Alphablocks

Alphablocks is a British 3D CGI-animated children's educational television programme that is designed 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, many new adventures in Alphaland can be created. This is meant to help preschool children with learning the alphabet, spelling, reading and writing.

Alphablocks
GenreLearning
Pre-School
Written byMax Allen
Joe Elliot
Neil & Annabel Richards
Maurice Suckling
Voices ofTeresa Gallagher
David Holt
Lizzie Waterworth
ComposerBen Lee-Delisle
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes91 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersRebecca Shallcross
Joe Elliot
ProducerSioned Wyn Roberts
Running time3 minutes (series 1)
5 minutes (series 2-4)
Production companyAlphablocks Ltd.
Release
Original networkCBeebies
Original release25 January 2010 (2010-01-25) –
2 July 2013 (2013-07-02)
Chronology
Followed byNumberblocks
External links
Website
Production website

Episodes

Series 1 (2010)

Volume 1 originally ran in the UK from January to February 2010.[2]

  1. Alphablocks (Letter sounds)
  2. Bee (Letter E)
  3. Top (Vowels, B_G)
  4. Why (Letter Y)
  5. Key (Letters C and K)
  6. Glow
  7. Sing (B_ND)
  8. Band (AB word family)
  9. Party (Letters S and X)
  10. Cha Cha Cha (Digraphs CH, SH and TH)
  11. Race (Spelling words with the 26 letters)
  12. Moon (Digraph OO)
  13. Alphalympics (Spelling words with certain letters)
  14. Sail (Digraph AI)
  15. UFO (R-controlled vowels)
  16. Fox (Pangram: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog)
  17. Surprise (Vowel A)
  18. Bus (Short Vowels O and U)
  19. Space (Long Vowels A and E)
  20. Hide (Long Vowels I and E)
  21. Quiet (Letter Q)
  22. Map (Letter R)
  23. Jaybird (Letter J)
  24. Note (Vowels E and O)
  25. Zzzzz (Letter Z and digraph ZZ)
  26. Magic-E (Magic E-controlled Long Vowels)

Series 2 (2012)

Volume 2 originally ran in the UK from February to March 2012.[2]

  1. Taps (Short Vowel A)
  2. In (Short Vowel I)
  3. Man (Letter M)
  4. Din (Letter D)
  5. Dog (Letter G)
  6. Cat (CVC words with A)
  7. Pen (CVC words with E)
  8. Up (CVC words with U)
  9. Red (Letter R)
  10. Hen (Letter H)
  11. Bop (Letter B)
  12. Fred (Letter F)
  13. Hill (Digraphs SS, LL and FF)
  14. Van (Letters J and V)
  15. Zap (Letters Y and Z)
  16. Dot (CVC words with O)
  17. Lips (vowels)
  18. Box (Various words and ED word family)
  19. Web (Letters W and X)
  20. Quick (Letter Q)
  21. Kick (Letters C and K)
  22. Wig (IG word family)
  23. Rainbow (OG word family)
  24. On (Letter sounds)
  25. ABC (The Alphabet Song)
  26. The Cat Sat on the Mat (AT word family)

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Series 3 (2012)

Volume 3 originally aired from October 2012 to January 2013.[2]

  1. Wish (UG word family)
  2. Snowman (AN word family)
  3. Win (CVC words with all the vowels and IN word family)
  4. Hat (AP word family)
  5. Little Red N (CVC words with all the vowels)
  6. Dots (3 and 4 letter words)
  7. Frog on a Dog (_OG)
  8. Best (Blend ST)
  9. Fit (IT word family)
  10. Odd (Nonsense words)
  11. Champ (Digraphs CH and SH)
  12. Song (Digraph NG)
  13. Thing (Digraph TH)
  14. Beep (Digraph EE)
  15. Train (Digraph AI)
  16. Tightrope (Trigraph IGH)
  17. Toad (Digraph OA)
  18. Book (Digraph OO)
  19. Hey! (CVC words with A and O)
  20. Card (Digraph AR)
  21. The End (Digraphs OI, OR and UR)
  22. How Now Brown Cow (Digraph OW)
  23. Fair (Trigraphs AIR, EAR, URE and digraph ER)
  24. Ants (Short Vowel A)
  25. Ink (Short Vowel I)
  26. Crash (Onomatopoeia and Short Vowel A)

Series 4 (2013)

Volume 4 began in the UK in June to July 2013.[2]

  1. Four (Words with end-blends)
  2. Clap (Words with beginning-blends)
  3. Prank (Blend words)
  4. Plusman (Compound words)
  5. Alphabet (Digraphs PH and WH)
  6. Name (Long Vowel A)
  7. Sleep (Long Vowel E)
  8. Mine (Long Vowel I)
  9. Home (Long Vowel O)
  10. Blue (Long Vowel U)
  11. Outlaw (Digraphs AW and AU)
  12. Birthday Girl (Digraph IR)
  13. Cowboy (Digraphs OU, OW and OY)

Numberblocks

On 23 January 2017 Numberblocks debuted on CBeebies. This new show takes on a similar approach to Alphablocks, though with numbers instead of the letters of the alphabet. Like Alphablocks, It is also animated by Blue-Zoo.[4]

Note

    References
    1. "Alphablocks". Blue Zoo Animation Studio. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012.
    2. "Alphablocks". tvdb.
    3. "Episodes from Alphablocks: Series 2 broadcast in 2012". BBC. 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
    4. "Blue Zoo Animation's 'Numberblocks' Launching on CBeebies". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
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