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The BBC's multiplatform offering bringing the very best programmes to 6-12 year olds.

CBBC is the BBC's multiplatform offering for 6-12 year olds bringing the very best drama, entertainment and factual programmes to its young viewers.

Newsround; Funky Fables

Funky Fables

Funky Fables: Episode 1: Get Lucky

Episode 1

Episode 1: Get Lucky

Get Lucky

CBBC - Funky Fables, Get Lucky

The Prince orders Pinocchio to construct a motorway for his new carriage.

Animation featuring audience participation. The Prince orders Pinocchio to construct a motorway, but the workers refuse to build through the enchanted forest.

Animation featuring audience participation. Well-known folk stories and fairy tales are given a modern twist, with viewers able to become the characters by uploading a picture of their face through the CBBC website. 

The Prince's new carriage is the fastest ever built, but every road in the kingdom twists and turns, which slows him down. He orders the royal engineer Pinocchio to construct a motorway, but the workers refuse to build through the enchanted forest as it is the home of the Fairies who are protected by a curse. The outraged Prince makes fun of the curse but is immediately struck with the most horrendous bad luck. The only thing that can save him is to swim in the pool of the enchanted waterfall.

Animation featuring audience participation. Fairy tales are given a modern twist

Animation featuring audience participation. Well known folk stories and fairy tales are given a modern twist, with viewers able to become characters featured in the story

Eliot Kid

Children's animation featuring Eliot, the little kid with the mind-boggling imagination

Eliot Kid: Eliot Kid

Eliot Kid: Eliot Kid: Episode 41: The Suit of Armour

Episode 41

Episode 41: The Suit of Armour

The Suit of Armour

CBBC - Eliot Kid, Eliot Kid, The Suit of Armour

Eliot and his friends leave for the land of knights, looking for the magic goblet.

Children's animation featuring Eliot, the little kid with the mind-boggling imagination. Eliot goes to the land of knights looking for the magic goblet.

A strange suit of armour is standing in the front hall of Eliot's school, while a giant haunts the cellars, all of which is very, very strange. Eliot and his friends leave for the land of knights, in search of the magic goblet.

Children's animation featuring Eliot, the little kid with the mind-boggling imagination that turns the most commonplace situations into Hollywood action-adventure blockbusters

Sorry I've Got No Head

A sketch show jam packed with big, silly characters and catchphrases to make you laugh!

A sketch show jam packed with big, silly characters and fun repeatable catchphrases to make you laugh.

A sketch show jam packed with big, silly characters and fun repeatable catchphrases to make you laugh. From vikings who scream when scared to a chef who farts too much, this is must watch comedy for all the family

Sorry I've Got No Head: Series One

Sorry I've Got No Head: Series 1: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 1

CBBC - Sorry I've Got No Head, Series 1, Episode 5

Steve and his time machine help Frank celebrate his birthday.

Jasmine and Prudith visit the hairdresser, Steve and his time machine help Frank celebrate his birthday, and Miss Carpenter tackles a crimewave.

Jasmine and Prudith visit the hairdresser, Steve and his time machine help Frank celebrate his birthday, and Miss Carpenter tackles a crimewave on the island of North Barrasay.

Sorry I've Got No Head: Series 1

Sorry, I've Got No Head

Dani's House

Surreal sitcom about an aspiring actress and her friends.

Surreal sitcom about an aspiring actress and musician who is forever being left in charge of her annoying younger brother.

Dani's House: Series 1

Dani's House: Series 1: Episode 12: Snowed In

Episode 12

Episode 12: Snowed In

Dani's House - CBBC - BBC

Dani and Max are snowed in alone. How can they possibly survive a whole day together?

Surreal sitcom. Dani and Max are snowed in alone. At each other's throats at the best of times, how can they possibly survive having to spend a whole day together?

Dani and Max are snowed in alone! At each other's throats at the best of times, how will they possibly survive the claustrophobia of having to spend a whole day in each other's company?

Also, there's no food and no heating. Who will trudge through the snow first to save the two from themselves - Sam, Toby or a very lost Ben?

Snowed In

Surreal sitcom about a struggling actress always left minding her younger siblings.

Surreal sitcom about a struggling actress, continuously left in charge of her annoying younger brother Max, his none-too-bright sidekick Ben and their youngest sibling - the baby from hell.

Basil Brush

Children's comedy series featuring the irrepressible Basil Brush and friends

Basil Brush: Series 4

Basil Brush: Series 4: Episode 5: Basil's Brush with Fame

Episode 5: Basil's Brush with Fame

Series 4

Basil's Brush with Fame

CBBC - Basil Brush, Series 4, Basil's Brush with Fame

Basil, Stephen and Dave are groomed to be the latest boyband.

Children's comedy series featuring the irrepressible Basil Brush and friends. Basil, Stephen and Dave are groomed to be the latest boyband.

Fun with the irascible fox and his friends

The Basil Brush Show; TWF

Thumb Wrestling Federation

Children's puppet animation entertainment featuring two rival thumb wrestling teams

Thumb Wrestling Federation: Series 2

Thumb Wrestling Federation: Series 2: Episode 1: Match 1: Mr Extremo v Big Bad Billy Goatetsky

Episode 1: Match 1: Mr Extremo v Big Bad Billy Goatetsky

Series 2

Match 1: Mr Extremo v Big Bad Billy Goatetsky

CBBC - Thumb Wrestling Federation, Series 2, Match 1: Mr Extremo v Big Bad Billy Goatetsky

Dextera's newest superstar, Mr Extremo, battles the crankiest Sinistra of them all.

Animation featuring rival thumb wrestling teams. Dextera's newest superstar, Mr Extremo, battles the crankiest Sinistra of them all.

Puppet animation featuring two rival thumb wrestling teams. The mighty Dextera's newest superstar, Mr Extremo, finds himself face-to-face with the crankiest Sinistra of them all. It's young versus old, and Billy surprises his awesome opponent with a powerful Big Bad Brain Butting Barrage.

Children's puppet animation entertainment featuring two riavl thumb wrestling teams

Best of Friends

The show that tests the friendships of five close mates with a series of tasks and treats

The show that tests the friendships of five close mates with a series of terrible tasks and tantalising treats

Best of Friends: Series 5

Best of Friends: Series 5: Episode 16

Episode 16

Series 5

CBBC - Best of Friends, Series 5, Episode 16

Abs and Rani put five children through their paces. Will they remain the best of friends?

Friendships are put on the line with a series of tough tasks and tempting treats, as Abs and Rani put five more children through their paces. Will they remain the best of friends?

The show that tests the friendships of five close mates with a series of terrible tasks

Evacuation Manor House

Evacuation Manor House: Episode 6

Episode 6

CBBC - Evacuation Manor House, Episode 6

Pheasant shooting season arrives, one of the most important social events of the year.

Twelve boys and girls live as 1940s war evacuees. The evacuees struggle with their manners. Pheasant shooting season arrives, one of the most important social events of the year.

Twelve boys and girls live as 1940s war evacuees. The evacuees struggle with their manners, dining etiquette and elocution, as well as early morning wake-ups, chores and rationed food. But it's no ordinary day at Pradoe Hall, as pheasant shooting season arrives, one of the most important social events of the year. Our modern day evacuees discover hunting is a whole new world as they get to grips with handling a shotgun, and work as the beaters who flush out the pheasants for the Lord and his party to shoot.

12 modern children experience life as 1940s evacuees at a country house.

Evacuation to the Manor House

Whizz Whizz Bang Bang

The show that takes viewers' crazy invention ideas and makes them happen

Whizz Whizz Bang Bang: Series 1

Whizz Whizz Bang Bang: Series 1: Episode 6: All-Terrain Wheelchair

Episode 6: All-Terrain Wheelchair

All-Terrain Wheelchair

CBBC - Whizz Whizz Bang Bang, Series 1, All-Terrain Wheelchair

Following four friends through the course of their invention involving mud and tanks.

Children's show that takes viewers' crazy invention ideas and makes them happen. This invention involves mud, tanks, orienteering and firefighters.

Children's show that takes viewers' crazy invention ideas and makes them happen. Four friends plot the course of their invention involving mud, tanks, orienteering and firefighters.

Raven

Fantasy game show set on a mystical island

Raven: Series 8

Raven: Series 8: Episode 16

Raven - CBBC - BBC

Six noble warriors face Demon Army, Treasure Ring, Puzzle Stack and Key Descent.

Fantasy game show. Six brave warriors survived the early stages of the quest, and now they must come together as they continue in their attempts to become the Ultimate Champion.

Six warriors survived the early stages of the quest, and today they come together to continue in their attempts to become the Ultimate Champion. 

They face the most arduous challenges as they strive to remain in the contest, and, battling in the stunning terrain against all that Nevar and his evil demons can throw at them, they will bear their symbols with pride. 

Demon Army will immediately challenge their warrior qualities, Treasure Ring will test their strength and stamina, Key Descent will determine their courage, and then Puzzle Stack will require all of their wits. 

In these final stages of this quest, who among them will be victorious?

Series 8

Fantasy game show. Raven begins the search for a new ultimate champion.

50/50

Two randomly selected teams of 11- and 12-year-old schoolchildren compete

The quiz show that pits two randomly selected teams of 11- and 12-year-old schoolchildren from across the country against each other

50/50: Series 9

50/50: Series 9: Episode 6

Series 9

CBBC - 50/50, Series 9, Episode 6

It's a clash of the Celts as Glasgow meet Edinburgh.

It's a clash of the Celts as Glasgow meet Edinburgh. Sophie McDonnell leads the teams through the Spike, the Revolve and the Avalanche, before one team takes away the 50/50 trophy.

It's a clash of the Celts as Glasgow meet Edinburgh. Sophie McDonnell leads the teams as they battle through the Spike, the Revolve and the Avalanche before one of them gets to take away the 50/50 trophy.

Sophie McDonnell presents more super-cool challenges inlcuding the Spike and the Avalanche

Sophie McDonnell presents more super-cool challenges including the Spike, the Cube, the Pulse and the Avalanche

The Likeaballs

Animation about ball-shaped aliens the Likeaballs, who compete in sporting challenges

Animation about ball-shaped aliens the Likeaballs, who compete in sporting challenges and promote fair play and team spirit

The Likeaballs: Series 1

The Likeaballs: Series 1: Slimey

05/07/2006

Slimey

CBBC - The Likeaballs, Series 1, Slimey

Invinciball thinks he doesn't need to be part of a team.

2D animation about sporting aliens the Likeaballs. Invinciball thinks he's a better footballer than the other Likeaballs, and decides he doesn't need to be part of a team.

2D animation. Travelling through space after their home planet was destroyed, ball shaped aliens the Likeaballs compete in sporting challenges, whilst promoting hard work and fair play and team spirit. However renegade group The Dislikeaballs are out to beat The Likeaballs - just once - using any evil method they can think of. Join in the fun as the Likeaballs play against a range of different alien teams including Rock Creatures, Blobs and Weedy Geeks.

Invinciball thinks he's a better footballer than the other Likeaballs, and decides that his individual skills are better than others playing on his team. When they criticise him for not passing the ball, he uses his 'Shield of Criticism' to divert that criticism into space where they collide with Count Horriball with unexpected results. Eventually, the others show him that playing as a team is far more successful in the end. However it's his unique ability to 'surf' through the sky on his shield that leads to him saving the Dislikeaball's from crashing their screw-ship and becoming a real hero.

Escape from Scorpion Island

Adrenaline-fuelled game show where contestants try to escape from a tropical island.

Escape from Scorpion Island: Series 1

Escape from Scorpion Island: Series 1: Episode 8

Episode 8

CBBC - Escape from Scorpion Island, Series 1, Episode 8

Who will be joining Barbara and Haley as the third member of the secret camp?

Adventure game presented by Reggie Yates and Caroline Flack set on an exotic island. Who will be joining Barbara and Haley as the third member of the secret camp?

High-octane, adrenalin-fuelled adventure game presented by Reggie Yates and Caroline Flack where contestants compete to escape from an exotic island. Who will be joining Barbara and Haley as the third member of the secret camp, and how will the adventurers at Beach Camp react to the shock of losing yet another member of the team? The next Island Challenge is called Rock 'n' Roll - what is it, and who will the island select to take it on?

Roar

Following keepers in Port Lympne and Howletts wild animal parks

Following keepers in Port Lympne and Howletts wild animal parks in Kent as they take care of the animals

Roar: Series 3

Roar: Series 3: Episode 6

Series 3

CBBC - Roar, Series 3, Episode 6

The keepers build a termite mound for the elephants and make a smoothie for the anteaters.

Following the keepers at Kent's wild animal parks. The Siberian tiger cubs are four weeks old. A termite mound is built for the elephants, and a smoothie made for the anteaters.

Series following the keepers at Kent's wild animal parks. The Siberian tiger cubs are now four weeks old and mum is keeping them hidden inside their den - but will 'log cam' get shots of the cubs? The keepers build a termite mound for the elephants and cook up a smoothie for the anteaters, but why have they got a fishing rod in with the servals? More animal stories with Rani Price and Matt Skilton.

Wolverine and The X-Men

Wolverine and The X-Men: Episode 18: Backlash

Episode 18

Episode 18: Backlash

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The X-Men set out to destroy Master Mold but find themselves in a deadly trap.

Animated series. The X-Men find Master Mold's location and head out to destroy it. It turns out to be a set-up and the X-Men walk into a warehouse full of Sentinels.

When an explosive event shatters the lives of the X-Men and takes away their mentor, the beaten heroes walk away from it all. Wolverine, the most legendary of all X-Men, reunites them to prevent the world's destruction.

Forge has managed to break the code of the Sentinel data they stole from the Trask Lab, and reports that Master Mold is a computer that operates all of the city's Sentinels and appears to be same Master Mold Xavier is battling in the future. 

The timing could not be worse. Senator Kelly has been given the green light for Project Wideawake, his mutant registration programme that is actively using the Sentinels. The X-Men find Master Mold's location from the data and head out to stop the future war by destroying it. But the location is a set-up from Master Mold itself and they walk right into a warehouse full of activated Sentinels!

The team is not faring well against their intelligent enemies who are sharing their data back to the real Master Mold to modify their fighting techniques. Surprisingly, the Brotherhood shows up to save the X-Men from the devastating Sentinels. Quicksilver has been shunned by Magneto for the last time and he will be damned if he is going to watch the X-Men, the bane of his father's existence, be defeated in one battle.

Together, the Brotherhood and the X-Men shut down all the Sentinels and the Master Mold. Or so they think. When Wolverine reports back to Xavier in the future, nothing has changed. The Master Mold must have survived somehow.

Backlash

Wolverine, most legendary of all the X-Men, reunites the heroes for the ultimate mission

After a glimpse into an unpleasant future, Wolverine, the most legendary of all the X-Men, reunites the heroes to take on the ultimate mission

Wolverine and the X-Men

Suspect

Children's mystery show in which a team of detectives solve seemingly impossible crimes

Suspect: Series 1

Suspect: Series 1: Game On

02/04/2006

Game On

CBBC - Suspect, Series 1, Game On

A master copy of a new computer game is stolen from a locked briefcase in a locked room.

A team of detectives solve seemingly impossible crimes. A top computer games company has its latest game stolen from a locked briefcase in a locked room.

A team of detectives solve seemingly impossible crimes. A top computer games company is conducting final tests on its latest game at Kilcrammond House Hotel when the master copy disappears from a locked briefcase in a locked room. It's up to the team from Liverpool to solve the crime.

Shoebox Zoo

Marnie McBride's Shoebox Zoo contains four model animals that come to life.

Children's fantasy series. 11-year-old American girl Marnie McBride moves to Edinburgh with her Scottish father, Ross. Marnie's Shoebox Zoo contains four model animals that come to life

Shoebox Zoo: Series 1

Shoebox Zoo: Series 1: Episode 4: A Guide for the Perplexed

Episode 4

Episode 4: A Guide for the Perplexed

A Guide for the Perplexed

CBBC - Shoebox Zoo, Series 1, A Guide for the Perplexed

Marnie meets Michael Scot on a school trip. Marnie's father gives her a mysterious book.

Children's drama series. Marnie meets Michael Scot, who asks her to search for his inner sanctum. The identity of the mysterious John Roberts is revealed.

Children's drama series. Marnie meets Michael Scot, who encourages her to use a school trip to search for his inner sanctum. Marnie's father gives her a mysterious book written by Scot, which contains the next clue in her quest, and the identity of the mysterious John Roberts is revealed.

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