Alphablocks

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Alphablocks
Alphablocks title card.png
Original title card
GenreLearning
Pre-School
Created byJoe Elliot
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 episodes95 (including specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersRebecca Shallcross
Joe Elliot
ProducerSioned Wyn Roberts
Running time3 minutes (series 1)
5 minutes (series 2-4)
10-20 minutes (special episodes)
Production companyAlphablocks Ltd
Release
Original networkCBeebies
Original release25 January 2010 (2010-01-25) –
present
Chronology
Followed byNumberblocks
External links
Website
Production website

Alphablocks is a British computer-animated children's television series that is designed to teach children 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.

About[]

Alphablocks is a CBeebies show that is related to Numberblocks, both of which are animated by Blue Zoo Productions.

Unlike Numberblocks, Alphablocks stars eponymous blocks with letters of the alphabet. When the Alphablocks hold hands to make a word, it magically appears.

Alphablocks' main episodes first went on air from January 25, 2010 to July 2, 2013, while the specials first aired from October 16, 2021 to October 30, 2021. You can still watch reruns on CBeebies.

Numberblocks[]

Main article: 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.[2]

List of episodes[]

Series 1 (2010)[]

  1. Alphablocks (letters and their sounds)
  2. Bee (letter E)
  3. Top (B_G)
  4. Why (Y as a vowel)
  5. Key (letters C and K)
  6. Glow (short vowels O and U; OW making the long O sound)
  7. Sing (B_ND)
  8. Band (AB word family)
  9. Party (letters S and X)
  10. Race (making words with the alphabet)
  11. Cha cha cha (introduction to digraphs)
  12. Moon (digraph OO)
  13. Alphalympics (anagramming)
  14. Sail (digraph AI)
  15. UFO (R-controlled vowels)
  16. Fox (pangrams)
  17. Surprise (vowel A)
  18. Bus (short vowels O and U)
  19. Space (long vowels A and E)
  20. Hide (long vowels E and I)
  21. Quiet (letter Q)
  22. Map (letter R)
  23. Jaybird (letter J)
  24. Note (S-ending plural words)
  25. Zzzzz (letter Z)
  26. Magic (long vowels with Magic E)

Series 2 (2012)[]

  1. Taps (short vowel A)
  2. In (short vowel I)
  3. Man (letter M)
  4. Din (short vowels A and I)
  5. Dog (short vowels I and O)
  6. Cat (short vowel A)
  7. Pen (short vowel E)
  8. Up (short vowel U)
  9. Red (letter R)
  10. Hen (letter H)
  11. Bop (letter B)
  12. Fred (letter F)
  13. Hill (double consonants LL, SS, and FF)
  14. Van (letters J and V)
  15. Zap (letters Y and Z)
  16. Dot (short vowel O)
  17. Lips (short vowels)
  18. Web (letters W and X)
  19. Box (ED word family)
  20. Quick (letter Q)
  21. Kick (letters C and K)
  22. Wig (IG word family)
  23. Rainbow (OG word family)
  24. On (letters and their sounds)
  25. ABC (the alphabet song)
  26. The Cat sat on the Mat (AT word family)

Series 3 (2012-2013)[]

  1. Wish (UG word family)
  2. Snowman (AN word family)
  3. Win (IN word family)
  4. Hat (AP word family)
  5. Little Red N
  6. Dots
  7. Frog on a Dog (short vowels I and O)
  8. Best (letter blend ST)
  9. Fit (IT word family)
  10. Odd (short vowel O; nonsense words)
  11. Champ (digraphs CH and SH)
  12. Song (digraph NG)
  13. Thing (digraph TH)
  14. Train (digraph AI)
  15. Beep (digraph EE)
  16. Tightrope (trigraph IGH)
  17. Toad (digraph OA)
  18. Book (digraph OO)
  19. Hey! (vowels A, I, O, and OO)
  20. Card (digraph AR)
  21. The End (digraphs OI, OR, and UR)
  22. How now brown cow (digraph OW)
  23. Fair (trigraphs AIR, URE, EAR, and digraph ER)
  24. Ants (introduction to letter blends)
  25. Ink (INK word family)
  26. Crash (short vowel A; onomatopoeic words)

Series 4 (2013)[]

  1. Four (words with ending blends)
  2. Clap (words with beginning blends)
  3. Prank (words with beginning and ending blends)
  4. Plusman (compound words)
  5. Alphabet (digraphs WH and PH)
  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/OO)
  11. Outlaw (words with AW and AU)
  12. Birthday Girl (digraph IR)
  13. Cowboy (digraphs OY and OU)

Special episodes (2021)[]

  1. Band Together (making words with letters appearing in alphabetical order)
  2. The Wonderful Wizard of Az (changing vowels in CVC words)
  3. Boo! (vowels A, O and OO)
  4. Letters to Santa (Christmas vocabulary)

Alphablocks: Word Magic[]

Alphablocks: Word Magic is a spin-off of Alphablocks.

Alphablocks: Word Magic is a series of 26 short episodes published all at the same time on BBC iPlayer in 2020, making the Alphablocks return after 7 years of no episodes, although these episodes tend to recap all of the letters from A-Z.

Each and every episode will begin with the letter doing something, with the narrator describing it. After that, three words will be spelled with that letter, and a little scene will play that has something to do with that word. After the words, the same Alphablock animation will play a second time. There are 26 episodes, one for each letter in the alphabet.

The episodes last for 1–3 minutes, making some of them the shortest Learningblocks episodes in history.

References[]

  1. ^ "Alphablocks". Blue Zoo Animation Studio. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012.
  2. ^ "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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