The Numtums

The Numtums
Genre Toddlers, Pre-school
Created by Barry Quinn
Written by Katie Simmons
Directed by Steve Smith, Mark Taylor
Voices of Simon Greenall, Kate Fleetwood.
Opening theme Theme Tune
Country of origin United Kingdom
South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia (CGI Series only)(Series 1,2 and 3) France
Belgium (Season 4-)
Original language(s) English
Dutch
French
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 77 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Tony Reed
Producer(s) Lotte Elwell, Katherine McQueen
Running time 5 minutes (2012) 11 minutes (2014)
Production company(s) Beakus (series 1) A Productions (series 2)
Release
Original network CBeebies
Original release 27 February 2012 (2012-02-27) – 23 February 2015 (2015-02-23)
External links
Website

The Numtums is a children's television show about a group of ten small creatures called Numtums, each with a number from one to ten on their tummy.[1] BBC, ZDF, France Télévisions and TF1 aired in 2013-2015, and is designed as an interactive programme to help a young audience learn about numbers.

The first series was a simple introduction to numbers for toddlers, second and subsequent series are story-based and aimed at older children.

First series

The first series was animated by Beakus, a London animation studio set up in 2010 and run by the programme director Steve Smith. This series was aimed at toddlers.[2]

Second and later series

A second CG animated series was created for CBeebies by Bristol-based A Productions in 2014. This version was aimed at older children and is notable for giving the characters names and voices.

For the second series, producer Barry Quinn chose to use an Australian theme: the Numtums are based on numbats (hence the Numtums' fondness for eating termites), side characters include an echidna, Billy the Kidna, a lyrebird (Larry), a koala with plans for world domination (Fluffy McTuffy), a frilled lizard who is her assistant (Frilly Lizzy), and three small rubber ducks, Dennis, Finley and Trixie.[3] The Numtum characters' names are based on Australian place names.[2] Along with Super Numtum now getting his own show, while Gladdy, Flinders, Hobart and Nimbin are the four oldest numtums, Bendy Go, Dar Dar, Champer, Humpty Do, Little Sandy and Coogee are the six youngest Numtums, known as the Numpups. They hang out at a termite shaped café where they reward themselves with Termite Treats.

The Numtums' names and numbers are:

  1. Bendy Go
  2. Dar Dar
  3. Champer
  4. Gladdy
  5. Little Sandy
  6. Flinders
  7. Humpty Do
  8. Coogee
  9. Hobart
  10. Nimbin

Episodes

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Series 1 (2012)

NOTE: Episodes 21-25 are compilations with scenes from previous episodes.

# Episode Name Original Airdate
1 Number One 27 February 2012
2 Number Two 28 February 2012
3 Number Three 29 February 2012
4 Number Four 1 March 2012
5 Number Five 2 March 2012
6 Number Six 5 March 2012
7 Number Seven 6 March 2012
8 Number Eight 7 March 2012
9 Number Nine 8 March 2012
10 Number Ten 9 March 2012
11 More Number One 12 March 2012
12 More Number Two 13 March 2012
13 More Number Three 14 March 2012
14 More Number Four 15 March 2012
15 More Number Five 16 March 2012
16 More Number Six 19 March 2012
17 More Number Seven 20 March 2012
18 More Number Eight 21 March 2012
19 More Number Nine 22 March 2012
20 More Number Ten 23 March 2012
21 Animals 26 March 2012
22 Clothes 27 March 2012
23 Vehicles 28 March 2012
24 Food 29 March 2012
25 Games 30 March 2012

Series 2 (2014)

# Episode Name Original Airdate
26 Very Fast Food 3 February 2014
27 You Can Do It, Humpty Do! 4 February 2014
28 School Of Cool 5 February 2014
29 Numbot 6 February 2014
30 The Quest For The Hooded Paw 7 February 2014
31 Unstuck With A Stick 10 February 2014
32 Termite Takeaway 11 February 2014
33 Painting By Numtums 12 February 2014
34 Tum Tum Tap Tap 13 February 2014
35 Faster, Higher, Funnier 14 February 2014
36 Tent-o-saurus 21 February 2014
37 Hoedown Havoc 10 March 2014
38 Numpups Can't Fly 11 March 2014
39 Beak Of The Week 12 March 2014
40 Koala On The Loose 13 March 2014
41 Larry's Takeaway Trial 14 March 2014
42 Treasure Trail 17 March 2014
43 The Mysterious Land Beyond Ten 18 March 2014
44 Little Sandy's Rocket 19 March 2014
45 Don't Forget To Remember 20 March 2014
46 The Search For The Five Keys 21 March 2014
47 Cafe Chaos 24 March 2014
48 Billy And Champer's Big Adventure 25 March 2014
49 Humpty Do's Zoo 26 March 2014
50 Picture Perfect 27 March 2014
51 You've Missed Your Cue, Humpty Do 28 March 2014

Series 3 (2014)

# Episode Name Original Airdate
52 Feet Don't Fail Me Now 29 September 2014
53 Switcheroo 30 September 2014
54 Larry Gets the Hiccups 1 October 2014
55 Hunt for the Golden Treat 2 October 2014
56 Gladdy's Special Birthday 3 October 2014
57 Numpup Nursery 6 October 2014
58 Gladdy's Secret Recipe 7 October 2014
59 Larry and Billy's Dance Game 8 October 2014
60 Yo Ho Bendy Go 9 October 2014
61 Humpty Do, What about You? 10 October 2014
62 Has anyone seen Hobart 13 October 2014
63 Never Fear, Nimbin's Here! 14 October 2014
64 The Great Hobarto's Magic Act 15 October 2014
65 Finding Neddy 16 October 2014
66 Find Those Flamingos 17 October 2014
67 Running Like Clockwork 2 December 2014
68 Little Sandy's Big Bug Hunt 3 December 2014
69 The Great Numpup Rally 4 December 2014
70 Dar Dar's Not So Lucky Flower 5 December 2014
71 Hobart's Hand Bells 8 December 2014
72 The Drumtums 9 December 2014
73 Rules Are Rules 10 December 2014
74 Flinder's First Sunset 11 December 2014
75 Champer Loses His Bounce 12 December 2014
76 The Best Hobart Ever 15 December 2014
77 Flinders' Big Adventure 16 December 2014

References

  1. ↑ Beakus's quote on Vimeo
  2. 1 2 Bradley, Hazel (11 March 2014). "Numbats by numbers". The West Australian. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  3. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/cbeebiesgrownups/posts/The-Numtums-A-new-series
  4. ↑ Episode Guide

External links


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