List of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast episodes
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Maggie and the Ferocious Beast is a Canadian animated children's television series created by Michael and Betty Paraskevas. The program was based on the 1996 book The Ferocious Beast with the Polka-Dot Hide and its sequels. The series originally aired on Teletoon in Canada.
Series overview[]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 13 | August 26, 2000 | September 5, 2000 | ||
| 2 | 13 | April 7, 2001 | October 7, 2001 | ||
| 3 | 13 | March 9, 2002 | June 9, 2002 | ||
Pilots (1998)[]
| Short no. | Title | Original air date (Teletoon) | |
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| 1 | "The Big Sneeze" | 1998 | |
| Beast sneezes his spots off after sniffing flowers. | |||
| 2 | "Move to the Moosic" | 1998 | |
| The trio discovers "Mooville," a land of singing cows. | |||
| 3 | "Beach Ball Bonanza" | 1998 | |
| Beast cannot play with beach balls without popping them, so Maggie gives him some socks to cover his horns. | |||
| 4 | "Song for a Sunset" | 1998 | |
| As they are watching the sunset, Maggie and her friends make a poem about it. | |||
| 5 | "The Really Ferocious Beast" | 1998 | |
| The Beast wants to show Maggie and Hamilton how ferocious he really is. | |||
Episodes[]
Season 1 (2000)[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date (Teletoon)[1] | U.S. air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Pack Up Your Troubles/Rub a Dub Dub/The Big Carrot" | August 26, 2000 | June 5, 2000 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton are having a bad day so they decide to send their troubles away, until they find good uses for them. Beast takes a bath after playing in the mud while Hamilton washes his spots. But his spots end up wrinkly, so Maggie suggests putting them in a book to flatten them out. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton meet a rabbit named Nedley and help him pull out his gigantic carrot. When the carrot ends up tasting bad, they turn it into a birdhouse. Note: The Big Carrot was later adapted into a storybook. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "My One and Only Box/Spot the Spot/Recipe for Trouble" | August 27, 2000 | June 6, 2000 | |
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On a snowy day, Hamilton uses his box as a sled, but it ends up having a hole in it. So Beast suggests using one of his spots. Maggie, Beast and Hamilton try to count the Beast’s spots and the Beast’s tallness comes in handy when Maggie gets stuck in a tree. Hamilton wants to try a new pumpkin recipe. While Maggie and Beast get the other ingredients, Hamilton gets stuck in a giant pumpkin! | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Lemonade Stand/Walk the Walk/What's in a Laugh?" | August 29, 2000 | June 7, 2000 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton have a lemonade stand, but no customers walk by. Meanwhile, Beast fakes an injury so he can get a bandage like Maggie’s. While at the beach, Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton try to walk like Sidestep the Crab, but Beast ends up ruining Sidestep’s house. So they make him a new one out of sand. After Beast says that Hamilton snorts when he laughs, Hamilton gets mad and refuses to come out of his box. Until Maggie suggests making paper hats. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "Out of Water Beast/Rain, Rain, Come and Stay!/Hamilton the Ham" | August 29, 2000 | June 8, 2000 | |
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On a hot day, Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton are too tired to go to the beach, so Hamilton gets out a wading pool, but Beast is too big to fit in it. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton go to the Land of Umbrella Trees and one of the Beast’s galoshes ends up stuck in a big puddle. While on a trip to Mooville, Maggie and Beast dance to the music, but Hamilton can’t dance. So Hamilton sings instead. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "This Little Pig/Hide and Go Beast/One, Two, Three" | August 30, 2000 | June 9, 2000 | |
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Hamilton gets a cold, so Maggie and Beast try to make him feel better. After repeatedly bothering him, they decide to write him a poem. Maggie and Hamilton try to find Beast during a game of hide-and-seek. After failing to find him, they decide to have hot chocolate. But Beast smells it and decides to come out of his hiding place. Maggie, Beast and Hamilton take care of Maggie’s triplet cousins. After Hamilton washes their shirts, they find out that they can’t tell them apart. | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "What's In The Bag?/Beastly Picture/The Push-Me Popper" | August 30, 2000 | June 12, 2000 | |
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Maggie packs a picnic for Beast and Hamilton. But the jelly beans she brought for dessert are quarreling over which of them is better. Beast accidentally ruins Maggie’s painting of him, so he tries to make another one. But it doesn’t end up being a what he thought it would be. But Maggie ends up liking the painting. Hamilton wins a push-me popper after his pumpkin muffin recipe won a baking contest, but Beast ends up breaking it. But Maggie fixes it. | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "Sun Spots/Say Cheese/Sailing Away" | August 31, 2000 | June 13, 2000 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton go to the beach but Beast, who refused to put on sunscreen, ends up sunburned. After Maggie gives a framed picture of her and the Beast to him, Hamilton starts to get sad. After a talk with Maggie, Beast takes a picture of Maggie and Hamilton. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton journey in a giant paper boat to find a secret island. | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "Three Little Ghosts/The King of Nowhere Land/The Big Scare" | August 31, 2000 | June 14, 2000 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton all dress up as ghosts to scare each other. And they come across a fourth ghost, who is revealed to be Nedley. Hamilton plays King of Nowhere Land, but finds out that being king is no fun. After Maggie and the Beast ask for a pie, Hamilton decides to stop playing to bake them one. Maggie and Hamilton find Beast afraid. He reveals that he’s afraid of mice. A mouse named Pipi appears and it turns out that he’s afraid of the Beast. Beast and Pipi get to know each other and become friends. Note: The Big Scare is the only episode where the mouse is named Pipi. In the other seasons, he is named Rudy. | |||||
| 9 | 9 | "Hamilton's Pet/Slooow Motion/The Big Duck" | September 1, 2000 | September 3, 2001[2] | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton go fishing. Hamilton catches a fish and decides to keep it as a pet. After seeing how sad the fish is, Hamilton decides to put him back in the river. During a game of Follow The Leader, Maggie, Beast and Hamilton discover a turtle beach and decide to play Follow The Turtle Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton come across a big duck who keeps following them. It’s revealed that the duck wants to give them a ride across the river. | |||||
| 10 | 10 | "Flim-Flam-A Fiddle/A Beastly Garden/Spring Cleaning" | September 1, 2000 | September 4, 2001 | |
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Beast wins at checkers and Hamilton wins at croquet. So Maggie comes up with a game where there are no winners or losers. Maggie brings a watermelon to the Beast and Hamilton. Beast decides to plant a watermelon garden and wants them to grow fast. After Hamilton says that cleaning is fun, Maggie and the Beast try it, but they find out that it’s not really fun. | |||||
| 11 | 11 | "Mr. Shivers/Nap Time/Up, Up, and Away" | September 4, 2000 | September 5, 2001 | |
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Maggie brings a magic snow globe that makes it snow when you shake it. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton make a snowman, which comes alive. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton decide to take a nap, but have trouble falling asleep. On a windy day, Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton make a kite. Beast wants to help, but has trouble. | |||||
| 12 | 12 | "Louder! Louder!/Once Upon a Time/Maggie the Mommy" | September 4, 2000 | September 6, 2001 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton play an echoing game. After doing a loud roar, Beast loses his voice. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton act out their favorite story. But they tell it differently. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton play a game where Maggie is a mommy, Hamilton is her baby and Beast is a dog. | |||||
| 13 | 13 | "Hamilton's Box Car/Happy Birthday to All of Us/The Really Big Show" | September 5, 2000 | September 7, 2001 | |
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Hamilton makes a race car, but has trouble driving it. It’s Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton’s birthday. But Beast doesn’t think Maggie and Hamilton won’t like his presents and Hamilton wears big shoes to look taller. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton put on a show where Hamilton does a magic act, Maggie reads a poem and Beast does an exotic dance. | |||||
Season 2 (2001)[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date (Teletoon)[1] | |
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| 14 | 1 | "Hamilton Blows His Horn/The Big Cheese/Roll Over Archie" | April 7, 2001 | |
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Hamilton tries to play the trombone, but has trouble doing it. After realizing that he can’t play, Maggie, Beast, and Rudy remind Hamilton about his singing. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton take care of Rudy when he hurt his leg. Rudy refuses to walk, until Hamilton’s sweater gets caught on a hook in his box. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton meet a Scotty dog toy named Archie. When they put new batteries in him, he starts to get hyperactive. Note: Starting in this episode, Pipi’s name is changed to Rudy. | ||||
| 15 | 2 | "Desert Treasure/Morning in Nowhere Land/The Missing Sweater" | April 8, 2001 | |
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Maggie, Beast and Hamilton journey through the desert to find a treasure. Along the way, they meet a camel named Callie, who takes them to lemonade spring. Beast and Hamilton go through their morning routines until Maggie arrives. Hamilton lends Nedley his sweater, but Nedley refuses to give it back. | ||||
| 16 | 3 | "Just a Little Off the Top/Little Pig Lost/The Cecil Bunions Detective Agency" | April 21, 2001 | |
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Maggie opens up a barbershop for Beast, Hamilton, Nedley, and Rudy. Hamilton floats away on balloons and gets lost. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton become detectives after getting their Cecil Bunions detective badges. Note: Cecil Bunions is an homage to the book Cecil Bunions and the Midnight Train by Michael and Betty Paraskevas. | ||||
| 17 | 4 | "The Jelly Bean Express/Let's Play Croquet/Little Ducky" | April 22, 2001 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton build a train for the Jellybean Team. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton play croquet. But Maggie and Hamilton lose their balls. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton take care of a baby duck after its egg hatched. | ||||
| 18 | 5 | "Don't Dump That Junk/Soup Bowls and Roller Coasters/Rainy Day" | April 29, 2001 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton play a game where they use a piece of junk to make them laugh. Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, and Rudy go to an amusement park but Hamilton is scared to ride the roller coaster. Hamilton’s box washes away in a flood. | ||||
| 19 | 6 | "Guess Who's Coming to Visit/The Lonesome Traveler/The Home of the Kindly Giant" | June 10, 2001 | |
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Beast’s cousin Reggie comes to visit. But Reggie turns out to be rude. Maggie and Hamilton are too busy knitting so Beast travels on his own and comes across Turkey Town, but the turkeys won’t leave him alone. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton take the triplets to the Kindly Giant’s garden. But the triplets keep going off on their own. | ||||
| 20 | 7 | "The Funny Smile/Guess Who I Am/House for a Mouse" | June 17, 2001 | |
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Beast loses a tooth and thinks his smile is bad. Beast keeps mimicking Hamilton so Maggie decides to play a game where they pretend to be one of their friends. Hamilton makes a gingerbread house for Rudy, but he ends up eating it. | ||||
| 21 | 8 | "Nothing in the Beach Ball/Picnic Time/The New Rubber Ball" | September 8, 2001 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton go to the beach ball factory where they find out that there’s no air in them. So they enlist the help of Nedley, who works there, to find out what’s wrong. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton have a picnic but a colony of ants bother them. So they make them their own little picnic. Beast gets a new rubber ball and tries to take extra care of it. But he decides to give it to the triplets as their birthday present. | ||||
| 22 | 9 | "Ride 'Em Cowboy!/Right Next Door/Hamilton's Sailboat" | September 9, 2001 | |
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Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, Nedley, Rudy and the Jellybean Team go a cowboy village. Beast wants a house of his own so Maggie gives him his own door. Hamilton takes Maggie and the Beast sailing on his new sailboat. | ||||
| 23 | 10 | "The Big Hat/The Camping Trip/The Leaning Tower of Carrot" | September 16, 2001 | |
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Hamilton makes a restaurant out of the Kindly Giant’s hat. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton go camping where they meet a teddy bear named Paulie. Beast accidentally tilts Nedley’s carrot birdhouse. So Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton get a potato from the Kindly Giant’s garden to prop it back up. | ||||
| 24 | 11 | "Catch Me If You Can/Strings, Pumpkins, and Hats/The Missing Bass" | September 23, 2001 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton make gingerbread men cookies, but they start to walk on their own. Hamilton holds a contest to see who has the best collection. But everyone votes for themselves. Hamilton comes across a base and thinks it’s the Kindly Giant’s violin. But it’s revealed that it belongs to a cat named B.B. | ||||
| 25 | 12 | "Message In a Bottle/A Visit to Cake Town/Hamilton's Important Letter" | September 30, 2001 | |
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Hamilton takes Maggie and the Beast on a treasure hunt. Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, and Rudy visit Cake Town, but they eat too much. Hamilton finds out that the “H” on his sweater is missing so Maggie and the Beast help him find it. It’s revealed that Hamilton had his sweater on inside out. | ||||
| 26 | 13 | "The Snow Show/School Days/The Nowhere Land Parade" | October 7, 2001 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton go ice skating. Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, Nedley, and Rudy play school. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton decide to put on a parade for Nowhere Land Day. | ||||
Season 3 (2002)[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date (Teletoon)[1] | |
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| 27 | 1 | "The Beast and the Balloon/The Beast's Big Surprise/Land of the Antique Toys" | March 9, 2002 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton go on a hot air balloon ride but Beast refuses to look. Beast decides to make pancakes, to Maggie and Hamilton’s dismay. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton visit the Land of Antique Toys where they see Archie and meet other toys. | ||||
| 28 | 2 | "Maggie's Song/The Buffle-Headed Booby/Hamilton and the Bee" | March 10, 2002 | |
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Hamilton, Beast, Rudy and B.B. decide to sing a song for Maggie. Hamilton takes Maggie and the Beast bird watching to find a rare bird. They find him, but he doesn’t like his name so they try to find another name for him. Beast comes up with Howard, which the bird likes. Hamilton dresses up like a bee to borrow honey for his tea party. | ||||
| 29 | 3 | "Go to Sleep, Sheep/The Missing Spot/Blue Moon" | March 17, 2002 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton try to help a Dream Sheep fall asleep. Beast repeatedly suggests singing a lullaby. When he does, it works The Jellybean Team steal one of Beast’s spots. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton use their Cecil Bunions detective badges to find it. But Hamilton wants to eat breakfast. Hamilton plants beans and it grows into a beanstalk. Hamilton climbs it where he, B.B. and the Moo Sisters sing a song for the moon. Note: Blue Moon is the only episode where Maggie doesn’t appear. | ||||
| 30 | 4 | "The Beached Whale/A Flag for Nowhere Land/Desert Cactus" | March 24, 2002 | |
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Sidestep enlists the help of Maggie, Hamilton, and the Beast when a baby whale washes up on the beach. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton make a flag for Nowhere Land. Beast tries to get rid of a bird that landed on his head. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton journey to the desert to visit Callie where they see a cactus following them. | ||||
| 31 | 5 | "The Invitation/Trick or Treat/The Trade Off" | March 31, 2002 | |
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Nedley has a dinner party. Everyone thinks it’s going to be fancy because of the formal invitations. Maggie, Beast and Hamilton go trick-or-treating. Hamilton trades his kazoo for Nedley’s yo-yo. When the yo-yo breaks, Hamilton tries his best to get his kazoo back. | ||||
| 32 | 6 | "Hamilton's Magic/Nedley's Circus/Chasing a Rainbow" | April 7, 2002 | |
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Beast thinks Hamilton turned himself into a frog. Nedley announces that he’s running away to join the circus. So Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, Rudy, and the Jellybean Team put on their own circus so Nedley will stay. Maggie, Beast and Hamilton try to see where a rainbow ends and they come across Mud Creek, B.B.’s hometown. | ||||
| 33 | 7 | "The Ice Cream Cart/That's A-Mazing!/The Humongous Fungus" | April 14, 2002 | |
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Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, and Rudy try to make homemade ice cream, but they realize that they don’t have ice. So they travel to Highest Mountain to borrow ice from Mr. Shivers. Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, and Rudy get lost in a hedge maze so the Kindly Giant helps them. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton travel to find a giant mushroom called the Humongous Fungus. | ||||
| 34 | 8 | "The Big Hole/Oh Give Me a Home/Which Way Did They Go?" | April 21, 2002 | |
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Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, and Rudy dig a giant hole. Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, and Rudy build Sidestep a new sandcastle. Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, and Rudy try to find the triplets after they took off in their paddle car. | ||||
| 35 | 9 | "Blast Off/Hamilton's Hat/The Wish Fish" | April 28, 2002 | |
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Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton pretend to blast off to Mars. Hamilton refuses to take off his hat. Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton meet a fish in the well who grants wishes and grants his own wish. | ||||
| 36 | 10 | "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy/Friendship Day/The Contraption" | May 5, 2002 | |
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Rudy tries to open a coconut. Maggie, Beast and Hamilton have a Friendship Day party but Beast sent cards to himself. Hamilton has Maggie and the Beast borrow items from their friends to make his contraption. | ||||
| 37 | 11 | "The Chicken Ladies/Nedley Needs a Box/Tag-Along Reggie" | May 26, 2002 | |
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Maggie, Beast and Hamilton meet two chicken sisters delivering eggs. After Hamilton fixes their truck, the chickens put on a show for them. Nedley decides to move and asks Hamilton if he can borrow his box. Reggie tags along with Maggie, Beast, and Hamilton on their trip to the desert. | ||||
| 38 | 12 | "Curtain Up/Icing on the Cake/Where's Maggie?" | June 2, 2002 | |
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Hamilton puts on a Cecil Bunions play. Maggie, Beast, Hamilton, and Rudy do a cooking show. Beast and Hamilton wait for Maggie to return from a trip. | ||||
| 39 | 13 | "The Bunny Slippers/The Windy Day/Nedley's Glasses" | June 9, 2002 | |
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Hamilton makes Beast a pair of bunny slippers. Maggie’s map blows away in the wind. Nedley tries on a pair of glasses and refuses to take them off. | ||||
References[]
- ^ a b c "Television Program Logs". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2016-03-02.[dead link] Alt URL
- ^ "NICK Listings". Excite TV. Archived from the original on September 3, 2001. Retrieved November 28, 2021.
- Lists of Canadian children's animated television series episodes