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The Best Episodes of Bob the Builder

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    Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 1 - Scoop Saves the Day
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    #1 - Scoop Saves the Day

    S1:E1

    Bob and the machines are in great demand after a heavy storm causes destruction. Meanwhile, at the farm Muck and Lofty find it hard to cope when a fallen tree by the pond traps Pilchard and a family of ducks.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Diane Redmond

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  2. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 2 - Travis Paints the Town
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    #2 - Travis Paints the Town

    S1:E2

    Bob and the machines are painting line-markings on the road. Bob is called away to repair Mrs Potts' garden fence. Spud then sees a way to make mischief! He attaches the line-marking machine to Travis. Travis then speeds off and doesn't know he is leaving a mess. Who will stop him before he paints the whole town white?

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Chris Trengove

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  3. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 3 - Bob Saves the Hedgehogs
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    #3 - Bob Saves the Hedgehogs

    S1:E3

    Roley nearly flattens a family of hedgehogs who are crossing the road Bob and the machines are working on. They need to find a permanent solution. How will hedgehogs get across a busy road?

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Chris Trengove

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  4. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 4 - Pilchard in a Pickle
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    #4 - Pilchard in a Pickle

    S1:E4

    Bob and the machines are laying pipes in a field. Meanwhile, Wendy tries to look for Pilchard and gets in a panic when she can't find her anywhere.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Chris Trengove

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  5. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 5 - Muck Gets Stuck
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    #5 - Muck Gets Stuck

    S1:E5

    Bob and the machines are repairing a tunnel. Bob sends Muck inside carrying a load of bricks. The generator breaks down and the lights go out. Poor Muck is stuck inside the dark tunnel. What can make him move?

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Chris Trengove

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  6. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 6 - Wendy's Busy Day
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    #6 - Wendy's Busy Day

    S1:E6

    Bob and the machines have a major job of resurfacing the main road that must be done today. But poor Bob has a very bad cold. Wendy offers to take over the job. All goes well until Dizzy gets stuck in some wet cement. How will they get her out without letting Bob know?

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Diane Redmond

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  7. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 7 - Bob's Bugle
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    #7 - Bob's Bugle

    S1:E7

    Bob finds a bit of pipe that he thinks makes a noise like a trumpet and so he fashions it into a bugle. While learning to play it, he doesn't realise that it makes an awful noise!

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Jimmy Hibbert

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  8. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 8 - Buffalo Bob
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    #8 - Buffalo Bob

    S1:E8

    Bob and the machines are building a dance floor stage ready for a line-dancing contest that evening. Bob needs to go home for some final practice. But when his dancing partner Mavis sprains her ankle, will Bob find someone else to dance with in time?

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Chris Trengove

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  9. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 9 - Travis and Scoop's Race Day
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    #9 - Travis and Scoop's Race Day

    S1:E9

    Scoop and Travis decide to have a race to find out who is fastest? Bob prepares the racecourse. Spud wants Travis to win so he tries some sneaky sabotage to keep Scoop back!

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Ross Hastings

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  10. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 10 - Bob's Birthday
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    #10 - Bob's Birthday

    S1:E10

    Wendy and the machines decide to pretend to have forgotten Bob's birthday and then surprise him with a party. Wendy goes home to make a cake, and then Muck and Dizzy decide to make a concrete cake for Bob to keep forever.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Diane Redmond

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  11. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 11 - Naughty Spud
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    #11 - Naughty Spud

    S1:E11

    Bob and the machines are finishing Travis' new shed. Spud wants to pick go apple-picking but cannot reach the apples from the trees. While Bob is working on the shed roof, Spud takes the ladder away. How will poor Bob ever get down?

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Jimmy Hibbert

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  12. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 12 - Scary Spud
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    #12 - Scary Spud

    S1:E12

    Spud is worried he is not scary enough anymore after he tries to scare Bird. His problems get worse when he loses his turnip nose and it falls into a mole hole. Muck and Dizzy try to help him find a suitable new nose. Will Spud ever be scary again?

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Sarah Ball

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  13. Bob the Builder Season 1 Episode 13 - Bob's Barnraising
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    #13 - Bob's Barnraising

    S1:E13

    Bob and the machines have to repair Farmer Pickles' barn which is in danger of collapsing. Farmer Pickles is gathering the haystacks. Everything has to be done before a heavy storm breaks.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Diane Redmond

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  14. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 1 - Spud the Spanner
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    #14 - Spud the Spanner

    S2:E1

    Spud decides he is bored of being a scarecrow. He finds Bob's toolbox and decides to do some of his own fixing. When Muck sees him with Bob's toolbox, Bob and the machines have to stop him before he hurts himself.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Ben Randall

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  15. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 2 - Wallpaper Wendy
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    #15 - Wallpaper Wendy

    S2:E2

    Bob volunteers to decorate Mrs Broadbent's new apartment when the decorators let her down. He has never done a decorating job before and ends up making a complete mess!

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Jimmy Hibbert

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  16. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 3 - Runaway Roley
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    #16 - Runaway Roley

    S2:E3

    Bob and the machines have worked hard digging a trench. The next morning Roley sleeprolls out of the yard and causes a trail of destruction all over town! Bob, Wendy and the machines have to guide Roley back to the yard without waking him up.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Jimmy Hibbert

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  17. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 4 - Bob's Big Surprise
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    #17 - Bob's Big Surprise

    S2:E4

    Wendy is going away to visit her sister. Bob and the machines decide to surprise her by giving her garden a makeover. Mrs Potts was going to look after the office but she phones in sick. Then Bob has to keep going into the office to check the messages.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Chris Trengove

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  18. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 5 - Dizzy's Statues
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    #18 - Dizzy's Statues

    S2:E5

    Bob is taking care of two jobs at once - putting up bollards around the town hall and putting up Mrs Potts' garden statues. Dizzy decides to help him out but gets very mixed up!

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Diane Redmond

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  19. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 6 - Lofty to the Rescue
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    #19 - Lofty to the Rescue

    S2:E6

    Scoop, Muck and Lofty are working near a bridge. Lofty always has to go the long way round because he can't cross the bridge because of his fear of heights. When Spud sees him pass, he follows him and decides to get up to mischief! Lofty is then scared of Spud and goes back to the yard in shame. Eventually Spud's mischief puts him in danger when he falls off the bridge and onto a branch! Only Lofty could save Spud, if he can overcome his fear of heights.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Chris Trengove

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  20. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 7 - Wendy's Big Match
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    #20 - Wendy's Big Match

    S2:E7

    Bob is getting ready for a Brightest Building Yard competition whilst Wendy and the machines are turning a field into a football pitch. But when Spud kicks a ball at Wendy, the line-marking machine makes a mess and he is ordered to clean it up.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Simon Jowett

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  21. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 8 - Tea Set Travis
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    #21 - Tea Set Travis

    S2:E8

    Bob, Wendy and the machines are picking up everyone's rubbish for recycling. Farmer Pickles is having a clear-out and he asks Travis to look after a very old tea set. Spud asks Travis to play hide and seek with him and when Bob, Wendy and the machines arrive, they take everything - including the tea set! Will Farmer Pickles catch them before they recycle the tea set?

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Ben Randall

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  22. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 9 - Dizzy's Birdwatch
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    #22 - Dizzy's Birdwatch

    S2:E9

    Bob and Lofty come across a bird's nest with an egg in it. Wendy explains that they can't move the nest. Dizzy volunteers to watch it. When the egg hatches, Dizzy doesn't want to leave. Bob needs some cement mixing so Dizzy quickly goes to do so. She goes back to the yard just in time to see the bird learn to fly.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Simon Jowett

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  23. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 10 - Clocktower Bob
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    #23 - Clocktower Bob

    S2:E10

    Bob is repairing a clocktower. Lofty tries to lift his toolbox onto the scaffolding, but carelessly knocks the ladder over! Then a bat flies out of the belfry and frightens Lofty and he goes off, leaving poor Bob stranded on the scaffolding with his phone on the ground below. Meanwhile, Muck gets into an argument with Scoop and goes off in a sulk.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Chris Trengove

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  24. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 11 - Pilchard Goes Fishing
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    #24 - Pilchard Goes Fishing

    S2:E11

    Wendy decides to clean out the fish tank and moves Finn into a bucket of water. Muck comes back to the yard for some cement and accidentally crashes into the lean-to garage! Wendy then has another job to do and then Pilchard thinks Finn will make a delicious snack!

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Jimmy Hibbert

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  25. Bob the Builder Season 2 Episode 12 - Wendy's Tennis Court
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    #25 - Wendy's Tennis Court

    S2:E12

    Bob, Wendy and the machines are building a tennis court. Bob takes care of the umpire seat and the scoreboard, whilst the others lay the green tar surface. Travis and Spud arrive to put up the net, but the net proves too heavy for Spud and he falls over into the wet tar! When they try to sort it out, they just make it worse.

    Director:Sarah Ball
    Writer:Diane Redmond

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Best Episodes Summary

"Scoop Saves the Day" is the best rated episode of "Bob the Builder". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Sarah Ball and written by Diane Redmond, it aired on 4/12/1999. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Travis Paints the Town".