List of Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom episodes

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Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom is a British preschool animated television series.[1] The show was created by Neville Astley and Mark Baker, and produced by Astley Baker Davies and Entertainment One (the companies responsible for Peppa Pig).[2] The series first aired on 6 April 2009, and aired its last episode on 24 December 2013.

Series overview[]

SeriesEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
1526 April 2009 (2009-04-06)7 February 2011 (2011-02-07)
2522 July 2012 (2012-07-02)24 December 2013 (2013-12-24)

Episodes[]

Series 1 (2008–2011)[]

No.
overall
No. in
series
TitleOriginal air date
11"The Royal Fairy Picnic"6 April 2009 (2009-04-06)
Holly invites Ben and Gaston the Ladybird to the annual royal fairy picnic and King Thistle hopes that it won't be a repeat of last year's jelly flood.
22"Gaston the Ladybird"7 April 2009 (2009-04-07)
The team try to cheer up their friend Gaston by tidying his cave, but they don’t realize that he likes it the way it was.
33"Holly's Magic Wand"8 April 2009 (2009-04-08)
When Holly loses her magic wand, so Ben uses his elf skills to find it.
44"The Elf Farm"9 April 2009 (2009-04-09)
The team visits the elf farm to collect an egg for King Thistle's breakfast, but while they're in there, an enormous chicken escapes and runs amok.
55"Daisy and Poppy"10 April 2009 (2009-04-10)
Daisy and Poppy borrow Fleur's magic wand, escape from the castle and turn the whole kingdom into rabbits, frogs and birds.
66"Queen Thistle's Teapot"13 April 2009 (2009-04-13)
Holly accidentally smashes the Queen's new teapot, and Ben tries to help her repair it, but it doesn't work.
77"The Frog Prince"8 September 2009 (2009-09-08)
Holly accidentally turns Ben into a frog, and makes things worse trying to change him back. She turns Ben into a bird, and then a rabbit, before Nanny Plum comes and reverts the spell.
88"The King's Busy Day"9 September 2009 (2009-09-09)
Holly's father struggles to cope during a busy day, in which he has to launch a boat, judge a fruit and vegetable competition and make a speech at a dance festival.
99"Fun and Games"10 September 2009 (2009-09-10)
Ben and Holly play games whilst waiting for some cupcakes to be made.
1010"King Thistle Is Not Well"11 September 2009 (2009-09-11)
King Thistle gets a common cold, so Ben, Holly and Nanny Plum collect the ingredients for a magic potion to make him heal sooner.
1111"The Lost Egg"14 September 2009 (2009-09-14)
The friends try to reunite a chick with its mother.
1212"The Elf Games"15 September 2009 (2009-09-15)
Ben is in training for the elf games. Holly wants to join in, but the rules state there's no flying or magic allowed. In the end, she's able to join in the last activity in the elf games.
1313"Nanny Plum's Lesson"16 September 2009 (2009-09-16)
Nanny Plum teaches the girls some important fairy rules. However, when Nanny Plum is accidentally blown everything by a strong wind, Ben, Holly, Violet, Strawberry and Gaston must come to her rescue.
1414"The Elf Factory"17 September 2009 (2009-09-17)
It's almost Christmas and the elves are busy making toys. When there is a problem with the toys, a little bit of magic is needed to save the day.
1515"Mrs Witch"18 September 2009 (2009-09-18)
Nanny Plum takes Ben and Holly to visit a witch in the forest. When Nanny becomes rude to the witch, she gets frozen by magic. Will King Thistle save the day?
1616"Elf Joke Day"21 September 2009 (2009-09-21)
It's "Elf Joke Day" and Holly, Ben and the Wise Old Elf play a trick on Nanny Plum. However, she doesn't see the funny side, and gets her revenge by turning the Wise Old Elf into a snail, but it backfires when Holly reminds Nanny something she actually once told Holly, "Never use magic in anger".
1717"King Thistle's New Clothes"22 September 2009 (2009-09-22)
King and Queen Marigold are coming to visit, but Nanny accidentally shrinks all the King's clothes, burns them to ash - and has to magic some more using vegetables from the kitchen. But the magic wears off - as soon as the Marigolds show up.
1818"Elf School"23 September 2009 (2009-09-23)
The Wise Old Elf tells Holly and Nanny Plum that no magic should be used at Elf school. Holly finds it difficult to get by until Nanny uses magic to help her. But trouble ensues.
1919"The Royal Golf Course"23 June 2009 (2009-06-23)
A mole disturbs King Thistle's golf course, so a gnome is enlisted to help drive it away. Soon the gnome is ordering the elves around, turning the golf course into a crazy golf course!
2020"Morning, Noon and Night"23 June 2010 (2010-06-23)
The Wise Old Elf teaches the children how to tell the time, and takes Ben and Holly to see the big clock at the top of the Elf Tree.
2121"Gaston's Visit"23 June 2010 (2010-06-23)
Gaston catches a cold, so King Thistle invites him to stay at the castle while his old home is being repaired to due a leak in the roof.
2222"A Trip to the Seaside"23 June 2010 (2010-06-23)
On a family trip to the seaside, the duo get trapped by the tide.
2323"Ben's Birthday Card"24 June 2010 (2010-06-24)
Holly forgets Ben's birthday and rushes home to make him a birthday card. After a disaster in the kitchen, Nanny has stopped all magic for one day, so Holly has to make the card herself.
2424"Books"24 June 2010 (2010-06-24)
The duo visit the Wise Old Elf in The Great Elf Library to find out where stars go in the daytime.
2525"Betty Caterpillar"26 September 2010 (2010-09-26)
The duo befriend a caterpillar called Betty, who wishes she could fly, and King Thistle advises them to fatten her up. They soon get a big surprise the next day!
2626"Queen Holly"27 September 2010 (2010-09-27)
Holly is left in charge of the Little Kingdom while her parents are away. However, though, it isn't as easy as it looks, especially when she tries to give people ice cream - it makes ice cream non-stop to the point it causes a flood.
2727"Tooth Fairy"25 June 2010 (2010-06-25)
The duo discover that Nanny Plum is a tooth fairy by night, and head out on the job with her, but they receive a shock when they catch sight of the little girl they are visiting.
2828"The Elf Windmill"25 June 2010 (2010-06-25)
Mr Elf demonstrates, with the help of the Wise Old Elf, why it takes so long to make flour, but Nanny Plum refuses to wait, and uses magic to speed up the elf windmill.
2929"The Elf Band"25 June 2010 (2010-06-25)
Holly and her parents try to impress the snobby King and Queen Marigold with help from the elf band.
3030"The Ant Hill"25 June 2010 (2010-06-25)
Things start to go missing all over the kingdom, and Ben and Holly realize that ants are stealing their possessions.
3131"Redbeard the Elf Pirate"26 June 2010 (2010-06-26)
Barnaby Elf's uncle Redbeard has lost all his treasure, prompting Holly and Ben to follow the clues in an effort to track it down.
3232"Tadpoles"26 June 2010 (2010-06-26)
Holly takes frogspawn home to look after, but is shocked the following morning to discover it has turned into tadpoles.
3333"Cows"26 June 2010 (2010-06-26)
The children visit the Big Farm to find out where milk comes from.
3434"Queen Thistle's Day Off"26 June 2010 (2010-06-26)
Queen Thistle decides to take a day off, so Holly, Ben, Nanny and the King have to look after the naughty twins, Daisy and Poppy for the day. But even all the elves in the Little Kingdom can't help them keep the twins out of trouble.
3535"Nature Class"18 June 2010 (2010-06-18)
Nanny Plum and The Wise Old Elf take the children for a lesson in the woods about Nature.
3636"The Toy Robot"18 June 2010 (2010-06-18)
The friends fix a broken toy robot, but it begins to act very strange due to the magic clockwork key Holly puts in it!
3737"Big Bad Barry"5 July 2010 (2010-07-05)
King Thistle goes fishing with Mr Elf, Ben and Holly, and decides they should catch the meanest fish ever - Big Bad Barry - for their supper.
3838"King Thistle's Birthday"5 July 2010 (2010-07-05)
It's against the law, no confusion can reign in the Little Kingdom when King Thistle declares no one celebrates his birthday, because he doesn't like to get older afterwards. So it’s up to Ben, Holly, Nanny Plum & Queen Thistle to trick King Thistle into having a party without even mentioning that it was a birthday party.
3939"The Wand Factory"6 July 2010 (2010-07-06)
Holly breaks her wand and must go to the Wand Factory at the bottom of the Great Elf Tree to get it fixed.
4040"Camping Out"7 July 2010 (2010-07-07)
Holly goes on a camping trip with Ben and his parents, but the annoying Mr Gnome turns up.
4141"Dinner Party"4 September 2010 (2010-09-04)
The snooty King and Queen Marigold invite themselves to dinner at the castle, where they sample Nanny Plum's cooking. Nanny Plum has to cook special modern food; a thing she can't do on her own.
4242"The Woodpecker"4 September 2010 (2010-09-04)
King Thistle is confused when his magic bird-spotting book fails to identify a new creature that has made a nest in the castle. He names it the King Thistle Bird (It's later revealed to be a rat)
4343"Daisy and Poppy's Pet"25 January 2011 (2011-01-25)
Nanny Plum conjures up a hamster called Pippin for the twins, but the naughty new pet causes chaos in the castle. King Thistle orders Pippin to leave.
4444"The Elf Rocket"26 January 2011 (2011-01-26)
(Part 1 of the Ben and Holly's Trip to the Moon special) King Thistle instructs the elves to build a rocket that can fly to the moon. Once completed, King Thistle, Holly, Nanny Plum, Ben, Mr Elf and Gaston fly into outer space.
4545"Picnic on the Moon"27 January 2011 (2011-01-27)
(Part 2 of the Ben and Holly's Trip to the Moon special) Continuing from 'The Elf Rocket', King Thistle and the gang venture out of the rocket onto the moon and meet some friendly aliens, but quickly realise they do not have enough fuel to return home, so they use magic jelly.
4646"Lucy's Picnic"28 January 2011 (2011-01-28)
The elf and fairy children learn how the rubbish left after a picnic can be recycled into new toys, and Lucy has a look around the Little Kingdom.
4747"Acorn Day"31 January 2011 (2011-01-31)

A gang of squirrels appears at the Great Elf Tree determined to store acorns inside, but the Wise Old Elf has other ideas.

Note: It was windy and blowy at the beginning, as Strawberry catches an orange oak leaf.
4848"The Elf Submarine"1 February 2011 (2011-02-01)
Ben, Holly, Nanny Plum and Mr Elf set sail to retrieve Redbeard the Elf Pirate's sunken ship treasure with the Elf Submarine, but Big Bad Barry tries to stop them.
4949"Visiting the Marigolds"2 February 2011 (2011-02-02)
Everyone visits King and Queen Marigold's castle, which is not without a few little mishaps.
5050"The Party"3 February 2011 (2011-02-03)
Chaos ensues when Daisy and Poppy invite their friends to the castle for their birthday party.
5151"Snow"4 February 2011 (2011-02-04)
(Part 1 of the First Christmas Special) The youngsters help when Mr Elf forgot to deliver the last box of toys to Father Christmas.
5252"The North Pole"7 February 2011 (2011-02-07)
(Part 2 of the First Christmas Special) The elf plane makes an emergency crash landing en route to delivering the last batch of Christmas presents.

Series 2 (2012–2013)[]

No.
overall
No. in
series
TitleOriginal air date
531"Giants in the Meadow"2 July 2012 (2012-07-02)
Ben, Holly and all of the elves and fairies try to stop Lucy's dad from destroying the Little Kingdom to build a new field for cows.
542"Mrs Fig's Magic School"3 July 2012 (2012-07-03)
Holly is old enough to go to magic school, so along with Fleur, Strawberry, Violet, and Ben and the other young elves go too [despite protests from the Wise Old Elf]. But they discover the magic school is anything but fun, including the teacher, Mrs Fig.
553"Daisy and Poppy's Playgroup"4 July 2012 (2012-07-04)
Daisy and Poppy and their friends from 'The Party' go to playgroup, but after the disappearance of their old teacher, Mrs Fotheringill, Queen Thistle becomes the new teacher, but then they make her disappear so Mrs Elf has to look after the toddlers. But then, the whole playgroup gets sent right back in time to the time of the dinosaurs!
564"No Magic Day"5 July 2012 (2012-07-05)
It is the time of the year for the blue moon which gives no fairy magic for one day of the year - and also stops the Elf Factory's "The Great Elf Engine" from working - and the fuel is magic. (Nanny Plum knows that the Elves hate magic, so she asks The Wise Old Elf why The Great Elf Engine is fueled by magic. The Wise Old Elf says that magic "has a low carbon footprint and it never stops working ".)
575"Spies"6 July 2012 (2012-07-06)
Ben and Holly and their friends learn all about spying when both Nanny Plum and the Wise Old Elf compete to build a boat for King Thistle that would not be laughed at by snooty King and Queen Marigold at the boating carnival.
586"Hard Times"9 July 2012 (2012-07-09)
After a mishap involving a demonstration of the magic money chest and buttons, King Thistle tries to do a job to get a gold coin, with chaotic results.
597"Gaston Goes to School"10 July 2012 (2012-07-10)
Ben, Holly and King Thistle decide to send Gaston to Miss Jolly's pet school and he meets his friends there. But soon, Gaston learns how good it is to be himself.
608"Elf Rescue"11 July 2012 (2012-07-11)

Nanny Plum is very impressed when the Elf Rescue Service rescues her, Ben, Holly, Gaston and Redbeard from the lake, and ends up making false emergencies, much to the Wise Old Elf's anger and annoyance. But soon, both Nanny Plum and the Wise Old Elf get stuck in the mud, and need help from Children Rescue!

Note: This episode is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the 1960s marionette puppet series Thunderbirds.
619"Lucy's School"12 July 2012 (2012-07-12)
Nanny Plum, Gaston, Ben and Holly go with Lucy to her school on Nature Day, whilst trying to not be seen by her friends or her teacher, Miss Cookie. Imagine all the chaos that follows!
6210"Baby Dragon"13 July 2012 (2012-07-13)
Ben, Holly and their friends adopt a dragon and they name him Dave, and Gaston gets jealous. Later, Ben, Holly, Nanny Plum and Mr Elf take him back home to Dragonland.
6311"Dolly Plum"16 July 2012 (2012-07-16)
Daisy and Poppy turn Nanny Plum into a doll, and the Wise Old Elf copies it and in a matter of seconds, it becomes very popular, much to Nanny Plum's dismay.
6412"The Lost City"17 July 2012 (2012-07-17)
Ben, Holly, Nanny Plum, Gaston, and the Wise Old Elf set out on a mission to save Redbeard the Elf Pirate from 'The Lost City' (which is really a garden centre).
6513"The Shooting Star"18 July 2012 (2012-07-18)
Ben & Holly meet some of the friendly aliens from 'Picnic on the Moon', and a small green one called Zyros, who are on holiday when their flying saucer crashed.
6614"Nanny's Magic Test"19 July 2012 (2012-07-19)
Nanny's magic licence is out of date and she is forced to return to Mrs Fig's magic school in order to get a new one, but beforehand she must pass a test, set by the Wise Old Elf.
6715"Gaston To The Rescue"20 July 2012 (2012-07-20)
When Ben, Holly and their parents get trapped in a dwarf mine, Gaston comes to their rescue.
6816"Miss Cookie's Nature Trail"21 July 2012 (2012-07-21)
Miss Cookie organizes a nature trail for Lucy [the little girl that Ben and Holly know] and her class, but it goes right through the Little Kingdom! So it's up to Ben and Holly to stop Lucy's class and her teacher finding out about the elves and fairies!
6917"The New Wand"22 July 2012 (2012-07-22)
Holly's wand catches a cold, and she gets a new replacement wand from the Wise Old Elf, called the WiseWand 3000 and she's thrilled - until she discovers its special feature: it doesn't do any magic at all!
7018"Superheroes"23 July 2012 (2012-07-23)
In a homage to the 60s Batman series, Ben, Holly and their friends play a game where they become superheroes and supervillains. But Strawberry takes her supervillain role (The Strawberry Ice Queen) a little too far.
7119"Mrs Witch's Spring Clean"24 July 2012 (2012-07-24)
Ben, Holly and Nanny Plum help Mrs Witch with a big spring clean by getting rid of some magical objects, but in the wrong hands, they cause chaos in the Little Kingdom.
7220"The Fruit Harvest"25 July 2012 (2012-07-25)
Rosie, Ben and Holly help out on the day of the fruit harvest, but Mr. Gnome is eating all the fruit. The elves and fairies find various ways to stop Mr. Gnome from eating the blackberries.
7321"Uncle Gaston"26 July 2012 (2012-07-26)
Gaston's brother Tony and his family come to visit, and Ben, Holly and Strawberry help him look after Tony's kids, Amber, Emerald and Keith.
7422"Plumbing"27 July 2012 (2012-07-27)
King Thistle decides on home improvement to impress the snooty King and Queen Marigold, but things don't quite go according to plan.
7523"Big Ben and Holly"28 July 2012 (2012-07-28)
Thanks to a spell gone wrong, Ben and Holly accidentally become human sized, and they want to stay big forever! But they soon discover that being big isn't all it's cracked up to be.
7624"Daisy and Poppy Go Bananas"29 July 2012 (2012-07-29)
Madness, irreversible damage, and devastation is caused in the Little Kingdom when Daisy and Poppy use King Thistle's mother's wand to learn how to do magic, escape the castle, and eventually wreak havoc on everything along their perilous path.
7725"Mr Elf Takes A Holiday"30 July 2012 (2012-07-30)
King Thistle sentences Mr Elf to take a holiday. Mr Elf isn't very pleased, but Mrs Elf and Ben are overjoyed. They go on holiday, but the plane breaks down and they crash-land on a deserted island. Meanwhile, Nanny Plum takes over Mr Elf's deliveries.
7826"Honey Bees"31 July 2012 (2012-07-31)
Ben and Holly go to the beehive to learn how honey is made. The Wise Old Elf is the bee keeper and proceeds to show the children his own special way of collecting honey.
7927"Lucy's Sleepover"1 August 2012 (2012-08-01)
Holly shrinks Lucy (and her dog Rex) so they can play in the Little Kingdom.
8028"Miss Jolly's Riding Club"2 August 2012 (2012-08-02)

Ben and Holly and their friends learn how to take care of snails at Miss Jolly's riding club.

Note: This is Miss Jolly's second appearance.
8129"Springtime"3 August 2012 (2012-08-03)
Spring is in the air in the Little Kingdom, which has daffodils, tulips, and 2 very hungry gnomes.
8230"Pirate Treasure"4 August 2012 (2012-08-04)
Ben, Holly, Captain Redbeard and Nanny Plum go on a treasure hunt with Captain Squid's treasure map, and the treasure is in the most oddest place: Lucy's school.
8331"Gaston Goes To The Vet"5 August 2012 (2012-08-05)
Ben goes on holiday with his parents, but the holiday is thrown off track when Gaston accidentally swallows the car keys and needs to eject them before they damage their organism.
8432"Granny and Granpapa"6 August 2012 (2012-08-06)
Holly and her family, Ben, and the Wise Old Elf are invited to a party at Granpapa and Granny Thistle's castle in the clouds.
8533"The Dwarf Mine"7 August 2012 (2012-08-07)
Ben and Holly discover holes popping up all over the Little Kingdom. They find out that the dwarves have woken up, and are working in the mine, digging for treasure. So all the dwarves must be stopped.
8634"Lucy's Elf and Fairy Party"8 August 2012 (2012-08-08)
Ben and Holly and their friends are invited to Lucy's elf and fairy-themed birthday party.
8735"Planet Bong part 1"9 August 2012 (2012-08-09)
(Part 1 of the Ben and Holly go to Planet Bong special) Zyros [from The Shooting Star] contacts Ben and Holly, and asks for the Wise Old Elf's help to save their planet.
8836"Planet Bong part 2"10 August 2012 (2012-08-10)
(Part 2 of the Ben and Holly go to Planet Bong special) Ben and Holly and their friends go to Zyros' home planet, where they meet all manner of alien creatures, and The Great Leader.
8937"The Queen Bakes Cakes"11 August 2012 (2012-08-11)
A cake sale is held to raise money to fix Mrs Fig's magic school after an apple crushes it. However, Queen Thistle is baking, and nobody can eat her cakes.
9038"The Witch Competition"12 August 2012 (2012-08-12)
Mrs Witch must come out of retirement when a young witch called Wendy Witch wants to live in her house.
9139"Journey to the Centre of the Earth"13 August 2012 (2012-08-13)
Daisy and Poppy’s misbehavior goes haywire when they teleport their teacher, Mrs Fotheringill, to the centre of the Earth, so Granpapa Thistle leads Ben, Holly and her family to the centre of the earth on a treacherous rescue mission.
9240"Redbeard's Rainbow"14 August 2013 (2013-08-14)
Captain Redbeard is determined to find the treasure at the end of the rainbow.
9341"Fox Cubs"15 August 2013 (2013-08-15)
Ben and Holly go on a scout group called the Fox Cubs, but after criticizing Mr Elf's survival skills, Nanny Plum magics them all to the top of Mount Everest! And with no way to magic themselves off, how will they get home?
9442"Nanny Plum And The Wise Old Elf Swap Jobs For One Whole Day"16 August 2013 (2013-08-16)
Nanny Plum and the Wise Old Elf argue over who does the most work, so they decide to swap jobs for one whole day.
9543"The Very Important Person"17 August 2013 (2013-08-17)
'King Leopold', a Very Important Person, is coming to the Little Kingdom, and everyone prepares a Royal Welcome for him. But King Leopold turns out to be an abnormally oversized gnome.
9644"Bunty II"18 August 2013 (2013-08-18)
Mr Elf sails his new boat 'Bunty II'. What could possibly be expected from this new boat?
9745"Father's Day"19 August 2013 (2013-08-19)
A Father's Day-themed episode of Ben and Holly.
9846"Gaston's Birthday"20 August 2013 (2013-08-20)
A continuity of ‘King Thistle’s Birthday’, after Ben and Holly realize that Gaston has one new spot, it means that it is his birthday. But he is sad because he never had a birthday party, so Ben and Holly, coinciding that King Thistle will also have a birthday party the next day, scrap it and prepare one for him.
9947"The Mermaid"21 August 2013 (2013-08-21)
Ben and Holly meet a mermaid, and with the help of Lucy and her dad, they return her lost magic mirror to her.
10048"Daisy and Poppy Go To The Museum"22 August 2013 (2013-08-22)
Daisy and Poppy again lose it at a public museum when their imagination causes a massive wave of abnormal things with disastrous proportions.
10149"Chickens Ride West"23 August 2013 (2013-08-23)
The elves give the King chickens so he can have eggs whenever he likes, which involves them in a wild west style chicken drive.
10250"Gaston Is Lost"24 August 2013 (2013-08-24)
Rosie, Barnaby, Strawberry, Ben and Holly must find Gaston, who is lost.
10351"Ben and Holly's Christmas part 1"24 December 2013 (2013-12-24)
(First Part of the Second Christmas Special) A disguised Father Christmas pays a surprise visit to The Little Kingdom to check on the Christmas preparations. The Elves are busy making all of the toys and Nanny Plum is in control of the crackers. Everything is going according to plan until King Thistle gets trapped in a cracker, Queen Thistle gets wrapped up as a present and the Wise Old Elf and the pine elves get stuck in a Christmas tree.
10452"Ben and Holly's Christmas part 2"24 December 2013 (2013-12-24)
(Second Part of the Second Christmas Special) Ben and Holly set out on a Christmas rescue mission to save the 3 trapped grown-ups from Part 1, but they all end up in Lucy's house for a Merry Christmas with Lucy and her family!

References[]

  1. ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. pp. 26–27. ISBN 9781476672939.
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