The Worst Episodes of Leonardo
Every episode of Leonardo ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Leonardo!
Leonardo is a British children's television series broadcast on CBBC. The show is an adventure programme featuring a teenage Leonardo da Vinci starring Jonathan Bailey. The series is set in 15th-century Florence. A second series premiered on CBBC on 20 September 2012, starting with episodes one and two being shown back to back. For Series 2, actor James Clyde replaced Alistair McGowan in the role of Piero de' Medici. It was announced on 21 January 2013 that Leonardo would not be recommissioned for a third series.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Leonardo" is "It Must Be Love", rated 6.5/10 from 15 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "It Must Be Love" aired on 5/2/2011 and is rated 0.2 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Dragon Hunt".
6.5/10 15 votes#1 - It Must Be Love
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/2/2011
Lorenzo's spoilt cousin Valentina arrives and Leonardo is smitten by her. She also falls for him but then transfers her affections to Tom,unaware that 'he' is Lisa in disguise as girls are not allowed to be art students. When Valentina discovers the truth she sets out to expose Lisa. Fortunately Leonardo's latest invention, a bicycle powered by explosives,is able to head her off before she can tell any tales.
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6.7/10 7 votes#2 - Dragon Hunt
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/2012
A young man asks Leo to help him solve the clues of an ancient treasure map, in order to find his missing brother.
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6.8/10 8 votes#3 - Diabolical Acts
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/2012
When a travelling theatre group comes to Florence, the whole city is excited, especially Leo and Tom, who get starring roles in the play. But when the performance gets underway, could something sinister be going on behind the scenes?
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6.9/10 17 votes#4 - A Wing and a Prayer
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/18/2011
Leonardo has perfected a pair of giant wings,enabling him to fly but Macchiavelli has fallen foul of fat,sleazy thief Rizzo,who threatens him with prison unless he can have the wings for himself. Eventually the wings end up with Piero,who forces Rizzo to test them. But will they take the weight of a man twice as heavy as Leonardo?
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6.9/10 13 votes#5 - The Lightning Box
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/9/2011
Piero has acquired a 'lightning box',which gives out electric charges and which he plans to exhibit. A curious Leonardo 'borrows' it to study but a devious associate of Machiavelli,Carlo,steals it after giving Machiavelli a hard luck story. Leonardo makes a replica as a temporary replacement,almost getting caught putting it in place, but when Machiavelli learns that Carlo has duped him he helps retrieve the real lightning box before Piero detects any difference.
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6.9/10 14 votes#6 - Lost and Found
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/6/2011
Lisa's mother arrives in Florence to find her daughter and take her home for an arranged marriage, unaware of her new identity and profession. In order to put her mother off,Lisa tells her that she is already married and presents Machiavelli in a charade where they play at being husband and wife. Mother is not fooled for one moment but will her appreciation of Lisa's burning desire to be an artist be enough to let her stay and continue her work?
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7.0/10 15 votes#7 - Time Waits
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/16/2011
After a Swiss clock-maker bringing a pocket watch to Piero drowns Leonardo finds the watch and discovers that it is magic and that it runs backwards,enabling the user to travel back in time. Machiavelli makes a copy which he tries to auction and this comes in useful when a gang of heavies pursue Leonardo for the real thing,which he is able to return to its maker's mother so that she can see her son again.
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7.1/10 14 votes#8 - Servant of Florence
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/13/2011
Piero hosts a party for the celebrated charioteer Giovanni Salvatore which is gate-crashed by Lisa and Leonardo,posing as staff,and Machiavelli,passing himself off as Count Lampedusa. Piero sees through his disguise and has him imprisoned but Leonardo saves him thanks to a couple of his recent inventions. However the false count has persuaded Giovanni to give up his sport to undertake charity work - not a popular decision among his Florentine fan base.
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7.1/10 8 votes#9 - The Mask of Death
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/2012
When Leo is given the task of making a Death Mask of the old Duke, he soon realises the story of his death doesn't add up and begins a dangerous investigation...
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7.3/10 15 votes#10 - Something Wicked
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/25/2011
Leonardo and Tom are commissioned to paint a portrait of young bride-to-be Petronella,who is marrying thuggish,dishonest money lender Lucio solely to free her father from being in his debt. Macchiavelli recognizes Lucio as a man who hurt him when he was a child and,with the artists' help,concocts a plan playing to Lucio's greed by making him pay 100,000 florins for what they have told him is the alchemist's stone,to turn lead into gold. Having parted him from his money they then literally frame him for stealing a painting,freeing Petronella - who guesses 'Tom's' secret but says nothing.
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7.3/10 13 votes#11 - Bandit Queen
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/20/2011
After Piero has coerced 'Tom' into stealing Leonardo's notebook Leonardo and Machiavelli set out to recover it,planting a copy with blank pages. Meanwhile Lorenzo is temporarily held to ransom by Belladonna, the Bandit Queen of Florence,and Lisa,who has followed Leonardo,seized by Piero as an accomplice. Though the boys succeed in retrieving Lisa and the book,as well as seeing off Belladonna, they are aware that Piero now knows that Verrochio is illegally employing a girl as a painter - but unaware that he has made a copy of the notebook.
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7.3/10 14 votes#12 - Enter the Robot
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/4/2011
A robot,designed by Leonardo but recreated by Piero as a fire-breathing demon,is on the loose in Florence until Piero,who has orchestrated its retreat, is declared a hero and asked to take over power from the duke. At last Leonardo appreciates that this is the culmination of Piero's theft of his note-book as a means to rule Florence. Accordingly he makes sure that during the 'demon's' next outing Piero is discredited and the duke reinstated. This however alienates him from dim Lorenzo,who cannot see his father's villainy.
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7.4/10 8 votes#13 - Betrothal Ball
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/2012
There is an evening of surprises and danger in store when the Medici throw a lavish Masked Ball in Lorenzo's honour.
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7.5/10 19 votes#14 - Da Vinci's Code
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2011
Aware of Leonardo's budding genius Piero steals his notebook but finds it impossible to understand because all the information for his designs are written in code. He brings in Maths professor Pico to decipher it but even he is foiled as Leonardo,at great risk to himself,eventually retrieves his notebook.
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7.5/10 15 votes#15 - Angels and Cherubs
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/23/2011
Lorenzo's uncle,the duke,sets a competition to find Florence's finest painter and cocky Michelangelo taunts Leonardo that he cannot beat him so Machiavelli enlists Lorenzo's help in tricking Michelangelo into painting the duke's least preferred topic,angels and cherubs. Leonardo,however,is annoyed that he is expected to collude in cheating and deliberately erases the smile from the teen-aged version of La Gioconda which he painted using Lisa as his model,thus allowing her, as 'Tomaszo' to win.
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7.5/10 10 votes#16 - Perspective
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2012
With time running out, Leo embarks on a dangerous plan to spring his maestro from jail. If things go wrong, it won't just be Verrocchio's head on the chopping block...
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7.6/10 8 votes#17 - Stupid Cupid
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/2012
Piero prepares for his coronation and Mac lands himself in hot water when he gets Lorenzo's fiancée mixed up with a vengeful smuggler.
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7.6/10 8 votes#18 - Hitched
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/2012
As the countdown to Lorenzo's wedding gets closer, the gang launch a risky scheme to try get him out of his big day.
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7.7/10 9 votes#19 - The Tortoise and the Hare
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/2012
Leo's idea for a superweapon could prove fatal when his explosive tests enrage the new Duke of Florence.
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7.7/10 10 votes#20 - By the Sword
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/2012
Tom's hot temper lands her in a duel with the world's number one fencing champion, while Leonardo begins work on building his superweapon.
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7.8/10 17 votes#21 - Fireball
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/27/2011
Piero summons Leonardo to his palace and suggests that,as both are 'men of vision',they should work together to produce one of the inventions in Leonardo's notebook. It is a toy but Machiavelli is led to believe that it is a bomb,with which Piero intends to kill the duke of Florence at his birthday party. Leonardo humiliates himself when the invention turns out to be the harmless toy and not the bomb about which he warns the duke. Piero has,of course,kept the real bomb for himself.
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7.8/10 6 votes#22 - Cat and Mouse
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/2012
Lorenzo decides to live life on the wild side when he meets the fun-loving, carefree Bruno. Mac is convinced Bruno is bad news, but will Lorenzo listen - or will his new attitude spell trouble for him and his friends?
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7.9/10 9 votes#23 - The Fugitive
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/2012
With the city on the brink of war and Piero's plans near completion, Leo risks everything to help a young girl and her grandma when they are accused of being Milanese spies.
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8.0/10 30 votes#24 - Anything is Possible
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/11/2011
Teen-aged Leonardo Da Vinci is an apprentice to the painter Andrea Del Verrochio and his friends include the super-clever Macchiavelli and Lorenzo,son of scheming Piero De Medici. Leonardo is impressed by the work of Tomasso, a pavement artist and persuades Verrochio to take him on as another student,which he does. When Tom is caught trying to take Leonardo's notebook the boys are in for a surprise. Tom is a girl called Lisa,in disguise in order to be allowed to paint.
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8.3/10 14 votes#25 - Illusion
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2012
Piero's threat of revenge is still hanging over Leonardo. Leo thinks he is ready for whatever Piero can throw at him - but something he never could have expected is about to turn his world upside down.
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