Alphablocks

Alphablocks (stylised as AlphaBLOCKS since 2020) is a British interactive children's computer-animated television programme that debuted on CBeebies on 25 January 2010. Alphablocks is designed to teach preschoolers to spell with the use of four families of animated blocks known as Alphablocks, who represent each of their letters referred to as Alphalings. The show is animated by Blue-Zoo and produced by Alphablocks Ltd[1] for the BBC. Once the Alphablocks discover that whenever they make a word it comes to life, many adventures can happen. This is meant to help preschoolers with learning the alphabet, spelling, reading and writing.

Alphablocks
GenreEducational
Preschool
Interactivity
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 seasons4
No. of episodes95
Production
Executive producersRebecca Shallcross
Joe Elliot
ProducerSioned Wyn Roberts
Running time3 minutes (series 1)
5 minutes (series 2-4)
10-20 minutes (specials)
Production companyAlphablocks Ltd
Release
Original networkCBeebies
Original release25 January 2010 (2010-01-25) –
14 February 2022 (2022-02-14)
Chronology
Followed byNumberblocks

List of episodes

Series 1 (2010–2011)
  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)

[2]

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)

[2]

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, EAR, and URE, and digraph ER)
  24. Ants (introduction to letter blends)
  25. Ink (INK word family)
  26. Crash (short vowel A; onomatopoeic words)

[2]

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, and digraph EW)
  11. Outlaw (words with AW and AU)
  12. Birthday Girl (digraph IR)
  13. Cowboy (digraphs OY and OU)

[2]

Specials (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)

[2]

Alphablocks & Numberblocks Specials (2022)
  1. Making Friends
  2. Crossover (the A1-Z26 cipher)
  3. The Case of the Missing Blocks (word magic with 2 words)
  4. The Blocks v Blocks Games (anagrams)

[3]

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,[2] making the Alphablocks return after 7 years of no episodes, although these episodes tend to recap all of the letters from A to Z.[2]

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.[2]

The episodes last for 1–3 minutes.[2]

References
  1. "Alphablocks". Blue Zoo Animation Studio. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012.
  2. Alphablocks, retrieved 15 February 2022
  3. "Alphablocks & Numberblocks". Retrieved 23 October 2022.
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