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| country = United Kingdom | country = United Kingdom
| language = English | language = English
| num_seasons = 4 | num_seasons = 5
| num_episodes = 94 | num_episodes = 97
| list_episodes = #Episodes | list_episodes = #Episodes
| executive_producer = Rebecca Shallcross<br />Joe Elliot | executive_producer = Rebecca Shallcross<br />Joe Elliot
| producer = Sioned Wyn Roberts | producer = Sioned Wyn Roberts
| editor = | editor =
| runtime = 3 minutes (series 1)<br />5 minutes (series 2–4) | runtime = 3 minutes (series 1)<br />5 minutes (series 2–5)
| company = Magic Lantern Productions (Season 1)<br>Alphablocks (later episodes) | company = Magic Lantern Productions (Season 1)
| distributor = | distributor =
| network = ] | network = ]
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| audio_format = | audio_format =
| first_run = | first_run =
| first_aired = {{start date|2010|1|25|df=y}} | first_aired = {{start date|2005|2|6|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|2013|7|19|df=y}} | last_aired =
| preceded_by = | preceded_by =
| followed_by = | followed_by =
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| A | A
| Light and dark ] || She likes to sing and help the other vowels. She has a plaster (]) on her cheek and ] keep falling on her head. In "Prank" she discovered a red ] nose and played jokes on all of the other Alphablocks. | Light and dark ] || She likes to sing and help the other vowels. She has a plaster (]) on her cheek and ] keep falling on her head. In "Prank" she discovered a red ] nose and played jokes on all of the other Alphablocks.
⚫ |-
| B
| ] and ] || She plays the ] and is D's younger sister.
|-
| C
| ] and ] with ] stars || The only letter who performs stunts. She wears goggles and makes cracks in the ground. She is K's sister. She often worries why she's even a letter because she makes the ].
|-
| D
| ] and ] || He is a proper ] shape and he plays the ]. He is B's older brother. His catchphrases include "Don't despair" and "Disaster!"
|- |-
| E | E
| ] || He is the busiest letter in the alphabet. His 'eh's echo from the ] he uses. He also becomes ] who is red with a ] and a black ] outfit to make the other vowels say their names. There is also Silent E. He has the same look as Magic E, but he does not wear 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 is the busiest letter in the alphabet. His 'eh's echo from the ] he uses. He also becomes ] who is red with a ] and a black ] outfit to make the other vowels say their names. There is also Silent E. He has the same look as Magic E, but he does not wear 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.
|-
| F
| ] and ] with orange visor || She is into floating and blowing. She is designed like an ] with a small life-support backpack. She can fly about in the air or in outer space. Her 'ffff' sound is used to represent the sound of a ] attached to her.
|-
| G
| ] || She looks like a plant with flowers on her sides and grassy hair. Sometimes she drinks water, and when that happens her hair grows.
|-
| H
| ] and ] || She likes to run, but she can get tired when running. Her 'h-h-h-h' sound is panting.
|- |-
| I | I
| ] || 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 (reflecting the use of 'I' to refer to oneself, or the first person). | ] || 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 (reflecting the use of 'I' to refer to oneself, or the first person).
|-
| J
| ] and ] with ] 'beak' || She looks like a ], but thinks she is a ]. She thinks she can sing and fly like a real jay.
|-
| K
| Yellow, with a green jersey and red pants || He likes to kick his ]. He is C's brother. Sometimes he fights with her because the ] makes the same sound as K.
|-
| L
| ]-] with ] <nowiki/>socks || She loves to sing songs with her 'luh-luh-luh' sound. She sings a special ] to help the others get to sleep.
|-
| M
| ] with ] feet || He is dressed up as a ] and likes to eat things (even things that are not food) which makes him quite greedy. This can annoy the other Alphablocks.
|-
| N
|| ] || He is quite stubborn and negative. He says "No" even if he means yes and speaks with a thick ]. In "Ants", A, P, T, and S were blaming him for nothing, which made him very upset. In "Little Red N" he faced a challenge when the dog, the cat, and the pig refused to help him make bread out of wheat. In "Band", he plays an N-shaped ].
|- |-
| O | O
| ] || He does not speak, only being able to make his "o" sound, but he likes to investigate lots of things with his ]. | ] || He does not speak, only being able to make his "o" sound, but he likes to investigate lots of things with his ].
|-
| P
| ], ] and ] with ] stars and ] pointed shoes || 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 ]. She is very sweet and loves to helps her friends.
|-
| Q
| ] with ] hair || She is an old green woman who dresses like a queen and wants to be quite quarrelling. She 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
| ] and ] || She looks like a ] <nowiki/>(reflecting the stereotypical "arrrrrr" pirate exclamation), and she has a tomboy personality. She has a habit of ] in her words, which also reflects 'typical' pirate speech and her letter sound.
|-
| S
| ], ], ], ], ], and ] || She resembles a ]. She can inflate and deflate and fly about. In "Clap" she became depressed when she questioned her status as a letter, because she makes the same sound as ].
|-
| T
|] || He wears a ] and has a white moustache. He really likes drinking ]. He says "t, t" when he is out of tea. He is one of the ] who appears a lot. (In fact, he is the second-busiest Alphablock in Alphaland.) He refers to his name as "Tea".
|- |-
| U | U
| ] with ] <nowiki/>shoes || He wears square glasses and is quite moody. He always runs away from Q (probably because she wants to be quite quarrelling). He usually says words like "unfair" or "unbelievable". | ] with ] shoes || He wears square glasses and is quite moody. He usually says words like unfair and unbelievable.
⚫ |
| Chloe
| ] || She is only one anthropomorphic vehicle that she grounds the vowels for 500 years and she likes to go to sleep.
|- |-
| V
| ] and ] || He is a racing driver who is very fast with his steering wheel and has feathers on his arms. His 'v-v-v' sound is his "vroom".
|-
| W
|] || He cries when he gets hurt or when he is upset, causing ]s everywhere. His 'w-w-w' sound is wailing. He refers to his name as his sound.
|-
| X
| ] and ] with ] socks and ] cape || He is a superhero called The Exciting X who has ] vision. In "Plusman", he became Plusman when he accidentally hit his head on the ceiling, causing his letter shape to go all wonky and turn into a plus sign, and he turned red with a different personality. He then had the power to make ] - putting two words together into one. In the same episode, he showed 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
| ] || He is the youngest Alphablock after O and the only consonant who can make a ] sound (see Series 1, Episode 4). He perseveres even if he has trouble doing things.
|-
| Z
|] with silver-white beard || He is the oldest Alphablock with a walking stick (cane) and can sleep almost anywhere (reflecting the "zzz" sound commonly used to represent the sound of sleeping or snoring in ]).
|} |}

==Other characters==
*Birthday Girl
*Cowboy
*Singing Cow
*Puppy
*Female Cat
*Rats
*Bats


==Episodes== ==Episodes==
===Series 1 === ===Series 1 ===
Series 1 originally ran in the UK from January to February 2010.<ref name=tvdb>{{cite web|url=http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=138481|title=Alphablocks|publisher=tvdb}}</ref> Series 1 originally ran in the UK from February 2005<ref name=tvdb>{{cite web|url=http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=138481|title=Alphablocks|publisher=tvdb}}</ref>
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| Jaybird | Jaybird
| Note | Note
| Zzzzz
| Magic (Magic E's song)
}} }}
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===Series 2 === ===Series 2 ===
Series 2 originally ran in the UK from February to March 2012.<ref name=tvdb/> Series 2 originally ran in the UK from February 2005.<ref name=tvdb/>
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# Taps # Taps
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# Zap # Zap
# Dot # Dot
# Lips (No Alphablocks sleeping at the end when after they delete this ending bit)
# Lips
# Web # Web
# Box # Box
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# On # On
# ABC # ABC
# The Cat Sat on The Mat
{{colend}} {{colend}}
<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cz0vd/episodes/2012 |title=Episodes from Alphablocks: Series 2 broadcast in 2012 |year=2012 |publisher=] |accessdate=10 April 2012}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cz0vd/episodes/2012 |title=Episodes from Alphablocks: Series 2 broadcast in 2012 |year=2012 |publisher=] |accessdate=10 April 2012}}</ref>
CBeebies and Alphablocks CBeebies and Magic Lantern

===Series 3=== ===Series 3===
Series 3 originally aired from October 2012 to March 2013 Series 3 originally aired from February 2005
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# Tightrope # Tightrope
# Toad # Toad
# Book (no Alphablocks sleeping at the end when after they delete this ending bit)
# Book
# Hey!
# Card # Card
# The End # The End
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# Crash! # Crash!
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CBeebies and Alphablocks CBeebies and Magic Lantern

===Series 4 === ===Series 4 ===
Series 4 began in the UK in June 2013 to July 2013<ref name=tvdb/> Series 4 began in the UK in February 2005<ref name=tvdb/>
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# Four # Four
# Clap # Clap
# Prank<ref group="note">(originally shown on 16 November 2012 as part of Children in Need 2012)</ref>
# Plusman # Plusman
# Alphabet # Alphabet
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# Cowboy # Cowboy
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Prank

== ''Numberblocks'' ==
In January 2017, '']'' 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.awn.com/news/blue-zoo-animation-s-numberblocks-launching-cbeebies|title=Blue Zoo Animation’s ‘Numberblocks’ Launching on CBeebies|newspaper=Animation World Network|language=en|access-date=2017-01-26}}</ref>


==Notes== ==Notes==
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* {{Official website|http://www.alphablocks.tv/}} * {{Official website|http://www.alphablocks.tv/}}


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2005 British TV series or programme
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 seasons5
No. of episodes97 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersRebecca Shallcross
Joe Elliot
ProducerSioned Wyn Roberts
Running time3 minutes (series 1)
5 minutes (series 2–5)
Production companyMagic Lantern Productions (Season 1)
Original release
NetworkCBeebies
Release6 February 2005 (2005-02-06)

Alphablocks is a British 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. 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.

Characters

Name Main Colour Information
A Light and dark green She likes to sing and help the other vowels. She has a plaster (Band-Aid) 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.
E Red He is the busiest letter in the alphabet. His 'eh's echo from the megaphone 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 does not wear 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.
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 (reflecting the use of 'I' to refer to oneself, or the first person).
O Orange He does not speak, only being able to make his "o" sound, but he likes to investigate lots of things with his magnifying glass.
U Light blue with blue shoes He wears square glasses and is quite moody. He usually says words like unfair and unbelievable. Chloe Red She is only one anthropomorphic vehicle that she grounds the vowels for 500 years and she likes to go to sleep.

Episodes

Series 1

Series 1 originally ran in the UK from February 2005

  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

CBeebies and Magic Lantern

Series 2

Series 2 originally ran in the UK from February 2005.

  1. Taps
  2. In
  3. Man
  4. Din
  5. Dog
  6. Cat
  7. Pen
  8. Up
  9. Red
  10. Hen
  11. Bop
  12. Fred
  13. Hill
  14. Van
  15. Zap
  16. Dot
  17. Lips (No Alphablocks sleeping at the end when after they delete this ending bit)
  18. Web
  19. Box
  20. Quick
  21. Kick
  22. Wig
  23. Rainbow
  24. On
  25. ABC

CBeebies and Magic Lantern

Series 3

Series 3 originally aired from February 2005

  1. Wish
  2. Snowman
  3. Win
  4. Hat
  5. Little Red N
  6. Dots
  7. Frog on a Dog
  8. Best
  9. Fit
  10. Odd
  11. Champ
  12. Song
  13. Thing
  14. Train
  15. Beep
  16. Tightrope
  17. Toad
  18. Book (no Alphablocks sleeping at the end when after they delete this ending bit)
  19. Card
  20. The End
  21. How Now, Brown Cow?
  22. Fair
  23. Ants
  24. Ink
  25. Crash!

CBeebies and Magic Lantern

Series 4

Series 4 began in the UK in February 2005

  1. Four
  2. Clap
  3. Plusman
  4. Alphabet
  5. Name
  6. Sleep
  7. Mine
  8. Home
  9. Blue
  10. Outlaw
  11. Birthday Girl
  12. Cowboy

Prank

Notes

References

  1. "Alphablocks". Blue Zoo Animation Studio. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Alphablocks". tvdb.
  3. "Episodes from Alphablocks: Series 2 broadcast in 2012". BBC. 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012.

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