Numberblocks

Numberblocks is a British children's CGI-animated TV series. It debuted on CBeebies on 23 January 2009. It is produced by Blue-Zoo Productions and Alphablocks, the studios that also produce Alphablocks. The show teaches children numeracy including simple arithmetic.

In 2017, the show was nominated for a BAFTA award in the "Learning" category.

Premise
Numberblocks follows the adventures of cute block characters in Numberland, with the number of blocks determining which numeral they stand for and a tiny black floating number above them to show how many blocks they are made of, which they call a Numberling. When one of the blocks hops on top of another, they transform into a different character to make a new number. The show helps toddlers and young kids learn numeracy skills, especially how to count and do simple math.

Characters

 * Zero/0: Zero blocks. She resembles a ghost, with only a visible mouth. Voiced by Teresa Gallagher
 * One/1: One single red block, but also sometimes a solid "one-block". She is a cube. She resembles a cyclops, due to her one eye, unlike the other Numberblocks. She is sweet, fun-loving, curious, bubbly, friendly, and clever. Sometimes she feels sad since she was only being a single block. She also loves finding things that there are one of. She appears in almost all of the episodes except seven. Voiced by Elizabeth "Beth" Chalmers
 * Two/2: Two orange blocks. Starting from his eponymous episode onwards, he wears purple glasses and two sparkling orange dancing shoes. He is very kind and smart, and is One's best friend who loves helping her make pairs, like shoes and socks. Voiced by Marcellus "Marcel" McCalla
 * Three/3: Three yellow blocks. She resembles a jester, due to her cap with three bells, and her three red juggling balls down her front. She is happy-go-lucky, sometimes a little self-centered, and loves to entertain and juggle. Her catchphrase is "Look at me!" Voiced by Elizabeth "Beth" Chalmers
 * Four/4: Four green blocks, usually oriented as a 2×2 square, but sometimes four blocks high or arranged like Tetris blocks. He has square-shaped eyes square-shaped eyebrows, and an upper-overbite. He is happy-go-lucky, sweet, kind-hearted, and friendly. He loves being a square and finding things which are square. Voiced by Marcellus "Marcel" McCalla
 * Five/5: Five blue blocks. She wears a big blue glove with five fingers, and has a star around her right eye. She also has an Irish accent. She is sweet, bubbly, and friendly, and loves reading her book and guiding the other Numberblocks from One to Four on adventures, games, and many other things. She can also transform in to an L or T shape, or sometimes pentominoes from some Tetris games. She once formed a band in her eponymous episode. Voiced by Elizabeth "Beth" Chalmers
 * Six/6: Six indigo/dark purple blocks with one spot each. She has three eyelashes on each eye. When oriented six blocks high, she can make dice markings appear on her body. She loves playing games, rolling dice, and rapping. She also loves to rhyme, and she almost always speaks in rhyme. Voiced by Teresa Gallagher
 * Seven/7: Seven blocks, each one in a different color of the rainbow. He has rainbow-colored hair. He also has a Welsh accent. He is naturally lucky, friendly, and kind, and loves making others happy. His catchphrase is, "That was lucky!" When he was first seen, he was violet/purple. Voiced by David Holt
 * Eight/8: Eight magenta blocks. His eyes are dark magenta with eight long points (four on each side), and he has eight cuttlefish tentacles. He is also known as "Octoblock". "Octonite" and "Octo Signal" are references. He is bold, heroic, and kind, and loves using all of his limbs for many things, such as tickling, climbing, running, crawling, and many others. His catchphrases are "Octoblock, [command]! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, [said command]!" and "Have no fear, Octoblock is here!" In Chapter 8 of "Now We Are Six To Ten", he wasn't Octoblock until he got tickled by a radioactive octopus. Voiced by Marcellus "Marcel" McCalla
 * Nine/9: Nine blocks, each three in a different shade of grey, usually oriented as a 3×3 square. In "The Wrong Number", Nine's suspect had a flat head when standing two blocks wide. In Chapter 9 of Now We Are Six Ten, Nine is not a rectangle. He is best friends with Four. He is also calm, and kind. While being a 3×3 square, he sneezes often, temporarily losing a One from his center and becoming an Eight again. Voiced by David Holt
 * Ten/10: Ten white blocks with red borders, but also sometimes a solid "ten-block". She wears two gloves with five fingers each, and has a star around both eyes. She can also turn herself into a rocket, and then blast off by counting down from ten to one. Voiced by Teresa Gallagher
 * Eleven/11: Eleven blocks, ten white with red borders, and one red. She has lime-green limbs and one eye larger than the other. She loves playing football and is a fan of the sport. Voiced by Elizabeth "Beth" Chalmers
 * Twelve/12: Twelve blocks, ten white with red borders, and two orange. When oriented in a 4×3 or 3×4 rectangle, her orange blocks are in the middle. When oriented in a 1×12 tower, her orange blocks are on top. She wears a rectangular wristwatch-like device on her left wrist called an 'array display', has red legs, yoga pants and rectangular eyes. She is also known a super rectangle, because her blocks can form lots of different-sized rectangles. Voiced by Emma Tate
 * Thirteen/13: Thirteen blocks, ten white with red borders, and three yellow. He has maroon eyes, lips, eyebrows, and limbs. Every time anyone, even Thirteen himself, says his name, something unlucky happens to him and he splits into a Ten and a Three. Voiced by Marcellus "Marcel" McCalla
 * Fourteen/14: Fourteen blocks, ten white with red borders, and four green. He wears a dark green helmet and has rainbow-colored eyebrows. He is a skateboarder, and he calls himself "Extreme Fourteen". He rides on a rainbow-coloured skateboard that splits into halves every time he splits into two Sevens. He also speaks with a Scottish English. His catchphrase is "Extreme!" Voiced by David Holt
 * Fifteen/15: Fifteen blocks, ten white with red borders, and five blue. She has dark blue eyes with a double-step-shaped mask around them and two boots, one white, and one blue. She is a Super Special Step Shape Secret Agent, codenamed "Agent Fifteen". She often hides in the form of steps and sometimes a tower, and splits herself into the Super Special Secret Step Squad, a group that consists of the first five Numberblocks. Her catchphrase is "Hush, hush!" Voiced by Teresa Gallagher
 * Sixteen/16: Sixteen blocks, ten white with red borders, and six indigo/dark purple, usually oriented as a 4×4 square. She also has lavender eyes and dark indigo limbs. She likes throwing square parties. She is also made up of four squares. She can sneeze into a Twelve and a Four as shown by her introduction episode. Voiced by Elizabeth "Beth" Chalmers
 * Seventeen/17: Seventeen blocks, ten white with red borders, and seven rainbow-colored. He has dark purple eyes and limbs. He is a painter, and likes to paint seventeen of everything. Voiced by David Holt
 * Eighteen/18: Eighteen blocks, ten white with red borders, and eight magenta. Like his sister Twelve, he likes to rides rays and is a super rectangle. He is also speedy and very active. His catchphrase is "Refreshing!" Voiced by Rasmus Hardiker
 * Nineteen/19: Nineteen blocks, ten white with red borders, and nine grey-shaded. She has a pencil that follows her around and a hidden talent, which is shapeshifting. She is a one-off and has funny shaped eyebrows and grey eyes and limbs and has very dark lips. Voiced by Emma Tate
 * Twenty/20: Twenty apricot blocks with orange borders. He wears purple eyeglasses like Two does. He has black-and-white shoes and wears a wristwatch. He loves to dance. Voiced by Marcellus "Marcel" McCalla
 * Twenty-One/21: Twenty-one blocks, twenty apricot blocks with orange borders, and one red. She first appeared in "Twenty-One and On", and is a number explorer. Voiced by Emma Tate
 * Twenty-Two/22: Twenty-two blocks, twenty apricot blocks with orange borders, and two orange. Like Eleven, he loves football, and he is two lots of eleven. Voiced by Marcellus "Marcel" McCalla
 * Twenty-Five/25: Twenty-five blocks, twenty apricot blocks with orange borders, and five blue. She was introduced in "We're Going on a Square Hunt", where One, Four, Nine, and Sixteen are in search is a newly bigger square that is 5x5, which is Twenty-Five herself. Voiced by Teresa Gallagher
 * Thirty/30: Thirty lemon-yellow blocks with yellow borders. As seen in "Thirty's Big Top", she secretly keeps a circus tent under her hat. Voiced by Beth Chalmers
 * Thirty-Six/36: Thirty-six blocks, thirty lemon-yellow blocks with yellow borders and Six indigo/dark purple blocks, he is a square like One, Four, Nine, Sixteen and Twenty-Five.
 * Forty/40: Forty lime-green blocks with green borders. Like Four who likes squares, Forty is fond of rectangles of any kind, including squares.
 * Forty-Two/42: Forty-two blocks, forty lime-green blocks with green borders and two orange.
 * Forty-Nine/49: Forty-nine blocks, forty lime-green blocks with green borders and nine grey.
 * Fifty/50: Fifty light-cyan blocks with blue borders. Fifty is a big rockstar and likes to rock out on her gold star-shaped guitar. Voiced by Elizabeth "Beth" Chalmers
 * Sixty/60: Sixty light-indigo/purple blocks with indigo/dark purple borders. She was introduced in "Sixty's High Score", where she first appeared during a game of How Many Tens.
 * Sixty-Four/64: Sixty-four blocks, sixty light-indigo/purple blocks with indigo/dark purple borders and four green.
 * Seventy/70: Seventy light-rainbow-colored blocks with rainbow-colored borders. Like Seven, Seventy loves to make rainbows.
 * Eighty/80: Eighty light-pink blocks with magenta borders. Eighty is a great big hero, called Super Octoblock and is made of ten Eights, thus making Robotoblock and Dinoctoblock.
 * Ninety/90: Ninety light-grey blocks with grey borders. Ninety likes magic tricks.
 * One Hundred/100: Fifty light-red blocks and fifty red blocks with blood red borders. She first appeared in "The Big One", where Numberblocks counted all the way to 100 the entire episode. Voiced by Sharon D. Clarke
 * Two Hundred/200: One Hundred apricot blocks and one hundred orange blocks with brown red borders. He looks like Two, but a hundred times bigger.
 * Three Hundred/300: One Hundred And Fifty lemon-yellow blocks and one hundred and fifty yellow blocks with dark yellow borders. She looks like Three, But a hundred times bigger.
 * Nine Hundred/900: Nine Hundred grey blocks. He looks like Nine, but a hundred times bigger.
 * One Thousand/1,000: One thousand red blocks. She looks like One, but a thousand times bigger.
 * Seven Thousand/7,000: One thousand red blocks, One thousand orange blocks, One thousand yellow blocks, One thousand green blocks, One thousand blue blocks, One thousand indigo/dark purple blocks and One thousand violet blocks. He looks like Seven, but a thousand times bigger.
 * Ten Thousand/10,000: Ten thousand white blocks with red borders. She looks like Ten, but a thousand times bigger.
 * Ninety Thousand/90,000: Ninety thousand light-grey blocks with grey borders. He looks like Ninety, but a thousand times bigger.
 * One Hundred Thousand/100,000: Five hundred thousand light-red blocks and five hundred thousand red blocks with blood red borders. She looks like One Hundred, but a thousand times bigger.
 * One Million/1,000,000: One million red blocks. She looks like One, but is a million times bigger. She is the biggest Numberblock character in the show, and only appeared in "One Thousand and One", along with 200, 300, 1,000, 10,000, and 100,000.

Episodes
There are 5 seasons in Numberblocks.

Season 1 (2008)

 * 1) One (January 7, 2008)
 * 2) Another One (January 8, 2008)
 * 3) Two (January 9, 2008)
 * 4) Three (January 10, 2008)
 * 5) One, Two, Three! (January 11, 2008)
 * 6) Four (January 14, 2008)
 * 7) Five (January 15, 2008)
 * 8) Three Little Pigs (January 16, 2008)
 * 9) Off We Go (January 17, 2008)
 * 10) How To Count (January 18, 2008)
 * 11) Stampolines (January 28, 2008)
 * 12) The Whole of Me (January 29, 2008)
 * 13) The Terrible Twos (January 30, 2008)
 * 14) Holes (January 31, 2008)
 * 15) Hide & Seek (February 1, 2008)

Season 2 (2008)

 * 1) Six (April 28, 2008)
 * 2) Seven (April 29, 2008)
 * 3) Eight (April 30, 2008)
 * 4) Nine (May 1, 2008)
 * 5) Ten (May 2, 2008)
 * 6) Just Add One (May 5, 2008)
 * 7) Blast Off (May 6, 2008)
 * 8) Counting Sheep (May 7, 2008)
 * 9) Double Trouble (May 8, 2008)
 * 10) The Three Threes (May 9, 2008)
 * 11) Odds & Evens (May 12, 2008)
 * 12) Fluffies (May 13, 2008)
 * 13) The Two Tree (May 14, 2008)
 * 14) Numberblock Castle (May 15, 2008)
 * 15) Ten Green Bottles (May 16, 2008)

Season 3 (2010)

 * 1) Once Upon a Time (April 26, 2010)
 * 2) Blockzilla (April 27, 2010)
 * 3) The Numberblocks Express (April 28, 2010)
 * 4) Fruit Salad (April 29, 2010)
 * 5) Zero (April 30, 2010)
 * 6) Now We Are Six to Ten (May 3, 2010)
 * 7) Numberblobs (May 4, 2010)
 * 8) Building Block (May 5, 2010)
 * 9) Peekaboo! (May 6, 2010)
 * 10) Hiccups (May 7, 2010)
 * 11) What's the Difference? (May 10, 2010)
 * 12) Numberblock Rally (May 11, 2010)
 * 13) Five and Friends (May 12, 2010)
 * 14) Octoblock to the Rescue! (May 13, 2010)
 * 15) Ten Again (May 14, 2010)

Season 4 (2010-2015)

 * 1) Flatland (May 17, 2010)
 * 2) Pattern Palace (May 18, 2010)
 * 3) Legend of The Big Tum (May 19, 2010)
 * 4) Mirror, Mirror (May 20, 2010)
 * 5) The Wrong Number (May 21, 2010)
 * 6) Eleven (February 16, 2015)
 * 7) Twelve (February 17, 2015)
 * 8) The Way of the Rectangle (February 18, 2015)
 * 9) Ride the Rays (February 19, 2015)
 * 10) Block Star (February 20, 2015)
 * 11) Thirteen (February 23, 2015)
 * 12) Fourteen (February 24, 2015)
 * 13) Fifteen (February 25, 2015)
 * 14) Tween Scenes (February 26, 2015)
 * 15) Step Squads (February 27, 2015)

Season 5 (2015)

 * 1) Fifteen's Minute of Fame (August 10, 2015)
 * 2) On Your Head (August 11, 2015)
 * 3) Ten’s Place (August 12, 2015)
 * 4) Balancing Bridge (August 13, 2015)
 * 5) Sixteen (August 14, 2015)
 * 6) Square Club (August, 17, 2015)
 * 7) Seventeen (August 18, 2015)
 * 8) Eighteen (August 19, 2015)
 * 9) Loop the Loop (August 20, 2015)
 * 10) Nineteen (August 21, 2015)
 * 11) Twenty (September 7, 2015)
 * 12) Tall Stories (September 8, 2015)
 * 13) Flights of Fancy (September 9, 2015)
 * 14) I Can Count To Twenty (September 10, 2015)
 * 15) Heist (September 11, 2015)

Season 6 (2015)

 * 1) Sign of the Times (September 14, 2015)
 * 2) Fun Times Fair (September 15, 2015)
 * 3) The Lair of Shares (September 16, 2015)
 * 4) Terrible Twosday (September 17, 2015)
 * 5) Divide and Drive (September 18, 2015)
 * 6) Twenty-One and On (October 5, 2015)
 * 7) We're Going On A Square Hunt (October 6, 2015)
 * 8) Thirty's Big Top (October 7, 2015)
 * 9) Land of the Giants (October 8, 2015)
 * 10) Fifty (October 9, 2015)
 * 11) Sixty's High Score (October 12, 2015)
 * 12) The Big One (October 13, 2015)
 * 13) One Hundred (October 14, 2015)
 * 14) One Thousand And One (October 15, 2015)
 * 15) More To Explore (October 16, 2015)

Broadcast
{| class="wikitable" ! Country ! Local Title ! Channel ! Release Date
 * Numberblocks
 * CBeebies
 * 23 January 2017
 * Numberblocks
 * TVOKids
 * 5 February 2019
 * Numberblocks
 * ABC Kids
 * 29 June 2019
 * Blociau Rhif
 * S4C
 * 22 October 2019
 * Numberblocks
 * ABC Kids
 * 29 June 2019
 * Blociau Rhif
 * S4C
 * 22 October 2019
 * S4C
 * 22 October 2019