Numberblocks

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DESCRIPTION: Colourful Numberblocks run together over grassy hills. Each Numberblock is named by the total number of blocks it contains. 1 is a red square, 2 is orange, 3 is yellow, 4 is green, and 5 is blue. They all have smiling faces.

SINGERS: One, two, three, four, five Numberblocks

DESCRIPTION: Five more Numberblocks jump into the sky together. 6 is purple and polka dotted, 7 is rainbow, 8 is hot pink, 9 is grey, and 10 is grey and red.

SINGERS: Six, seven, eight, nine, ten Numberblocks

DESCRIPTION: Numberblocks combine to create larger Numberblocks.

SINGERS: One and another one is two and another one is

THREE: Me!

SINGERS: That's three!

DESCRIPTION: Numberblocks dance together in the sky and run through a grassy field.

SINGERS: Five, four, three, two, one! It's time for some number fun! You can count on us. We're the Numberblocks!

[Title] “Numberblocks”.

DESCRIPTION: Two 24s race down purple racetracks.

TWENTY-FOUR: Woohoo! This is super duper. We can race all day. And all night, too, and together we can keep racing....

DESCRIPTION: The two 24s jump to combine into a 48 and land on a single race track.

FORTY-EIGHT: All weekend. 48, activate! Woohoo!

DESCRIPTION: 48 wiggles her eyebrows. Check out the eyebrow action. I'm 48. I've got eight chunky sixes…

DESCRIPTION: 48 separates into 8 groups of 6. The 6’s smile.

[All giggling]

DESCRIPTION: The 6’s come together into 48, then split into six groups of 8. The 8’s smile.

FORTY-EIGHT: ...and six chunky eights.

[All chuckling]

FORTY-EIGHT: Yeah! I'm up for 48 hours of fun, fun, fun!

[Gasping]

FORTY-EIGHT: I know. I'll race all the way to Puzzle Square. Woohoo! Although, it'd be more fun with someone to race against.

[Gasping]

FORTY-EIGHT: What's that?

DESCRIPTION: 48 looks up at the sky, where seven hexagon portals have opened up. Seven 6’s fall from the sky.

ALL: Woohoo!

FORTY-EIGHT: It's raining sixes! That's new.

DESCRIPTION: The 6’s number themselves off.

SIXES: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven.

ALL SIXES: Seven sixes in the sky.

DESCRIPTION: The 6’s land on the racetrack and combine into 42.

FORTY-TWO: Oh, my!

DESCRIPTION: Further down the racetrack, 48 is speeding towards 42.

[Forty-eight giggling]

FORTY-EIGHT: Look out!

[Forty-two gasping]

FORTY-TWO: Don't panic! Ha!

DESCRIPTION: 42 and 48 jump off the racetrack and speak to each other.

FORTY-EIGHT: Hello, there. I'm 48. Activate!

DESCRIPTION: 48 separates into eight groups of six, and six groups of eight.

ALL: Eight chunky sixes!

ALL: Six chunky eights!

[Laughing]

FORTY-TWO: I'm 42. Sorry to drop in on you like that.

DESCRIPTION: 42 gestures to a rainbow hexagon belt around his waist.

FORTY-TWO: My teleporting belt is playing up today.

FORTY-EIGHT: Teleporting? What's that?

FORTY-TWO: It's how I go from place to place. The buckle on my rainbow belt glows and I get whooshed away to somewhere else. Sometimes when I arrive, I'm…

DESCRIPTION: 42 separates into seven groups of six, and six groups of seven.

ALL: Seven sixes!

FORTY-TWO: And sometimes I'm...

ALL: Six sevens!

FORTY-TWO: And so I'm always at sixes and sevens!

FORTY-EIGHT: Well, it's extra super duper to meet you, 42. Teleporting sounds fun!

FORTY-TWO: Mostly, although some days I just don't know where I'll go next.

[Chuckling]

DESCRIPTION: 42’s belt glows, and a hexagon portal appears above his head.

FORTY-TWO: Uh-oh. Don't panic, don't panic. I'm teleporting again! Toodle-oo from 42!

DESCRIPTION: 42 disappears.

FORTY-EIGHT: Erm…

DESCRIPTION: 48 jumps back on the racetrack and zooms away.

[Laughing, cheering]

DESCRIPTION: In the sky, a hexagon portal opens up, and six groups of 7’s fall from the sky.

SEVENS: Oh! One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six.

ALL: Six sevens in the sky!

DESCRIPTION: The 7’s fall into piles of snow.

ALL: Ooh! Help. I'm stuck. Oh, dear. Rescue us, please!

FORTY-EIGHT: On my way. 48, activate!

DESCRIPTION: 48 separates into six groups of eights.

EIGHT: Six chunky eights!

ALL: Saving...

EIGHT: Six snowy sevens!

[Laughing]

DESCRIPTION: The 8’s pull the 7’s from the snow.

[All grunting]

EIGHT: One, two, three, four, five, six.

ALL: Six snowy rescues.

DESCRIPTION: The Numberblocks combine into 42 and 48.

FORTY-TWO: Oh! Excellent rescuing, 48! How can I ever thank you?

DESCRIPTION: 48 thinks for a moment.

FORTY-EIGHT: Mm. Ooh! Fun idea!

DESCRIPTION: 48 separates into 6’s.

ALL: Let's play a game.

FORTY-EIGHT: I'll race you to Puzzle square. Ready, steady, go!

DESCRIPTION: 48 jumps onto the racetrack.

FORTY-EIGHT: Ha-ha!

FORTY-TWO: Wow! She's a fast racer, alright!

[Chuckling]

FORTY-TWO: But there's more than one way to get to Puzzle Square. Ha-ha!

DESCRIPTION: A teleportation hexagon appears above 42, and 42 disappears.

FORTY-TWO: Toodle-oo from 42!

FORTY-EIGHT: Woohoo!

DESCRIPTION: 48 jumps onto a different racetrack.

FORTY-EIGHT: Ooh, Six rays fast. Eight rays faster!

[Grunting]

FORTY-EIGHT: I'm winning, I'm winning! I'm--

[Gasping]

FORTY-EIGHT: --not winning.

DESCRIPTION: Seven hexagon portals open in the sky above Puzzle Square– a large, purple castle. Seven groups of 6’s fall from the sky.

SIXES: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven.

ALL: Seven sixes in the sky!

DESCRIPTION: The 6’s combine to create 42.

FORTY-TWO: Oh, er, did I win?

FORTY-EIGHT: Yes! Well done, 42. And we've got the rest of the weekend for a rematch. But before that, I do have one question.

FORTY-TWO: Yeah, how did I get here so fast?

FORTY-EIGHT: No. Where did that rubber duck come from?

DESCRIPTION: 42 pulls a rubber duck from behind him.

FORTY-TWO: Oh!

[Laughing]

FORTY-TWO: I teleported into my bath on the way here.

[Chuckling]

FORTY-TWO: Now, how about that rematch?

DESCRIPTION: 42 and 48 jump onto the racetracks.

FORTY-EIGHT: You're on. Let's go!

FORTY-TWO: Wahoo!

FORTY-EIGHT: I'm going to beat you this time.

FORTY-TWO: No, you won't!

[Upbeat music]

[End credits] “Directed by: Andrew Emerson. Head Writers: Ciaran Murtagh & Andrew Barnett Jones. Senior Maths Consultant: Dr. Debbie Morgan. Producer for Alphablocks ltd. Divya Sachdeva–Malde. Production Assistant: Priyanka Patel. Storyboard Artist: Malachi James. Voices: Nneka Okoye, David Carling, Teresa Gallagher, Beth Chalmers, David Holt, Marcel McCalla. Production Manager: Zoe Kerswell. Production Assistant: Chiara Cannata. Creator: Joe Elliot. Director: Will Lloyd–Cook. Alphablocks. BBC.