water, and when that happens her hair grows. |
H | Yellow | She can get tired when running: Her 'h-h-h-h' sound is panting. |
I | Fuchsia | Her singing can be too loud sometimes but the Alphablocks really like her singing. She is also self-absorbed and thinks she is the most important letter.
She appear "Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus and Mario Kart 7. She likes to the town. She wears her polka dot swimming costume. |
J | Blue and white | She looks like a penguin, but thinks she is a jay bird. She thinks she can sing and fly like a real jay. |
K | Chartreuse | He likes to kick his football. He is the older brother to C. |
L | Lilac-pink | She loves to sing songs with her L sound. She sings a special lullaby to help the others get to sleep. |
M | White with blue feet | He is designed as a chef and likes to eat things (even stuff that is not food) which makes him quite greedy which can irritate the other Alphablocks. |
N | Red | He is quite stubborn and negative. He says 'No' even when the answer is yes. In "Ants", A, P, T, and S were blaming him for nothing, which made him very upset. And in "Little Red N" he faces his challenge when the dog, the cat, and the pig refused to help him make bread out of wheat. |
O | Orange | He can only make his short sound or his long sound but is smiling and happy. He likes to investigate lots of things with his magnifying glass.
He wears purple swimming costume. He appear "Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus and Mario Kart 7 He saw Joyce and Jane in Wuhu Island. He was speaking American voice actor. |
P | Bright green, blue and purple | She can appear and disappear by making a popping noise and it can scare the others when they are busy. She appears to be a pixie. She is very sweet and always helps her friends. |
Q | Green with violet hair | She is an old green woman who wants to be quite quarreling and is also in love with U which is who she also needs to make her "qu" or "q" sound, but he always runs away. |
R | Red | She looks like a pirate has a tomboy personality. |
S | Red, white, blue, orange, green, and yellow | She looks like a beach ball. She can inflate and deflate and fly about. |
T | Dark blue | He wears a monocle and has a white moustache. He really likes drinking tea. He says "t, t" when he is out of tea. He is one of the consonants who appears a lot. (In fact, he is the second most busy Alphablock in Alphaland) |
U | Light blue | He wears square glasses and is quite moody. He always runs away from Q (probably because she wants to be quite quarreling). He usually say words like "unfair" or "unbelievable."
He appear in "Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit, Wii Fit Plus and Mario Kart 7 He wants fly in he was scary. He wears green swimming costume. |
V | Red | He is designed as a racing driver who is very fast with his steering wheel and has feathers on his arms. His 'v-v' sound is his "VROOM" |
W | Navy blue | He cries when he gets hurt or when he is upset causing floods everywhere. His 'w-w-w' sound is wailing. |
X | Gold and blue | He is the superhero and has X-ray vision. He also becomes Plusman when his letter shape goes all wonky turning it into a plus sign by accident and he turns red with a different personality. He then has the power to make compound words - putting 2 little words together into 1 whole big word. In "Plusman" he shows how he became Plusman with his laser by rotating his X the same way his letter shape did and made the compound word 'lunchbox' |
Y | Yellow | He is the youngest Alphablock Y and the only consonant which can make a vowel sound semivowel (see Series 1 Episode 4). He perseveres even if he has trouble doing things. |
Z | Lime green | He is the oldest Alphablock with a walking stick (cane) and can sleep almost anywhere. |
Aired episodes
Series 1
Series 1 originally ran in the UK from January to February 2010.[2]
- Alphablocks (Pilot)
- Bee (E's song)
- Top
- Why
- Key
- Glow
- Sing
- Band
- Party
- Cha Cha Cha
- Race
- Moon
- Alphalympics
- Sail
- UFO
- Fox
- Surprise
- Bus
- Space
- Hide
- Quiet
- Map
- Jaybird
- Note
- Zzzzz
- Magic (Magic E's song)
The episode UFO has some short amusing reflections on Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Series 2
Series 2 originally ran in the UK from February to March 2012.[2]
- Taps
- In
- Man
- Din
- Dog
- Cat
- Pen
- Up
- Red
- Hen
- Bop
- Fred
- Hill
- Van
- Zap
- Dot
- Lips
- Web
- Box
- Quick
- Kick
- Wig
- Rainbow
- On
- ABC
- The Cat Sat on The Mat
Series 3
Series 3 originally aired from October 2012 - March 2013
- Wish
- Snowman
- Hat
- Little Red N
- Dots
- Frog on a Dog
- Best
- Fit
- Odd
- Champ
- Song
- Thing
- Train
- Beep
- Tightrope
- Toad
- Book
- Hey!
- Card
- The End
- How Now, Brown Cow?
- Fair
- Ants
- Ink
- Crash!
Series 4
Series 4 originally aired from October 2014
- Home
- Sleep
- Mine
- Alphabet
- Name
- Plusman
- Four
- Outlaw
- Clap
- Cowboy
- Birthday Girl
- Blue
- Prank
Voices
- Teresa Gallagher
- David Holt
- Lizzie Waterworth
Notes
References
- ↑ "Alphablocks". Blue Zoo Animation Studio.
- 1 2 "Alphablocks". tvdb.
- ↑ "Episodes from Alphablocks: Series 2 broadcast in 2012". BBC. 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012.