Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: Season 6

• Season 6 Episode 13: Tom Time

  Tom Time's poor punctuality brings its own reward when he misses the space shuttle that would carry him to safety when the world explodes

• Season 6 Episode 12: The Piranha Sisters

  A practical joker tips clockwork piranha into a swimming pool to wreck her little sister's birthday party. However, she later learns her lesson when real snapping fish pour out of the tap into her bath. Narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 6 Episode 11: Big Head

  Conceited football mascot Sammy Slitherall becomes too big-headed for his own good, and has to be cured by a practitioner of Chinese medicine

• Season 6 Episode 10: The Old Tailor of Pelting Moor

  The tale of a fashion victim named Jumbo Ferrari, who always wears clothes different from those of other people. When he hears about an exclusive new suit from the Old Tailor of Pelting Moor, he decides he must have one - but is in for a nasty surprise

• Season 6 Episode 9: The Lobster's Scream

  Selfish youngster Shannon Shellfish is led into hot water by her desire to own a papier-mache lobster

• Season 6 Episode 8: The Dumb Klutzes

  A con-man arrives at a town whose residents believe everything they are told, and promises them untold gifts - if they agree to let a giant eat them

• Season 6 Episode 7: Nobby's Nightmare

  A youngster is driven dotty by the sheer embarrassment of living with nudist parents. Finding himself confronted by a green alien, he's unable to decide whether his predicament is real or imaginary - and suffers the consequences

• Season 6 Episode 6: Eboy

  A computer addict gets his comeuppance when the Phantom Postman prepares him for life in cyberspace, with just one eye, fingers to type and a brain to think with

• Season 6 Episode 5: The Watermelon Babies

  Two selfish sisters who are wasteful with water are turned into watermelons to quench the thirst of their dehydrated classmates

• Season 6 Episode 4: Why Boys Make Better Burglars

  Youthful burglar Billy pays the price for his overconfidence and finds himself facing a three-year spell behind bars - leaving his sister free to prove that girls are better at shoplifting

• Season 6 Episode 3: The Clothes Pig

  A boy whose bedroom is as dirty as a pigsty is paid a visit by the very hungry Clothes Pigs. Narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 6 Episode 2: Recyclops

  A selfish girl is given a lesson in reusing waste by the Recyclops. A cautionary tale, based on the books by Jamie Rix and narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 6 Episode 1: Jamie's School Dinners

  A boy defies his school's healthy eating policy and eats nothing but junk food - until he explodes and ends up being turned into chicken nuggets

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: Season 5

• Season 5 Episode 13: The Soul Stealer

  A youngster uses the camera in her mobile phone to blackmail family and friends - only to get trapped inside one of her own photographs. Last in series

• Season 5 Episode 12: Puppet on a String

  Wilful would-be stage actor Calloway learns the folly of being unco-operative at home

• Season 5 Episode 11: Her Majesty's Moley

  A girl who turned a mole's paw into a keyring is cursed by the three-legged animal - sending her burrowing underground to escape it

• Season 5 Episode 10: Silence is Golden

  A noisy girl won't stop shouting so the school librarians contact an alchemist - who quietens her down by turning her into a golden statue

• Season 5 Episode 9: William the Conkerer

  A boy regrets damaging horse chestnut trees when the Red-Fingered Gardener turns him into a conker

• Season 5 Episode 8: Kiss and Make Up

  A fairy uses enchanted vanishing cream to steal a youngster's face for herself, and give her an ugly one in return

• Season 5 Episode 7: The Weather Witch

  The Weather Witch turns a cruel youngster who is nasty to old people into an ice sculpture

• Season 5 Episode 6: Wolf Child

  A boy who acts like a baby to take the attention off his newborn sister is abducted by wolves - who are reputed to eat infants

• Season 5 Episode 5: The Grub a Blub Blub

  A girl who loves lazing around is sent to a special camp where her lie-ins aren't tolerated - and something strange happens to her sleeping bag

• Season 5 Episode 4: Monty's Python

  A boy flushes his pet snake down the toilet because its appetite has grown too large - but soon regrets his actions when he has to use the facilities

• Season 5 Episode 3: The Fruit Bat

  A fussy girl learns about healthy eating the hard way when she is turned into a fruit bat

• Season 5 Episode 2: The Butcher Boy

  A boy's jealousy prompts him to steal the butcher's son's bike, but his actions lead to him finding out what it's like to be part of the meat industry

• Season 5 Episode 1: The Bugaboo Bear

  A girl who mistreated her teddy bear is punished when she is transformed into a stuffed toy and sold to another destructive youngster

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: Season 4

• Season 4 Episode 13: The Top Hat

  A boy abuses the power of a magic hat, but is taught a lesson when the object swallows him and refuses to let him go

• Season 4 Episode 12: Grass Monkey

  Poor Spike falls in love with a girl who cares for her hair more than him. Narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 4 Episode 11: Athlete's Foot

  A pair of ordinary-seeming running shoes hide a sinister secret dating from World War Two. Narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 4 Episode 10: Superstitious Nonsense

  A superstitious girl meets an untimely end in a way she could never have predicted

• Season 4 Episode 9: Goblin Mountain

  A boy with no respect for literature is buried alive by goblins intent on turning him into a book

• Season 4 Episode 8: The Stickmen

  A lonely, friendless youngster's drawings come to life and take him into their world

• Season 4 Episode 7: Bogman

  A lazy child who prefers sitting on the toilet reading comics to helping with the washing-up is snatched by the mysterious Bogman

• Season 4 Episode 6: Bessy O'Messy

  A scruffy girl falls into her laundry mountain and meets the O'Reilly leprechauns who want her to stay as their housekeeper

• Season 4 Episode 5: Bunny Boy

  Nigel Planer tells Jamie Rix's cautionary tale about a boy who won't eat his greens - until he has a nasty accident involving a combine harvester and a rabbit called Tubs

• Season 4 Episode 4: The People Potter

  A clumsy girl is turned into porcelain by the sinister People Potter. Narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 4 Episode 3: The Gas Man Cometh

  A practical joker pays the price for making repeated hoax phone calls - and spends the rest of his days wishing he hadn't been such a gasbag

• Season 4 Episode 2: It's Only a Game, Sport

  A competitive boy who doesn't play fair gets into a deadly game of snakes and ladders

• Season 4 Episode 1: Bogeyman

  A girl with a nasty habit is taught a lesson by the sinister Bogeyman

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: Season 3

• Season 3 Episode 13: The Decomposition of Delia Dethabridge

  A careless girl regrets leaving a story-book unread when the characters come to life

• Season 3 Episode 12: Little Fingers

  Daffyd faces a disturbing prospect when his fingers become possessed and spend the whole time fiddling - until someone chops them off

• Season 3 Episode 11: Crocodile Tears

  Weepy Wen, who uses tears to get her own way, ends up with more than she bargained for when an angry crocodile comes calling

• Season 3 Episode 10: Dirty Bertie

  A dirty lad who never washes gets a shock when a disgusting space monster falls in love with him

• Season 3 Episode 9: Head in the Clouds

  Accident-prone youngster Brian spends all his time daydreaming, until one day he loses his head : literally

• Season 3 Episode 8: The Pie Man

  A youngster learns the hard way that constant thumb-sucking is not only a quick way to lose friends, but a short-cut to disaster

• Season 3 Episode 7: Spoilsport

  A girl spoils her brother's excitement at losing one of his baby teeth by telling him the tooth fairy doesn't exist - though she is soon proved wrong

• Season 3 Episode 6: When the Bed Bugs Bite

  Nigel Planer tells the tale of Hannibal, who was only cured of his biting habit when he encountered some bedbugs

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Urban Fox

  An urban fox called Elvis disguises himself to avoid the horse and hound brigade who like to chase him through the back gardens of Tooting

• Season 3 Episode 4: Simon Sulk

  A moody boy locks himself in his bedroom so he can have a good long sulk, little realising a band of Icelandic trolls are just waiting to get their hands on him

• Season 3 Episode 3: The Locked Door

  An innocent girl discovers the terrifying secret lurking behind a locked door in a haunted house

• Season 3 Episode 2: Knock Down Ginger

  Ginger and Mad Milo terrorise an old man by constantly knocking on his door and running away : but their victim plots a gruesome revenge. Narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 3 Episode 1: The Upset Stomach

  A greedy girl learns an unusual lesson about overeating. Narrated by Nigel Planer

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: Season 2 (2001)

• Season 2 Episode 13: Well'ard Willard

  A boy steals the sun and hides it under his bed, but pays for his misdemeanour in gruesome fashion. Last in series

• Season 2 Episode 12: The Broken-Down Cottage

  Two runaways hide in a haunted cottage and amuse themselves by making hoax phone calls to the emergency services : only to meet a gruesome end

• Season 2 Episode 11: Fat Boy with a Trumpet

  A school bully picks the wrong target in bespectacled trumpet-player Timothy

• Season 2 Episode 10: The Litterbug

  Overweight litterbug Bunty Porker is punished for strewing rubbish everywhere : by a hungry monster who gobbles her up

• Season 2 Episode 9: Tag

  A youngster steals a schoolmate's football kit, but soon gets his comeuppance. Nigel Planer narrates

• Season 2 Episode 8: Prince Noman

  A prince gradually fades away and becomes invisible, prompting his concerned mother to make a new face for him

• Season 2 Episode 7: An Elephant Never Forgets

  Two spoilt children receive a magic elephant's foot and decide to bring the animal back to life : but things don't quite go to plan

• Season 2 Episode 6: Mr Peeler's Butterflies

  Jamie Rix's cautionary tale of a naughty boy who refused to go to bed and exhausted his parents - until Mr Peeler solved the problem once and for all

• Season 2 Episode 5: The Giant Who Grew Too Big for His Boots

  Giant Huge Hugh gets too big for his boots, growing to such enormous proportions that he eventually explodes

• Season 2 Episode 4: The Childhood Snatcher

  A phantom called the Childhood Snatcher turns a little girl into a wrinkled old woman before her fourth birthday

• Season 2 Episode 3: Cat Burglar

  A greedy girl pretends to find a missing cat so she can claim the reward : but soon gets her comeuppance

• Season 2 Episode 2: Glued to the Telly

  A boy gets sucked into his TV set, where he's initially delighted to meet a host of favourite characters : until a fire breaks out, burning him to a crisp

• Season 2 Episode 1: Jack In the Box

  A boy who never stops talking gets turned into a ventriloquist's dummy at his sister's birthday party

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: Season 1

• Season 1 Episode 13: Doctor Moribundus

  Mirth and mayhem for younger viewers, based on the books by Jamie Rix and narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 1 Episode 12: Sweets

  Mirth and mayhem for younger viewers, based on the books by Jamie Rix and narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 1 Episode 11: The History Lesson

  A lazy schoolgirl receives help with her history exams from a ghost - who unfortunately proves to be the biggest dunce in the spirit world

• Season 1 Episode 10: The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping

  Picnickers help themselves to a farmer's apples - until he catches them scrumping

• Season 1 Episode 9: Barber of Civil

  Cheeky children are taught a lesson in manners by a sinister barber who trims their unruly tongues

• Season 1 Episode 8: Burgership

  Unscrupulous burger tycoon the Happy Cowboy chops down an entire rainforest to make room for his cattle to graze - but the trees return in phantom form to haunt him

• Season 1 Episode 7: The Princess's Clothes

  A girl's clothing collection is the envy of all her friends - until mischievous Miss Shears turns up with her magic scissors. Narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 1 Episode 6: A Tangled Web

  A boy is plagued by nightmares after callously killing a pregnant spider

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Wooden Hill

  A boy imagines all sorts of bogeymen and trolls are lurking in the darkness as he goes upstairs for a bedtime book

• Season 1 Episode 4: Grandmother's Footsteps

  A grandmother tells a story to youngster frightened by the shadows outside his window : but the tale has a surprise ending

• Season 1 Episode 3: Death By Chocolate

  A mean older sister meets a sticky end when she eats some maggot-infested chocolate and turns into a fly. Narrated by Nigel Planer

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Spaghetti Man

  A boy who refuses to eat his food is turned into pasta by the Spaghetti Man : and unwittingly eaten by his parents

• Season 1 Episode 1: The New Nanny

  The cautionary story of two spoilt brats who meet their match in a nanny determined not to take any nonsense from them. Nigel Planer narrates

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: Special (2004)

• The Crystal Eye

  A spoilt brat gets the chance to change his ways and be good like his identical twin brother when a gypsy turns up on the doorstep on Christmas Eve. Cautionary tale by Jamie Rix, narrated by Nigel Planer