Little Robots
Combined stop-action animation and computer-generated animation. Puppets were created by the British team of Mackinnon & Saunders. This TV series ran from January to December 2003.
Episode guide
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One Hundred
Tiny's about to pull the day/night lever for the 100th time, but the moon's falling off the sky and they need a new one up there to celebrate this properly. All the Little Robots come toget…
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Spotty's Clean Machine
Spotty, fed up with the untidiness of the Little Robot world, urges Stretchy to invent a cleaning machine. It inadvertently swallows Messy and spits him out all clean and fresh- which he ha…
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Stretchy In A Twist
Stretchy tries to do too many things at once and gets his long neck in a knot. He's told Rusty she's not to come to the yard any more as she distracts him from his work- but he's more than…
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Robot Race Day
Sporty, determined to show off his sporting prowess to the other Little Robots, invites them to join in his Robot Races. By the end of the third race- having already lost the first two- he…
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Knock! Knock!
Sporty and Scary are confused about which door is which at the Sparky Twins house. Sparky 1 decides to put a Shiny Shape on hers and goes to Stretchy's yard to get what she needs to make it…
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Hiccalots
Noisy gets a bad case of the hiccalots and Tiny, Scary and Sporty try to get rid of them. They hold her upside down but that doesn't work. They try to startle her by bursting a big red ball…
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A Friend For Teddy
Rusty is embarrassed when she discovers Spotty's secret affection for her pink fluffy slippers and panics when one of them turns up in her house. How can she return it to Spotty without let…
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Sound Of Music
Tiny knows that Noisy can't possibly play five instruments at once, and suggests they form a Little Robots band. The prospective band members do not have much faith in their musical abiliti…
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Stripy On The Ball
Stripy makes a new ball but the Sparky Twins run off with it- leaving him behind. They get themselves trapped underneath a bucket in the Wasteland and wish he was with them. Messy leads Tin…
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Scary Scary
Scary's trying, unsuccessfully, to scare the Little Robots. Tiny suggests he acts being scary and tells the others to pretend to be scared next time they see him. But when Scary's magnetic…
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Hole In The Sky
Rusty is horrified to discover a hole in the sky above her house. Overcoming her fear of heights with the help of some coaching from Sporty and a couple of magnets attached to her feet by T…
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Noisy's New Song
The hatch in Stretchy's junkyard is jammed. He tries to enlist Spotty's help but she's got her aural sensors turned off and has no idea what he's up to. Noisy sings her noisiest song ever w…
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A Bit Of Give And Take
Tiny wants some help in making the Nut and Bolt Tree a fun place to be when he's on his own but the other Little Robots seem too preoccupied to listen. The Sparky Twins cleverly ensure a li…
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Barking Mad
Messy barks all night at a non-existent cat. Not only does he keep Stretchy awake, he loses his bark! Tiny suggests Noisy can do Messy's barking for him for the next day until his woofello…
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Tint Who?
Spotty offers the Sparky Twins a wonderful opportunity for mischief when Tiny damages his memory banks and thinks his name is NASTY, not Tiny! When he's restored to his normal self, Sparky…
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The Big Bounce
Rusty is looking forward to being taught how to bounce by Sporty- until Spotty pushes in and takes her place. Spotty then upsets Sporty by making a big dent in the ground where his trampoli…
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Reach For The Sky
Sporty watches one of the Robobirds and decides he'd love to be able to fly. Stretchy, meanwhile, is having a spot of bother with two magnets that seem very much attracted to him. It's clev…
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Spotty Rules
Spotty decides that the Little Robots should be in her Club having organised fun in an orderly way. She invents an initiation task which mean they must "walk the plank" to get their members…
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Not A Drum Was Heard
Scary asks Noisy if she'll provide some drum rolls for his new show. Spotty can't bear the din she makes when she's practising and sneaks the drum away. She feels bad about what she's doing…
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Spotty's Big Idea
Spotty decides she wants to be an artist and, with the help of a pile of junk from Stretchy, starts to build a huge sculpture. She thinks big is best- although Tiny doesn't. Soon the sculpt…
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Seeing Double
Tiny offers to stand in Stripy's garden to keep the Robobirds away from his plants. He knows he can't stay there for ever so he cleverly builds "another Tiny." Sporty and Messy break "Tiny"…
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Box Of Shocks
Noisy badly wants to take a "noisy" box that comes down Stretchy's chute home with her to add to her collection of noisy things, but the other Little Robots think it could be something dang…
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By Myself
Stripy fancies a day by himself and goes to the Oasis to see what he can "fish" out of the well. On the way several Little Robots offer to come with him and just won't be put off. Stripy is…
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Sweet Dreams, Scary
Scary's so tired he falls asleep right in the middle of one of his magic tricks. Tiny finds out that he had a dream and couldn't get back to sleep. He and Noisy vow to help and make a ROCKA…
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United
Stripy wants to give Tiny a present and the others suggest a bunch of flowers, home-grown in Stripy's window box. But the ratchets that make the plants "grow" have rusted up and oil is urge…
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Spotlight On Stretchy
Stretchy takes it to heart when the Sparky Twins tell him that he's no fun and in a desperate attempt to change their minds makes a fool of himself. Tiny convinces the Sparky Twins to help…
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Where's Teddy
Sporty has invented "botball" which entails kicking a tin can as hard as he can and shouting "Goal!" Stripy doesn't notice the tin can landing on Teddy and panics, thinking his little frien…
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Red Alert!
Spotty is having one of her routine Inspection Days when Rusty reports a strange encounter at the Oasis. It takes Spotty no time at all to deduce that an intruder has broken into the Little…
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The Waker Upper
Tiny oversleeps and doesn't turn the day on until way past time so Stretchy decides to make a Waker-Upper machine with a little help from Noisy. It performs admirably but Stretchy has forgo…
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Too Speedy Sporty
Scary has a problem. His ghost train's not working and he had planned to invite everyone to a ghost train party! Sporty, meanwhile, has decided to see just how fast he can run. Unfortunatel…
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Bump In The Night
The Sparky Twins ask Scary if they can borrow Flappy to be in their new show. Scary's not keen but agrees, only to change his mind as soon as they've taken her. The Sparkies, practising the…
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The Wind Machine
Scary wishes the bunting he's put up would flutter so Tiny offers to build him a wind machine. Scary can't keep his fingers off the buttons and the wind machine goes beserk, blowing him int…
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The Odd Couple
Stripy steps on the Sparkies' rollaplank and crashes into Noisy's house, damaging it badly. Tiny offers to repair it and Stripy suggests that Noisy stays with him in the meantime. But the a…
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Good Sport Sporty!
The Little Robots are doing their Busy Bot jobs and Sporty finishes first. The others ask him to help them finish their jobs but soon it's all out of control because he can't keep up. Tiny…
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Metal Makes Us Special Day
It's almost "METAL MAKES US SPECIAL DAY"- a happy day when the Little Robots celebrate what they're made of! Tiny tells them to start the procession of floats in the Oasis and head back to…
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Look Out Spotty!
Spotty has decided that the Little Robot world is a bit lax in safety terms and starts checking everything to ensure that standards are lifted. Scary will have to issue safety warnings at t…
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Down Tools Tiny
The Sparkies, Spotty and Scary all need help from Tiny. He sorts out their problems- but not one of them remembers to say thank you. Tiny decides he's going to snooze and let them get on wi…
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Screw-Loose Spotty
Rusty is expecting Sporty, but it's Spotty who turns up. Unfortunately she has a tumble on the stairs, loosens a screw and gets stuck in demolition-ball mode. She wrecks Rusty's home and en…
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Who Did That?
The Sparkies find a box of bits that they turn into vehicles with joysticks. They discover if they twiddle them, they can make the Robobirds spin round on their perches, Stripy whirl and Sp…
