''Alphablocks'' is a British

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for

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ers that debuted on

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on 25 January 2010. The programme was created by Joe Elliot and produced by Alphablocks Ltd (Magic Lantern in series 1) with Blue Zoo. It was commissioned by the

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. The show follows the Alphablocks, characters made of blocks who represent each letter of the alphabet. They live in a fictional planet called Alphaland and embark on adventures relating to word concepts.

List of episodes

Series 1 (2010)

Series 2 (2011–12)

Series 3 (2012–13)

# Wish (UG word family) # Snowman (AN word family) # Win (IN word family) # Hat (AP word family) # Little Red N # Dots # Frog on a Dog (short vowels I and O) # Best (letter blend ST) # Fit (IT word family) # Odd (short vowel O; nonsense words) # Champ (digraphs CH and SH) # Song (digraph NG) # Thing (digraph TH) # Train (digraph AI) # Beep (digraph EE) # Tightrope (trigraph IGH) # Toad (digraph OA) # Book (digraph OO) # Hey! (vowels A, I, O, and OO) # Card (digraph AR) # The End (digraphs OI, OR, and UR) # How now brown cow (digraph OW) # Fair (trigraphs AIR, EAR, and URE, and digraph ER) # Ants (introduction to letter blends) # Ink (INK word family) # Crash (short vowel A; onomatopoeic words)

Series 4 (2013)

# Four (words with ending blends) # Clap (words with beginning blends) # Prank (words with beginning and ending blends) # Plusman (compound words) # Alphabet (digraphs WH and PH) # Name (long vowel A) # Sleep (long vowel E) # Mine (long vowel I) # Home (long vowel O) # Blue (long vowel U, and digraph EW) # Outlaw (words with AW and AU) # Birthday Girl (digraph IR) # Cowboy (digraphs OY and OU)

Series 5 (2025)

# An Alphablocks Adventure # Pip # C Versus K # Castles # R's Really Rare Rose # An Apple a Day # Ned # Treasure # Pot # No Fun Without U

Specials (2021–22)

# Band Together (making words with letters appearing in alphabetical order) # The Wonderful Wizard of Az (changing vowels in CVC words) # Boo! (vowels A, O, and OO) # Letters to Santa (Christmas vocabulary) # Making Friends # Crossover (the A1-Z26 cipher) # The Case of the Missing Blocks (word magic with 2 words) # The Blocks v Blocks Games (anagrams)

''Alphablocks: Word Magic''

''Alphablocks: Word Magic'' is a spin-off of Alphablocks. ''Alphablocks: Word Magic'' is a series of 26 short episodes published all at the same time on

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in 2020. Each and every episode will begin with the letter doing something, with the narrator describing it. After that, three words will be spelled with that letter, and a little scene will play that has something to do with that word. After the words, the same Alphablock animation will play a second time. There are 26 episodes, one for each letter in the alphabet. The episodes last for 1–3 minutes.

References

External links

* * {{Official website, http://www.alphablocks.tv/ *
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