Key Stages: 1 - 2

Description

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code M

Episode length - 15 minutes

Animation featuring audience participation. Well-known folk stories and fairy tales are given a modern twist.

Curriculum links - familiar stories, fairy stories, traditional tales

1 - Get Lucky

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 build a motorway.

2 - Humpty in Love

Humpty Dumpty is the king's personal jester, but under constant guard he cannot live his own life.

3 - Candyfloss Mutants

The King's sweet tooth is the sweetest in the land. Unfortunately for him, his love of cakes means he is a tad overweight, so the queen puts him on a strict diet of lettuce and exercise. 

4 - Love is in the Air

It is springtime and a young wolf's thoughts turn to love. Alas, his crush, Little Red Riding Hood , is not accepting any of his soppy advances. Not one to take defeat lying down, the wolf steals Cupid's bow and plans to shoot Red Riding Hood with a love arrow.

5 - One Bride for Seven Princes

It is another day at the office for the handsome prince as he attempts to wake Snow White in the enchanted forest with a single kiss. Unfortunately, it all goes wrong, and the Wolf kisses Snow White instead.

 6 - Fire for Hire

A gentle knight tries to woo a princess, but she is only impresses by deeds of daring and tells him that to win her heart he must slay a dragon.

7 - A Very Close Shave

The Wicked Witch is out to destroy Rapunzel's beautiful locks and take over her position as the fairest of them all.

8 - The Wolf Who Cried Veggie Burger

The big bad wolf's vegetarian grandmother dies, leaving him to a fortune. To claim this, however, he must turn vegetarian himself for a whole week under the watchful eye of Percival, his cousin.

9 - Rain Today, Drought, Tomorrow

The Fairy Godmother has a crush on the giant living at the top of the beanstalk. He accepts her invitation to her house for tea, sending her on a cleaning spree. She conjures up a magical sponge to help wash her flat from top to bottom, but it soon begins to soak up every drop of moisture in the kingdom.

10 - Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Home Hunting We Will Go

The seven dwarves are fed up of working hard for diamonds and rubies which living in a tiny one-bedroom shack, so they begin the search for a palatial abode befitting their enormous wealth.

11 - Wishing Well Claws

A lonely giant makes a wish with the genie of the well for a friend. The best the genie can do is a smelly troll, but the giant accepts this and the two become great friends.

12 - Bop Til You Drop

The dance contest's grand prize is a date with the princess, and Jack is desperate to win. Jack's magic beans cast a spell to make him the best dancer in the kingdom, so he dances as if his feet were possessed and wins the contest.

13 - Hot Hot Hot

Barry the Dragon is a master at baking cakes, and the locals cannot get enough of his flame-cooked goodies. Soon his cave us full of gold coins, and he is rich! But his quest for coins comes at a cost: He awakes to find that his dragon flame has run out, just as he has to fulfil a huge order for the Queen!

14 - The Mirror Trekked 

The magic mirror has had enough! No more will he be beaten down and verbally abused by the wicked queen for telling her the simple truth.

15 - Beautiful on the Inside

The handsome prince attends a contest to break the world record for waking sleeping beauties.

16 - Attack of the Cheesy Singers

A handsome prince arrives to serenade the princess. He has a terrible voice and hires a cheesy lounge singer to sing for him, but the princess is more enamoured with the cheesy singer than the prince!

17 - Beauty School Breakout

A handsome prince arrives at Rapunzel's tower and starts to climb her beautiful silken hair, but he is confronted by a masculine ogre-like Rapunzel.

18 - A Knight's Tale

The Black Knight is the ultimate entrepeneur celebrity, but all is not well despite his success. He is in love with the Princess but cannot ask the King for her hand in marriage as he develops a terrible stutter when he is near her.

19 - Merry Men at Work

The Sheriff of Nottingham has a grudge against Robin Hood and devises a plan to oust him and his gang from the forest. The Pied Punk Piper releases a swarm of rats, leaving Robin and his Merry men homeless and without a steady income.

20 - Goldilocks and the Big Heist

In this story, there is no porridge left in the kingdom. The three bears have squirrelled the whole supply in their forest retreat and the King and Queen are desperate to get it back.

21 - Anarchy in the Kingdom

It is tourist season in the kingdom and the locals are plagued by tourists. A public meeting is called seeking a solution to the tourist menace ruining everyone's lives. The Pied Punk of Hamelin, Franky Fishbreath, claims to be able to rid the kingdom of the tourist hordes once and for all, for the right price.

22 - Ghouldilocks and The Three Scares

Maid Marion is sick of playing the part of maid to Robin Hood and his bunch of slovenly Merry Men. She leaves for a more fulfilling life as a strong, independent woman.

23 - The Prince Maker

In this story, the little match girl receives a magic bean in exchange for a box of matches. When she meets a frog who has been dreaming of a kiss from a princess, she uses the magic bean to become one.

24 - The King's New Clothes

An emperor is visiting a king for a royal ball and the king enlists his tailor to create an outfit to upstage the extravagant emperor.

25 - Legs and Muffet

Little Miss Muffet and her spider friend Legs struggle in broken-down theatres with their comedy act, until they hire a big-shot agent to boost their career.

26 - Sleepwalking Beauty

Sleeping Beauty is not only under a sleeping spell for a hundred years, but has now developed the dangerous habit of sleepwalking.

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