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Leonardo is a British children's television series broadcast on CBBC. The show is an adventure programme starring Jonathan Bailey as teenage Leonardo da Vinci. In 15th-century Florence, young Leonardo and his friends try to solve mysteries

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Leonardo Season 2 Episode 6 - Dragon Hunt
    6.6/10(8 votes)

    #1 - Dragon Hunt

    S2:E6

    A young man asks Leo to help him solve the clues of an ancient treasure map, in order to find his missing brother.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 5 - It Must Be Love
    6.7/10(15 votes)

    #2 - It Must Be Love

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 5 - Diabolical Acts
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    #3 - Diabolical Acts

    S2:E5

    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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 7 - The Mask of Death
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #4 - The Mask of Death

    S2:E7

    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...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 3 - A Wing and a Prayer
    7.1/10(17 votes)

    #5 - A Wing and a Prayer

    S1:E3

    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?

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 6 - The Lightning Box
    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #6 - The Lightning Box

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 7 - Time Waits
    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #7 - Time Waits

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 3 - Betrothal Ball
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #8 - Betrothal Ball

    S2:E3

    There is an evening of surprises and danger in store when the Medici throw a lavish Masked Ball in Lorenzo's honour.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 9 - Lost and Found
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #9 - Lost and Found

    S1:E9

    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?

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 2 - Perspective
    7.4/10(11 votes)

    #10 - Perspective

    S2:E2

    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...

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 8 - Stupid Cupid
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #11 - Stupid Cupid

    S2:E8

    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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  12. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 10 - Servant of Florence
    7.5/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Servant of Florence

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 11 - Bandit Queen
    7.5/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Bandit Queen

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 13 - Enter the Robot
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #14 - Enter the Robot

    S1:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 9 - The Tortoise and the Hare
    7.5/10(10 votes)

    #15 - The Tortoise and the Hare

    S2:E9

    Leo's idea for a superweapon could prove fatal when his explosive tests enrage the new Duke of Florence.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 4 - Cat and Mouse
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #16 - Cat and Mouse

    S2:E4

    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?

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 11 - Hitched
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #17 - Hitched

    S2:E11

    As the countdown to Lorenzo's wedding gets closer, the gang launch a risky scheme to try get him out of his big day.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 4 - Something Wicked
    7.7/10(15 votes)

    #18 - Something Wicked

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 8 - Angels and Cherubs
    7.7/10(16 votes)

    #19 - Angels and Cherubs

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 2 - Da Vinci's Code
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    #20 - Da Vinci's Code

    S1:E2

    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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  21. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 10 - By the Sword
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #21 - By the Sword

    S2:E10

    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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  22. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 12 - The Fugitive
    7.9/10(9 votes)

    #22 - The Fugitive

    S2:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 12 - Fireball
    8.0/10(18 votes)

    #23 - Fireball

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Leonardo Season 1 Episode 1 - Anything is Possible
    8.1/10(31 votes)

    #24 - Anything is Possible

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Leonardo Season 2 Episode 1 - Illusion
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    #25 - Illusion

    S2:E1

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Dragon Hunt" is the worst rated episode of "Leonardo". It scored 6.6/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/18/2012. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "It Must Be Love".