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Transcript: We Need Another Hero
NumberBlocks
Descriptive Transcript
[Bouncy theme music plays]
DESCRIPTION: One red block with eyes has a numberling with the number One. Two, Three, Four, and Five run beside One.
[Song] One, two, three, four, five, NumberBlocks.
DESCRIPTION: Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten jump.
[Song] Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, number blocks. One and another one is two, and another one is…
[Chiming]
DESCRIPTION: Two Ones combine and make Two. Another One jumps on the stack and makes Three.
THREE SINGS: Me.
[Song] That’s three. Five, four, three, two, one, time for some number fun. You can count on us, we're the NumberBlocks.
[Chiming]
[Title] NumberBlocks.
[Alarm blares, door rattles, tense music plays]
DESCRIPTION: A door slides open and Forty arrives in the Octo-Cave. Eight leans over a panel on Octo-computer.
FORTY: Octoblock, I came as soon as I saw the level five Octo-alert.
[Zapping, Eight grunts]
DESCRIPTION: Eight turns and looks at Forty.
EIGHT: 40, thank goodness you're here! I'm rushed off my tentacles. Octo-alerts have been going off all morning.
[Alarm continues, tense music continues]
DESCRIPTION: Eight points at an Octo-alert board showing levels one to five. Each level has a picture of the NumberBlock responding and their name. Level one shows Eight, level two shows Sixteen, level three shows Twenty-Four, level four shows Thirty-Two, and level five shows Forty.
EIGHT: First, I was dealing with a level one Octo-alert. That's me, one Super Eight, but then a level two alert went off, so I had to call another of the Super Eights.
[Typing, whoosh, rock music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Eight types on Octo-computer, and the number two appears on the screen. Sixteen appears on the screen. She chases a red balloon and an orange balloon.
EIGHT: Two lots of eight. 16!
[Exciting music plays]
SIXTEEN: Escaping party balloons!
[Sixteen grunts]
DESCRIPTION: The balloons drift in opposite directions.
SIXTEEN: Oh, time to split!
[Whirring]
DESCRIPTION: Sixteen divides into two Eights, and each chases a balloon.
EIGHTS: Ha!
[The music stops, zapping, typing]
DESCRIPTION: In the Octo-Cave, Eight types on Octo-computer and Twenty-Four appears on the screen.
EIGHT: And then, a level three Octo-alert came in, so I needed another hero!
[Exciting music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Eight red numberblobs huddle together on top of a tree with the number three projected into the sky nearby.
NUMBERBLOBS: Help! Help!
DESCRIPTION: Twenty-Four arrives and spins.
TWENTY-FOUR: Don't worry, 24 is here to save the day!
[Twenty-Four grunts]
DESCRIPTION: Twenty-Four flies to the top of the tree and picks up a numberblob.
NUMBERBLOBS: Yay!
[Boing]
DESCRIPTION: Twenty-Four puts the first numberblob on the ground; they bounce, then look at Twenty-Four.
TWENTY-FOUR: Ooh, this may take a while.
NUMBERBLOBS: Help! Help!
DESCRIPTION: Twenty-Four notices a second tree with numberblobs stranded on the top.
TWENTY-FOUR: Uh-oh. We need another hero.
DESCRIPTION: The number four appears projected into the sky beside the number three, and Thirty-Two lands beside the second tree.
THIRTY-TWO: Double trouble, you need a dynamic doubler!
[Popping]
DESCRIPTION: Thirty-Two shifts into a staircase form.
THIRTY-TWO: 32, four lots of eight.
[Boings]
DESCRIPTION: The numberblobs bounce down the stairs.
NUMBERBLOBS: Yay!
[Barking]
DESCRIPTION: Oblongy sits on top of another tree.
[The music stops]
THIRTY-TWO: Oblongy! We need another hero.
[Forty gasps]
DESCRIPTION: In the Octo-cave, Forty stands with Eight.
EIGHT: Which is where you come in, 40.
[Exciting music plays]
FORTY: I'm on my way! Hold on, Oblongy!
DESCRIPTION: Forty leaves. Eight points to the missions listed on the Octo-alert board.
EIGHT: Phew, that's half of the Super Eights out on missions. Eight, Sixteen, Twenty-Four, Thirty-Two, and Forty.
[Oblongy vocalizes, exciting music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Forty arrives at the tree, then flips through a green book.
FORTY: Here I am, my furry friend. I'll use my rectangle collection to rescue you, but which one? That one's nice. But so's that. Ooh, and that.
[Oblongy groans, the music stops, Eight sighs]
DESCRIPTION: Oblongy rolls their eyes. In the Octo-cave, Eight sags.
EIGHT: At last I can finish my mission. All I need to do is—
[Alarm blares, Eight groans, exciting music plays]
DESCRIPTION: A six appears on the computer screen.
EIGHT: A level 6 Octo-alert!
DESCRIPTION: In a jungle, Blockzee rubs her tummy.
BLOCKZEE: Blockzee forget picnic basket! Blockzee hungry.
[Click, beep]
DESCRIPTION: In the Octo-cave, lights flash. Eight pushes a button.
EIGHT: Oh, no. We need another Super Eight. This calls for...
[Whoosh, exciting music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In the sky, a six projects and Forty-Eight flies beside it.
FORTY-EIGHT: 48, activate! Six chunky eights!
[Pop, Eights chuckle, whoosh]
DESCRIPTION: Forty-Eight divides into six Eights. The Eights land, and each holds a grey patterned block.
EIGHTS: With six juicy block fruit!
[Slide whistle, Eights grunt, blocks thump]
DESCRIPTION: The Eights throw the grey blocks on the ground near Blockzee.
[The music stops]
BLOCKZEE: Mm, Blockzee like block fruit, but all same colour? Blockzee like more colours!
[Tense music notes play, slide whistle]
DESCRIPTION: Blockzee stomps and the Eights combine into Forty-Eight.
FORTY-EIGHT: More colours? I can't help you there. We need another hero!
[Tense music plays, click, whirring]
DESCRIPTION: In the Octo-cave, the number seven appears on the computer screen. Eight pushes a button, and the level seven alert appears on the board with a picture of Fifty-Six.
EIGHT: A level seven! Okay, there's only one Super Eight for this mission. In a colourful fix, call 56!
[Fifty-Six gasps]
FIFTY-SIX: A level seven Octo-alert? Somebody needs my Rainbow Eights!
[Whirring, zapping, epic music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Fifty-Six lands between Blockzee and Forty-Eight, and splits into seven Eights, each a different colour of the rainbow. As each Eight says their colour, they shoot a beam of light at a grey block, changing it to their colour.
RED EIGHT: Red!
ORANGE EIGHT: Orange!
YELLOW EIGHT: Yellow!
GREEN EIGHT: Green!
BLUE EIGHT: Blue!
INDIGO EIGHT: Indigo!
VIOLET EIGHT: Violet!
[Violet Eight grunts]
DESCRIPTION: Violet Eight holds a grey block, changes the colour to violet, then throws it into the pile of colourful blocks.
BLOCKZEE: Mm, yummy!
DESCRIPTION: In the Octo-cave, Eight walks away from Octo-computer.
EIGHT: That should do the trick, so long as we don't have any really big problems.
[Siren blares]
DESCRIPTION: Eight rolls his eyes and slumps.
EIGHT: Oh, me and my big mouth.
[Zapping]
DESCRIPTION: Eight types on the computer.
EIGHT: A level eight--Meddling mollusc!
[Tense music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In town, Six and Two stand at the edge of a pond where Blocktopus holds a dice.
SIX: Now, Blocktopus, it's just not nice to take and not return the dice!
[Typing, beep]
DESCRIPTION: Eight types on the computer, and line eight appears on the Octo-alert board, showing Sixty-Four’s shape and number.
EIGHT: A really big problem needs a really big hero. Eight lots of eight.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Sixty-Four flies beside the projected number eight.
SIXTY-FOUR: 64, Octoblocks squared!
DESCRIPTION: Sixty-Four lands beside Six.
BLOCKTOPUS: Ooh!
[Blocktopus vocalizes, whirring]
DESCRIPTION: Sixty-Four changes into a cube.
SIXTY-FOUR: So you like big cubes, eh, Blocktopus? Then you're going to love me. I'm not just a square, I'm a great big cube!
[Slide whistles]
DESCRIPTION: Sixty-Four divides into four Sixteens in different formations.
ALL: Four by four by four!
[Sixteens snort, chuckle]
DESCRIPTION: The Sixteens combine into Sixty-Four.
SIXTY-FOUR: I can even be a cube—
DESCRIPTION: Sixty-Four divides into eight cube-shaped Eights.
EIGHTS: Made of cubes! Octocubes are go!
[Blocktopus coos, Six and Two cheer, gentle music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Blocktopus looks at the Eights with large eyes and throws the dice.
SIX: 64, you saved the day!
[Eights laugh]
DESCRIPTION: Blocktopus holds an Eight in each tentacle and waves them.
SIX: Now, let's roll our dice and play.
[Whirr, checkmark chimes]
DESCRIPTION: In the Octocave, a checkmark appears on the board beside Octo-alert eight.
EIGHT: Emergency averted. Well done, Sixty-Four!
[Whooshing, upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: The computer screen shows flashbacks of the rescues.
EIGHT: Fifty-Six, Forty-Eight, Forty, Thirty-Two, Twenty-Four, Sixteen!
[Dings, taps]
DESCRIPTION: On the Octo-alert board, checkmarks appear on alerts seven to two. Eight holds a screwdriver and fixes the top two lines on the board: level nine with Seventy-Two and level 10 with Eighty.
EIGHT: Which leaves me, Eight, finally able to complete my mission, fixing the top two levels of the Octo-alert, Octo-alerts level nine and 10, ready for when the world needs even bigger superheroes.
[Ding]
DESCRIPTION: A checkmark appears on Octo-alert one.
DESCRIPTION: But for now, level one Octo-alert completed.
[Bouncy theme music plays]
[End Credits] Head Writers: Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones. Senior Maths Consultant: Dr. Debbie Morgan. Voices: Beth Chalmers, Teresa Gallagher, David Holt, Marcel McCalla, Nneka Okoye, Joanna Ruiz, Emma Tate. Music: Ben Lee-Delisle. Creator: Joe Elliot. Director: Will Lloyd-Cook. Executive Producer for AlphaBlocks Limited: Oli Hyatt. Commissioning Executive Producer for CBeebies: Joel Wilenius. Copyright 2024 AlphaBlocks Limited. All rights reserved. BBC.co.uk/CBeebies.
[Logos] Blue Zoo, Alpha Blocks, B.B.C.
Descriptive Transcript
[Bouncy theme music plays]
DESCRIPTION: One red block with eyes has a numberling with the number One. Two, Three, Four, and Five run beside One.
[Song] One, two, three, four, five, NumberBlocks.
DESCRIPTION: Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten jump.
[Song] Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, number blocks. One and another one is two, and another one is…
[Chiming]
DESCRIPTION: Two Ones combine and make Two. Another One jumps on the stack and makes Three.
THREE SINGS: Me.
[Song] That’s three. Five, four, three, two, one, time for some number fun. You can count on us, we're the NumberBlocks.
[Chiming]
[Title] NumberBlocks.
[Alarm blares, door rattles, tense music plays]
DESCRIPTION: A door slides open and Forty arrives in the Octo-Cave. Eight leans over a panel on Octo-computer.
FORTY: Octoblock, I came as soon as I saw the level five Octo-alert.
[Zapping, Eight grunts]
DESCRIPTION: Eight turns and looks at Forty.
EIGHT: 40, thank goodness you're here! I'm rushed off my tentacles. Octo-alerts have been going off all morning.
[Alarm continues, tense music continues]
DESCRIPTION: Eight points at an Octo-alert board showing levels one to five. Each level has a picture of the NumberBlock responding and their name. Level one shows Eight, level two shows Sixteen, level three shows Twenty-Four, level four shows Thirty-Two, and level five shows Forty.
EIGHT: First, I was dealing with a level one Octo-alert. That's me, one Super Eight, but then a level two alert went off, so I had to call another of the Super Eights.
[Typing, whoosh, rock music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Eight types on Octo-computer, and the number two appears on the screen. Sixteen appears on the screen. She chases a red balloon and an orange balloon.
EIGHT: Two lots of eight. 16!
[Exciting music plays]
SIXTEEN: Escaping party balloons!
[Sixteen grunts]
DESCRIPTION: The balloons drift in opposite directions.
SIXTEEN: Oh, time to split!
[Whirring]
DESCRIPTION: Sixteen divides into two Eights, and each chases a balloon.
EIGHTS: Ha!
[The music stops, zapping, typing]
DESCRIPTION: In the Octo-Cave, Eight types on Octo-computer and Twenty-Four appears on the screen.
EIGHT: And then, a level three Octo-alert came in, so I needed another hero!
[Exciting music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Eight red numberblobs huddle together on top of a tree with the number three projected into the sky nearby.
NUMBERBLOBS: Help! Help!
DESCRIPTION: Twenty-Four arrives and spins.
TWENTY-FOUR: Don't worry, 24 is here to save the day!
[Twenty-Four grunts]
DESCRIPTION: Twenty-Four flies to the top of the tree and picks up a numberblob.
NUMBERBLOBS: Yay!
[Boing]
DESCRIPTION: Twenty-Four puts the first numberblob on the ground; they bounce, then look at Twenty-Four.
TWENTY-FOUR: Ooh, this may take a while.
NUMBERBLOBS: Help! Help!
DESCRIPTION: Twenty-Four notices a second tree with numberblobs stranded on the top.
TWENTY-FOUR: Uh-oh. We need another hero.
DESCRIPTION: The number four appears projected into the sky beside the number three, and Thirty-Two lands beside the second tree.
THIRTY-TWO: Double trouble, you need a dynamic doubler!
[Popping]
DESCRIPTION: Thirty-Two shifts into a staircase form.
THIRTY-TWO: 32, four lots of eight.
[Boings]
DESCRIPTION: The numberblobs bounce down the stairs.
NUMBERBLOBS: Yay!
[Barking]
DESCRIPTION: Oblongy sits on top of another tree.
[The music stops]
THIRTY-TWO: Oblongy! We need another hero.
[Forty gasps]
DESCRIPTION: In the Octo-cave, Forty stands with Eight.
EIGHT: Which is where you come in, 40.
[Exciting music plays]
FORTY: I'm on my way! Hold on, Oblongy!
DESCRIPTION: Forty leaves. Eight points to the missions listed on the Octo-alert board.
EIGHT: Phew, that's half of the Super Eights out on missions. Eight, Sixteen, Twenty-Four, Thirty-Two, and Forty.
[Oblongy vocalizes, exciting music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Forty arrives at the tree, then flips through a green book.
FORTY: Here I am, my furry friend. I'll use my rectangle collection to rescue you, but which one? That one's nice. But so's that. Ooh, and that.
[Oblongy groans, the music stops, Eight sighs]
DESCRIPTION: Oblongy rolls their eyes. In the Octo-cave, Eight sags.
EIGHT: At last I can finish my mission. All I need to do is—
[Alarm blares, Eight groans, exciting music plays]
DESCRIPTION: A six appears on the computer screen.
EIGHT: A level 6 Octo-alert!
DESCRIPTION: In a jungle, Blockzee rubs her tummy.
BLOCKZEE: Blockzee forget picnic basket! Blockzee hungry.
[Click, beep]
DESCRIPTION: In the Octo-cave, lights flash. Eight pushes a button.
EIGHT: Oh, no. We need another Super Eight. This calls for...
[Whoosh, exciting music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In the sky, a six projects and Forty-Eight flies beside it.
FORTY-EIGHT: 48, activate! Six chunky eights!
[Pop, Eights chuckle, whoosh]
DESCRIPTION: Forty-Eight divides into six Eights. The Eights land, and each holds a grey patterned block.
EIGHTS: With six juicy block fruit!
[Slide whistle, Eights grunt, blocks thump]
DESCRIPTION: The Eights throw the grey blocks on the ground near Blockzee.
[The music stops]
BLOCKZEE: Mm, Blockzee like block fruit, but all same colour? Blockzee like more colours!
[Tense music notes play, slide whistle]
DESCRIPTION: Blockzee stomps and the Eights combine into Forty-Eight.
FORTY-EIGHT: More colours? I can't help you there. We need another hero!
[Tense music plays, click, whirring]
DESCRIPTION: In the Octo-cave, the number seven appears on the computer screen. Eight pushes a button, and the level seven alert appears on the board with a picture of Fifty-Six.
EIGHT: A level seven! Okay, there's only one Super Eight for this mission. In a colourful fix, call 56!
[Fifty-Six gasps]
FIFTY-SIX: A level seven Octo-alert? Somebody needs my Rainbow Eights!
[Whirring, zapping, epic music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Fifty-Six lands between Blockzee and Forty-Eight, and splits into seven Eights, each a different colour of the rainbow. As each Eight says their colour, they shoot a beam of light at a grey block, changing it to their colour.
RED EIGHT: Red!
ORANGE EIGHT: Orange!
YELLOW EIGHT: Yellow!
GREEN EIGHT: Green!
BLUE EIGHT: Blue!
INDIGO EIGHT: Indigo!
VIOLET EIGHT: Violet!
[Violet Eight grunts]
DESCRIPTION: Violet Eight holds a grey block, changes the colour to violet, then throws it into the pile of colourful blocks.
BLOCKZEE: Mm, yummy!
DESCRIPTION: In the Octo-cave, Eight walks away from Octo-computer.
EIGHT: That should do the trick, so long as we don't have any really big problems.
[Siren blares]
DESCRIPTION: Eight rolls his eyes and slumps.
EIGHT: Oh, me and my big mouth.
[Zapping]
DESCRIPTION: Eight types on the computer.
EIGHT: A level eight--Meddling mollusc!
[Tense music plays]
DESCRIPTION: In town, Six and Two stand at the edge of a pond where Blocktopus holds a dice.
SIX: Now, Blocktopus, it's just not nice to take and not return the dice!
[Typing, beep]
DESCRIPTION: Eight types on the computer, and line eight appears on the Octo-alert board, showing Sixty-Four’s shape and number.
EIGHT: A really big problem needs a really big hero. Eight lots of eight.
[Upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Sixty-Four flies beside the projected number eight.
SIXTY-FOUR: 64, Octoblocks squared!
DESCRIPTION: Sixty-Four lands beside Six.
BLOCKTOPUS: Ooh!
[Blocktopus vocalizes, whirring]
DESCRIPTION: Sixty-Four changes into a cube.
SIXTY-FOUR: So you like big cubes, eh, Blocktopus? Then you're going to love me. I'm not just a square, I'm a great big cube!
[Slide whistles]
DESCRIPTION: Sixty-Four divides into four Sixteens in different formations.
ALL: Four by four by four!
[Sixteens snort, chuckle]
DESCRIPTION: The Sixteens combine into Sixty-Four.
SIXTY-FOUR: I can even be a cube—
DESCRIPTION: Sixty-Four divides into eight cube-shaped Eights.
EIGHTS: Made of cubes! Octocubes are go!
[Blocktopus coos, Six and Two cheer, gentle music plays]
DESCRIPTION: Blocktopus looks at the Eights with large eyes and throws the dice.
SIX: 64, you saved the day!
[Eights laugh]
DESCRIPTION: Blocktopus holds an Eight in each tentacle and waves them.
SIX: Now, let's roll our dice and play.
[Whirr, checkmark chimes]
DESCRIPTION: In the Octocave, a checkmark appears on the board beside Octo-alert eight.
EIGHT: Emergency averted. Well done, Sixty-Four!
[Whooshing, upbeat music plays]
DESCRIPTION: The computer screen shows flashbacks of the rescues.
EIGHT: Fifty-Six, Forty-Eight, Forty, Thirty-Two, Twenty-Four, Sixteen!
[Dings, taps]
DESCRIPTION: On the Octo-alert board, checkmarks appear on alerts seven to two. Eight holds a screwdriver and fixes the top two lines on the board: level nine with Seventy-Two and level 10 with Eighty.
EIGHT: Which leaves me, Eight, finally able to complete my mission, fixing the top two levels of the Octo-alert, Octo-alerts level nine and 10, ready for when the world needs even bigger superheroes.
[Ding]
DESCRIPTION: A checkmark appears on Octo-alert one.
DESCRIPTION: But for now, level one Octo-alert completed.
[Bouncy theme music plays]
[End Credits] Head Writers: Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones. Senior Maths Consultant: Dr. Debbie Morgan. Voices: Beth Chalmers, Teresa Gallagher, David Holt, Marcel McCalla, Nneka Okoye, Joanna Ruiz, Emma Tate. Music: Ben Lee-Delisle. Creator: Joe Elliot. Director: Will Lloyd-Cook. Executive Producer for AlphaBlocks Limited: Oli Hyatt. Commissioning Executive Producer for CBeebies: Joel Wilenius. Copyright 2024 AlphaBlocks Limited. All rights reserved. BBC.co.uk/CBeebies.
[Logos] Blue Zoo, Alpha Blocks, B.B.C.
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