List of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids episodes
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Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids is a British animated series based on the generic trademarked book series of the same name by Jamie Rix. After the first four books were published from 1990 to 2001, Carlton Television adapted the short stories into ten-minute cartoons for ITV, produced by themselves, Honeycomb Productions, and Rix's production company, Elephant Productions, as well as Grizzly TV. It aired on CITV between January 2000 and October 2007 with six series and 78 episodes, as well as a New Year's Eve special that was over 20 minutes longer than other episodes. The series returned in a new format for NickToons UK with 26 episodes split into two series under the name Grizzly Tales (also known as Grizzly Tales: Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam!), which aired between May 2011 and November 2012.
Both versions of the series have been nominated for BAFTAs and the CITV series has received numerous international awards from animated film festivals. Both have been popular on their respective channels; the CITV series has often been re-aired on Nickelodeon with the Nicktoons series. The CITV cartoon was available for purchase on DVD in the UK and Northern Ireland, as well as Porchlight Entertainment in North America[1] and Time Life's Shock Records in Australia and New Zealand.[2] The Nickelodeon cartoon was later released on DVD through the same respective companies, however, it was released in the UK and Northern Ireland with Abbey Home Media.[3]
Series overview[]
The following dates included are borrowed from the TV Episode Calendar,[4][a] Newspapers.com, and the official Grizzly Tales/Honeycomb Productions website.[8][9]
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||||
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First aired | Last aired | Network | ||||
1 | 13 | 4 January 2000 | 27 March 2000[10] | CITV | ||
2 | 13 | 9 April 2001[11] | 27 April 2001[12] | |||
3 | 12 | 10 December 2002 | 4 March 2003[13] | |||
4 | 14 | 2 April 2004 | 21 May 2004[14] | |||
"The Crystal Eye" | 31 December 2004[14] | |||||
5 | 13 | 27 March 2006 | 12 April 2006[15] | |||
6 | 13 | 18 September 2007 | 19 October 2007[16] |
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||||
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First aired | Last aired | Network | ||||
1 | 13 | 2 May 2011 | 10 May 2011[17] | NickToons UK | ||
2 | 13 | 5 September 2011 | 2 November 2012[18] |
Series 1 (2000)[]
All episodes were produced in 1998 and 1999.[19]
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Story title | Book origin | Changes | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "The New Nanny" | The New Nanny | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | TBA | 4 January 2000[20] | |
Mrs. Frightfully-Busy telephones an animal nanny agency to hire a nanny to look after her secretly-scheming children, Tristram and Candy. | |||||||
2 | 2 | "The Spaghetti Man" | The Spaghetti Man | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | Some of Timothy's vandalism when he is home alone are not included in the episode Timothy does not react to the Spaghetti Man's first attack and continues behaving badly. | 11 January 2000 | |
Timothy King throws violent tantrums at mealtimes and is visited by an invisible, flour-smelling force with uncooked spaghetti fingers. | |||||||
3 | 3 | "Grandmother's Footsteps" | Grandmother's Footsteps | Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids | TBA | 18 January 2000 | |
Joleyon is terrified when he spots a shadow outside his bedroom window. His grandmother decides to calm him down with a story, which suspiciously relates to current events. | |||||||
4 | 4 | "Death By Chocolate" | Death By Chocolate | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | The chocolate company's boardroom scene is not included. It would have occurred after the fly laid its eggs into one of the chocolate eggs. | 24 January 2000 | |
Serena Slurp is a chocoholic who blackmails her little sister into becoming her slave when she catches her sibling accidentally breaking their mother's fly swatter. | |||||||
5 | 5 | "The Wooden Hill" | The Wooden Hill | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | TBA | 31 January 2000 | |
Irritated with her son's restless behavior, Jack's mother agrees to read him a story, but the book is in a room at the top of the stairs in the dark corridor. | |||||||
6 | 6 | "A Tangled Web" | A Tangled Web | Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids | TBA | 7 February 2000 | |
Nigel abuses spiders, but one pregnant spider he murders is avenged by the ghosts of her babies. | |||||||
7 | 7 | "The Princess's Clothes" | The Princess's Clothes | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | TBA | 14 February 2000 | |
Felicity is a child spoiled by her father and is forced to wear "horrible" clothes that her mother has bought from a travelling saleslady. | |||||||
8 | 8 | "Burgerskip" | Burgers | Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids | Oswald O'Berger is a cowboy rather than a clown. Oswald's name has been changed from Seamus O'Burger. | 21 February 2000 | |
Oswald "The Happy Cowboy" O'Berger, the CEO of the successful fast food chain Burgerskip, wants to expand his business by bulldozing the Amazon rainforest, but a representative of an Amazonian tribe begs him to reconsider because of a tree shrine located in the bulldozing path. | |||||||
9 | 9 | "The Barber of Civil" | The Barber of Civil | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | Tanya's full name is not included (i.e. Tanya Wilson) The Barber does not lick a haircut utensil | 28 February 2000 | |
Tanya and Peregrine are the rudest children in their school, which attracts the attention of a popular local barber. | |||||||
10 | 10 | "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping" | The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | Aunt Fanny, Uncle Herbert, Sam's mother, Ginger and Alice's mother, and Dick Stick's mother do not appear in the episode Stinker is made lame instead of killed by the gunshot | 6 March 2000 | |
Best friends Algy and Col visit Algy's extended family in Kent with Algy's pet dog, Stinker, in search of a summer adventure. They go on a picnic with three of the neighborhood kids (Ginger and sister Alice, and Sam) and agree to scrump from a nearby apple orchard, owned by a shotgun-wielding, cider-making farmer. | |||||||
11 | 11 | "The History Lesson" | A Lesson From History | Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids | Title change | 13 March 2000 | |
Elizabeth McGregor panics during a history exam because she had no desire to prepare for it. The ghost of a schoolgirl approaches her to keep her company. | |||||||
12 | 12 | "Sweets" | Sweets | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | TBA | 20 March 2000 | |
Thomas Ratchet embarrasses his mother when he misbehaves in supermarkets. After being banned from yet another supermarket, Thomas runs away until he stops by an old-fashioned sweet shop. | |||||||
13 | 13 | "Dr. Moribundus" | Doctor Moribundus | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | The doctor's operation is not shown onscreen | 27 March 2000 | |
Lorelei Lee pretends to be ill every week of the school term until an emergency doctor recommends Dr. Moribundus. |
Series 2 (2001)[]
All episodes were produced in 1998 and 1999.[19]
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Story title | Book origin | Changes | Original air date | |
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14 | 1 | "Jack in a Box" | Jack in a Box | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | TBA | 9 April 2001[11] | |
The Honourable Jack Delaunay de Havilland De Trop annoys his parents because he constantly interrupts other people's private conversations. | |||||||
15 | 2 | "Glued to the Telly" | Glued to the Telly | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | TBA | 10 April 2001[11] | |
Herbert Hinckley is a television addict who gets stuck inside his television and must find a way out otherwise he will turn into a crisp. | |||||||
16 | 3 | "Cat Burgler[b]" | The Cat Burglar | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | Fedora does not go to school in this episode. The original story featured her conwoman antics at school. Tiddles is not hit by a car. Her corpse lands in front of Fedora instead. | 11 April 2001[11][21] | |
Successful con artist Fedora Funklefink spots a poster for a missing cat and tries any scam she can think of to get the £10 reward. | |||||||
17 | 4 | "Mr. Peeler's Butterflies" | Mr. Peeler's Butterflies | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | Alexander's father threatens that Mr Peeler will appear. | 12 April 2001[11][22] | |
Alexander hates going to bed and torments his parents so that he can grab a few extra seconds but a magical old man will take him on that offer. | |||||||
18 | 5 | "An Elephant Never Forgets" | An Elephant Never Forgets | Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids | TBA | 17 April 2001[23] | |
Belinda and Percy Crumpdump wanted an elephant so their father had one trophy-hunted and brought back the foot of one instead. | |||||||
19 | 6 | "The Childhood Snatcher" | The Childhood Snatcher | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | The Childhood Snatcher was male in the original story and was not a witch nor a wizard | 18 April 2001[23] | |
Amos Stirling wants to become famous so when his daughter is born, he prepares her for fame. However, this secretly attracts a witch who visits Amos' daughter the night before her birthday. | |||||||
20 | 7 | "The Giant Who Grew Too Big For His Boots" | The Giant Who Grew Too Big For His Boots | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | TBA | 19 April 2001[23] | |
Huge Hugh the giant wakes up and find himself constantly growing. | |||||||
21 | 8 | "Prince Noman" | Prince Noman | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | TBA | 20 April 2001[23] | |
A newborn prince starts to turn invisible after his father, the king, misreads his chosen name at the naming ceremony. | |||||||
22 | 9 | "Tag" | Tag | Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids | The school P.E. kit belonged to Jim Spectre, instead of A. Phantom | 23 April 2001[12] | |
Terry Blotch envies a schoolmate's popularity, which turns him into a kleptomaniac. | |||||||
23 | 10 | "The Litter Bug" | The Litter Bug | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | TBA | 24 April 2001[12] | |
Bunty Porker becomes the UK's public enemy because her littering is causing a state of emergency. | |||||||
24 | 11 | "Fat Boy with a Trumpet" | Fat Boy with a Trumpet | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | TBA | 25 April 2001[12] | |
School bully Johnny Bullneck has a new target: an overweight, bespectacled boy with a trumpet case. | |||||||
25 | 12 | "The Broken Down Cottage" | The Broken Down Cottage | Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids | TBA | 26 April 2001[12] | |
Augustus Flich ran away from home and moves into a cottage with a boy named Arthur in the middle of a creepy countryside. Due to boredom, they decide to prank call the emergency services. | |||||||
26 | 13 | "Well'ard Willard" | Well'ard Willard | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | Willard melted completely instead of the skin shedding. | 27 April 2001[12] | |
In order to impress his "fans", Willard claims that he stole the sun and has it hidden at home, but a girl in the audience dares him to prove it. |
Series 3 (2002)[]
Despite the second half being aired in 2003, all episodes were produced in 2002.
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Story title | Book origin | Changes | Original air date | |
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27 | 1 | "The Upset Stomach" | The Upset Stomach | More Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | Ethel is not rescued by an overeating accident | 1 July 2002[24] | |
A gluttonous girl asks for another stomach to continue eating, but when she mistreats it, it plots its revenge. | |||||||
28 | 2 | "Knock Down Ginger" | Knock Down Ginger | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | Milo's sister Eliza (nicknamed "Lizzy the Lizard", because of her lisp) does not appear, implying that Milo is an only child. Ginger's character model looks nothing like the character's description in the story (e.g. tall and overweight). Mr Thripps is never referred to as a retired entomologist. | 22 July 2002[25] | |
The residents of Nimby resent the eldest resident, Mr. Thripps, because of his unattractive garden full of insects. His neighbor, Ginger Pie, and his friend Milo decide to scare him out of town through malicious pranks, including Knock Down Ginger. | |||||||
29 | 3 | "The Locked Door" | The Locked Door | Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids | The daughter's name is changed from Rosie to Ishmael . | 20 December 2002[26] | |
A deaf couple from New Zealand buy a house with a haunted room. It attracts their young daughter, who is the only one that can hear the room's strange noises. | |||||||
30 | 4 | "Simon Sulk" | Simon Sulk | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | TBA | 23 December 2002[27] | |
A moody boy barricades himself in his room to avoid moving, unaware of Icelandic trolls out to get him. | |||||||
31 | 5 | "The Urban Fox" | The Urban Fox | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | The children of the fox hunting couple did not exist in the original story. Their "parents" were the original antagonists. There is no mention of the property damage bill that the council sent to the hunting couple after they left in disgrace. | 24 December 2002[27] | |
An upper-middle-class family move in to a council estate and their children confront the new neighbors when they spot a fox in their garden. It is actually the neighbors' pet but the children insist that they should surrender the fox but when the neighbors refuse, the children decide to hunt it down. | |||||||
32 | 6 | "When the Bed Bugs Bite" | When the Bed Bugs Bite | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 26 December 2002[27] | |
A boy's biting habit brings him to an early demise. | |||||||
33 | 7 | "Spoilsport" | Spoilsport | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 30 December 2002[28] | |
The Tooth Fairy exacts her revenge on a girl who insists on telling lies and ruining the magic around her younger brother. | |||||||
34 | 8 | "The Pie Man" | The Pie Man | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 30 December 2002[28] | |
A youngster learns the hard way that constant thumb-sucking is not only a quick way to lose friends, but a shortcut to disaster. | |||||||
35 | 9 | "Head in the Clouds" | Head In the Clouds | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 31 December 2002[28] | |
An inattentive boy spends all his time daydreaming until a day when he (literally) loses his head. | |||||||
36 | 10 | "Dirty Bertie" | Dirty Bertie | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 31 December 2002[28] | |
Bertie refuses to be clean and presentable. After his parents fail numerous times to make him turn his unhygenic life around, an alien crash-lands in the garden. | |||||||
37 | 11 | "Crocodile Tears" | Crocodile Tears | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 7 January 2003[29] | |
A girl who uses tears to get her way attracts the attention of an angry crocodile. | |||||||
38 | 12 | "Little Fingers" | Little Fingers | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | TBA | 14 January 2003[30] | |
A boy who is never able to keep his fingers to himself decides to order pizza from an Italian restaurant he has never heard of. |
Series 4 (2004)[]
Despite being first aired in 2004, the original 14 episodes were produced in 2002.
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Story title | Book origin | Changes | Original air date | |
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39 | 1 | "Revenge of the Bogeyman" | Revenge of the Bogeyman | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 2 April 2004[31] | |
Dee enjoys picking her nose but her addiction pulls out The Bogeyman. | |||||||
40 | 2 | "It's Only a Game, Sport!" | It's Only a Game, Sport! | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 4 February 2004[32] | |
Bruce is a violent sore loser whose vengeful antics gets him expelled from school. | |||||||
41 | 3 | "The People Potter" | The People Potter | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 4 April 2004[33] | |
A clumsy and destructive girl is petrified solid. | |||||||
42 | 4 | "The Gas Man Cometh" | The Gas Man Cometh | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 16 April 2004 | |
A practical joker pays the price for making repeated hoax phone calls, and spends the rest of his days in space wishing he hadn't been such a gasbag. | |||||||
43 | 5 | "Bogman" | Bogman | Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids | TBA | 23 August 2005[34] | |
A lazy girl who prefers sitting on the toilet reading comics to helping with the washing-up is approached by the bog body of a violent Stone Age man looking for his killers. | |||||||
44 | 6 | "Bunny Boy" | Bunny Boy | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 17 August 2005[35] | |
A boy who won't eat his greens has a nasty accident involving a combine harvester and a rabbit. | |||||||
45 | 7 | "Bessy O'Messy" | Bessy O'Messy | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | TBA | 2004 | |
An untidy girl is taken by leprechauns to be their housekeeper. | |||||||
46 | 8 | "Goblin Mountain" | Goblin Mountain | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | TBA | 2004 | |
A boy with no respect for literature is buried alive by goblins intent on turning him into a tree, and then become a book. | |||||||
47 | 9 | "Superstitious Nonsense" | Superstitious Nonsense | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | Her Name Was Supposed To Be Pylon To Araminta | 2004 | |
A superstitious girl meets an untimely end in a way she could never have predicted. | |||||||
48 | 10 | "Athlete's Foot" | Athlete's Foot | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | TBA | 2004 | |
A pair of ordinary-seeming running shoes hide a sinister secret. | |||||||
49 | 11 | "The Stick Men" | The Stick Men | Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids | TBA | 2004 | |
A friendless youngster's drawings come to life and take him into their world, only to become a permanent resident when his unloving, uncaring, care more about work parents wipe the drawings away. | |||||||
50 | 12 | "The Grass Monkey" | The Grass Monkey | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 2004 | |
A poor boy falls in love with a girl who cares more for her hair than for him. | |||||||
51 | 13 | "The Top Hat" | The Top Hat | Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids | TBA | 2004 | |
A boy abuses the power of a magic hat, but is taught a lesson when the object swallows him and refuses to let him go. | |||||||
52 | 14 | "The Decomposition of Delia Dethabridge" | The Decomposition of Delia Dethabridge | More Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids | TBA | 2004 | |
A careless girl, who refuses to do school work by the thought that she's a genius, regrets leaving a story-book unread and unfinished when the characters come to life. | |||||||
53 | 15 | "A Grizzly New Year's Tale: The Crystal Eye" | The Crystal Eye | Blubbers and Sicksters | TBA | 2004 | |
A spoiled brat is given a chance to redeem himself and be good like his twin brother, only to have that chance crushed into little, tiny, bite-sized pieces. |
Series 5 (2006)[]
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Story title | Book origin | Changes | Original air date | |
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54 | 1 | "The Bugaboo Bear" | The Bugaboo Bear | TBA | 27 March 2006[36] | ||
A mistreated toy gets revenge on its owner. treat your toys nicely. | |||||||
55 | 2 | "The Butcher Boy" | The Butcher Boy | Terror Time Toys | TBA | 28 March 2006[37] | |
Money-hungry Gilbert uses bribed money to try and out-perform other pupils' success. | |||||||
56 | 3 | "The Fruit Bat" | The Fruit Bat | Nasty Little Beasts | TBA | 29 March 2006[38] | |
A girl who hates fruit gets a grim lesson in healthy eating. | |||||||
57 | 4 | "Monty's Python" | Monty's Python | Nasty Little Beasts | TBA | 30 March 2006[39] | |
Monty gets a python to terrorise his sister. | |||||||
58 | 5 | "The Grub A Blub Blub" | The Grub A Blub Blub | Nasty Little Beasts | TBA | 31 March 2006[40] | |
A girl who loves lazing around is forced to go on a family holiday to a summer camp where her lie-ins aren't tolerated, and something strange happens to her sleeping bag. | |||||||
59 | 6 | "Wolf Child" | Wolf Child | Nasty Little Beasts | TBA | 3 April 2006[41] | |
A boy acts like a baby to take attention away from his newborn sister, but attracts wolves who seek revenge over an ancestor of his centuries ago. | |||||||
60 | 7 | "The Weather Witch" | The Weather Witch | Freaks of Nature | TBA | 4 April 2006[42] | |
A cruel boy who picks on old people is turned into an ice sculpture. | |||||||
61 | 8 | "Kiss and Make Up" | Kiss and Make Up | TBA | 5 April 2006[43] | ||
A fairy uses enchanted vanishing cream to steal a youngster's face for herself, and give her an ugly one in return. | |||||||
62 | 9 | "William the Conkerer" | William the Conkerer | Freaks of Nature | TBA | 6 April 2006[44] | |
A boy who damages chestnut trees because he considers them unimportant is devoured by a large conker. | |||||||
63 | 10 | "Silence is Golden" | Silence is Golden | Gruesome Grown Ups | TBA | 7 April 2006[45] | |
A noisy girl who never uses her indoor voice is turned into a golden statue by two librarians. | |||||||
64 | 11 | "Her Majesty's Moley" | Her Majesty's Moley | TBA | 10 April 2006[46] | ||
A girl who turned a mole's paw into a keyring is cursed by the three-legged animal, sending her burrowing underground to escape it. | |||||||
65 | 12 | "Puppet on a String" | Puppet on a String | Terror Time Toys | TBA | 11 April 2006[47] | |
A willful would-be stage actor learns the folly of being uncooperative at home. | |||||||
66 | 13 | "The Soul Stealer" | The Soul Stealer | Gruesome Grown Ups | TBA | 12 April 2006[48] | |
A popular girl uses the camera in her new mobile phone to blackmail kids in her school and family members, but the angry father of one of her victims warns her of playing with photography. |
Series 6 (2007-2009)[]
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Story title | Book origin | Changes | Original air date | |
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67 | 1 | "Jamie's School Dinners" | Jamie's School Dinners | Gruesome Grown Ups | TBA | 18 September 2007 | |
A boy is excepted from his school's healthy eating policy and eats nothing but junk food given to him by the witch Ambrosine, who later turns him into chicken nuggets. | |||||||
68 | 2 | "Recyclops" | Recyclops | Freaks of Nature | TBA | 19 September 2007 | |
A selfish and wasteful girl who contributes nothing to the human race learns a grim lesson in recycling. | |||||||
69 | 3 | "The Clothes Pigs" | The Clothes Pigs | Nasty Little Beasts | TBA | 20 September 2007 | |
A slovenly boy is paid a visit by some very hungry piglets. | |||||||
70 | 4 | "Why Boys Make Better Burglars" | Why Boys Make Better Burglars | Terror Time Toys | TBA | 13 September 2006[49] | |
A family of burglars are excited when a boy is born. | |||||||
71 | 5 | "The Watermelon Babies" | The Watermelon Babies | Blubbers and Sicksters | TBA | 22 September 2007 | |
Two selfish sisters who are wasteful with water are turned into watermelons to quench their dehydrated classmates' thirst. | |||||||
72 | 6 | "eBoy" | eBoy | Terror Time Toys | TBA | 16 October 2007 | |
A computer addict is stripped of all his unnecessary body parts to live happily ever after in cyberspace, only for his luck to run out when the computer is attacked by a virus. | |||||||
73 | 7 | "Nobby's Nightmare" | Nobby's Nightmare | Gruesome Grown Ups | TBA | 16 October 2008 | |
Driven mad by his nudist parents, a youngster has trouble deciding what's real and what's not. | |||||||
74 | 8 | "The Dumb Klutzes" | The Dumb Klutzes | A Grizzly Dozen | TBA | 17 October 2008 | |
A con-man arrives at a town whose residents believe everything they are told, and promises them untold gifts, for doing tasks that end up in them being inescapably eaten by his cyclops father. | |||||||
75 | 9 | "The Lobster's Scream" | The Lobster's Scream | Nasty Little Beasts | TBA | 17 October 2008 | |
A selfish girl's desire to own a lobster suit lands her in hot water — in more ways than one. | |||||||
76 | 10 | "The Old Tailor of Pelting Moor" | The Old Tailor of Pelting Moor | Gruesome Grown Ups | TBA | 17 October 2006[50] | |
A fashion victim hears of a new suit and wants to buy it, but is in for a nasty surprise. | |||||||
77 | 11 | "Big Head" | Big Head | The "Me!" Monsters | TBA | 18 October 2009 | |
A football mascot is overly smug about being picked for the job. | |||||||
78 | 12 | "The Piranha Sisters" | The Piranha Sisters | Blubbers and Sicksters | TBA | 19 October 2009 | |
Dorothy May's pranks lead to her naive little sister getting suspended from school, but Dorothy May is not finished yet. | |||||||
79 | 13 | "Tom Time" | Tom Time | Freaks of Nature | TBA | 20 October 2009[51] | |
Tom's lack of punctuality is put to the test when the world is due to end the next day. |
Series 7 (2010)[]
all 13 episodes were produced in 2010.
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Story title | Book origin | Changes | Original air date | |
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80 | 1 | "Tinklebell" | Tinkerbell | The Naughty Gnomes of "NO!" | TBA | 2 May 2010 | |
A fussy eater is given a grim lesson by a mysterious fellow. | |||||||
81 | 2 | "Sick to Death" | Sick to Death | The Naughty Gnomes of "NO!" | TBA | 2 May 2010 | |
A girl who constantly vomits to get what she wants meets her match in a magic vacuum. | |||||||
82 | 3 | "The Ugly Prince" | The Ugly Prince | The "Me!" Monsters | TBA | 3 May 2010 | |
A prince is turned ugly for crossing his fairy godmother. | |||||||
83 | 4 | "Hear No Weevil See No Weevil" | Hear No Weevil See No Weevil | Freaks of Nature | TBA | 3 May 2010 | |
A girl who is obsessed with size is visited by mysterious insects. | |||||||
84 | 5 | "The Rise and Fall of The Evil Guff" | The Rise and Fall of The Evil Guff | Superzeroes | TBA | 4 May 2010 | |
A boy uses his stinky farts as weapons to get his way. | |||||||
85 | 6 | "Cat's Eyes" | Cat's Eyes | Blubbers and Sicksters | TBA | 4 May 2010 | |
A mean older sister tries to coerce her siblings into doing her wishes, but meets a gruesome end. | |||||||
86 | 7 | "Message in a Bottle" | Message in a Bottle | The Naughty Gnomes of "NO!" | TBA | 5 May 2010 | |
A boy who hates his father's job soon finds himself in a sticky situation. | |||||||
87 | 8 | "Little Angel" | Little Angel | Superzeroes | Her Name In The Story Was Eliza but her name is changed lisa | 5 May 2010 | |
A dishonest girl who cheats in games, pins the blame on her brother, is turned into a stone statue. | |||||||
88 | 9 | "The Dragon Moth" | The Dragon Moth | The Naughty Gnomes of "NO!" | TBA | 6 May 2010 | |
A boy who never obeys signs is tricked into paying a visit to a giant monster. | |||||||
89 | 10 | "The Long Face" | The Long Face | The Naughty Gnomes of "NO!" | TBA | 6 May 2010 | |
The Headless Horseman pays a visit to a moody girl who is constantly sulking to get her way. | |||||||
90 | 11 | "Kingdom of Wax" | The Kingdom of Wax | The "Me!" Monsters | The boy of the story's name is changed from Nebuchadnezzar to Nathaniel and a lot of religious references (as well as Nebuchadnezzar's sister Ruth) were cut out of the cartoon episode. | 9 May 2010 | |
A boy's desperation to attract girls brings him to an early grave. | |||||||
91 | 12 | "The Spelling Bee" | The Death Rattle | Terror Time Toys | TBA | 9 May 2010 | |
An obstinate girl who thinks she is a marvelous speller attracts a swarm of bees. | |||||||
92 | 13 | "The Flat Pack Kid" | The Flat Pack Kid | Superzeroes | TBA | 10 May 2010 | |
A boy who constantly takes things apart (and never puts them back together) is reduced to a pile of components. |
Series 8 (2011-2012)[]
Despite the episodes being aired in 2011 and 2012, all 13 episodes were produced in 2010.
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Story title | Book origin | Changes | Original air date | |
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93 | 1 | "The Blood Doctor" | The Blood Doctor | The "Me!" Monsters | TBA | 5 September 2011 | |
A beauty queen obsessed with winning is visited by an unusual doctor. | |||||||
94 | 2 | "The Hair Fairies" | The Hair Fairies | Blubbers and Sicksters | His Name Was Hemp Sock And His Sister Moonunit Was Named Moonbuggy And Named Peacebiscuit | 6 September 2011 | |
A boy's jealousy over his sister's hair lands him in trouble with mysterious fairies. | |||||||
95 | 3 | "The Apostrophic Expositor" | The Apostrophic Expositor | The "Me!" Monsters | B. S Brogan Was In The Story As A Male But her name changed to a cartoon was female, but now she is. | 7 September 2011 | |
A chatterbox learns a grim lesson in speech. | |||||||
96 | 4 | "Nerves of Steel" | Fatal Attraction | Superzeroes | TBA | 8 September 2011 | |
A pathological liar is made attractive to metal | |||||||
97 | 5 | "The Worm" | The Worm | Superzeroes | TBA | 9 September 2011 | |
A boy who uses worms to torment his sister meets a gruesome end after he ingests a tapeworm. | |||||||
98 | 6 | "Lazy Bones" | Lazybones | The Naughty Gnomes of "NO!" | TBA | 10 September 2011 | |
A lazy girl is stripped of her bones. | |||||||
99 | 7 | "Frank Einstein's Monster" | Frank Einstein's Monster | Freaks of Nature | TBA | 29 October 2012 | |
A pyromaniac enters a competition in order to be able to have as much fun with fire as he likes. | |||||||
100 | 8 | "Nails in Her Coffin" | Coffin's Nails | A Grizzly Dozen | N/A | 29 October 2012 | |
A cruel girl adopts a cat-like personality, but soon meets the same end as her deceased cat. | |||||||
101 | 9 | "The Undertaker" | The Under Taker | A Grizzly Dozen | N/A | 30 October 2012 | |
A boy who constantly talks, loses his body. | |||||||
102 | 10 | "The Little Flower Girl" | The Little Flower Girl | Superzeroes | TBA | 30 October 2012 | |
A girl who steals flowers is turned into a flower. | |||||||
103 | 11 | "The Wrap Man" | The Wrap Man | A Grizzly Dozen | N/A | 31 October 2012 | |
A boy who never sends thank-you letters is shipped to his great-aunt to thank her personally | |||||||
104 | 12 | "Old McDonald's Farm" | Nurse Nora | A Grizzly Dozen | Her Name Was Supposed To Be Anita But Her Named Changed Angela | 1 November 2012 | |
A girl with no respect for old people is dispatched after being turned into a chicken. | |||||||
105 | 13 | "The Nuclear Wart" | The Nuclear Wart | Blubbers and Sicksters | The brothers were named Tom and Jerry instead of Jim and Terry, most likely due to the American cartoon of the same name. | 2 November 2012 | |
Two brothers cause the world to be destroyed when the negative energy of their constant fighting manifests as a wart. |
References[]
Notes[]
- ^ Many websites vary on the date of the airing: e.g. Amazon Prime USA lists "Jamie's School Dinners" as airing on 1 May 2010,[5] but TV Episode Calendar lists it as airing on 18 September 2007. TV Episode Calendar is more accurate because the first and last episode of the first series are identical to the dates that Honeycomb Productions have.[6][7]
- ^ Spelt like this in the episode's title card.
Citations[]
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- ^ "Shock Release". grizzlytales.blogspot.com. Blogspot. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ^ "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk: Nigel Planer: DVD & Blu-Ray". Amazon. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ^ "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids - TV Episode Calendar". Episode Calendar. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ "Watch Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids Season 6 - Prime". Amazon. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ "The first Gruesome Kids". grizzlytales.blogspot.com. Blogspot. 2 March 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
First appearance in print "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids" by Jamie Rix, Published by Andre Deutsch 1990. First TV appearance, 4th January 2000.
- ^ "USA gets Grizzly Tales Instant Video". grizzlytales.blogspot.com. Blogspot. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
Series 1 was first aired [...] to 27th March 2000
- ^ "Series 7 Episode Guide". grizzlytales.blogspot.com. Blogspot. 10 April 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
NickToons will air series 8 later on in 2011
- ^ "More Grizzly Tales this Autumn". grizzlytales.blogspot.com. Blogspot. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
NickToons is to air Grizzly Tales series 8 part 2, this autumn.
- ^ "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids - TV Episode Calendar". Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "07 Apr 2001, 339 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 7 April 2001. pp. 334, 339, 343, 347. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f "21 Apr 2001, 263 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. pp. 263, 265, 268, 271, 274. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Series 3 - TV Episode Calendar". Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
- ^ a b "Series 4 - TV Episode Calendar". Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
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- ^ "Series 7 - TV Episode Calendar". Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
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- ^ a b Kidscreen Staff (1 May 1999). "Up Next". Kidscreen.
ITV set to air the series starting in January 2000. Carlton is handling distribution, and will offer the series in both 26 x 10-minute and 13 x 25-minute formats.
- ^ "[TV Guide section]". The Observer. 2 January 2000. p. 85.
- ^ "11 Apr 2001, 53 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 11 April 2001. p. 53. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "12 Apr 2001, 53 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 11 April 2001. p. 53. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d "14 Apr 2001, 212 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. p. 206, 208, 210, 212. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "1 Jul 2002, 77 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. p. 77. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "22 Jul 2002, 72 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 22 July 2002. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "14 Dec 2002, 243 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 14 December 2002. p. 243. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "21 Dec 2002, 197 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 21 December 2002. pp. 194, 197, 202. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d "28 Dec 2002, 210 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. Newspapers.com. 28 December 2002. p. 210. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ "04 Jan 2003, 194 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 4 January 2003. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "14 Jan 2003, 54 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 14 January 2003. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "21 Jan 2003, 51 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 21 January 2003. p. 51. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "28 Jan 2003, 56 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 28 January 2003. p. 56. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "04 Feb 2003, 52 - The Guardian at Newspapers.com". The Guardian. 4 February 2003. Retrieved 18 January 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, TV". tv24.co.uk.
- ^ "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, 5:20am on ITV1 (Wales)". tv24.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021.
- ^ "The Bugaboo Bear (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "The Butcher's Boy (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "The Fruit Bat (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "Monty's Python (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "The Grub a Blub Blub (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "Wolf Child (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "The Weather Witch (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "Kiss and Make Up (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "William the Conkerer (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "Silence Is Golden (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "Her Majesty's Moley (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "Puppet on a String (2006)". BFI.
- ^ "The Soul Stealer (2006)". British Film Institute.
- ^ "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, TV". tv24.co.uk.
- ^ "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, TV". tv24.co.uk.
- ^ "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, TV". tv24.co.uk.
External links[]
- Lists of British children's television series episodes
- Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids