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The Best Episodes of Shoebox Zoo Season 1

Every episode of Shoebox Zoo Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Shoebox Zoo Season 1!

Shoebox Zoo is an urban fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. The show centers

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 1 - The Magic Is Awakened
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    #1 - The Magic Is Awakened

    S1:E1

    On her 11th birthday, still grieving over her recently deceased mother and uncomfortable with being moved from Colorado to Scotland, Marnie discovers that she is able to make a group of four old toy animals come alive.

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  2. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 2 - Friend or Foe?
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    #2 - Friend or Foe?

    S1:E2

    It's Marnie's first day of school at her new home in Scotland. She has an encounter with a bully but makes a new friend in Laura. Back home, she receives a package from America containing a necklace that belonged to her mother. She also discovers that her shoebox animal friends were once human, and that only a lost book can return them to their original form.

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  3. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 3 - Echoes of the Past
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    #3 - Echoes of the Past

    S1:E3

    When a mysterious problem causes school to be cancelled for the day, Marnie and Laura visit the nearby St. Giles’ Cathedral in order to find clues about the shoebox animals, as John Roberts said he saw a depiction of them on a stained glass window there.

    Director:James Henry

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  4. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 4 - A Guide for the Perplexed
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    #4 - A Guide for the Perplexed

    S1:E4

    Marnie manages to get the red book she was looking for from the library, after which a familiar old man appears before her and says that she must make use of a peculiar looking map that’s within the contents of the book.

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  5. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 5 - The Inner Sanctum
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    #5 - The Inner Sanctum

    S1:E5

    Since Marnie's suggestion to go to Tantallon Castle was agreed on by majority vote, her class goes there for a field trip. While exploring the castle, Marnie goes off the beaten path and finds herself face to face with the great wizard Michael Scot.

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  6. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 6 - A Strange Birthday Party
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    #6 - A Strange Birthday Party

    S1:E6

    Marnie is reluctant to go to John Roberts' birthday party until she has a dream revealing that he was really the evil shapeshifter Toledo all along, and so she plans to confront him. However, things take a strange turn when Michael Scot appears at the party as a stage magician.

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  8. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 7 - A Little Knowledge
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    #7 - A Little Knowledge

    S1:E7

    Marnie leaves school in the middle of the day to try to get in touch with Michael Scot, while Toledo tries to convince Marnie's father that she needs to be brought in for therapy, as he plans to manipulate her into giving him the Book of Forbidden Knowledge while masquerading as the school psychologist.

    Director:James Henry

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  9. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 8 - Mother’s Footsteps
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    #8 - Mother’s Footsteps

    S1:E8

    Marnie is on a class trip to visit a "stately home," and uses her new powers to defeat a bully, but the shoebox animals become separated from her and find themselves trapped in the basement.

    Director:James Henry
    Writer:Sarah Dodd

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  10. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 9 - Where the River Flows
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    #9 - Where the River Flows

    S1:E9

    Marnie hopes to find the archway shown on the clue she just received, and plans to do so while on a camping trip to the Eildon Hills with the help of Dougie and Laura, but things go awry when Toledo interferes.

    Director:James Henry
    Writer:Sarah Dodd

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  11. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 10 - The Sign of the Unicorn
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    #10 - The Sign of the Unicorn

    S1:E10

    The shoebox animals plead with Marnie to continue the quest, but she insists on trying to catch up on her schoolwork after largely neglecting it. Despite her efforts, she gets falsely accused of cheating during a test, leading to further drama with the school principal.

    Director:James Henry
    Writer:Sarah Dodd

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  12. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 11 - Where Four Elevens Meet
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    #11 - Where Four Elevens Meet

    S1:E11

    Marnie and Wolfgang confront Michael regarding the events that lead to the creation of the Shoebox Zoo. Meanwhile, the other animals decide that they must find the book on their own, without Marnie's help, and so they head to the University Library in an attempt to solve the next clue.

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  13. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 12 - Los Contrarios
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    #12 - Los Contrarios

    S1:E12

    Toledo hypnotizes Edwin and orders him to open the Book of Forbidden Knowledge. The dark energy released from inside the book awakens the shapeshifter’s devious creations, which are shadowy dopplegangers of the Shoebox Zoo made to destroy them.

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  14. Shoebox Zoo Season 1 Episode 13 - The Day of Reckoning
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    #13 - The Day of Reckoning

    S1:E13

    Marnie makes one last attempt to stop Toledo from taking the book, and comes out victorious after realizing that the book was a fake created to seal the evil shapeshifter’s magic all along. She then learns that the location of the real book is somewhere back home in Denver, and that she must return there in order to continue the Quest.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Magic Is Awakened" is the best rated episode of "Shoebox Zoo" season 1. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Justin Molotnikov and written by Brian Ward, it aired on 9/21/2004. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Friend or Foe?".